Sacred Sounds Sangha

a live 9 month online programme, learn to chant Veda, Patanjali Yoga Sutras, mantras and explore sacred sound.

deepen your personal Sadhana and enrich your teaching if you teach.

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In the beginning there was sound. Vibrating primal energy. The throb of potential. The śabda brahman…

The world manifests from source as Nada, sound and through sacred sound we can navigate our way back to source.

Absorbing into sound, uttering the Sacred sounds, the yogini/ yogi is released from the phenomenal world.

The original cosmic dance wove the gunas into buddhi, cosmic intelligence, in turn giving rise to what we call in yoga ‘Ahamkara’ or Identity.

From un-manifest to manifest there is division and identity formation.

The purpose of mantra is to lead you beyond the pancha maya to the domain of the Atma. To take you from the identification with the gross elements back to your essential nature.

Mantras also offer protection.

The use of mantra helps to de-clutter the mind and reduce Samskaras

Śabda is a sanskrit word which means ‘word’, ‘sound’, ‘speech’, ‘language’. It also means the eternal, primeval sound (synonymous with oṃ.), which underlies all reality.

Śabda is the primal throb.

When you chant well, you alter the breath experiencing many of the benefits of pranayama.

You absorb the sacred Sanskrit sound vibrations and as you reflect on the meaning of the chants and mantras you gain knowledge of the nature of the Universe, and through practice this becomes embodied knowledge giving rise to transcendence of name and form.

Back to source. Back to silence.

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In Sacred Sounds Sangha you will…

Learn the Sanskrit Alphabet

Learn correct pronunciation of the mantras

Learn to chant Vedic invocational mantras

Learn to chant Shanti Mantras

Learn to chant Samadhi Pada of Patanjali Yoga Sutras

Learn to chant Vedic Suktums and longer passages from the Upanisads

Learn elemental and directional mantras

Learn prakrti and vikriti chant patterns

Learn the rules of Vedic chanting

You will do this in weekly practice sessions

Monthly Q&A sessions

Bi-Monthly classes on meaning and philosophy

100 hours of CPD

This course can also be taken and added towards 200 hrs of our Inner Limb Teacher Training course

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Meet your teacher…

Hi… I’m Dory Walker

I've dedicated and invested nearly 30 years of learning, study and practise into the transformative power of yoga.

My first introduction to yoga was as a baby when my Dad would chant to Mahamantra to my sister and I at bedtime, it become a mantra that was a feature through my childhood.

My first Asana classes were Iyengar yoga but a few years into practice I discovered a teacher who chanted at the beginning and end of class mostly Om Namah Shivaya. I loved it, it opened something inside of me.

Mantra, Japa and Kirtan become a love and central to practice and teaching for years. In 2012 I had an itch to go more deeply into chanting which led me to meeting my teacher Radha Sundarajan whom I took a 2 year Vedic Chant Teacher Training with in the Krishnamacharya lineage and studied with her until her passing in 2021.

Chant and sacred sound is a vehicle for healing ad connection. It opens the voice and promotes deep meditative states.

A Bhakti or devotional practice chanting is medicine for the soul.

It promotes elevated states of concentration, heart connection, elevating consciousness, flow states and ultimately connects you to Universal Consciousness and embodied Oneness which is the essence and essential teachings of the Vedas.

I've studied with global leaders, change makers, experts and radical minds who are direct students of some of the worlds leading yoga authorities on asana, pranayama, meditation and Vedic chanting. I have been mentored by incredible woman who are unapologetically claiming all of themselves for limitless living and abundance in all areas.

Teaching yoga full time for over 20 years, I've helped 1000’s of yoga practitioners, trainees and yoga teachers develop and integrate their practice. Whatever I learn and embody I pass on.

My personal Sadhana practice is at the heart of everything I do. My successes are built on the foundations of practice.

Embodied practice.

Transformation from practice can positively shape every aspect of your life. Practice takes many shapes. Chanting is a central Sadhana for me. If you would like to explore chanting and sacred sound or deepen in your chanting Sadhana I can’t wait to share the joy of mantra with you.

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