Dear Narad

It is nice that you are back and seeing you well. And you are already busy doing works as you told me. We will pray to The Mother to take good care of you.

>> In the News&Notes in Auroville I gave the following announcement:

OM CHOIR, Tuesday 27th, 6:00~7:30pm at Savitri Bhavan: Narad will be again with us - and also for the next four months. Narad will do the voice exercises with us and will support the singing and the unfolding of the OM.

Inspirations from brief "Savitri" readings, phases of silence and contemplation will help us to intone from within the OM - OM the universal word and sound. This is a wonderful collective invocation of a new music and frequency which has the power to manifest unity through the opening and consecration of each individual in a simple sound prayer. (If you are coming for the first time, please come 10 minutes early.)

>>>I like also to share beautiful happenings. And I observe also a kind of development with the OM Choir work.

In nearly every OM Choir there is something special what is touching. We are going more deeper and becoming more creative with the warming up exercises. The OM's unfolding can then more softly flow, more creative and with more harmony.

>> Kayananda is doing often with us a few *sound and energy awareness exercises*, beside that we are doing the warming up exercises from you Narad. We are breathing and sound *out of the mouth* (one nose is closed) the deepest "A" a few times, then *the same through the **open nose* (the other nose is still closed) - and then with our awareness we are feeling how the energy is in the head and around; then we are doing the same with the highest "I" and feeling in, how this is. Watching and not judging we can learn about the awareness of the energy field in and around the head. The exercises give peace and an integral awareness and help to develop a Witness / Observer consciousness.

I think for all of us these exercises are very helpful. The head is energised, we can be present there, and out of this present awareness (not only mental), we can express our aspiration in the sound OM. The presence and awareness feels good and peaceful; and the thinking mind becomes quiet or nearly quiet through these exercises. We are more in the body and in the here and now. *I can see that these exercises have the same effect like the warming up exercise sounding "HM", where you can feel the vibration around the mouth. This helps also to relax the tissue around the mouth and helps to sound the tone more relaxed.*

Kayananda and I are also going to Aloka's class "Awareness Through Body" (ATB), where we work with the breath, sound and conscious awareness. To learn to be present in the body, experiencing a quiet mind and to act out of inner awareness and to be good centered, is what I like to live. For me "Awareness through Body" is a wonderful support for the OM Choir work.

> In the last OM Choir . We had been 10 people, 8 from Auroville. Kayananda brought a* tuning-fork *and every person stroked it and formed his OM. It was wonderful. We experienced how every voice sounded different and that also underlying was a sound, like a binding tone or carpet.

I am so touched by the effect of the instrument tuning-fork. I would like to have a tuning-fork to learn to form the sound more clear. And I think it is a wonderful help for everyone.

We from the OM Choir in Auroville are looking forward to your coming, dear Narad. Then we can explore deeper and wider our sound-aspiration OM and we can learn to express this more beautifully.

In Her and His service.

With Love and vast Gratitude.... Margrit