Stock: 
Format: 
Release Date: 16-04-2008
Label: Spirit Voyage Music
Catalog Number: DVD002398
Barcode: 809771000161
Musical Style: Yoga
Review:
“Sacred images, deities, dissolves, close-ups and a variety of spiritual mandalas, geographical photos and enticing art designs are all part of “Yoga Vision,” the new DVD from Girish and a whole assemblage of talented visual artists. The highly evolved music of Girish provides ideal backdrops and accompaniment for the moving screen, keeping pace and tempos if orchestrated by some sort of master plan. There is an ease of flow that allows this well-integrated DVD to thoroughly achieve its stated goals by offering a fusion of sight and sound, yantra and mantra, to inspire your yoga practice and create sacred space. While the music fits the images to a t, there is another elemental energy at play here. The visuals, and how they merge and vary the inner and outer aspects, totally bring Girish's music to life, in ways that are multi-dimensional and ultimately enchant, engage and entice in the most divine way. Nine separate pieces are found on this exceptional DVD, each coming from either “Reveal” or “Shiva machine,” the two CDs to date that Girish has released. The colorful visuals and imagery encompass all manner of photographs, film footage, spiritual sites, drawings, computer art and sacred renderings from the hands and minds of 5 separate creators of sacred art. Featured are sacred images by spiritual artists, Mandala Publishing, Papayalicious, film maker Chris Miglino, Paul Huessenstamm and PeggyLee Mackie. These audio visual mantra-mandalas comprise many treasures and gems for repeatedly pleasurable and deepening viewing.” - Lloyd Barde, Backroads Music
Description:
Explore the world of healing through sound and movement with Yoga Vision. This stunning DVD of incredible sacred art and music is perfect for relaxation, rejuvenation, and re-connection. Yoga Vision is a DVD of nine audio-visual mantra-mandalas for yoga and sacred space, featuring the music of Girish. It is a fusion of sight and sound, yantra and mantra.
Yoga Vision features sacred images from Mandala Publishing, Papaya!, Paul Huessenstamm, PennyLee Mackie, and film maker Chris Miglino. These sacred images are animated and choreographed to Girish's original music. A unique treat for all of your senses.
Biography:
For as long as he can remember, Girish has created rhythm to accompany life. When he was eight years old, his parents gave him a little red snare drum as a bargaining tool to stop him from banging on everything else in the house. In his teens, he started experimenting with pop, rock, jazz and orchestral music. His first experience of music as sacred art came in college, playing with jazz bands. This came just as Girish was feeling pulled toward a sacred life. A college philosophy class inspired him to explore spirituality through Kundalini yoga, meditation, and the study of Eastern scriptures. By the time of his college graduation, Girish was so deep into these practices that he decided to move into an ashram in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. Girish lived in the ashram for five years, giving up music and taking the vows of a monk in the divine mother tradition called Dakshina Marg or Mahashakti Yoga. As a monk in the ashram he spent hours every day chanting. Girish also studied Sanskrit as a means to understand the deeper meanings of these ancient chants, and helped his teacher translate dozens of hymns. One day he happened upon a set of tablas at the ashram and was instantly compelled to play them. This event set him on a life-changing course. Guided as always by rhythm, and now by his spiritual pursuits, Girish began to study tablas with Jagadessh in the nada yoga tradition (yoga of sound current), which emphasized the spiritual import of music. He also travelled to New York to learn the art of Indian drumming at Siddha Yoga Ashram. After New York, Girish then hooked up with the musician and spiritual teacher Bob Kindler, known as Babbaji. It became clear to him that his innate musical passions did not conflict with, but in fact lead to a spiritual livelihood. Girish also studied with legendary tabla master Swapan Chanduri at the Ali Akbar School of Music in Marin County, California. Krishna Das was just gaining popularity at that time and Girish played with him regularly. In this context, Girish was quickly introduced to a wider world of music for yoga. Soon he was accompanying many of the names in the yoga music genre, including Wah!, Dave Stringer, Thomas Barquee, Snatam Kaur, Shanti Shanti, Steve Ross, Swaha, and Rasa. Girish continues to explore and expand musical borders, and has found new avenues for his artistic expression. Yearning to express the power of Sanskrit mantras through his own voice has been a driving force behind his new CD, Reveal, fittingly titled because it reveals this artist's multi-layered musical talent, which is firmly rooted in his spiritual explorations.
«Go back to Spirit Voyage Music
