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Come get your groove on with us at a Wanderlust Festival or 108 event near you!\u00a0See the full line-up<\/a> and buy tickets<\/a> now! We can\u2019t wait to see you there.\u00a0<\/em>In the City of Angels? Check out Donovan\u2019s Deep House Yoga class at Wanderlust Hollywood<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Music is one of those elements in yoga classes that teachers either prefer or detest. Some teachers use music<\/a> to create and sustain a particular atmosphere, while some purport that music detracts from an internal exploration and is more of a distraction than positive addition to the practice.<\/p>\n

In the past few years, however, more studios are enticing students to the\u00a0mat by fusing\u00a0music and yoga to offer an accessible and more visceral experience. Music\u00a0serves as a mediator between timid curiosity and an active decision to sign up and show up. Whereas Sanskrit terms and spiritual jargon may be incomprehensible at first, music is a universal language that speaks to the innate rhythms<\/a> of daily life. We find it in our heartbeat, in our breath, in the way we walk, the way we speak, and potentially the way we practice yoga.<\/p>\n

Schulyer Grant, co-founder and National Yoga Director of Wanderlust\u00a0Festivals, developed a signature musically-driven class at Wanderlust Hollywood known as The Fixx<\/a>. In this 45-minute vinyasa class, the music is specifically curated based on its beats per minute (BPM) so that it can serve as a breath guide for students. The music is ambient and subtle throughout, yet functions along with the teacher\u2019s instruction as a backbone of the class. As the intensity builds through the progression of asana, students can tap back into the beat of the music to re-establish a consistent breath pattern.<\/p>\n

Besides serving such a specific functional role, teachers are also utilizing the energetic capacity of music<\/a> to create an experience that otherwise is hard to find. Donovan Vriens-McGrath, another Wanderlust Hollywood teacher, offers a class every Sunday evening that combines vinyasa with electronic dance music (EDM) played by a live DJ, projected light effects, and free-spirited dance. The classes are growing in popularity as students come seeking the combination of an immersive musical experience coupled with intentional movement served with a side of savasana and a dance party for dessert.<\/p>\n

Donovan\u2019s Deep House Yoga is a result of his desire to create an environment through various stylings of yoga<\/a> in combination with music that is, as he notes, \u201caligned with the higher vibrations of connection, creation, freedom and love.\u201d What attracts so many people to his class is the unique space birthed from the feel-good relationship between EDM music and yoga.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe music, atmosphere, and teachings guide people to move towards an unrestricted joyous freedom that is continually described to me by participants as \u2018so much fun\u2019 and \u2018a super high without drugs.\u2019\u00a0Students are transported from the self-conscious mind into the impulsive, intuitive, free voice of the body resulting in a beautiful unabashed self expression,\u201d says Donovan.<\/p>\n

Traditionally, Moksha<\/em>, or liberation from that which ties us to suffering and holds us back from experiencing our most authentic selves, is one of of the main goals of walking the yogic path. The experience created by Donovan allows for a moment of self-induced moksha catalyzed by the music, the asana, and the teacher\u2019s guidance. The music in Deep House Yoga<\/a> is essential to such a liberating release. \u201cI use music in my class to create an atmosphere of inspiration, concentration, and mood elevation,” says Donovan. “The rhythms [of EDM] are a tool to move away from the chatter of the mind and into a more direct experience with movement and breath.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whether or not music should be used in a yoga class is up to the teacher\u2019s discretion and overall intention for the experience of her students. Yet the subjectivity of the question to music or not to music <\/em>does not detract from its power to co-create a powerful class in tandem with an effective teacher. Yoga teachers learn to tools\u2014and are then given the responsibility\u2014to build and hold safe space for practitioners to experience their authentic selves. To take a step closer to individual Moksha whenever they step onto the mat. As in Schuyler and Donovan\u2019s cases, if a teacher is using music to serve that higher intention and benefit of students, than let\u2019s turn the volume up, take a deep synchronized breath, and find a little move-and-groove in our Downward-Facing Dog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\"erin<\/em>Erin Ward is a freelance writer, yoga teacher, and navigator at Wanderlust Hollywood.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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