Chakra Frequencies: Tantra of Sounds (With C D)

About the Book As both ancient spiritual masters and modern quantum physicists acknowledge, the universe is vibration. Through sound and its ability to communicate with our chakras and subtle body, we can tap in to the vibration of the universe for greater harmony and stronger relationships; physical, emotional, and spiritual healing; expanded consciousness; and planetary oneness.

In this step-by-step guide, sound-healing pioneer Jonathan Goldman and his wife, holistic psychotherapist Andi Goldman, reveal specific ways the voice can resonate the physical and subtle bodies, including 7 sacred vowel sounds and 7 powerful bija mantras that can balance and align the chakras. Providing exercises using breath, tone, mantras, and seed sounds, the authors show how to practice sound healing both indi-vidually and with a partner to strengthen relationships, reach deeper emotional levels, enhance communication, reduce stress, achieve inner balance, and create harmony with those around you as well as the whole planet. The accompanying 60-minute CD offers correct pronunciation and examples of the bija mantras, sacred vowels, seed sounds, and vocal exercises in the book as well as recordings of Pythagorean tuning forks, crys-tal bowls, Tibetan singing bowls, and Tibetan bells, providing the perfect backdrop for beginning a personal or partnered healing sound practice.

JONATHAN GOLDMAN, M.A., is an award-winning musician, composer, writer, teacher, and chant master. An authority on sound healing and a pioneer in the field of harmonics, he is the author of several books, including Healing Sounds, and the founder and director of the Sound Healers Association. ANDI GOLDMAN, M.A., L.P.C., is a licensed psychotherapist specializing in holistic counseling and sound therapy, the director of the Healing Sounds Seminars, and codirector of the Sound Healers Association. The authors live in Boulder, Colorado.

About the Authors Jonathan Goldman, M.A., is an internationally renowned writer, musician, and teacher. He is an authority on sound healing and a pioneer in the field of harmonics. Jonathan is the author of Healing Sounds, Shifting Frequencies, The 7 Secrets of Sound Healing, and The Divine Name. He has studied with masters of sound from both the scientific and spiritual traditions, incorporating this knowledge and energy into his teachings and healing music. His award-winning recordings include: Chakra Chants, The Lost Chord, and The Divine Name (with Gregg Braden), and 2012: Ascension Harmonics. Jonathan is director of the Sound Healers Association in Boulder, Colorado, and CEO of Spirit Music. In 2011 he was named in the Watkins’s Review as one of the "100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People on the Planet." Jonathan teaches throughout the world.

Andi Goldman, M.A., L.P.C., is a licensed psychotherapist, specializing in holistic counseling and sound therapy. She holds an M.A. in Counseling Psychology from Boulder Graduate School and is codirector of the Sound Healers Association and director of the Healing Sounds Seminars. Andi is the developer of Tele-Counsel, the nation's first telephone counseling service to specifically offer homebound clients structured counseling. She has been an educator at international schools in Japan, Germany, and Indonesia and has lived and traveled extensively throughout the world. Andi is a musician, author, teacher, sound healer, and the wife and partner of Jonathan Goldman.

Together Jonathan and Andi have dedicated their life to the path of service, helping awaken and empower others with the ability of sound to heal and transform.

Preface IT IS OUR GREAT PRIVILEGE to present to you this brand-new edition of Chakra Frequencies: Tantra of Sound (originally published as Tantra of Sound: Frequencies of Healing), winner of the Visionary Award for Best Alternative Health Book. This newest edition is filled with even more compassionate wisdom and information for you to discover on your journey through the sound current!

The more we have utilized Chakra Frequencies as a tool for teaching and transformation, the more it has withstood the test of time. The information, exercises, and other materials continue to be as timely as when they were first written-in fact, probably even more timely because the field of sound continues to grow at an astonishing rate, and this book continues to be honored in the field.

Since the first publication of our book, the world of sound healing has truly flourished. We are grateful for this-it is an acknowledgment of not only the ability of sound to heal, but also the extraordinary capacity of sound to transform and create positive, lasting change. More and more people have come to understand the amazing power of sound to create frequency shifts on so many different levels, including the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. So many are beginning to open up to sound. What a blessing!

We are living in extraordinary times now-times of great shift and change. Perhaps this is one of the main reasons why there is so much interest in the field of sound healing. Sound can help us heal ourselves and can also bring harmony and balance to this planet. Sound creates change and allows us to adjust our frequencies, enabling us to come into alignment with all the vast shifts that are occurring. Through sound, we can experience a quantum leap in our evolution-both as a species and as a planet. It is vital and necessary-in fact, it is mandatory-that we learn to adapt to these shifts and changes by adjusting our vibratory level to one that resonates with all that is happening, both within us and around us. One of the fastest, easiest, and most powerful ways of doing so is through sound. Once you learn to use sound to shift your frequencies, the possibilities are limitless.

As both our ancient spiritual masters and our modern quantum physicists acknowledge, the universe is vibration. It follows that our ability to adjust our vibrations by shifting and changing our frequencies means that there is nothing we can't do. Do you want to bring healing and harmony into your life? Use sound! Do you want to create more resonance and peace with those around you? Use sound! Do you want to enhance both personal and planetary quantum evolution? Use sound!

Since its first publication, we have pondered innumerable changes to the title of our book because the popular meaning of tantra in our Western culture is often associated with sexual energy, which has caused confusion in potential readers' minds about the book's subject matter. The word tantra truly has centuries-old origins that resonate with the principles of vibration and sound. In fact, the etymology of tantra comes from the words tattva (the science of cosmic principles) and mantra (the science of vibration). It was this ancient and authentic meaning of the word that we had in mind when we chose our original title and it was our aim to bring awareness of this cosmic vibration to our readers.

If you understand our premise-that this interconnecting link joining all of reality is both based upon sound and created by sound-then you will truly appreciate the information, techniques, and materials in the book. We have titled the new edition Chakra Frequencies because the seven chakras, located vertically along the center of our bodies, are vortices of vibration. When we focus our sound work on the chakras, we are able to change our vibration frequencies and allow resonance with greater aspects of the unified field of consciousness. Through learning to work with chakra frequencies, we can enhance our health and wellness, accelerate our awareness, and advance our evolutionary process to embody our interconnectedness with all that is. We have retained Tantra of Sound as the subtitle for our book because its true meaning-that we can connect with the cosmos through sound-continues to have central relevance to the book's subject.

We are grateful that you have picked up Chakra Frequencies: Tantra of Sound and we trust that if you've gotten this far in your reading, you realize what a gem you have in your hand. It is our great hope that this new edition will attract an even greater audience of people to the extraordinary and transformational world of sound.

If we could impart just one truth to you in this book, it would be the profound words of our dear friend and mentor, Sarah Benson, "the true sound of healing is love!" We are grateful that there are many more such truths within these pages for you to savor and resonate with. We welcome you on this voyage into the sacred and healing powers of sound.

Thank you for reading thus far and please know that through a greater awareness of the power of sound to effect healing and transformation, we can create a better today and a more harmonious tomorrow. We invite you to read on and experience the extraordinary frequencies of healing that are in store for you.

Many Blessings of Love and Light through Sound to each of you on your journey, not only through this book, but throughout your lives! May Sacred Sounds resonate with you!

Introduction THROUGH CHAKRA FREQUENCIES, we trust that you will embark upon an exciting journey using the power of sound as a tool for enhancing your life. It will open doors of intimacy not only with yourself but also with your partner, whether lover, friend, spouse, or other. Although in our Western culture tantra is most often associated with sex, you will discover that this book is an exploration of sound as a vehicle for self-awareness, allowing you to discover a new and exciting paradigm for raising consciousness and enhancing all areas of your life.

As a couple and in working with thousands of people in our seminars, we have successfully used and applied the knowledge and exercises we now present to you. Everything in Chakra Frequencies is true and works. It’s simple yet effective information and techniques can change your life. Sound can be an extraordinary teacher, showing you how to achieve states of consciousness not normally available to those uninitiated to its power. Through sound it is possible to be healed and made whole, and to awaken your consciousness to tantra, the web of existence that connects everything. This is the power of Chakra Frequencies and why we have written it for you.

Sound can heal the body, mind, and spirit, as well as the emotions. Through this interrelationship of sound and self, we can balance and harmonize any of these aspects within ourselves and affect all parts of our being. Through this resonance with sound, we can heal our inner self, as well as create harmony within our relationships. Once this powerful new awareness of self emerges, we begin to experience life differently; we are open to the possibilities inherent in the human experience. Chakra Frequencies is based on more than forty years of our combined experience working in the fields of sound, health, and consciousness. To our knowledge, no one has ever brought together the information and techniques found within these pages in such a framework as this. Our unique and powerful approach of using sound to enhance self-awareness and relationships is new and innovative. It is also extremely effective.

One of the main purposes of this book is to create a vehicle for individuals or couples to use to deepen relationships, enhance more self-awareness, and create more love in their lives. Through the powerful exercises and techniques presented in this book you will learn to tune and vibrate your body, mind, and spirit through sound. When this harmony occurs, all is possible, including enhanced physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual balance and bonding. It will change your life.

Chakra Frequencies is divided into four parts. The first section focuses on "Basic Principles" found in both tantra and sound. We answer questions such as "What is tantra?" and "How can sound assist the tantric experience?" You'll learn about tantra as the web that unites all reality and about sound as the fundamental vibratory force. You'll discover how sound has the ability to shift and change us. You'll find out how this energy can be applied individually or with couples to enhance well-being and intimacy with self and others. You'll explore aspects of vibration that include resonance, intention, entrainment, visualization, and many other fascinating aspects of sound and consciousness.

In the second part of this book we delve into "Basic Practices" for using sound as a vehicle to promote self-awareness by balancing the energy centers known as chakras. Included in this section is the important use of breath and toning in order to begin utilizing your voice for self-created sounds. You'll learn exercises using sacred vowel sounds and mantras to affect and align your nervous system and your chakras. You'll begin to experience the power of your own resonance as you explore the innermost aspects of yourself through the power of sound. You will and not feeling connected with each other or the least bit romantic. In fact, you're having a good old-fashioned emotional battle that has both of you ready to give up on the relationship. What if you could both "sound" together and, within a few minutes, be back to a place where you are talking to each other again, perhaps even beginning to resonate with the love that you have? What if you found that by working with sound for just a short amount of time each day, you could heal many different issues, allowing you a life of balance and happiness?

We know that this and more can be achieved through the information presented in this book, that learning to understand and use sound in an intimate and sacred manner can lead to all sorts of extraordinary realizations about yourself, your relationships, and your life. Sound has been a wonderful teacher for us; it has helped us in our loving resonance with each other, and we know it can help you.

Chakra Frequencies is the result of an act of love-not only for each other but also for our planet. We like to think that it combines the best of our talents, abilities, and gifts. And that, in the end, the love we are able to give to each other, and ultimately to you, the reader, is a direct result of the love we are able to receive from each other.

Before we begin this extraordinary journey into sound and self-awareness, we would like to thank you in advance for joining us and for allowing us to share our journey with you. We know it will change your life.

Book's Contents and Sample Pages