Conscious Paths
For lovers of arts, traditions, culture inspired in the ancient wise India presented thru its different colors and manifestations. Music, Meditation, Yogis and Yoga (the true one), Mantras, Wisdom, tools for growth. Inspirations and contributions from all over the world that nurture the different paths that can be explored by any seeker of truth.
Episodes
34 episodes
A Journey of Sharing Indian Sacred Music Around the World
"Namaskar Friends, In this episode, we will try to get deeper into the world of Mantras with our esteemed guest, "Manish Vyas Ji". We will try to understand the importance of a Guru/Mentor in the life of a Musician, significance of a structured...
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Episode 34
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1:27:56
Mantra Listening Meditation
The tradition of Mantra is Mantra-Chanting, what is known as Mantra Japa, and Manish explains how to use it in "listening-meditation," which can be a very powerful technique to soothe the mind, remain attentive and integrate the energy within.<...
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Season 1
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Episode 33
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19:29
Sufi Music, The Pulse of Love
Sufi music provides a space to experience closeness with divinity and love, and Sufis have always been inclined towards the musical expressions of their poetries.A warmhearted talk, where Manish describes his latest album, Salaam E Sufi...
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Episode 32
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20:11
What Every Yoga Teacher Should Aim For
“The highest goal of a Yoga practitioner should be to come to a level where one is maintaining one’s balance perfectly all the time. Ups and downs are part of life, situations are never in our hands, but how to deal with them is in our hands...
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Episode 31
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19:24
Creating alchemy: rising from darkness and ignorance to peace, light and inner wisdom
A conversation with a being who lifts and illuminates others around him.Bruno Wildhaber was born in Interlaken, Switzerland and studied and lived many years in the US. He’s a doctor, writer, teacher, public talker, life coach… an...
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Episode 30
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1:24:09
Importance of a Real Guru in the Journey of Indian Music
A very inspiring, honest, touching and mature talk with the outstanding Bansuri player from India, Milind Date, that surely will spark any student or lover of Indian music, connecting them to India and its magical music and learning paths.<...
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Episode 29
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44:01
A Profound Insight into the World of Indian Music: a talk with Palash Dholakia
An enriching conversation for anyone interested in Indian music, for enjoyment, for personal learning or simply for cultural interest or curiosity about the endless world of Indian music, which highly differs from western music, ev...
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Episode 28
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37:00
World Yoga Festival: A Yoga Feast in UK, with the Heart and Soul in India
Ram and Sonali Banerjee are originally from India living in England and since the last seven years they have been organising the World Yoga Festival in the outskirts of London, which has been getting more and more local and international respon...
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Season 1
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Episode 27
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40:10
A Message for all Students and Potential Students of Music from India
Music from India is a path of eternal learning. In this path the concept of "continuously learning" is one of the key aspects to understand from the beginning, before undertaking this magic journey. This is so because in Indian music we always ...
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Episode 26
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28:52
Adiyogi: Presentation of the Upcoming Shiva Album, by Manish Vyas
For every person in India, Shiva means a lot — and Manish is not an exception. That is why he has worked on a very special album exclusively for Lord Shiva, which will be his 2021 yearly release. Powerful yet meditative vibrations: ADIYOGI, pub...
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Episode 25
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21:04
Dhrupad and the Importance of Sanskrit Language
In the third and final episode of this series of dialogues with the great Gundecha Brothers, they have shared their insights about the magic and power of Sanskrit language and how it can become a medium to a cosmic experience, whether by speaki...
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Episode 24
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22:32
Dhrupad, the Oldest Surviving Classical Style of North Indian Vocal Music
Following the previous interview with Gundecha Brothers, who dedicated their lives to continuing this style of music, we present the part II of the talk, where among other interesting insights, the main topics covered are:The importance...
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Episode 23
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23:44
Dhrupad, a Major Ancient Heritage in the Music from India
In the series of the three podcasts from a meeting with one of the most well-known Dhrupad singers from India namely GUNDECHA BROTHERS, the first part covers the insights about the connection between Dhrupad and Naad Yoga or Yoga of Sound, as w...
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Episode 22
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23:50
Yoga, as a Path for an Earnest Practitioner
At the beginning, Yoga was not written down anywhere, the teachings were passed by the Guru to a disciple personally. The first books where Yoga is mentioned were the ancient Tantras and later the Vedas, then the Upanishads expanded deeper a...
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Episode 21
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35:26
Not All Devotional Music from India is Kirtan or Mantra
Manish takes us through the beautiful journey of sacred music from India with interesting explanations and a variety of songs to help us understand the vast spectrum of music from India: "We have traditions that beyond being learnt, they are ca...
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Episode 20
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32:35
Indian Music Requires that One Becomes Available Like a Hollow Bambu
Amano Manish, a gifted Mohan Veena (slide guitar) player from India disciple of Brij Bushan Kabra, interviews Manish Vyas. They talk about the journey of learning, composing and presenting music from India. A very interesting conversation for t...
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Episode 19
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1:05:08
The Path of Sufism in India and its Music
The whole meditative life of the Sufis is built upon the mystery of the world. The word Sufi is connected with sophia, which means wisdom -- not cleverness, because cleverness cannot be wisdom; but the wisdom learned from within.
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Episode 18
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29:36
From Gross to Subtle in the World of Yoga and Mantra
The focus in India has always been to find inner richness, inner fulfillment. For this, different tools and paths have been used since millennia. These traditions have been practiced and followed in a certain way... which ultimate point is the ...
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Episode 17
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1:28:17
Understanding Gayatri Mantra
With roots along the ancient path of Sanatan Dharma, many different roads have been used amid thousands of years to arrive to the same ultimate destination, realize the God within. One of these paths is mantra, the science of sound, by which on...
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Episode 16
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37:29
True World of Mantra and Sacred Music from India : an interview to Bapu
I personally have always considered it as a blessing for me to have been born in such a culture like Bhārat (India) with its ancient roots and its vast, bottomless, fascinating world around mystical wisdom and spiritual legacy, reflected also i...
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Episode 15
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48:23
A Musical path: Discovering the Potential and Significance of Music used for Higher Purposes
Although my musical path was firstly built since an early age by being next to music Maestros while growing in India, there was a total different training that came later since my early-twenties, when I worked close to some spiritual mast...
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Episode 14
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29:06
The Miracle of a Guru in One's Life
What is the character of a Guru? Do we need a Guru? The One who brings us out of the darkness into the light is called a Guru, a wise, eyes-opening guide in one's life. In a journey of a seeker of truth, the figure of a Guru is extremely import...
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Episode 13
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30:53
Harmonium has also been Subjected to Cultural Appropriation
If you go to any musical gathering in India, you will see that the playing of Harmonium sounds completely different from what most people have been exposed to in the west. Naturally, to learn anything from a foreign culture takes more effort, m...
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Episode 12
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29:09
Distinguishing Between a Meditation Retreat and a Chill-out Get Away
Many times it is believed that meditation is just about relaxing the body and the mind. Although this may be a consequence, it is not the purpose of meditation. Meditation is inquiring about the true nature of the self, dropping ideas and acqui...
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Episode 11
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37:56
Making Meditation a Way of Life
Meditation is not about 'doing something.' Yes, we can work on meditation techniques in order to arrive to a more meditative state. The technique will help the cleansing of the mind, the cleansing of the psyche. But at some point the technique ...
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Episode 10
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19:28
