This is the first time I went for a sound healing meditation class, even if I have worked with tibetan singing bowls before in my kundalini class.

And the teacher or facilitator is like a Greek goddess, later on she said she’s lived in Greece. No wonder.

She uses crystal bowls and combined the session with writing because she says that writing or journaling can be cathartic 

She asks us to think and note down first what we intend 

• how do you want to feel with this going on in the world today
• Who do you want to be

I wrote this

And felt slightly silly

Be an angel? TPY? haha

Afterwards we did some breath work to slow down our brain waves

Basically breathing in

White light enveloping you

Drawing white light to the crown, third eye, throat, heart, navel, pelvic area ten the root of the spine

Finally on the exhale visualize the white light shooting out of the spine towards the ground and as they touch the ground, roots grow out of it

And ground and connect you to Mother Earth

I like the way she puts things, she said this is totally not a coincidence that we on a saturday afternoon would be here with her

Like reminding us to be a witness of the experience and no judgement is required. And when thoughts might become challenging, to use our breath as an anchor to come back to the meditation.

Then the bowls start singing

It’s powerful and they sweep through the the body irregardless of how or what you intend

My right leg twitched and released something

Then afterwards I drifted off

When the class ended , she asked us to take a peep at the oracle card placed on the right side of the mat

And peep I did

A book was passed around for us to make sense of what the card meant

Where we could find what the card means

And this is the explanation 

It’s amazing because-its so coincidental

When the facilitator asked us who we want to be, that which came to mind was: an angel.

I was amused myself and I thought against writing it down 

An angel?

How amusing how childish but I wrote it down all the same

And the explanation talked about souls in a human body 

And loving to be with angels

It reminded me of what Stephan said- that I m somebody else but chose to be here

“Hanging out in the stars?”

No wonder Stephan kept seeing stars! LOL

But now. I remember mommy said to me. That she went to some fortune teller who told her that I m some heavenly being but was punished for a mistake and had to come to earth

And Mr Ng used to day to me—- remember that we are souls on earth having a human experience 

And I remember telling Stephan when he asked “what is it that you want”

That it is about finding a way out for myself, how not to lose myself to the realities or the mainstream. 

Really , haha

And the message I derive from this is that- 

I m on the right track but I have to ground. Ground. Ground.

As I bond and get on with transcendence, I see the distance I have with people around me in immanence 

Operating within

And that I need patience both with myself and with others

I cannot expect others to be at my pace

And I do not need to judge them or I would have been haughty 

Instead I need to bring myself to their level so that they too can get a peep at transcendence

And this is like a reminder to me, to be fully present as I practiced reiki. The purpose of breath is to bring me in and on the ground, not further away.

The message is also acceptance and to learn to celebrate life and all that it brings.

Or even better, be a witness.

Later I asked her a few qns about the bowls and she says the bowls find people

And I got to know of the eka mai mantra

“This mantra is believed to instill the entire knowledge of the Universe without ever reading a book. It is the yogi’s humble bowing to the infinite.”

The full version here

Eyka Maaee Joogut veeaee

Tin Chele Parvan

Ik Sansari Ik Bandari

Ik Laa-ey Deeban

Jiv Tis Bhaveh Tiveh Chalaaveh

Jiv Hoveh Furmaan

Oh Vaykeh Ona Naadar Na Aveh

Baahoota Eyho Vidaan

Aadays Tisai Aadays Aad Aneel Anaad Anaahat Jug Jug Ayko Vays

Translation:

All honor to the One, Hail the Primal Being whose attributes cannot be described, Who is without beginning, the Unstruck Sound, and whose form is One through every Age.

Aadays tisai aadays:

I salute You. I salute You, again and again.

Aad Aneel Anaad Anaahat:

You are the beginning.

You are all dimensions of limitlessness wonder.

Anahat:

That unstruck sound.  the space where we merge with the Sound and the sound permeates every fiber of our being…it’s where we experience great healing and bliss.

Jug Jug Ayko Vays:

Remains true through all ages, through all time.