What a blissful treat to spend two hours with Saul David Raye and his band today! As a teacher, Saul embodies the qualities of being both rooted and otherworldly, and he led the class through two hours of meditation, chanting, and mellow asana, with his 5-piece bhakti band playing guitar, flute, and percussion throughout. The theme that Saul kept returning to was that of the circular, which he talks about as being the feminine energy (as opposed to the linear, male energy), and he invited us to delve deeply into the circular, moving our bodies in freeform to the music and singing from our hearts to chants like Loka Samasta Sukhino Bhavanthu. We also engaged in belly laughing. For a moment, I felt it difficult to force laughter, but then he told us to laugh at the absurdity of our problems, and the room broke into giggles. The class ended with a beautiful rendition of the Gayatri mantra, and a deep savasana. Something about Saul’s way of teaching inspired a deep sense of gratitude in my heart for all of the amazing people who have touched my life. Om!
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The Divinity of Saul David Raye
