Chanting the Sanskrit Alphabet
This month we will be learning the Sanskrit alphabet. Chanting the Sanskrit Alphabet is much more than learning the letters and the sounds. Each letter represents a petal in one of our chakras. Chanting the alphabet can open our chakras.
We start by chanting the vowels and then move through the consonants. The consonants are grouped by how they are pronounced. The gutturals are created in the back of the throat. The palatals are created in the upprer palate. The cerebrals are created by curling the tongue back and touching the tip of it to the roof of the mouth. The dentals are created with the tongue touching the teeth and the labials are created with the lips.
Listen to Nicolai Bachman, who wrote The Language of Yoga, chant the alphabet here:
Each letter stimulates a petal in one of the chakras:
The throat chakra
The heart chakra
The solar chakra
The pelvic chakra
The root chakra
The third eye