The healing powers of music and mantra: om mani padme hum

Noelle Whittington, E-RYT500, YACEP, has been a yoga Teacher since 2006, is the author of Morning and Evening Affirmation Journal, creator of Soul Alchemy Course, and has been a Yoga Teacher Trainer and mentor for Yoga studios since 2012. She wrote, produced, and performed the Mother Ocean theme song for HVHE. We do a deep dive into the layers and aspects of yoga that have helped us reach our current selves, including the gem that "to flourish [is] to take a breather from the human experience and lean into the cosmic." Stick around for the live performance at the end. 

Some of the key takeaways include:

• If you’re being your true, authentic self, you’ll (potentially learn) that you’re not for everyone
• Everyone is trying to be connected and respected, choose where you want to be.
• When you grow, you can’t take everyone with you
• You might find yourself on the other side of heartbreak
• Mindfulness practices the earlier the better—integrating yoga principles in education!—and also, better late than never
• Yoga can be all the things—playful asana and quietude to find yourself.
• We all experience trauma, and some of us have the circumstance to process this, including the Homes of Hope Orphans who, who reach out for touch, connection, and love—a partial inspiration for the “ocean refuses no river”
• Love and acceptance through small gestures
• Some connections with people are not positive, but they are important
• If we want to get free, no one can be left behind
• Don’t rely on social media for reality—
• “We are human, and we are divine.”
• Learn the differences between discernment and discipline, and watch your practice grow
• Tending to the needs of your body are challenging
• What is fulfilling and unfulfilling? Non-judgement for your day, practices, or the past-- just move forward in the present moment
• Sound and music helps embody rhythm, mantra is a way to quell anxiety
• Mantra is a practice tool; manas (linear thoughts of the mind) tra (to cross over, or bridge)
• Inhale: please; Exhale: thank you
• Congruence and harmony versus "balance"
• Om Mani Padme Hum: We are always That radiant jewel of infinite compassion
• The practice is forgetting and remembering

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