Indralaya Theosophical Retreat Center is located on Orcas Island, an island in the heart of the Salish Sea in northwest Washington. Indralaya is a sanctuary of natural beauty and peace located on Orcas Island in the San Juan Islands of Washington State.

 

Vedic Chant & Sound Healing Applications

 

August 25-29, 2022 with Pat Moffitt Cook, PhD

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This beautiful vibrational program is for all those who wish to experience, chant and practice the ancient sound science revealed in the Vedas and through Vedic culture.  The program will introduce you to, or deepen your experience in crossculural chanting. The approach to teaching and learning is traditional through oral transmission, repetition, and with the aid of chant-texts, transliterations and English translations from the original Sanskrit.

 

The repertoire of mantras and chants, presented in this program, were selected to stimulate self-inquiry, personal healing and a deeper awareness of nature and spiritual resonance. Each day will be a combination of demonstrations, discussions, individual, dyad and group experientials. Participants will be encouraged to practice and explore what they have learned individually and in community. All levels of experience are welcome. 

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Some of the benefits - 

 

• Vedic chanting is a powerful way to integrate body, voice, mind and our emotions. 

• Develop mental discipline and focus

• Improve memory

• Increase breath capacity

• Supports meditation by calming the mind

• Facilitate deeper connections to your spiritual life and self-knowledge. 

 

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Pat Moffitt Cook, PhD, is the director of the Open Ear Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Cook is an early pioneer in the research and education of cross-cultural sound and music in healthcare, wellness and education. Her research in crosscultural musical healing paralleled with extensive training and certification in auditory stimulation and sensory integration methods including the Tomatis Method and the Listening Fitness Program (LiFT) and in cross-cultural methods using sound and music-evoked imagery for healing technologies from Southeast Asia and India. Pat is also certified in the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) and a Fellow of the Association of Music and Imagery (FAMI) in the United States. Cook is a certified Vedic Chant teacher in the Krishnamacharya Yoga lineage from two institutions in South India (KYM & KHYF). She is a senior trainer for the Open Ear Center. 

 

For over 35 years, Cook has traveled throughout the world recording and participating in musical rituals and the daily life of other cultures. She studied six and half years with a Chinese/Indonesian grand master of martial and healing arts in Indonesia and the United States. Afterwards, Pat researched, studied with and practiced, musical healing with a North Indian Hindu village healer in India for over a decade. Cook travels extensively each year for professional research into musical and sound therapies and to enhance her personal practice in sacred sound which includes, Christian, Buddhist, Hindu and Vedic chant.

 

                4 day WORKSHOP

                 August 25-29, 2022  

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