Putting together in harmony various forms of beauty can only give life to a superior beauty: we invite you to embrace these words before introducing the topic of today's article, apparently unusual.
In fact, if the combination of yoga and dance is easily understandable (both are rooted in the body to flow beyond it, asanas remind us of dance steps, etc.), the link with music may seem darker, an entity elusive and elusive that, at least in appearance, has little to do with ancient Indian discipline.
Yet the well-known magazine "Yoga Journal" has decided to embark on an experimental way that has tried to graft yoga into a jazz music event .
Such as? Read on!
Yoga Jazz: two worlds that meet
Yoga Journal and the Milan Jazz Festival have combined intent and strength by marrying in the name of a concept: yoga and jazz are both expressions of energy that is released at the rhythm of the breath .
Like a yoga class it is characterized by the harmony of the asanas performed and assembled in a unique way, so a jazz performance is at the same time irreproducible, the result of a very special harmony between the musicians. Two travel proposals, the yogic and the jazz one, that beat different paths, but with a similar goal: the absorption in the here and now, both maintaining a position and playing a song.
Following this red thread that unites the two disciplines, in Milan last June, Yoga Jazz took place, an event in which the practice of yoga was accompanied precisely by the notes of this musical style in the setting of the City Botanical Garden Do you study.
If you think that the only soundtracks for a lesson are Indian raga, mantra or Deva Premal, we invite you to broaden your horizons and try a yoga and jazz experience: tune in to the breath of music, grab the inspiration of the musicians and melt the energy that flows from your asanas with that of musical composition.
It will be a unique experience, as unique as jazz improvisations!
Always welcome opportunities for yogic and musical sharing
It is said that the great jazz saxophonist Paul Coltrane was a yoga student and watered his mystical sense with meditation. This further demonstrates that these two worlds are less incompatible and unglued than it might seem at first sight; demonstrating that beauty is welcoming and ready to be enveloped .
We can only hope that events such as Yoga Jazz are always organized with greater frequency to spread yoga practice and make people appreciate good music, to know what is new and to refine our perceptions, yogic and musical.
