Chanting - Discovering Spirit in Sound

Robert Gass with Kathleen Brehony

ISBN 10: 0767903226 / ISBN 13: 9780767903226

Verlag: Broadway Books, New York, U.S.A., 1999

Beschreibung

251pp. Cream paper covered three-quarters of boards with green cloth binding to spine. Green and white headbands. Gilt lettering on spine. In as new condition, tightly bound with no inscriptions. Unclipped cream and orange dust jacket with black lettering on face and spine. Hint of shelf wear to tip of top of spine of dust jacket. Describes the ancient art of chanting in modern life. Foreword by Don Campbell, author of The Mozart Effect.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 000581

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Chanting - Discovering Spirit in Sound
• Verlag: Broadway Books, New York, U.S.A.
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0767903226
• ISBN-13: 9780767903226
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 1st Edition
• Zustand: Fine
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine

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Including details about chanting's history and traditions as well as new scientific findings about the many medical benefits of humming and vibration, this guide to vocal meditation provides readers with easy instructions, breathing techniques, and tips on how to create unique, personal chants. $30,000 ad/promo.

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art of chanting has long been embraced by the world's great religious traditions as a path to healing and enlightenment, but only recently has Western science begun to recognize its therapeutic effects on the body and mind. Chanting provides a fascinating introduction to this powerful and increasingly popular practice and shows you how to use chant in your own life as a powerful tool for relaxation, body-mind healing, and spiritual self-discovery. Drawing on Robert Gass's own experience as one of the world's best-known leaders of contemporary chant, as well as the wisdom of sound healers from around the world, Chanting explores the science of how sound affects both our bodies and our consciousness and takes us on an engaging tour of chant as it is used in Hindu, Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, Islamic, African, Shamanic, Goddess, and Native American traditions. Chanting provides simple exercises and more than twenty musical scores to help you develop a personalized