The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN 3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.

Stirring Strings

What we’re used to as yoga students is being in class and moving to the music the instructor has chosen. We go along with it, but if the music is live, it is bound to move you in a different way. And by move, I mean spiritually, emotionally, mentally. The live musician is strumming, singing, swaying in our presence. I, personally, need to be stirred by the music in every class in order to feel fully inspired and aroused, but even a slow, folky jam, if performed live, can bring the sweat and heat, and, most importantly, a little emotion.

There is so much in yoga that rouses the spirit: we are inspired by the poses, the breath, an instructor, the physicality of it all. The strength, wisdom, fortitude, mantras, meaning. But the spirit works in the opposite direction as well. We encourage each other in class with group movement and breath, we inspire the poses and the flow of the practice, the lessons put out to be contemplated. Our emitted energy inspires the instructor, instigates the beats, the pace, the vigor. We move as one in a unified conscious flow, and, above all, hopefully we inspire ourselves with each turn of the body (true of life also).

Yoga is reciprocal, a symbiotic relationship. Everything works together to create a whole experience. It is cooperative. Then, add to all of this, a melody: slow, fast, soft, bumpin’, hypnotic, moving, emotive, fun…having a musician in the corner of the room is pretty special. We’re moving together to the music. She’s playing for us, for herself, watching the sea of poses, as inspired by us as we are by her and her craft.

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Kate Aubry: Inagural Musician

Kate Aubry: Inaugural Musician

the Core Power Yoga Grant Street Studio, Thursdays from 7:30-8:30 pm to see what comes up. These are the musings that ruminated in me while live music played in the background, the foreground, everywhere around me—not contrived, set, boxed, packaged in a recording room—it’s there, present, part of us, moving and flowing with our movements. What will live music bring up in you?