Harmony is associated with sound. It is also connected with good coordination and alignment in the body. At a deep level, harmony is a state of inner balance. 

In Making Sound Finding Harmony, Rajesh will explore this concept through the lens of Nada Yoga, and Marye through the lens of Bones of Life. 

Rajesh and Marye’s styles complement each other as they weave the two disciplines together, thereby creating a harmonious space for reflection and deepening our practice. 

The retreat combines the deep inner work of Nada Yoga with the empowering, energizing and balancing practices of Bones for Life.

Marye is Co-Director of Movement Intelligence UK, part of a world-wide training system for dynamic postural re-education, extending mind-body suppleness into an active old age. Movement Intelligence was developed by Dr Ruthy Alon, based on Dr Moshe Feldenkrais’s approach to somatic learning.

Bones for Life focuses on natural movement that can be enhanced in order to help develop the postural integrity, flexibility and stability that support strong bones. Its 90 movement processes can transform habitual patterns into ways of moving that lead to what its founder, Ruthy Alon, called a state of ‘biological optimism’.

Key points:

• The vicious cycle of lack of movement results in loss of bone strength, which in turn, leads to further lack of movement.
• The code of organic movement that stimulates building bone: springy, rhythmic pressure at a rate that is equal to dynamic walking; configurations of movement that are derived from those that evolution has determined to be efficient and economical; cooperation of all the body parts in harmonious proportion; the transmission of pressure from one polarity to another in a domino effect.
• The primary condition for sustaining dynamic movements that can build bone is to secure a safe posture that can protect the vulnerable joints in the neck, lumbar, hip joints, and knees and spare them from compression and deviation.

Nada Yoga interprets the cosmos through the medium of sound. Such a way of perceiving the world unites ancient myths and modern science.

Nada Yoga practices lead to an increasingly refined tuning of our perception. The resonance produced by our vocal sounds have the potential not only to energise our body and mind, but also to heighten our awareness of the chakras. 

Nada means sound. It also means vibration, thus incorporating everything from the most seemingly solid to the most intangible, therefore our exploration of Nada must go beyond the limitations of human hearing to encompass wider concepts of harmony, balance and rhythm.