Yoga Music Blog

If you appreciate Yoga Music that is evocative of peace and spaciousness, then you might consider adding Om Deeksha to your Yoga music collection.

Om Deeksha offers ten tracks that range from uplifting celebratory chants, to meditative moving soundscapes. Om Deeksha is a blend of vocals, keyboards, strings, percussion, Indian instruments, nature sounds, and more.

Featuring the gentle influence of Maneesh de Moor's production style and the voices of Deva Premal, Sudha, Sri Anandagiri-ji, Yogini, Sri Krishnaraj-ji, and Anette Carlström, Om Deeksha gives you a aural taste of the spiritual phenomenon known as deeksha. But even if you are unaware of, or don't resonate with the deeksha movement, this album is an excellent musical tool for your Yoga practice, meditation, healing, or even as a sound track to a romantic evening.

Born in the Netherlands, Maneesh mastered the art of sound synthesis and sound sculpturing after studying in the classical and pop/world genres of music. He specializes in the fusion of ethnic styles and contemporary atmospheres and grooves. Over the years he has collaborated with many musicians from around the world. (Sudha, Praful, Bahramji, Deva Premal & Miten, Prem Joshua amongst many others)

Maneesh is a specialist in creating and manipulating sound and draws on a huge collection synthesizers and effects as well as infinite sample libraries to achieve his signature sound. "Anything is possible... I love the cutting edge as much as I love the pristine beauty and purity of a great acoustic recording. In music production, there's a wide array of possibilities to choose from...These days more than ever, with all new technology being developed every day. As a producer and arranger, I take on the responsibility to make the most qualified choices in sound and arrangement, in full, flexible and easygoing communication with my clients."

Click on the link below and preview the tracks on Om Deeksha. I'm sure you'll agree that these are a collection of Yoga music tracks that are at the same time diverse, and yet interconnected.

Chanting Mantras is a search term being used many thousands of times per month by those seeking vocal chanting in one form or another.

It appears to me, based on some search engine research, that people using the term download chanting mantras are seeking many different kinds of vocal chanting music, not just mantras as the term might apply.

A few examples are: Sanskrit chants, Tibetan Chants, Indian Mantras, Buddhist Chants, chants in English, and too many more to list here.

Some of the music previously reviewed in this Yoga Music Blog includes vocal chants in one form or another, and I am currently producing some of my own Yoga Music with vocal chants in Sanskrit and also some chants without meaning, other than the expressiveness of the vocals.

Once I finish up with some my own music, a few tracks will be available to download chanting mantras here on the site.

Photo of a Cistern In Morrocco by Catherine Larrick ©2010 [Click here to enlarge]

The album Selwa is a collection of beautiful, haunting chants that evoke an ambient peacefulness and inner calm. The instrumental arrangements are appropriately sparse, creating a perfect vehicle for the expressive voice of Choying Drolma.

It continues to remain in my mix of favorite yoga music because of the timeless quality of the arrangements, and also because it's clear to me that this is more than just notes and melodies.

This music creates a serene atmosphere for yoga or reflection, and is also perfectly suitable for just listening in front of a good sound system.

Choying Drolma, was born in Kathmandu to Tibetan exiles who fled the Cultural Revolution in 1959. She was accepted as a nun in a Tibetan Monasterey at an early age where she was instructed in monastic rituals and meditation, which included chants. (Tibetans do not regard this as folk music, but rather perceive the depth of meaning in these chants as capable of enhancing understanding and transforming ordinary experience.)

In 1994 guitarist Steve Tibbetts visited her remote monastery where he recorded the music, brought it home and later added the guitars and other instruments that resulted in their first collaboration called Cho.

Marc Anderson provided the percussion.