Classes in singing Gandharva Veda Dhrupad music with Shivala

During her life, Shivala had many clear
and deep experiences of how music and
sound can affect mind, body and emotions. She got more and more interested in
natural scales and microtones, which are
used in the original Indian classical music,
and which is different from the tempered
scales of western music. Thereby, she
started to be interested in Indian music
and got a desire to study it deeply.
During her stay as a student in Paris, she
started learning to play Sitar. Later she
undertook a 3 years intensive study in
Indian Khayal singing at MUM, Maharishi University of Management, in the
United States.
She then wanted to study the Indian
system of Dhrupad music, because it is has
kept a very precise knowledge of micro
tuning. Since 2001, she has been a student
of the world famous Dhrupad singers, the
Gundecha brothers.
Since most of the knowledge of Dhrupad
is based on oral traditions, it is today at
risk of becoming extinct. The science of
pure tuning, which forms the basis of
Gandharva Veda Dhrupad music, as well
as many other genres of traditional music,
is getting lost because of the widespread
adoption of musical instruments based on
equal temperament (see our website:
dhrupadmusic.com). Shivala therefore has
an ongoing project of writing a book
about sound, tuning and micro tuning to
help preserve this unique science.
For more information
about
workshops,
private classes,
lecture demonstrations
and concerts:
E-mail:
[email protected]
Web-site:
dhrupadmusic.com
Ph o n e n o :
+47 46 78 03 17
Classes in
singing
Gandharva
Veda Dhrupad
music
with Shivala
The practice of singing Gandharva
Veda Dhrupad music is one of the most
efficient and blissful ways for self development. It enhances awareness in the
physiology and enlivens blissfulness.
Gandharva Veda Dhrupad is a highly
sophisticated science of music aimed at
developing human potential. Being the
origin of classical Indian music, its
performers were held in high esteem in
the royal courts of ancient India. It is a
system of music that has been kept alive
through the centuries by unbroken
traditions.
The practice of singing Gandharva Veda
Dhrupad creates deep relaxation and
brings us more into the present, into a
more peaceful and centred state of mind
and emotions. It creates a dialogue with
our body that strengthen its self healing
ability.
Every session starts by singing prolonged
notes accompanied by tampura. What else
we do depends on the prerequisites and
needs of the participants. Among the
things I teach are the following:
•
Posture and correct breathing
•
Finding one’s natural voice
•
How to make sound vibrate in
different parts of the body using root
syllables of the five elements, which
balances all the senses, doshas and
elements in the physiology
•
Singing of original Gandharva Veda
Dhrupad scales, which bring us in tune
with natural harmonies: For the last
150 years or so, we have been conditioned by music played with instruments
that are not in tune with natural
harmonics. According to scholars on
Gandharva Veda Dhrupad, this has
been an impediment for experiencing
the real harmonising, beneficial effect
that music can have.
•
Singing of ancient Ragas - the musical
embodiments of the laws of nature - by
which we go deep into the moods of
natural harmonies and melodies: This
enhances the awareness of our natural
connection with our surroundings as
well as with the cosmos that we are a
part of, while it also strengthens our
intuition.
•
Singing of compositions in Sanskrit
•
Clapping specific repeating sequences
of rhythm, also while singing, which is
strongly integrating
There is no prerequisite to participate in a
class. It is open for everybody.
A booklet and a CD with tampura
accompaniment and exercises for home
practice are given to the participants.
All the teachings in the classes are in
accordance with Dhrupad, the favourite
form of Gandharva Veda of the spiritual
master Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
Shivala Morfoisse
While being educated as a classical
western musician, Shivala has studied
classical Indian music and Dhrupad since
1998. While still continuing studying and
researching, she holds performances and
courses in many different countries.
Born in 1963, in Bretagne, west of France,
Shivala started her musical life as a child
composing songs with a guitar accompaniment. After three years of Jazz training,
she studied double base at the conservatory of Rennes for three years. Then she did
an intensive course in research on consciousness under the guidance of the spiritual master Maharishi Mahesh Yogi for
three years and thereafter worked with
him in India for 7 months on a Vedic
music project. Encouraged by Maharishi,
she continued her music studies. She
moved to Paris where she studied for
three years at the conservatory of Rueil
Malmaison and thereafter for six years at
the conservatory of Paris 11ar. She also
worked in a chamber orchestra in
Germany for three years.
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