Tips & Advice Singing Meditation OSM – English

Everyone can participate, experience or good voice are not important.

  • Log in on time, preferably 5 minutes in advance (around 9:00).
  • After the warm-up (± 9.10/15) you may not be able to get in.
  • Turn your camera ON, so that we can all see each other. You cannot participate without a camera!
  • During the warm-up exercises in the beginning, all microphones are on, also during Om singing, so that a real group feeling can arise.
  • When we really start singing, I turn off all microphones (except mine), because of the delay in the signal.

This is how it goes:

  • I sing, you sing after me (more or less approximately, both text and melody), accompanied by harmonium / guitar / mrdinga and electronic tanpura & tabla.
  • Just try to repeat more or less what I am singing. Don’t bother if it is precisely correct, and also: we cannot hear your singing :-).
  • Do not write down the text and read, then you are missing the point :-).
  • During the session you can write in the chat if it is urgent (please do not turn your microphone on! :-)

After the session everybody can share their experience.
If you have questions you can stay till after saying goodbye.

You can watch the 1st video of the introduction course (in Dutch) for free over here, as an example of Online Singing Meditation. If you like it, you can subscribe for a small price (€ 20,-) at this page for the entire course: 7 short video’s (±15-20 minutes), each with a different kirtan-mantra to sing along.