Singing As Meditation

Beginner: Be guided through the movements within the raga, providing an immediate sense of modulated breath that results in an elevated consciousness.

Intermediate: Learn the subtle nuance of "hidden notes" created by bending and sliding. This effect is the experience of bhakti, a unique phenomenon in Indian music: it is devotion awakened through technique.

Advanced: The third level will model ornamentation, the melismatic complexity of Indian music that creates the "kundalini effect," typically caused by kriyas — those involuntary energy movements that result from rigorous Tantric discipline.