If you are interested in chanting as a type of spiritual practice or a form of meditation, the yoga ashram is a wonderful place to learn and discover more if you have yogic or spiritual inclinations.

What is the ashram?  The ashram is a place, typically where people live and where others can come and stay for a training course or break where a yogic lifestyle is lived studied.

At the ashram many of the various elements of yoga are studied.  Not only asana practice, but philosophy, meditation, karma yoga and also mantra chanting.

At the yoga ashram you can find many different types of chanting practices.  So the ashram is a great place for you to learn about the various chanting practices.

On the ashram the day usually starts pretty early at around 6.00am with group meditation.  Often this group meditation which is called a satsang involves mantra chanting.  Often there will be the longer forms of mantras chanted to start the day or there may be Om mantra chanting meditation sessions.

There may also be time for you to focus on your own mantra chanting practice within specified times.  Here in your chanting practice you work with a particular mantra.  You may or may not be initiated into this particular mantra for a chanting practice.

During ritual moments mantras are also chanted.  Some of these rituals you can join in with the chanting.

There are often mantras that accompany specific moments in the day. 

At the start and ending of asana and meditation sessions the chanting of particular mantras takes place.  There can even be the chanting of mantras before eating.

So the yoga ashram has many opportunities to learn about the various forms of chanting practices.  If the tradition of yoga resonates with you, find an ashram that you feel drawn and attracted to.  This could be the start of a beautiful journey into the world of chanting.

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