Integrating Mantra Into Your Life - Deepening Your Understanding Of Mantra - by Megan Hook

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Integrating Mantra Into Your Life - Deepening Your Understanding Of Mantra

With Megan Hook

Mantra can be a resource throughout the day, when challenging things arise, to seed joy, and to transform grief or sadness. There are many ancient and modern ways to deepen your understanding and skillful use of mantra. Sending blessings!

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Meet your Teacher

Megan Hook
Syracuse, NY, USA

Megan Hook has been singing her whole life and has been interfacing with different sacred mantras and songs for over thirty years. She is a songwriter with a degree in classical music. Megan also leads kirtan and releases traditional and original settings of sacred mantra. This course is designed to be a companion course to her mantra course entitled "Vibrating The Sacred Sound - Sacred Mantras From Around The World" available on Insight Timer.

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7 Days

191 students

5.0 stars

8 min / day

Awakening

English

Lesson 1

Considering The Bhakti Aspect Of Mantra And Chanting

This module explores the deeper meaning and experience of bhakti or devotion while chanting. Different ways to think of bringing a devotion mind to practice are considered in order to connect to compassion, joy, humbleness, love, and bliss while chanting.

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Lesson 2

The Importance Of Japa Mantra Practice

Japa meditation with a mala is a foundational mantra practice. There are four kinds of Japa practice and all will be considered in this module: Vachika Japa, Upamshu Japa, Manasik Japa, and Likhita Japa.

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Lesson 3

Ways To Integrate Mantra Into Your Daily Life

This module explores the many ways mantras can be integrated into your daily life - adding chanting into your morning sādhanā practice, chanting in the evening before bed, reciting mantras when cooking food - these are just a few ways to integrate mantras more fully into your day. Mantra practice is only fully realized if it is fully integrated into the lived life. This module is meant to seed ways for you to deepen your connection to mantra practice and also to act as a springboard for you to welcome your intuition as to the best ways to bring mantra more fully into your daily life.

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Lesson 4

Mantra And Visualization

It is part of traditional Saguna Mantra practice (deity-based) to picture the deity while chanting and/or to place the deity in the body while chanting. This module explores the reasons why you may want to bring visualization into your practice and also the possible benefits of doing so.

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Lesson 5

Nyāsa Mantra Practice

Nyāsa practice is the tradition of placing mantra, the Sanskrit alphabet, or bīja syllables in the body while chanting. This practice is connected to what was explored in the visualization module. Bringing the mantra directly into the body is powerful, has healing benefits, and deepens the practitioners understanding and experience of mantra.

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Lesson 6

Integrating Drishti Points With Mantra

As we consider the embodied practice of mantra it is powerful to add the practice of employing drishti points while chanting. Drishti is the art of focusing the eyes in a certain way during contemplative practice. The three common drishti points are explored in this module. These drishti points are traditionally used while chanting, while practicing yoga, and while meditating.

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Lesson 7

Integrating Mudra With Mantra Practice

Mudra is a profound and varied practice of different hand and/or body positions used to optimize practice, whether it be yoga, mantra, or meditation. In this final module, we explore several different mudras and consider the combination of mudra, drishti, and chanting as a way to bring mantra practice into full focus and potency.

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5.0 (16)

Recent Reviews

Anne

September 26, 2024

Informative course

Shanti

August 13, 2024

Amazing, so full of great details to enhance a chanting practice and very efficiently presented. Looking forward to taking any course this teacher presents.❤️

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