Indulgence
In conversation with Aurelio, the magic and brains
behind Auroville’s music therapy and research centre
Svaram
Tell us about yourself and how Svaram came about
Having travelled for many years all over the world and
staying with indigenous cultures in search of the origin of
music making of humanity and after decades ofresearch
into sound and consciousness, a primal socio-economic
need for survival and employment of the rural youth in
neighbouring villages sprouted the seed of Svaram, which,
besides serving this immediate need, wanted to create
musical instruments that are easy to approach and open a
simple entry into the magic of sound explorations and music
for everyone.
Why Auroville and India?
India harbours one of the most ancient and elaborate
traditions of not only music making but of a metaphysical
and philosophical understanding of music as the vibrational
world and its role in existence and in an evolving humanity.
Auroville is an international campus of a new integral
approach to life and a kind of laboratory of human
evolution, bringing together the best of 'the East and the
West' (the ancient spiritual and modern scientific) in a
creative synthesis and progressive exploration and is a
rewarding place to experiment with the place of adeepening
aural awareness and the role of music in education
and health, peace and freedom for the emergence of a
harmonious global civilisation.
How does sonic healing exactly work and why must
people consider thisover other forms of treatment?
The work with Sound Healing is an expression of a new
paradigm and holistic approach towards health and
wellbeing, and is not based on symptomatic treatments
for specific ailments. The organism is seen as a totality of
the physical, emotional, energetic, mental, sociological,
environmental and spiritual layers and dimensions ofour
existence and each condition of “dis-ease” and ailment
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is an indicator of a general or specific imbalance and
disharmony in the system. The organism and thebeing are
stimulated through the exposure to selected harmonising
frequencies togenerate and reactivate homeo-dynamic self
healing powers and an overall awareness of one's ailing
condition or cause of symptoms. Even while marked effects
of lowering or stimulating pulse rate, blood pressure, deep
relaxation andstimulation or sedating effects through
rhythmic entrainment is proven, a direct scientific cause-
effect relationship between an application and cure would
be limiting the work into a narrow allopathic framework
of trying to fix parts without taking the whole context of
the patients situation into consideration. So while there
are proven direct effects of specific sound and vibrational
applications, it is the totality of thephenomena, the setting,
the contact, the situation, the analyses, the experience,
theassimilation and integration which can bring the patient
into a growing awareness ofthe circumstances and cause