Seven Shining Tones

Seven Shining Tones poster

Dharma Centre of Canada , Oct 2nd-7th

O mind serve and worship
the beautiful shapes
of the seven tones which are shining
In the navel, in the heart,
in the throat, in the tongue
in the nose and in the other centres
Those seven Shining Tones - beautiful beings
Serve and worship them O my mind

Thyagaraja

Tim Jones & Mala Sikka will lead this workshop exploring the intuitive feeling of Awareness (rasa) awakened in the simple act of singing and moving. Our starting point will be the Seven Shining Tones:

SA RI GA MA PA DHA NI

The oral tradition that is sometimes called the Indian scale, or naming of notes '.. Sa, Ri, Ga, Ma, Pa, Dha, Ni, Sa..' puts you in contact with a millennia old, still living and vibrant tradition with its understanding of the power of sound. This understanding grows into a bodily felt awareness of each note, putting you in touch with universal resonance, stillness and movement. This is the nature of sound.

Course details

Healing through sound and movement.
There will be meditations to help clear the senses...
Feeling the notes residing in the body. The Sanskrit name for note is 'swara', whose fuller meaning is 'the feeling engendered by the note'.
Movement as sound, hearing through movement.

All the above will develop the different textures of Rasa*..... securing a new confidence in 'the intuitive feeling awareness' which will directly influence all aspects of our daily life.

* Rasa is our organ of awareness through feeling. RASA..has a multitude of meanings...juice, colour nectar, essence, source.

Mala Sikka

Mala Sikka - movement artist of Indian origin. She trained in Classical Indian Dance, specifically Kathakali. In 1989 her explorations in dance, healing and movement took on greater freedom while studying Amerta ('river of life'). Since 1991 she has studied Amerta movement extensively with Suprapto Suryodarmo in Indonesia and Europe. Meditation, Healing-Shiatsu and Aikido continue to inform her approach of 'Life Moves'. Over the last twenty years Mala has attended annual meditation retreats, alone and with the late Ven.Namgyal Rinpoche, which continue to deepen her practice and teaching. She has recently returned from India where she has been teaching movement with Suprapto in 'The source of the temple in nature'

Tim Jones

Tim Jones lives in Dorset and is a voice teacher and singer. He has studied Carnatic and Bhava music with Sivasankara Panikar since 1984, and movement meditation with Suprapto Suryodarmo since 1992. Tim teaches in England and Germany, and also in India at the Kerala Bhava Sangeetha Academy. He has sung with Opera Factory, accompanied Indian classical dance and often works as a singer and storyteller with various Javanese gamelan ensembles. The composer Judith Weir has called his voice ‘a unique blend of virtuosity and human approachability’.

To Book

Residential course fee: Members $375, Non-members $450. Check with the Dharma Centre for the Early Bird special by july1st. Early booking is advised.

For further information please contact: the dharma centre 1-705-488-2704