Language of Light

I have been facilitating sound healing for 18 years, and have incorporated crystal bowls into my practice for the last eight years. The primordial sounds which emanate from the bowls penetrate deep within the cellular structure of the body. They release trauma, stress, tension, physical and emotional toxins — and that’s just the surface of what they do! On the inner planes, the tones clear the chakras and nadis, allowing more light to flow through them.

In that way, then, they’re really the aural version of asanas. Just as asanas bring the mind and body into stillness, the sounds of crystal bowls bring the soul into stillness. In that mystical space of stillness is the Void, from which all possibilities lie.

That why, when we finish ringing the bowls during a meditation, it is very important to listen to the silence. While healing does take place during the sound portion, the highest healing takes place in the silent aftermath.

Etherically, it’s not so silent! We can witness the delicate mathematics of sound and light busy at work in the unseen world, making corrections to our bodies and allowing them to radiate more light.

In yoga, the correlation of this would be lying in shivasana, and allowing that stillness, that silence, to complete the work we have done with our asanas and pranayams.

There are those who have assigned musical notes to each chakra, and while that might be useful on a certain basic level of understanding, it’s simply the launching pad into the cosmos. When we move past the logical mind, and allow ourselves to get lost in sound, we intuitively reach for the bowl and note that will most resonate with us.

In other words, instead of outwardly choosing the bowl with the mind, or the book which tells us X note is for Y chakra, we inwardly choose the note and bowl, regardless of its assigned function to a particular chakra. We move beyond, far into the cosmos, into mystical velocity 888 - the frequency of Christ consciousness, of Buddha consciousness, which, of course, is the goal of yoga.

Toning with the crystal bowls creates an even richer experience of Nada Yoga. Creating internal sound to resonate with the outer forms is another way we can let go of the mind.

In that space, many people experience different forms of kundalini shakti — from simple physical vibration in the organs to an entire body experience, likened unto shamanic trance movement. Vocally we express ourselves in Nada, primordial sound, which is known to bring some into an entire language of sacred sound — the Language of Light.

This language, also called the Mother Tongue, or the Language of Source, is the language from which Sanskrit descended (along with Hebrew, Egyptian, Chinese and Tibetan). So in this understanding, we can see the interconnectedness of all sound, of all vibration, from crystal bowls to vocal tones, to the Language of Light, and their ability to bring us to wholeness, to yoga, in union with the Divine.