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OPEN YOUR HIPS SINGING YOUR RADIANCE AND YOUR HEART WILL FOLLOW V I S I O N A RY M U S I C A L A RT I ST TINA MALIA AND HER SONIC C R E AT I O N S F E AT U R E AT T H I S BY RO N S P I R I T F E ST I VA L .
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‘Music, through its sheer beauty, has the power to free the heart, uplift the soul and connect communities all over the world. When we gather together to sing, dance, pray, and remember our connection to life and one another, we are touched by the simple act of love moving through sound,’ says Tina, who shared some of her insights with The Echo.
Tahl Rinsky is co-owner and practitioner for Creature Yoga. For her, yoga involves a very individual approach that brings the community together as one. Tall teaches Vinysa, a form of yoga that synchronises breath with movement or purposeful placement. ‘It’s a container to all forms of yoga,’ says Tahl. ‘It came out of Astanga and Iyengar. I am strongly rooted in Iyengar.’ Moving from student to teacher was a big part of the yoga journey for Tahl. ‘It takes time to develop your teacher personality – or whatever you want to call it! It’s your human personality, your other roles in life, your spiritual roles – and it blends together with the teacher. For me the process has been about coming into my own style of teaching. It’s about all the elements of myself. When you start teaching you have a teacher personality that you feel you have to wear, but for me it’s through the process and the posture and practice you start to realise yourself or to realise your own power all those things. For me a teacher is a mirror. My teacher Dina says this all the time: I am here to hold up the mirror. I understood that, but it took me many years to really embody it…’
How does music free the heart? I think music frees the heart by bypassing the intellect and reaching a place of pure emotion. So often we feel constricted because we spend so much time overthinking everything. Music gives us a chance to let go of this and relax into our true nature. What is the connection between music and spirituality and how did you find yourself on this journey? Not all music has a spiritual intention, but I think you’d find that most forms of spirituality and religion have some type of music connected to them. Music is a wonderful conduit for expressing love toward the divine, whatever that version is. I have always found myself attracted to this particular conduit, in fact much more so than actual religions or philosophies themselves.
Chanting and singing for peace changes both the person making the music as well as those listening. We can only change the world by changing ourselves, and the practice of chanting with the intention of peace does just that. What happens when you sing your mantras? When I sing or repeat mantras, there is a great tide of release that comes over me, even in places I didn’t know I was holding fear or stress. I’ve had firsthand experience with it being incredibly effective at overcoming depression, and for this reason I truly consider it a medicine.
Can we make love through sound?
What should we expect for Spirit Festival?
Most of the best lovemaking in my life has been through sound, ha ha! It is a language unto itself, a way to express love more intimately than often words can do.
We will be singing, playing and celebrating our beautiful and fragile existence on Earth. We will be playing songs in English, Sanskrit, Spanish, Hebrew and whatever other way we can think of to make love with the divine spirit in all of us!
Can we actually sing for peace? Does chanting for peace actually change anything? Yes, of course we can actually sing for peace! It is happening right now, all over the planet, at all times.
Don’t miss Tina Malia at Spirit Festival this weekend. To find out about the program or buy tickets go to Please visit the www.spiritfestival.com.au.
Yoga isn’t just exercise, it is very often a place where people go to deep emotional places. ‘We live outside our body a lot. We are very disconnected from our bodies and becoming a bit worse in the digital age, as we connect through each other through devices. Yoga is not just about stretching hamstrings and having loose open hips!’ ‘People cry in yoga all the time. People who are new to yoga get surprised when they just want to cry! I think we are there to release and come into our selves and in that process you hold into stuff. In yoga when you feel like that you are just letting go of the crap. Our body holds secrets; there is stuff that is in there that you don’t know is there!’ At Spirit Festival, Tahl will be teaching two yoga classes, one focused on joy, and the other on forgiveness. Byron Spirit Festival, Friday–Sunday. To find out about the program or buy tickets go to www.spiritfestival.com.au.
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