
If you want to rein in the mind, music can be the catalyst. Wherever you want to go (emotionally, spiritually, mentally), the right tunes can establish a mood that takes you there. It is the great transporter.
Dawn Bianca Feinberg, BCMT and co-creator of YogArt (Miami, FL), is a certified Jivamukti teacher and a licensed movement therapist. Dawn’s teaching style combines the breath-based essence of Ashtanga yoga with the evolving freedom of Jivamukti yoga as well as the discipline and insight gleaned from her daily Mysore practice. Creative, uplifting and physically challenging, Dawn’s classes harmonize the body, energize the spirit and empower the mind. Widely recognized as one of the most charismatic and respected yoga teachers in South Florida, Dawn also leads many Jivamukti workshops, retreats, and teacher trainings around the world. When Dawn isn’t studying, teaching or practicing yoga and kirtan, she loves to catch waves and hang with her beautiful children and husband Danny.
Here’s a process for finding a soundscape to transport you:
- Close your eyes
- Listen to your breath
- Imagine yourself in that place you want to be: if it’s on a boat, at a BBQ, under a starry sky.
- See yourself and imagine the people that would be with you. The key is to really just let your mind go to that place.
- Let yourself begin to paint the space with music. Be intuitive about it: What’s naturally playing in the background of your scene?
- Open your eyes and get to work sourcing music.
- Listen to the music and then play out the scene again in your mind. How do they match? Does the music help you get there quickly and vividly?
- Make a note of what works. Whenever you want to go on a little self retreat, you now have a some musical itineraries you can tap into.
What are your go-to musical soundscapes? Where do they take you?
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