Nāda Nakṣatra Upāsana

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Listening to music and singing are easy and accessible ways to uplift our mood, honor our felt experience, and give voice to our emotional life. In your private sessions you will learn the rāga (a scale) connected to the star the moon was in when you were born. This is an ancient Vedic upaya (remedy) that astrologers, musicians, dancers, and shamans have used as a way to help someone feel more aligned and in tune with Reality.

Private sessions will focus on sound practices with your birth chart as a guidepost. Group classes will teach you the practices.

What singing can do for your wellbeing:

• increased focus and attention
• mood regulation
• decreased effects of anxiety and depression
• increased levels of serotonin, dopamine, and GABA in the brain
• stimulates the vagus nerve and activates the parasympathetic nervous system functions of rest and digest
• social cohesion and strengthening of community
• aid in our ability to overcome emotional challenges

Working with the rāga as a mantra of non syllabic vibration can be a powerful tool for calming the mind and easing worry, doubt, and frustration. If you've already worked with Allison on your moon's raga for at least one year we can begin to work with other rāgas connected to other planetary positions in your birth chart.

All levels are welcome; singers and people who simply love music and want to sing.

• World Music Lovers, Vedic Chanters, and Kirtan Practitioners
• People in their Sade Sati - the 7 1/2 years it takes for Saturn to cross your moon
• Anyone who wants to feel in better alignment emotionally and has the desire to get their intellect out of the way
• Empaths - People who feel sensitive and overwhelmed by life are sometimes also hyper-vigilant due to some trauma. Empaths feel everything deeply, including the pain and confusion of other people. If not contained and managed well, empaths can deal with emotional overload, undigested feelings and experiences, identity issues, and feelings of burnout. 
• Recovering Codependents - By resonating with sound as it feels in your body you come to recognize your emotional palate and learn to work with your emotions by becoming intimate with your own experience instead of looking for validation on the outside.
• People with Auditory Sensitivities - If you are the kind of person who jumps with loud noises, or you fixate on patterned sounds in your environment, you may especially benefit from sound healing. Smoothing out the nerves by learning to listen in new ways can create radical change. 
• People with Boundary Issues - By coming into a better relationship with your container and the resonance that sound has inside of you, you come into a more intimate relationship with yourself and your experience. Examining and naming the emotions that arise in you by way of the practice increases your emotional vocabulary so that you can name how you feel in the world and verbalize your boundaries with kindness and confidence.