The Body as Sound Resonator with Elesa Commerse

The Body as Sound Resonator

You are invited to explore the miracle of sound through mantra meditation. Mantra is a Sanskrit word that means, “mind protection.” A mantra is a tool for protecting your mind from the non-productive cycles of thought and action we get so lost in — that rob us of so much of our lives. Cycles that seem endless. The mantra serves as a focusing device that helps make the mind one-pointed, strong and calm.

Mantra is often used interchangeably with the word chanting. When we practice mantra meditation – when we chant – we focus our full attention on the articulation of the sound. Really giving ourselves to the experience of being a musical instrument.

Each mantra establishes a distinct feeling state in the mind and body. The focus is not on whether we make a pretty sound or not, but on how fully and completely we become absorbed in the sound. Saturated in the sound. One with the sound.

At any given time, the human body is over seventy percent water. Since sound travels five times more efficiently through water than through air, the sounds you make while chanting travel directly throughout every cell of your being, every petal of your mind. For many, the experience that results from this immersion in sound is hard to describe in words. Come experience it for yourself.