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Bhava Yoga

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As mentioned in another review, almost anything by Russill Paul is great music for the practice of yoga, especially kundalini yoga. This album is GREAT! Russill Paul's life experience as a Benedictine monk in India and his exploration of Vedic music means this isn't some new age heavenly harps thing. This is THE stuff of the Vedas and it moves inside your psyche, gently pulling out the tension and the tugs of resistance. Very, very good stuff.

This music creates enormous senses of space and dimension only to break them down into some sort of limitlessness....if one is familiar with the spiritual backgrounds, Arunachala Shiva will transport you to a place of tranquility and compassion. I can imagine Ramana Maharishi, the ashram and the flow of love as I listen to Arunachala Shiva...This is a CD I can hear infinite numbers of times and yet look forward to hearing it all over again....Russill Paul has made an pristine contribution to those who enjoy the best of music and also appreciate the keenest of philosophies...

I listen to all types of music. One of my favorite types of sounds that Hindu or "Hindi" culture music offers is the vocal sounds that are definitely provided in this CD. The CD consists of men singing chants with mostly stringed instruments. The sound quality is excellent. It is not like some Hindu culture music that is recorded during a public ritual where you may hear other people in the background. The music is both intense and joyful. If you're one to listen to culture music for background music for yoga or dance, this would be an ideal CD. I would not recommend this for meditation as the singing might be distracting. Bhava Yoga, as described in the CD case, is the Yoga of Sound and using the voice to celebrate. This CD clearly does just that and provides joyful melodies for the listener. It is one of my top favorite CD's as it holds a modern type style to its music, therefore enjoyable to all generations.

I only have the MP3 of Shree Ma. I heard it (and subsquently discovered Russil Paul) on Pandora internet radio (such a neat thing) and knew I wanted to buy it. It starts off really interesting...in a way that made me at first not like it, but then the song opens up and sounds amazing.

The way he uses his voice, trained and refined through years of yoga and "walking the walk," is amazing. Sometimes I want to turn it up really loud; it feels like pure, powerful energy and inspires me to go deeper in sadhana.

I've been looking for inspiring and powerful "spiritual" music and come across a lot of "new age" music. There is some truly wonderful new age music, but a lot of it is too "airy" and too much "love", to the point where it feels artificial, forced, and imbalanced.

Hearing this music and the powerful voice are like the perfect antidote to all of that. There is so much raw power in these chants and mantras, and yet it is wise power, which works to empower rather than destroy or control.