How the Soul Sings

Chanting is a Way into the Source of Being

Sound is a doorway into

Sacred timeless time.

Human sounds have been chanted,

Sung, moaned, screamed, echoed,

For so long that

No translation is necessary.

Heart and soul know the meaning.

Yogis intuited that

All creation is vibration, rhythmical harmonies

Of space and matter,

Energy condensed to a low vibration.

Song and music are systems of

Organized vibration.

Every part of us receives the wave,

Pleasurable and familiar,

As the waves of the womb.

Human hearts entrain rhythmically with one another,

The universe hums in B flat,

Bones, muscles and organs sing at

Various pitches

According to their purpose and density.

We open our mouths and

Become vessels of resonance,

Resonating others, being resonated.

The sound is different on warm days,

Cool days, during the dark moon,

During the pregnant moon.

We sing into deep curiosity and

Patience, altered harmonies of being.

Scattered attention is harmonized into

Here and now.

The chant is a river we all

Step into together; it unites us,

Comforts us, inspires us.

We have chanted to dying mothers,

We have chanted ourselves through pain,

We have chanted to keep going,

We have chanted babies into this world.

We initiate practice with

Our human voices, as one,

We vibrationally attune

To one great source river

Of pulsating alive sound.