Bain de Gongs : Un voyage sonore pour le Corps, l'âme et l'esprit.

First time at a gong bath ?

• Mantra tune in with the group to create a healing space where you feel secure and connected
• Set your intention - be crystal clear about your highest creation and your highest vision for yourself (5')
• Physical warm up and breath work to release the tensions of the day - physical and emotional (15')
• Kriya (series of exercises that work on a specific objective) or meditation : examples: chakra clearing, intuition, prosperity, immune system boost, lymphatic cleansing (35')
• Gong bath - relaxation in a comfortable position and let go.... float... release and heal (45')
• Wake up series: breathe, move, breathe, stretch, listen to the verbal instructions to bring you out of  deep relaxation and prepare you for your journey onwards (10')
• Mantra tune-out - remember your intentions and bow to your true identity (5')

A Gong Puja is a sacred ceremony in which the sound of the gongs is kept going during a full night. Players in a gong Puja take turns in playing, keeping all gongs going at a low frequency in a central structure called a “gong cage” or “gong pod”. Participants at the Puja lie down around this pod and during the night they enter a state of meditative sleep. The energy of the Gongs also helps us raise the vibratory level all around us, beyond the confines of the room through harmonic resonance.

The Gong is an instrument and healing tool for the nervous system. It can be a magical alchemy of frequencies and sound occur, which open our connection to our higher self. It is an instrument that takes us to the moment of creation of the universe with its complex harmonics. While the gongs play, there is a dome of sound which is beyond our usual perception in 3D. It creates a sacred space to experience and to bring us back to ourselves, generating an immediate effect of deep meditation and working at very subtle levels.

Yogi Bhajan, who brought Kundalini yoga and the art of the gong to the west, promoted 45 minute gong baths as a way of clearing any mental and physical blocks in our being. One of his early students and Grand Gongmaster, Don Conreaux, developed the gong Puja as 10 consecutive gong baths, or 7.5 hours of uninterrupted sound to bring healing and clarity to our souls.

There is no need to have any yoga or Gong experience to benefit from a Gong Puja, just bring an open mind. The experience of a Puja is very individual, but it can be a turning point or a moment of great clarity. The deep harmonics of the gongs which will be played may bring emotional and spiritual cleansing. 

NB: A Puja is a ritual ceremony a moment of devotional attention. The word, Puja, originally from the Sanskrit language means reverence, homage or ceremony.