October 21, 2024 • 56 mins
Air Date - 21 October 2024
Awakening the Warrior Within: Music as a Healing Tool – Radhika Vekaria
Get ready to elevate your consciousness and awaken your inner voice! Join us for an inspiring episode of VOICE RISING, where the visionary host Kara Johnstad engages with the mesmerizing singer and sound coach, Radhika Vekaria. This is more than just an interview; it’s an invitation to embark on a soulful journey through the harmonies of life.
In this episode, Kara and Radhika delve into her groundbreaking album, Warriors of Light—a vibrant tapestry of sound that interlaces the ancient wisdom of Sanskrit, Tamil, and English with contemporary global textures. Each track is a portal, guiding you on a universal quest for sovereignty, where the echoes of Vedic traditions meet the heartbeat of modernity.
Radhika’s work transcends the ordinary; she merges the elegance of Western classical training with the depth of her Eastern heritage, creating music that resonates with the very essence of the human experience. Having performed for spiritual luminaries like Deepak Chopra and Sri Sri Shankar, she embodies the mission of bridging ancient sound sciences with our fast-paced world, igniting transformation through her innovative music and coaching.
This episode is a must-listen for conscious creatives, sound healers, yogis, and anyone who seeks to harness the transformative power of voice as a tool for healing and connection.
Join us and let the melodies awaken your spirit, inspire your creativity, and guide you toward a more harmonious existence.
Visit Radhika Vekaria at https://radhikavekaria.com
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Awakening the Warrior Within: Music as a Healing Tool – Radhika Vekaria
Get ready to elevate your consciousness and awaken your inner voice! Join us for an inspiring episode of VOICE RISING, where the visionary host Kara Johnstad engages with the mesmerizing singer and sound coach, Radhika Vekaria. This is more than just an interview; it’s an invitation to embark on a soulful journey through the harmonies of life.
In this episode, Kara and Radhika delve into her groundbreaking album, Warriors of Light—a vibrant tapestry of sound that interlaces the ancient wisdom of Sanskrit, Tamil, and English with contemporary global textures. Each track is a portal, guiding you on a universal quest for sovereignty, where the echoes of Vedic traditions meet the heartbeat of modernity.
Radhika’s work transcends the ordinary; she merges the elegance of Western classical training with the depth of her Eastern heritage, creating music that resonates with the very essence of the human experience. Having performed for spiritual luminaries like Deepak Chopra and Sri Sri Shankar, she embodies the mission of bridging ancient sound sciences with our fast-paced world, igniting transformation through her innovative music and coaching.
This episode is a must-listen for conscious creatives, sound healers, yogis, and anyone who seeks to harness the transformative power of voice as a tool for healing and connection.
Join us and let the melodies awaken your spirit, inspire your creativity, and guide you toward a more harmonious existence.
Visit Radhika Vekaria at https://radhikavekaria.com
#RadhikaVekaria #VoiceRising #MusicAsMedicine #SoundHealing #KaraJohnstad #Music #Interviews #Voice
#WarriorsOfLight #SoundHealing #VibrationalHealing #AncientWisdom#UnlockYourVoice #HealingThroughSound #SoundCoaching #LiberateYourSpirit #EmpowermentThroughMusic
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Share your voice, ask your questions, join in the conversation,
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a sound world. And here's your host, Kara Johnstad.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Hello, everybody, Welcome to Voice Rising, where we explore the
transformative power of sound and the many layers of our voice. Today,
I'm honored to welcome the incredible Redika Vikaria, a visionary
singer and sound coach who bridges the ancient wisdom of
Sanskrit with contemporary musical landscapes. Her new album, Warriors of
(01:38):
Light invites us on a journey of self discovery, healing,
and empowerment through sound. Ridika, it's a pleasure to have
you with me on the show today.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Thank you, Carl. It's pleasure to be here.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
So, first of all, congratulations on your new album. It's
absolutely gorgeous. And what is so fascinating is your new album,
Warriors of Light blends Sanskrit, Tamil and English. So what
inspired this fusion of languages and cultures for you?
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Hm, Well, yeah, this is a little bit of a
different take on sacred music. And I wanted to bring
together all of the languages that I've been influenced in
my life. Obviously, I grew up in England, so English
was a primary language for me, and as I delved
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more into my roots, obviously Sanskrit became extremely profound for me,
and I wanted to bring more of my personal journey
in this album. I wanted to bring more of my
life into the philosophies and music that is being shared.
And I thought that the tapestry should be woven with
the different languages that I've been influenced by.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Beautiful. I'd love to start out the show a piece
off of your new album so that our listeners get
a taste of this, this this soundscape, this beauty that
you've created. And we're going to start out with a
piece called Liberate, and you're going to share with the
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readers because I've been stumbling over Mahamua jaya, Am I
getting close?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
There you go? Yes, it means the great, it means
a great victory.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
The great victory. And how does this mantra connect with
the theme of liberation in your own life? Just a
just a short glimpse before we listen.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
In absolutely Yes, I this montha in particular, the Mohammad
Junjaya manta is considered one of the most powerful mantas
in Veta history. It's from the rig Veda and it
is a liberation manta. And it's said that whenever one
is facing an end of something, even the end of
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their life, this mantra gives them peace to let go
of everything that they've been bonded to. Because we feel
fear when we are about to let go of something
that we are bound to and we don't realize that
we're part of something so much greater. So this Manthra.
I have directly experienced the power of this month in
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times in my life when I, say, had a panic
attack or when I was having a really tough time.
Even on the spiritual path, we still have a tough
time sometimes, and this mantra has anchored me so strongly
and powerfleep and immediately that I wanted to honor it
and write a song that was really around the theme
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of the power of this Manthra. So this song as
you hear it, the verses are in English that represent
the modern world question, this yearning, this almost desperation for
an answer of the higher power and whether they are
there and you know what's going on in our lives.
And the chorus is of this answer from the ancient
world that allows us to free ourselves from the fear
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of the question. And that's why it was a dance
and an interplay, because I feel like my life and
the human journey in general is this oscillation between question
and realization, question and realization, and that's how this song
came about.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Beautiful, let's listen in here, we go.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Are you there.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
In the corners of the dark gless, do you hear
all the cries amongst the beians? So a fie, reveal
the peace within yourby see me need, see me kneel
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before you know. Liberate all the need within my boy.
I want to know because I feel you hear me call.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Let me fall.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Fall away from mon need my feetes. Let me go
to thee alone where we fall on threebagonia jommy, So
can then bush.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
The farther you d come bound, read your more, she
your mom with woundrium become your job.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
So can then bush the bar the lord?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Come the Lord, read your mo she your momory.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Lord, free the pain. Let it wash into thetion of
time and space with aways of rainform motion. But what
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I guess ned into the dog side glumiulate illumiulate mamaia
DOMI can the us wor thelone.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
Your m g mom.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Listening to this beautiful track off of Redica's album Warriors
of Light, and it's entitled Liberate Redka. You mentioned in
one of your I'm not sure if it was your
press release, but that you you'd like to help listeners
remember who they are through your music. What is that
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longing for you. And how do you think this album
is supporting us in coming back to our heart and
to ourselves. M.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Yeah, Well, the reason why it's called Worries of Night
it is because you know, I don't want I don't
ever create something that from a place that I've not
experienced car you know. And I think that in my life,
the greatest fight that I've had to engage in is
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the one against my own mind. And I think that
is the one that we all have to fight the
most against. And I think we live in this world
where there's a lot of self talk to deliver us
out of who we are. We are in a world
that is constructed to make us forget who we are.
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You know, so many of so much of what's around
us is encouraging us to be this or do that,
or live like this person's life, or what this idea
of success is, or what even is the the idea
of it. To be spiritual, it happens all the time.
It's everywhere to distract us from our essence. And so
the mind is the place where we can get trapped.
(10:10):
And so I wanted to I've experienced these sounds and
every single piece in this album pertains to an energy
or manifestation that I've had a direct experience with, and
all of those have helped me almost cut away. Like
the sound is a sword, That's how I look at it.
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Sound is a sword. Sound is bombed, but it's also
a sword, and it cuts through the things that don't
serve us. And the things that don't serve us are
the things that are not aligned with who we truly are.
So as we cut away those things, it's revealed who
we actually are. And that's the other layer of why
this album is called what it is is to bring
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our illumination back to the truth of who we are,
which is completely individual and sovereign. The journey that the
album takes from the beginning. If you see that the
first song, the first prayer, the meaning is literally lead
me from untruth to truth, lead me from darkness to light,
lead me from death to immortality. That is a piece
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of purification prayer that you tend to do at the
end of a process that I wanted to go straight
in for the jugular at the start and go we
are all in a bit of a spiritual test at
the moment in the world. In the last few years,
especially it's you know, it's built and built and built,
and I have not only witnessed in it myself, but
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in being an observer of humanity and the people around me.
I see this as a turning point, and I wanted
to start right at that point where people are feeling,
you know, pretty squeezed spiritually, emotionally, mentally. And so that's
why the album starts at that place of let's go
into the fire straight away, let's be ready to purify something,
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because all that are precipice. And so the journey of
the album starts at that point and goes through an
entire arc of taking me to that place of self realization.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
What was one of the most powerful moments you remember
while recording or while writing this album where you really
felt a deep, transformative, healing, the big shift.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
I think for me it was, well, there's there's so
many Every single piece on this track is so powerful
to me. When Algani Katara came into my life. It's
a very very old composition by Sage Vete Augustia. It's
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over thirty five hundred years old, and when I was
I was shown this composition by friend of mine who's
good used to sing this to her, and the moment
I just heard these words, something in my entire being
just shifted and changed. And it's about the product shop be.
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It's about all of the forms of the divine feminine
culminating together into one supreme form. So Ugernitadara the Dancer,
the Dance of Countless Stars, which is kind of the
it's it's the song that ends up being before the
spoken word piece, which is the turning point of the album.
It's the ultimate point of realization into as into the
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nature of the entire universe, which is so incredibly powerful
and we have to take our hands off the steering wheel.
That piece, for me, is such a huge point in
the album because you realize it's all already taken care of.
There's a power that is it hits just beyond our
own comprehension and there is and there's another piece, which
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is the Charlisa, which completely flips that. So it's on
the other side of the spoken word turning point. So
it's like these two kind of booklends of the middle,
like full coron of the album. The Haneman Charisa again
is extremely old written by Goswami Tofidas, and that is
the complete opposite end of this creation, which is that
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in order to be a warrior and to realize, one
must have incredible devotion. And that's the hunt that's Honeymon,
which which is what makes him the ultimate warrior, is
to have that superpower of devotions. And so those two
in particular, that's why they're kind of anchored in the
middle of the album. I would say off the top
of my head in this moment today because it changes
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every day, but if you ask me this question, those
two are the ones that really stick out to me.
Is the as the most potent at present in my
feeling of the album, But my feeling and experience of
this album's funny. I might have made this album, but
it is still it's funny. I am still having realizations
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of what this album is. It's revealing itself to me
continuously and I'll continue to realize it with you, which
is what makes me great. If you ask if you
ask me this question, probably next week, I might give
you a completely different answer.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
That's the beauty of being in the present moment, rights
that is, that is the beauty of being in the
present moment. We get to we get to give different
answers depending on the moment.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
So that's.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Wonderful. I remember you shared with me. We had an
interview a couple of years back, and you shared with
me that you have a You've had a lifelong experience
working with a speech impediment that you had as a kid.
How has chanting and doing mantres and diving into sound
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healing supported you on that healing journey.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Well, it made me able to speak to.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
You like this.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
One doesn't hear anything right, And yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Well I think it has a It's it's had many
It's had multi dimensional effects on my physical voice, my
nervous system, my feeling of my place in this lifetime.
On a physical level, Chanting mantras and Sanskrit and thung
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air and these ancient languages, they are hitting more nerve
centers in your body than modern languages. So I might
have said on our last call that you know, suns
and bamba hit five positions of the mouth when you're
speaking them or singing them, and in English unly hit three.
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So our mouth holds all these these access points to
our nervous system. So when we're engaging in these ancient sounds,
you're hitting sixty percent more of your nervous system through
your mouth. Yeah, so imagine what that's tapping into, what
that's enlivening, what that's able to recalibrate, what chronically that
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is having an effect on healing so many So there
are so many different different ways that affects you. And
then you know physically it's it's obviously it's helping your
nervous system. A lot of conditions that are say neurological
and physical do are standing from the nervous system with
maybe it's a comic imprint or something that traumatically happened
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as a child, but that has helped me. And also
the other level of it, which is the more broad level,
is that when you start to engage with sounds that
are pure in nature, that are very much derived from
the universe and from the environment, as the Rishies and
ancient stages did. These sounds were literally experienced sounds great.
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It's not a language that was decided, it was a
language that was experienced directly from nature. So when you
start engaging with these sounds, you are more in a
naturalness of vibration in your life. You are inviting more
natural vibrations into your subconscious and the conscious, and as
you do that, you begin to realize the things that
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are unnatural to you, and you start to eradicate the
things in your life that are unnatural to you, and
that gives you more space, and it gives you more
freedom to be in your essence and your core and
make decisions according to what you want and what your
soul is happiest for. I think when you're more in
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alignment with your essence, when you make more choices of things,
that when your antenna is able to tell you more clearly,
because your life vibrationally is more centered, you're going to
feel more fluid and free. And therefore my voice began
to free up too. So it did me a favor
having a speech impediment because it actually led me to
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have to figure out. It was almost like an indicator.
It was a red flag thing saying you're not doing
the right thing here, because your body in your mouth
is literally telling you you're not on the right path.
You know. Yeah, it's a gift. It's been a gift.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
It's been a gift exactly. And you learn to not
only navigate, you learn to dissolve the obstacles that were
in the way. Right you learned with the fluidity of
the tongue and the different sounds that you could come
into that spaciousness. Let's take this opportunity and play another
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track off your album, and this track is called Release
your Fears. Jaya Jayagam. What emotions and intentions did you
pour into that song when you started exploring it?
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Well, this song was you know, this song took me
a really long time to write because I was feeling
I really wanted to honor Ma. I wanted to honor Maka,
who is the aulternate, nurturer, fighter, protector, and you know
in the ancient mythology, she's the one that comes and
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destroys the demon Mahishasura is taking over the entire universe.
And you know she was. She was actually created out
of the combination of Brahma, Shiva, and vision, which are
the three primordial forces of the universe, which is creation, systemance, instruction.
And when those really couldn't vanquish the demon, they came
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together and they're emerging creative Durga, who was even more powerful.
And I felt this motherly presence in my life in
a really big way, and I wanted to honor her
by writing a song in English and sons good, and
I just felt this immense protection and love, and you know,
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in moments where it just a little fear might creep in,
I literally felt her just banish it. And that's why
I wanted to write the song. However, it took me
a year to write the English lyrics with this song.
I couldn't believe that it took me that long. But
the reason why is how do you take how do
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you take a a a manifestation or a presence that
has been celebrated or revered for thousands of years and
put that into a four minute song and then translate
that into an language called English. It was so hot,
it was very challenging for me, and then I actually
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went to not to go too far down a rabbit hole,
but I ended up doing a very powerful process around
her one night, very late, and suddenly just it was
like a tidal wave that came in and I wrote
the song in ten minutes. It was really interesting, and
I learned through that process that like a mother, like
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a mother that loves you, you have to be completely
innocent and you can't expect to know what to do.
You have to kind of let her take care of
it and she will take care of it. And that
was the biggest lesson I got from writing that song
that I wanted to write something called release your Fears,
but I hadn't quite releasing completely surrendered. And it was
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only a year later when I completely released and surrendered
to process that I got it that that's when you
can actually let these energies do that work and lovely.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Then then the portal opened and it just came through,
just came through for you. Well, let's listen in Jaya,
Jaya do Grandma? Release your Fears off of the new
album Warriors.
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Tell me how.
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Through the cave, through the crowd, my sweet and straight
as this guy is fall I hear you.
Speaker 11 (24:28):
Whisper, release your fist, release your fist to me, release
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your fist to.
Speaker 12 (24:59):
Release your It's to djams cool.
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You bring us love.
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Time you.
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We rare boys, UHLW.
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Oo we are today, Falls Away, fallsy My Scarious, sebrate
every time you say, release.
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Your fears, lease your fit, please your.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
You are listening to Release your Fears off of the
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Welcome back to Voice Rising. We are here with the
extraordinary Ridika Vikaria exploring the healing power of sound and
her new album Warriors of Light. And if you are
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these vital voices in our community. So let's dive right
back in with magical Rideka. So welcome back, Ridica.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Thank you, Carra.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
So everybody has now gotten a taste of your beautiful,
gorgeous voice. You are a songwriter, You're a singer. You're
a performer, you most likely are doing a lot of
producing and creating your own visions supported by your music,
(30:32):
and you are also a sound coach. So how is
that for you? How do you bring your clients closer
to really experience their own essence musically and their own sound.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
Yeah, so really through the processes that I have experienced,
which is a unique combination depending on depending on the individual,
because every individual is different. So we will use certain
months that will work with their nervous system chronically what's
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going on with them at the time. Also, we will
use you know, traditional techniques from say the Englian classical granas.
Those are very meditative and spacially powerful and really really
the modalities are kind of a mix depending on the person,
(31:34):
because they're every person that comes to me with sound coaching,
they are they're looking for something a bit different. Some
people are looking for a tool to help them move
something in their lives energetically. Some people are just looking
to explore just the physicality of their voice. Some people
are looking to kind of improve their singing voice. You know.
So I work very uniquely with people. That's why I
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haven't done a lot of large group organized events and
I can do them. But what I really love working
on is specifically with the individual. And as I said,
it's a it's a mix of things. That is, like,
you know, I'll look at someone's astrology, for instance, and
see what's going on with them and say what might
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have turned in their communications at certain points in their
lives and what might be transiting in the house of communication,
And that is very specifically connected to the voice. Right,
So it's a very multi it's a very like three
sixty approach to the voice. It isn't just the physical sound,
but it's the energy in and around it as well
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that I work with.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
And I think originally yoga was a one on one
practice with the master. I think, yes, there was not
all these you know, forty people in a class. It
was an individual path or the teacher would sense like
you're doing you know which montha I would be good
in this moment to support the release or coming into
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their own sound. What are what are some common challenges
that somebody might come to you with vocally? Were they
were they just feel maybe stuck? Yes, they also wanted
to liberate their voice.
Speaker 14 (33:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
The most common one that I find is that a
lot of people when they were younger were told to
be quiet, they were told they couldn't sing. And that's
that's the that's probably the most impactful thing as a
young human when you've had a parent or people in
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your lives inhibit your expressions. So it goes it goes
beyond just the sound of the voice. It goes in
the confidence. It goes into do I matter enough to
even make a noise, make a sound? Because what because
what's happened for a lot of people is they they
tend to compensate that with just making noise in the world.
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And there's a difference between noise and sound. There's a
difference between noise and music. Right, we can all make noise,
but are we making music? You know, we can all
we can all say something in order to be heard,
or we can actually speak our soul. So there's a difference.
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And so I think that one is one has been
a compensation for the for the inhibition of the other,
and that is a that's a big part of what
I work with people on. And then so that goes
into energetics, that goes into listening to the nuance and
how someone's expressing themselves to me and catching an inflection
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of even how they are expressing their difficulty. It's not
just the difficulty they're expressing, but it's the tone and
the movement between the words of how they're expressing that
can tell me this, okay, this is something we need
to go into.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
You know, well, very specific, what are your thoughts in
the moment. We are in a very big shift, as
we know as healers and artists, the power of intent
and the alignment with love and our hearts. And yet
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we have AI that is coming out so fast, creating
soundtracks so quickly, and it has and even wonderful voices
that are mathematically not terrible, and yet it's missing the
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I mean, the vibration of intention and love cannot be
in this music. And yet this music is going to
be pouring into cars and shopping malls and we're going
to be absorbing these frequencies into our body. How do
you you know, how do you sense that this is
going to play itself out?
Speaker 3 (36:15):
I think it's a very good question. I think it's
going to be like everything else that has come in
in every generation. So if we look at look at
the vinyl world right now, Vinyl has had a huge
surge in the last few years. Yes, because because people
want something that sounds organic and real. Right, So everything
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happens in a cycle in life. As you know, you
fool on that, right, So I don't have any fear.
I think that the more we are saturated with things
that sound out it, we know what's artificial. We know
what has a soul and what doesn't. We know that
human level, and even if we end up listening to
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something that is so less, like say AI music, after
a while, our internal system won't. We just won't feel good,
just like we don't feel good being on a phone
and scrolling through Instagram because we're living. We're basically observing
millions of other people's lives whilst not living our own.
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That's what doesn't feel good. So after a while you
will naturally begin to feel not so great, and you'll
and you'll begin to feel there's something missing. I believe
humans are profoundly intelligent at a D level. We know,
we just take different periods of time to realize it.
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That's all. Some of us can see it coming, some
of us need to experience it for a little bit,
some of us really go quite far. But ultimately I
think the ways of humanity generally, it generally moves together
in what the general consciousness is realizing. I think I
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think AI is an exploration. You know, human beings are
all about pushing frontiers. We need to do that. But
I do feel that the soul speaks more powerfully than
anything else. This is why we keep This is why
we always go to nature. Right Like, no matter how
much technology we have, no matter how many things we do,
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every single one of us loves to get out and
walk in nature. We know we feel good when we
do it. Why because it's where we came from thousands
of years ago. Right.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
My sense is also just like we had the process
food and suddenly now we're in regenerative gardening and farming
and people are finally making friends with slow food coming back.
Like you said full circle, I said this also with music,
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I'm I'm not worried because I think that people are
going to be so thirsty that they're going to want
to experience it themselves, what it's like to sing in
their body, and they're gonna, you know, either explore it
themselves with their harmonium or shrewdy or piano or guitar,
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and they're going to be so happy to get off
the electronics and just come to one of your classes
or one of your beautiful concerts and feel what it's
like when the human voice, whether it's our own or
somebody singing to us or with us, what it feels
for that voice to be absorbed by our skin, by ourselves,
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right to be in resonance with someone.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
I agree with you, Yeah, I mean, I just had
my I just had my album launch a few weeks
ago in LA and you know, I invited the whole
audience to sing with me, and most of those people
that never even come, never even they didn't know, they
never even uttered sanscript before, and you could just see
the joy on their faces just using their voices. And
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I also just performed at Harvard at the Sounders Theater
in Harvard in Boston for the Stages and Scientists Symposium
with the pak Chopra and I performed a piece in
the Sanders Theater and there was such a huge difference
between when I met people before my performance and after
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the performance, and you could just see the shift in
them because they had experienced the sound of a human
voice resonating and connecting with their own voice. You can
just see that shift happen.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
It is magical. Yeah, it is magical. I think many
people take their voice for granted. They don't, Like you said,
there's a difference between music and noise and the voice
that connects us back to ourselves and it connects us
like a beautiful tapestry or web to every single other soul.
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And I don't know what your thoughts are on this,
but for me, it's always powerful that we can sing
in unison and we can sing in harmony, right, that
is just.
Speaker 1 (41:22):
It is.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
It's so it's so amazing. You can't really do that
painting together on one canvas with different people. It's harder.
But a group of people singing in harmony and then
they all come and land together in unison, And yeah,
that's a little bit my visionals for the planet. How
can we have the diversity and the unity at the
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same time. I think we find that in music.
Speaker 3 (41:48):
Well that Yeah, I love the way you just put that.
I've never heard anybody put it that way. That it
is a unique to sound that you can be by.
Harmonies in their nature are diverse from one another. Instrumentation
in an orchestra, they're not all playing the same thing.
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They're playing counter melodies, they're playing different accents, they're playing
completely different notes, and yet when they come together it's symphony.
Yet when it comes together, it's the harmonic tapestry of voices.
That's how that's how unity and diversity works. It's not
that each it's not that each diverse voice has to
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be the only You've touched on something so profoundly important.
I don't think I've ever heard anybody lead into this
kind of conversation, but nowadays there's so much talk of diversity.
But what's happening is that each diverse voice wants to
be out front. And what you're talking about. What makes
beautiful music is that they're all in delicate balance with
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each other. No single one is out powering any other.
They fit beautifully and respectfully next to each other, even
though they're different.
Speaker 2 (43:06):
That makes music exactly. And musicians know we have things
called dissonance, and yet we can we can embrace that,
We can give that space and then everything leads into resolution.
And I always share with my people, musicians are a
little bit special because we know that things need to resolve.
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We are the peacekeepers of this world because if we
have a piece of music that we start on one
key and then it goes off and you know, goes
into dissonance and it never comes into resolution. We're really fraught,
we're really fraud We're having problems. So musicians are always
seeking resolutions. We are like mediators for peace in this world.
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And I don't know if that's true with painters or dancers.
Speaker 14 (43:58):
You know, yeah, it reminds me of the sar in
Indian music. You have the patagon, which is a sarim
up as anissa, and every song you.
Speaker 3 (44:12):
Have your you have your star. And even when you're
excuse me, studying Indian music a little bit like when
I bring when I work with people who specifically want
to learn voice voice, you know, one of the first
things we do is we find their sar. Their route
note is specific to them. Not all of us have
the same sar, like not all of us have the
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same soul. Your siah is your soul and your sar
is your like when you enter this human body, it's
like you're kind of leaving your front door. And one
of the greatest teachers ever always said that, you know,
you start with your sits like leaving your front door,
and you take your journey, and you go through your day,
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you paint your picture, and you sing your melody, and
then you come back in through your home door and
that's your sar And essentially that's the journey of life.
Your soul is intact, your saw is intact. That is
the essence of who you are through multiple lifetimes. You
come into this earth and from the day you're born
to the day that you die, you create the sinking
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of your life. But you land back at the saw
when you drop this body. It's always there.
Speaker 2 (45:26):
Yeah, you're always returning home the home tone.
Speaker 3 (45:30):
You're resolving back to your soul, as you said, and a.
Speaker 2 (45:35):
Tone and at one is just a little shift of
space and there you go. That's how it is. Ridika,
tell me about your next upcoming projects. You just were
out in at Harvard or in Boston with Depak. What
else do you have a planned for this beautiful album
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release or are there any collaborations you are excited about
to share?
Speaker 8 (46:00):
Now?
Speaker 3 (46:00):
Yes, yes, I'm very excited. So what I premiered, I
premiered a very special piece at Harvard included Karlie from
my album. But it's part of a larger experience that
we've been working on with a NASA astrophysicist. That's all
I'm going to say at the moment. We're bringing the
cosmos and this music together, and so that's been worked on.
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And another project I'm very excited about it is with
an incredible composer of violinist orchestrator, Natalie Bono. She's a Canadian,
she lives in la and we have created an album
together which is a month through devotional music with orchestra,
and we just recorded in London and Vienna this summer
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and went to Vienna and recorded at synchron with a
twenty four piece string section. And it's always been my
dream to bring orchestral arrangements to sacred music because I
grew up playing violin and worked in orchestras and have
just a profound love for classical music. And so we
will be coming out with our album next year. So
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it's another iteration that sacred music and compositions from the
ancient to the modern, fusing East and West. And so
I'm very very excited about that. And then I have,
you know, more performances. I played it in Pockety first
just recently, and I'm getting booked for a lot more performances.
I'll hopefully be in London and India and more of
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the East Coast next year.
Speaker 2 (47:29):
And what would you love for the listeners to take
away from this album if there is a little golden nugget?
I mean, I know that's a big question, but yeah,
shall we all become warriors of light?
Speaker 3 (47:46):
I think so? Yeah? Well yeah, I mean, you know,
I tell this story when I told this story at
my concert launch, and I think this really is telling
of where I am in my creation of this album,
what it took for me to make this album, because
I got you know, I went through some pretty tough
things in order to realize these gifts. As we all do.
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We go through tough things in our lives and they
like like a pressure applied to you, it reveals a diamond, right,
But the diamond was always there. The diamond is always there.
So you know, there's a story I tell people at
the beginning of my concert going, Look, you know, we
come into our mother's belly and we're kind of cocooned
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in the belly for nine months and we're just we're
nourished and we've got everything we need where you know,
we're taken care of we're warm, we're snuggly, and then
we come through and we take this really treacherous journey
to come out into this world, and we're rising and
our little bones are thinking what's going on, and consciousness
is wondering what's happening. And we come out into this
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world and the first thing that happens to us is
we get slapped. It's the first thing that happens to us, right, yes, yeah,
But the reason we get hit is so that we
can make a sound and we breathe. And my point
with this album is to also in a world that
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is very much about, hey, we've got to be soft,
and we've got to be this, and we've got to
you know, everything's gentle. I think we've negated a whole
other part of nature that is sometimes in sometimes in
the world and in our lives. We have to fight
to be who we are. We have to have strength
and resilience. Spirituality is not often spoken about in the
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same sentence as strength and resilience these days, and I
don't know why, because in the Vedic times and in
any ancient culture, we all talked about strength and resentiments
and fortification of mind, and you had to fight and
as I said right at the beginning of conversation, the
greatest fight we have is the one in our mind.
So what I wanted to do and by telling that
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story about you get the first lesson that life teaches
you is Hey, you know you're gonna have to declare
yourself to be here and you can make a sound.
Make that sound, you know, And that's the That's the
thing I want to drive home with this album is
make your sound. Don't be afraid to make your sound.
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And you know, sometimes you have to fight, to fight
for your true essence, fight for it to be here,
fight for you to have your own internal peace, and
you sound to do that.
Speaker 2 (50:31):
When I was maybe twenty three, I spent a short
time in India, and I remember because warriors of Light,
I think, were very nervous sometimes as a spiritual community,
you know, with war warriors, what does it mean? I
read a book about Krishna. Krishna goes into the war
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and I was shocked. I was like, how could someone
who's enlightened be leading a war? And I remember the
answer from my teacher was, if there is war, then
there's no better person to lead the war than somebody
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who is enlightened and who is in harmony and understands
what is important. And for me, when I read your
title Warriors of Light, it brought me back to that
conflict that I had in my being. You know, I
was wearing all white in America had gone into a
rock and I was, you know, peace, peace, pacifist, pacifists,
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and no one should go to war. And I remember
reading this book Krishna, and if there is war, then
we need as many people that are enlightened, that are
in their essence that are meditating to yeah, like you said,
to be strong, to be resilient, and to be kind,
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to be compassionate, to be loving, because that is also
a part of reality on earth.
Speaker 3 (52:10):
Yes it is, it is, and I think that's yeah, yeah,
and well that's that's again. The the other layer to
this album is my presentation to people to say, hey,
you know, you're, even in the spiritual world, you're being
this whole this idea of you know, having to be
soft and kind of taking it all the time. And
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you know, you know, like the enlightened, the enlightened ones
know when there is a time to fight and what
is it they're fighting for? Ultimately, you know, it's the
ultimate truth and you have to. And when Origin was
on that battlefield on Kurukshetter in the Bogi Kita and
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his charioteer is Krishna, and he's saying to our June,
you have to fight even or your uncles are on
the other side. And he's in poor origins, the greatest
warrior of all time is having this conflict. You have to. Yeah,
you know, your consciousness, which is Krishna, is speaking to
you and guiding you from that higher place. Do not
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be duped into retreating from the battle that is the
ultimate one and worth it for the sake of humanity,
for the sake of your soul, you know, and for
the sake of everybody's soul who might come across this
album or hear these vibrations. That's all I want, And
I don't want to ever influence what somebody should be
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doing in their lives. All I want to do is
create music and experiences that allow them their true selves
to step forward, whatever form that is in. And even
if it's counter to what me and any of the
opinions and beliefs that I have, it is the right
thing for their soul to express itself. At a soul level, gorgeous.
Speaker 2 (54:06):
Thank you, Thank you for being with us today. I
want to wish you all the best for your new album,
and thank you for your beautiful insights and the transformative
power of work that you do not only in concerts
and producing these projects, but also with people one on
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one and to our listeners out there, thank you guys
for joining us on this journey of self discovery. And
if you've resonated with this today's episode, just share it
with your friends and subscribe to our channels because it
helps us a lot to bring more guests onto the
show that are going to talk about the power of
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vibrational healing and frequency medicine and songs, voice, poetry, writing,
the inner voice word, which is meditation. It's this channel
that we're walking with in the world, you know, connects
us to heaven, heaven, heaven on earth. So thank you again, Rideka,
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it's been a pleasure to be with you.
Speaker 3 (55:15):
Thank you, Carl, Take care, take care of yourself. It's
great to chat to here.
Speaker 9 (55:24):
Same day, passibast time.
Speaker 12 (55:39):
Time starts me
Speaker 3 (55:47):
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Speaker 2 (01:14):
Hello, everybody, Welcome to Voice Rising, where we explore the
transformative power of sound and the many layers of our voice. Today,
I'm honored to welcome the incredible Redika Vikaria, a visionary
singer and sound coach who bridges the ancient wisdom of
Sanskrit with contemporary musical landscapes. Her new album, Warriors of
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Light invites us on a journey of self discovery, healing,
and empowerment through sound. Ridika, it's a pleasure to have
you with me on the show today.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Thank you, Carl. It's pleasure to be here.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
So, first of all, congratulations on your new album. It's
absolutely gorgeous. And what is so fascinating is your new album,
Warriors of Light blends Sanskrit, Tamil and English. So what
inspired this fusion of languages and cultures for you?
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Hm, Well, yeah, this is a little bit of a
different take on sacred music. And I wanted to bring
together all of the languages that I've been influenced in
my life. Obviously, I grew up in England, so English
was a primary language for me, and as I delved
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more into my roots, obviously Sanskrit became extremely profound for me,
and I wanted to bring more of my personal journey
in this album. I wanted to bring more of my
life into the philosophies and music that is being shared.
And I thought that the tapestry should be woven with
the different languages that I've been influenced by.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Beautiful. I'd love to start out the show a piece
off of your new album so that our listeners get
a taste of this, this this soundscape, this beauty that
you've created. And we're going to start out with a
piece called Liberate, and you're going to share with the
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readers because I've been stumbling over Mahamua jaya, Am I
getting close?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
There you go? Yes, it means the great, it means
a great victory.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
The great victory. And how does this mantra connect with
the theme of liberation in your own life? Just a
just a short glimpse before we listen.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
In absolutely Yes, I this montha in particular, the Mohammad
Junjaya manta is considered one of the most powerful mantas
in Veta history. It's from the rig Veda and it
is a liberation manta. And it's said that whenever one
is facing an end of something, even the end of
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their life, this mantra gives them peace to let go
of everything that they've been bonded to. Because we feel
fear when we are about to let go of something
that we are bound to and we don't realize that
we're part of something so much greater. So this Manthra.
I have directly experienced the power of this month in
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times in my life when I, say, had a panic
attack or when I was having a really tough time.
Even on the spiritual path, we still have a tough
time sometimes, and this mantra has anchored me so strongly
and powerfleep and immediately that I wanted to honor it
and write a song that was really around the theme
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of the power of this Manthra. So this song as
you hear it, the verses are in English that represent
the modern world question, this yearning, this almost desperation for
an answer of the higher power and whether they are
there and you know what's going on in our lives.
And the chorus is of this answer from the ancient
world that allows us to free ourselves from the fear
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of the question. And that's why it was a dance
and an interplay, because I feel like my life and
the human journey in general is this oscillation between question
and realization, question and realization, and that's how this song
came about.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Beautiful, let's listen in here, we go.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Are you there.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
In the corners of the dark gless, do you hear
all the cries amongst the beians? So a fie, reveal
the peace within yourby see me need, see me kneel
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before you know. Liberate all the need within my boy.
I want to know because I feel you hear me call.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Let me fall.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Fall away from mon need my feetes. Let me go
to thee alone where we fall on threebagonia jommy, So
can then bush.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
The farther you d come bound, read your more, she
your mom with woundrium become your job.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
So can then bush the bar the lord?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Come the Lord, read your mo she your momory.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Lord, free the pain. Let it wash into thetion of
time and space with aways of rainform motion. But what
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I guess ned into the dog side glumiulate illumiulate mamaia
DOMI can the us wor thelone.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
Your m g mom.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Listening to this beautiful track off of Redica's album Warriors
of Light, and it's entitled Liberate Redka. You mentioned in
one of your I'm not sure if it was your
press release, but that you you'd like to help listeners
remember who they are through your music. What is that
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longing for you. And how do you think this album
is supporting us in coming back to our heart and
to ourselves. M.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Yeah, Well, the reason why it's called Worries of Night
it is because you know, I don't want I don't
ever create something that from a place that I've not
experienced car you know. And I think that in my life,
the greatest fight that I've had to engage in is
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the one against my own mind. And I think that
is the one that we all have to fight the
most against. And I think we live in this world
where there's a lot of self talk to deliver us
out of who we are. We are in a world
that is constructed to make us forget who we are.
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You know, so many of so much of what's around
us is encouraging us to be this or do that,
or live like this person's life, or what this idea
of success is, or what even is the the idea
of it. To be spiritual, it happens all the time.
It's everywhere to distract us from our essence. And so
the mind is the place where we can get trapped.
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And so I wanted to I've experienced these sounds and
every single piece in this album pertains to an energy
or manifestation that I've had a direct experience with, and
all of those have helped me almost cut away. Like
the sound is a sword, That's how I look at it.
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Sound is a sword. Sound is bombed, but it's also
a sword, and it cuts through the things that don't
serve us. And the things that don't serve us are
the things that are not aligned with who we truly are.
So as we cut away those things, it's revealed who
we actually are. And that's the other layer of why
this album is called what it is is to bring
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our illumination back to the truth of who we are,
which is completely individual and sovereign. The journey that the
album takes from the beginning. If you see that the
first song, the first prayer, the meaning is literally lead
me from untruth to truth, lead me from darkness to light,
lead me from death to immortality. That is a piece
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of purification prayer that you tend to do at the
end of a process that I wanted to go straight
in for the jugular at the start and go we
are all in a bit of a spiritual test at
the moment in the world. In the last few years,
especially it's you know, it's built and built and built,
and I have not only witnessed in it myself, but
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in being an observer of humanity and the people around me.
I see this as a turning point, and I wanted
to start right at that point where people are feeling,
you know, pretty squeezed spiritually, emotionally, mentally. And so that's
why the album starts at that place of let's go
into the fire straight away, let's be ready to purify something,
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because all that are precipice. And so the journey of
the album starts at that point and goes through an
entire arc of taking me to that place of self realization.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
What was one of the most powerful moments you remember
while recording or while writing this album where you really
felt a deep, transformative, healing, the big shift.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
I think for me it was, well, there's there's so
many Every single piece on this track is so powerful
to me. When Algani Katara came into my life. It's
a very very old composition by Sage Vete Augustia. It's
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over thirty five hundred years old, and when I was
I was shown this composition by friend of mine who's
good used to sing this to her, and the moment
I just heard these words, something in my entire being
just shifted and changed. And it's about the product shop be.
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It's about all of the forms of the divine feminine
culminating together into one supreme form. So Ugernitadara the Dancer,
the Dance of Countless Stars, which is kind of the
it's it's the song that ends up being before the
spoken word piece, which is the turning point of the album.
It's the ultimate point of realization into as into the
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nature of the entire universe, which is so incredibly powerful
and we have to take our hands off the steering wheel.
That piece, for me, is such a huge point in
the album because you realize it's all already taken care of.
There's a power that is it hits just beyond our
own comprehension and there is and there's another piece, which
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is the Charlisa, which completely flips that. So it's on
the other side of the spoken word turning point. So
it's like these two kind of booklends of the middle,
like full coron of the album. The Haneman Charisa again
is extremely old written by Goswami Tofidas, and that is
the complete opposite end of this creation, which is that
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in order to be a warrior and to realize, one
must have incredible devotion. And that's the hunt that's Honeymon,
which which is what makes him the ultimate warrior, is
to have that superpower of devotions. And so those two
in particular, that's why they're kind of anchored in the
middle of the album. I would say off the top
of my head in this moment today because it changes
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every day, but if you ask me this question, those
two are the ones that really stick out to me.
Is the as the most potent at present in my
feeling of the album, But my feeling and experience of
this album's funny. I might have made this album, but
it is still it's funny. I am still having realizations
(15:14):
of what this album is. It's revealing itself to me
continuously and I'll continue to realize it with you, which
is what makes me great. If you ask if you
ask me this question, probably next week, I might give
you a completely different answer.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
That's the beauty of being in the present moment, rights
that is, that is the beauty of being in the
present moment. We get to we get to give different
answers depending on the moment.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
So that's.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Wonderful. I remember you shared with me. We had an
interview a couple of years back, and you shared with
me that you have a You've had a lifelong experience
working with a speech impediment that you had as a kid.
How has chanting and doing mantres and diving into sound
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healing supported you on that healing journey.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Well, it made me able to speak to.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
You like this.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
One doesn't hear anything right, And yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Well I think it has a It's it's had many
It's had multi dimensional effects on my physical voice, my
nervous system, my feeling of my place in this lifetime.
On a physical level, Chanting mantras and Sanskrit and thung
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air and these ancient languages, they are hitting more nerve
centers in your body than modern languages. So I might
have said on our last call that you know, suns
and bamba hit five positions of the mouth when you're
speaking them or singing them, and in English unly hit three.
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So our mouth holds all these these access points to
our nervous system. So when we're engaging in these ancient sounds,
you're hitting sixty percent more of your nervous system through
your mouth. Yeah, so imagine what that's tapping into, what
that's enlivening, what that's able to recalibrate, what chronically that
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is having an effect on healing so many So there
are so many different different ways that affects you. And
then you know physically it's it's obviously it's helping your
nervous system. A lot of conditions that are say neurological
and physical do are standing from the nervous system with
maybe it's a comic imprint or something that traumatically happened
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as a child, but that has helped me. And also
the other level of it, which is the more broad level,
is that when you start to engage with sounds that
are pure in nature, that are very much derived from
the universe and from the environment, as the Rishies and
ancient stages did. These sounds were literally experienced sounds great.
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It's not a language that was decided, it was a
language that was experienced directly from nature. So when you
start engaging with these sounds, you are more in a
naturalness of vibration in your life. You are inviting more
natural vibrations into your subconscious and the conscious, and as
you do that, you begin to realize the things that
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are unnatural to you, and you start to eradicate the
things in your life that are unnatural to you, and
that gives you more space, and it gives you more
freedom to be in your essence and your core and
make decisions according to what you want and what your
soul is happiest for. I think when you're more in
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alignment with your essence, when you make more choices of things,
that when your antenna is able to tell you more clearly,
because your life vibrationally is more centered, you're going to
feel more fluid and free. And therefore my voice began
to free up too. So it did me a favor
having a speech impediment because it actually led me to
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have to figure out. It was almost like an indicator.
It was a red flag thing saying you're not doing
the right thing here, because your body in your mouth
is literally telling you you're not on the right path.
You know. Yeah, it's a gift. It's been a gift.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
It's been a gift exactly. And you learn to not
only navigate, you learn to dissolve the obstacles that were
in the way. Right you learned with the fluidity of
the tongue and the different sounds that you could come
into that spaciousness. Let's take this opportunity and play another
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track off your album, and this track is called Release
your Fears. Jaya Jayagam. What emotions and intentions did you
pour into that song when you started exploring it?
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Well, this song was you know, this song took me
a really long time to write because I was feeling
I really wanted to honor Ma. I wanted to honor Maka,
who is the aulternate, nurturer, fighter, protector, and you know
in the ancient mythology, she's the one that comes and
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destroys the demon Mahishasura is taking over the entire universe.
And you know she was. She was actually created out
of the combination of Brahma, Shiva, and vision, which are
the three primordial forces of the universe, which is creation, systemance, instruction.
And when those really couldn't vanquish the demon, they came
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together and they're emerging creative Durga, who was even more powerful.
And I felt this motherly presence in my life in
a really big way, and I wanted to honor her
by writing a song in English and sons good, and
I just felt this immense protection and love, and you know,
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in moments where it just a little fear might creep in,
I literally felt her just banish it. And that's why
I wanted to write the song. However, it took me
a year to write the English lyrics with this song.
I couldn't believe that it took me that long. But
the reason why is how do you take how do
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you take a a a manifestation or a presence that
has been celebrated or revered for thousands of years and
put that into a four minute song and then translate
that into an language called English. It was so hot,
it was very challenging for me, and then I actually
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went to not to go too far down a rabbit hole,
but I ended up doing a very powerful process around
her one night, very late, and suddenly just it was
like a tidal wave that came in and I wrote
the song in ten minutes. It was really interesting, and
I learned through that process that like a mother, like
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a mother that loves you, you have to be completely
innocent and you can't expect to know what to do.
You have to kind of let her take care of
it and she will take care of it. And that
was the biggest lesson I got from writing that song
that I wanted to write something called release your Fears,
but I hadn't quite releasing completely surrendered. And it was
(22:52):
only a year later when I completely released and surrendered
to process that I got it that that's when you
can actually let these energies do that work and lovely.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Then then the portal opened and it just came through,
just came through for you. Well, let's listen in Jaya,
Jaya do Grandma? Release your Fears off of the new
album Warriors.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Of Light.
Speaker 7 (23:20):
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Speaker 4 (23:29):
Thetle Baranas.
Speaker 7 (23:33):
Yahdaby, sort of Boo de shoe madl Baranas.
Speaker 8 (23:39):
Yahdaby, sort of a show No most Us yay no
most Us yay.
Speaker 9 (23:50):
No most Us yay no.
Speaker 8 (23:52):
More No.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
Tell me how.
Speaker 10 (24:06):
Through the cave, through the crowd, my sweet and straight
as this guy is fall I hear you.
Speaker 11 (24:28):
Whisper, release your fist, release your fist to me, release
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your fist to.
Speaker 12 (24:59):
Release your It's to djams cool.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
You bring us love.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Time you.
Speaker 8 (25:36):
We rare boys, UHLW.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Oo we are today, Falls Away, fallsy My Scarious, sebrate
every time you say, release.
Speaker 8 (26:03):
Your fears, lease your fit, please your.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
You are listening to Release your Fears off of the
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Welcome back to Voice Rising. We are here with the
extraordinary Ridika Vikaria exploring the healing power of sound and
her new album Warriors of Light. And if you are
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these vital voices in our community. So let's dive right
back in with magical Rideka. So welcome back, Ridica.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Thank you, Carra.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
So everybody has now gotten a taste of your beautiful,
gorgeous voice. You are a songwriter, You're a singer. You're
a performer, you most likely are doing a lot of
producing and creating your own visions supported by your music,
(30:32):
and you are also a sound coach. So how is
that for you? How do you bring your clients closer
to really experience their own essence musically and their own sound.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
Yeah, so really through the processes that I have experienced,
which is a unique combination depending on depending on the individual,
because every individual is different. So we will use certain
months that will work with their nervous system chronically what's
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going on with them at the time. Also, we will
use you know, traditional techniques from say the Englian classical granas.
Those are very meditative and spacially powerful and really really
the modalities are kind of a mix depending on the person,
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because they're every person that comes to me with sound coaching,
they are they're looking for something a bit different. Some
people are looking for a tool to help them move
something in their lives energetically. Some people are just looking
to explore just the physicality of their voice. Some people
are looking to kind of improve their singing voice. You know.
So I work very uniquely with people. That's why I
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haven't done a lot of large group organized events and
I can do them. But what I really love working
on is specifically with the individual. And as I said,
it's a it's a mix of things. That is, like,
you know, I'll look at someone's astrology, for instance, and
see what's going on with them and say what might
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have turned in their communications at certain points in their
lives and what might be transiting in the house of communication,
And that is very specifically connected to the voice. Right,
So it's a very multi it's a very like three
sixty approach to the voice. It isn't just the physical sound,
but it's the energy in and around it as well
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that I work with.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
And I think originally yoga was a one on one
practice with the master. I think, yes, there was not
all these you know, forty people in a class. It
was an individual path or the teacher would sense like
you're doing you know which montha I would be good
in this moment to support the release or coming into
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their own sound. What are what are some common challenges
that somebody might come to you with vocally? Were they
were they just feel maybe stuck? Yes, they also wanted
to liberate their voice.
Speaker 14 (33:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
The most common one that I find is that a
lot of people when they were younger were told to
be quiet, they were told they couldn't sing. And that's
that's the that's probably the most impactful thing as a
young human when you've had a parent or people in
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your lives inhibit your expressions. So it goes it goes
beyond just the sound of the voice. It goes in
the confidence. It goes into do I matter enough to
even make a noise, make a sound? Because what because
what's happened for a lot of people is they they
tend to compensate that with just making noise in the world.
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And there's a difference between noise and sound. There's a
difference between noise and music. Right, we can all make noise,
but are we making music? You know, we can all
we can all say something in order to be heard,
or we can actually speak our soul. So there's a difference.
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And so I think that one is one has been
a compensation for the for the inhibition of the other,
and that is a that's a big part of what
I work with people on. And then so that goes
into energetics, that goes into listening to the nuance and
how someone's expressing themselves to me and catching an inflection
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of even how they are expressing their difficulty. It's not
just the difficulty they're expressing, but it's the tone and
the movement between the words of how they're expressing that
can tell me this, okay, this is something we need
to go into.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
You know, well, very specific, what are your thoughts in
the moment. We are in a very big shift, as
we know as healers and artists, the power of intent
and the alignment with love and our hearts. And yet
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we have AI that is coming out so fast, creating
soundtracks so quickly, and it has and even wonderful voices
that are mathematically not terrible, and yet it's missing the
(35:53):
I mean, the vibration of intention and love cannot be
in this music. And yet this music is going to
be pouring into cars and shopping malls and we're going
to be absorbing these frequencies into our body. How do
you you know, how do you sense that this is
going to play itself out?
Speaker 3 (36:15):
I think it's a very good question. I think it's
going to be like everything else that has come in
in every generation. So if we look at look at
the vinyl world right now, Vinyl has had a huge
surge in the last few years. Yes, because because people
want something that sounds organic and real. Right, So everything
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happens in a cycle in life. As you know, you
fool on that, right, So I don't have any fear.
I think that the more we are saturated with things
that sound out it, we know what's artificial. We know
what has a soul and what doesn't. We know that
human level, and even if we end up listening to
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something that is so less, like say AI music, after
a while, our internal system won't. We just won't feel good,
just like we don't feel good being on a phone
and scrolling through Instagram because we're living. We're basically observing
millions of other people's lives whilst not living our own.
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That's what doesn't feel good. So after a while you
will naturally begin to feel not so great, and you'll
and you'll begin to feel there's something missing. I believe
humans are profoundly intelligent at a D level. We know,
we just take different periods of time to realize it.
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That's all. Some of us can see it coming, some
of us need to experience it for a little bit,
some of us really go quite far. But ultimately I
think the ways of humanity generally, it generally moves together
in what the general consciousness is realizing. I think I
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think AI is an exploration. You know, human beings are
all about pushing frontiers. We need to do that. But
I do feel that the soul speaks more powerfully than
anything else. This is why we keep This is why
we always go to nature. Right Like, no matter how
much technology we have, no matter how many things we do,
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every single one of us loves to get out and
walk in nature. We know we feel good when we
do it. Why because it's where we came from thousands
of years ago. Right.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
My sense is also just like we had the process
food and suddenly now we're in regenerative gardening and farming
and people are finally making friends with slow food coming back.
Like you said full circle, I said this also with music,
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I'm I'm not worried because I think that people are
going to be so thirsty that they're going to want
to experience it themselves, what it's like to sing in
their body, and they're gonna, you know, either explore it
themselves with their harmonium or shrewdy or piano or guitar,
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and they're going to be so happy to get off
the electronics and just come to one of your classes
or one of your beautiful concerts and feel what it's
like when the human voice, whether it's our own or
somebody singing to us or with us, what it feels
for that voice to be absorbed by our skin, by ourselves,
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right to be in resonance with someone.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
I agree with you, Yeah, I mean, I just had
my I just had my album launch a few weeks
ago in LA and you know, I invited the whole
audience to sing with me, and most of those people
that never even come, never even they didn't know, they
never even uttered sanscript before, and you could just see
the joy on their faces just using their voices. And
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I also just performed at Harvard at the Sounders Theater
in Harvard in Boston for the Stages and Scientists Symposium
with the pak Chopra and I performed a piece in
the Sanders Theater and there was such a huge difference
between when I met people before my performance and after
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the performance, and you could just see the shift in
them because they had experienced the sound of a human
voice resonating and connecting with their own voice. You can
just see that shift happen.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
It is magical. Yeah, it is magical. I think many
people take their voice for granted. They don't, Like you said,
there's a difference between music and noise and the voice
that connects us back to ourselves and it connects us
like a beautiful tapestry or web to every single other soul.
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And I don't know what your thoughts are on this,
but for me, it's always powerful that we can sing
in unison and we can sing in harmony, right, that
is just.
Speaker 1 (41:22):
It is.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
It's so it's so amazing. You can't really do that
painting together on one canvas with different people. It's harder.
But a group of people singing in harmony and then
they all come and land together in unison, And yeah,
that's a little bit my visionals for the planet. How
can we have the diversity and the unity at the
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same time. I think we find that in music.
Speaker 3 (41:48):
Well that Yeah, I love the way you just put that.
I've never heard anybody put it that way. That it
is a unique to sound that you can be by.
Harmonies in their nature are diverse from one another. Instrumentation
in an orchestra, they're not all playing the same thing.
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They're playing counter melodies, they're playing different accents, they're playing
completely different notes, and yet when they come together it's symphony.
Yet when it comes together, it's the harmonic tapestry of voices.
That's how that's how unity and diversity works. It's not
that each it's not that each diverse voice has to
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be the only You've touched on something so profoundly important.
I don't think I've ever heard anybody lead into this
kind of conversation, but nowadays there's so much talk of diversity.
But what's happening is that each diverse voice wants to
be out front. And what you're talking about. What makes
beautiful music is that they're all in delicate balance with
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each other. No single one is out powering any other.
They fit beautifully and respectfully next to each other, even
though they're different.
Speaker 2 (43:06):
That makes music exactly. And musicians know we have things
called dissonance, and yet we can we can embrace that,
We can give that space and then everything leads into resolution.
And I always share with my people, musicians are a
little bit special because we know that things need to resolve.
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We are the peacekeepers of this world because if we
have a piece of music that we start on one
key and then it goes off and you know, goes
into dissonance and it never comes into resolution. We're really fraught,
we're really fraud We're having problems. So musicians are always
seeking resolutions. We are like mediators for peace in this world.
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And I don't know if that's true with painters or dancers.
Speaker 14 (43:58):
You know, yeah, it reminds me of the sar in
Indian music. You have the patagon, which is a sarim
up as anissa, and every song you.
Speaker 3 (44:12):
Have your you have your star. And even when you're
excuse me, studying Indian music a little bit like when
I bring when I work with people who specifically want
to learn voice voice, you know, one of the first
things we do is we find their sar. Their route
note is specific to them. Not all of us have
the same sar, like not all of us have the
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same soul. Your siah is your soul and your sar
is your like when you enter this human body, it's
like you're kind of leaving your front door. And one
of the greatest teachers ever always said that, you know,
you start with your sits like leaving your front door,
and you take your journey, and you go through your day,
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you paint your picture, and you sing your melody, and
then you come back in through your home door and
that's your sar And essentially that's the journey of life.
Your soul is intact, your saw is intact. That is
the essence of who you are through multiple lifetimes. You
come into this earth and from the day you're born
to the day that you die, you create the sinking
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of your life. But you land back at the saw
when you drop this body. It's always there.
Speaker 2 (45:26):
Yeah, you're always returning home the home tone.
Speaker 3 (45:30):
You're resolving back to your soul, as you said, and a.
Speaker 2 (45:35):
Tone and at one is just a little shift of
space and there you go. That's how it is. Ridika,
tell me about your next upcoming projects. You just were
out in at Harvard or in Boston with Depak. What
else do you have a planned for this beautiful album
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release or are there any collaborations you are excited about
to share?
Speaker 8 (46:00):
Now?
Speaker 3 (46:00):
Yes, yes, I'm very excited. So what I premiered, I
premiered a very special piece at Harvard included Karlie from
my album. But it's part of a larger experience that
we've been working on with a NASA astrophysicist. That's all
I'm going to say at the moment. We're bringing the
cosmos and this music together, and so that's been worked on.
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And another project I'm very excited about it is with
an incredible composer of violinist orchestrator, Natalie Bono. She's a Canadian,
she lives in la and we have created an album
together which is a month through devotional music with orchestra,
and we just recorded in London and Vienna this summer
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and went to Vienna and recorded at synchron with a
twenty four piece string section. And it's always been my
dream to bring orchestral arrangements to sacred music because I
grew up playing violin and worked in orchestras and have
just a profound love for classical music. And so we
will be coming out with our album next year. So
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it's another iteration that sacred music and compositions from the
ancient to the modern, fusing East and West. And so
I'm very very excited about that. And then I have,
you know, more performances. I played it in Pockety first
just recently, and I'm getting booked for a lot more performances.
I'll hopefully be in London and India and more of
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the East Coast next year.
Speaker 2 (47:29):
And what would you love for the listeners to take
away from this album if there is a little golden nugget?
I mean, I know that's a big question, but yeah,
shall we all become warriors of light?
Speaker 3 (47:46):
I think so? Yeah? Well yeah, I mean, you know,
I tell this story when I told this story at
my concert launch, and I think this really is telling
of where I am in my creation of this album,
what it took for me to make this album, because
I got you know, I went through some pretty tough
things in order to realize these gifts. As we all do.
(48:09):
We go through tough things in our lives and they
like like a pressure applied to you, it reveals a diamond, right,
But the diamond was always there. The diamond is always there.
So you know, there's a story I tell people at
the beginning of my concert going, Look, you know, we
come into our mother's belly and we're kind of cocooned
(48:29):
in the belly for nine months and we're just we're
nourished and we've got everything we need where you know,
we're taken care of we're warm, we're snuggly, and then
we come through and we take this really treacherous journey
to come out into this world, and we're rising and
our little bones are thinking what's going on, and consciousness
is wondering what's happening. And we come out into this
(48:51):
world and the first thing that happens to us is
we get slapped. It's the first thing that happens to us, right, yes, yeah,
But the reason we get hit is so that we
can make a sound and we breathe. And my point
with this album is to also in a world that
(49:13):
is very much about, hey, we've got to be soft,
and we've got to be this, and we've got to
you know, everything's gentle. I think we've negated a whole
other part of nature that is sometimes in sometimes in
the world and in our lives. We have to fight
to be who we are. We have to have strength
and resilience. Spirituality is not often spoken about in the
(49:35):
same sentence as strength and resilience these days, and I
don't know why, because in the Vedic times and in
any ancient culture, we all talked about strength and resentiments
and fortification of mind, and you had to fight and
as I said right at the beginning of conversation, the
greatest fight we have is the one in our mind.
So what I wanted to do and by telling that
(49:55):
story about you get the first lesson that life teaches
you is Hey, you know you're gonna have to declare
yourself to be here and you can make a sound.
Make that sound, you know, And that's the That's the
thing I want to drive home with this album is
make your sound. Don't be afraid to make your sound.
(50:18):
And you know, sometimes you have to fight, to fight
for your true essence, fight for it to be here,
fight for you to have your own internal peace, and
you sound to do that.
Speaker 2 (50:31):
When I was maybe twenty three, I spent a short
time in India, and I remember because warriors of Light,
I think, were very nervous sometimes as a spiritual community,
you know, with war warriors, what does it mean? I
read a book about Krishna. Krishna goes into the war
(50:54):
and I was shocked. I was like, how could someone
who's enlightened be leading a war? And I remember the
answer from my teacher was, if there is war, then
there's no better person to lead the war than somebody
(51:14):
who is enlightened and who is in harmony and understands
what is important. And for me, when I read your
title Warriors of Light, it brought me back to that
conflict that I had in my being. You know, I
was wearing all white in America had gone into a
rock and I was, you know, peace, peace, pacifist, pacifists,
(51:39):
and no one should go to war. And I remember
reading this book Krishna, and if there is war, then
we need as many people that are enlightened, that are
in their essence that are meditating to yeah, like you said,
to be strong, to be resilient, and to be kind,
(52:01):
to be compassionate, to be loving, because that is also
a part of reality on earth.
Speaker 3 (52:10):
Yes it is, it is, and I think that's yeah, yeah,
and well that's that's again. The the other layer to
this album is my presentation to people to say, hey,
you know, you're, even in the spiritual world, you're being
this whole this idea of you know, having to be
soft and kind of taking it all the time. And
(52:33):
you know, you know, like the enlightened, the enlightened ones
know when there is a time to fight and what
is it they're fighting for? Ultimately, you know, it's the
ultimate truth and you have to. And when Origin was
on that battlefield on Kurukshetter in the Bogi Kita and
(52:54):
his charioteer is Krishna, and he's saying to our June,
you have to fight even or your uncles are on
the other side. And he's in poor origins, the greatest
warrior of all time is having this conflict. You have to. Yeah,
you know, your consciousness, which is Krishna, is speaking to
you and guiding you from that higher place. Do not
(53:16):
be duped into retreating from the battle that is the
ultimate one and worth it for the sake of humanity,
for the sake of your soul, you know, and for
the sake of everybody's soul who might come across this
album or hear these vibrations. That's all I want, And
I don't want to ever influence what somebody should be
(53:39):
doing in their lives. All I want to do is
create music and experiences that allow them their true selves
to step forward, whatever form that is in. And even
if it's counter to what me and any of the
opinions and beliefs that I have, it is the right
thing for their soul to express itself. At a soul level, gorgeous.
Speaker 2 (54:06):
Thank you, Thank you for being with us today. I
want to wish you all the best for your new album,
and thank you for your beautiful insights and the transformative
power of work that you do not only in concerts
and producing these projects, but also with people one on
(54:27):
one and to our listeners out there, thank you guys
for joining us on this journey of self discovery. And
if you've resonated with this today's episode, just share it
with your friends and subscribe to our channels because it
helps us a lot to bring more guests onto the
show that are going to talk about the power of
(54:50):
vibrational healing and frequency medicine and songs, voice, poetry, writing,
the inner voice word, which is meditation. It's this channel
that we're walking with in the world, you know, connects
us to heaven, heaven, heaven on earth. So thank you again, Rideka,
(55:13):
it's been a pleasure to be with you.
Speaker 3 (55:15):
Thank you, Carl, Take care, take care of yourself. It's
great to chat to here.
Speaker 9 (55:24):
Same day, passibast time.
Speaker 12 (55:39):
Time starts me
Speaker 3 (55:47):
Once we have
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