“One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is intelligent among human society... and is in the transcendental position, although engaged in all sorts of activities.” -Bhagavad-Gita 4:18
What makes a OneTone sound experience unique?
We blend the science of harmony with the yoga of sound.
We bring ancient practices into the context of the modern age.
Becoming sonically active.
We are more than just healers, more than just musicians, more than just homeopaths. We are practitioners with a deep grounding in embodied awareness.
We meditate upon the stillness that is inside the moving sound-waves.
We understand that light and sound are part of the same continuous phenomena, differentiated to us only by the filtering of the material body’s senses.
The practice and study of nada yoga sharpens the awareness to the impact of subtle sounds.
Sound is deeper than we may first realize.
By sound we understand to mean not only manifested, individual sounds, this struck sound and that struck sound, but also to mean un-struck sound or pre-struck sound, that is subtle sound. These layers are ripples still moving outward from the first sound, known to the ancients as the seed syllable OM.
The body is our first instrument. As sound practitioners we understand the body is a beautiful musical instrument. We see the ways that all the musical instruments we create with our hands and with our machines are always made to recreate the body’s sounds.
The highest compliment any musical instrument can receive is that it sounds like the human voice.
Each musical instrument is grounded, identified, in physical form. Each is made to embody specific resonances. The distribution of harmonies that emerges defines the character of the instrument.
The precision-tuning of the Sonorium refers to he harmonic series. Mutually resonant voices in a sympathetic space. Returning to this space, we are called home.
What is nada yoga?
Nada Yoga refers to subtle sound. The term ‘nada’ comes from the Upanishads. It translates to something like “the most immanent essence of the vibrations that comprises sound.” And it is more than just physically manifested phenomena.
Anahat Nada is “unstruck sound,” meaning sound that was never created. Sound that has not left the ether. It is beyond cause and effect. Nadabrahma. Beyond all sound there is a deeper silence than can be fathomed by material means alone.
Pratahara means “the withdrawing of the mind’s senses.” It is the final stage in the eightfold path of yoga. Mind has returned to its true nature. Emphasis here is on the fundamental aspects of vibration. On allowing the whole mind and the intention to rest in the heart of the moment. It’s about “cutting through the noise.”
The goal is to allow yourself as the recipient to experience this sense of lifting, rising even as you settle. The aspirant soul within is awakened. The flame inside rises, reaching upward toward the heavens. The coolness of the waters above are brought down into embodiment. At this balancing point of dynamic synthesis of heaven and earth, of beginning and end, life as we know it sustains.
We say that this synthesis is dynamic because it is held in motion as the breath, too, is held in motion, going up or down, forward or backward, continually converting matter into energy, and energy into matter.
“The Best use one can make of these meditations… is to go within, into the depths of one’s being, as far as one can go, and find the place where one can feel, perceive and perhaps even create an atmosphere of unity in which a force for order and organization will be able to put each element in its place and make a new coordinated world arise out of the present chaos.” -Mother Mirra Alfassa
