Notes:

Latest blog posts from Padma Soundsystem

Water meditation
I have created a 15 minute water meditation for my Dzogchen group here in Tucson. Keep drawing your attention back to the sound of the water. Abide softly in your very own gentle mindstream. Read more...
Published a month ago

New Steps In the Old Pueblo
One night at the yoga studio we improvised with the Guru Rinpoche mantra, Om Ah Hung Benzra Guru Pema Siddhi Hung.  I recorded this performance using one microphone and brought it home. Inside my computer the performance was vibrated and tickled and introduced to the Sonoran drummers who had... Read more...
Published 7 months ago

ATOM
We have a new sound subscription piece that calls itself Atom. It is designed for a 20 minute Qi Gong session. It was recorded in three places, at three different times and includes some White Tara mantra. Some of the crickets are from the Sky Islands southeast of Tucson. The rest were singing... Read more...
Published 10 months ago

Padma Soundsystem 2.0
As we get ready for all of the changes coming our way this Fall, as the world turns, I thought I'd tell you a little bit about the evolution of Padma Soundsystem. We are about to launch our own social networking site for yogis who love sound. This will be a meeting place for all of you who love... Read more...
Published a year ago

The Eight Verses on Transforming the Mind
While we're gearing up for the new release of Padma Soundsystem 2.0 I thought I would share this song Night. It mashes the field recordings I made while in India walking around a sacred lake in Rewalsar with the rhythms of some of my drumming friends under a full moon in the Sonoran desert. I... Read more...
Published a year ago

A Dzogchenpa View of August Weather
The largest structure in the solar systemWe are currently going through some very strange weather all around the planet. This is influenced by the Heliospheric current sheet.Obviously I like to think big, this comes from my practice and perceiving the interconnectedness of all life. Dzogchen is a... Read more...
Published a year ago

YogaSangha Green Tara
This podcast features a recording from our workshop at YogaSangha in San Francisco. Nicole, Heather, Hetty, Ari and Angie joined Heidi and me in chanting the mantra of Green Tara. Om Tare Tuttare Ture Swoha. Tara means "star," "planet," or "she who ferries across." She is a bodhisattva embodying... Read more...
Published a year ago

A Song For My Mother
I have been spending the past two months in a dream. I get in my car and drive to California. I camp along the coast and see Big Sur for the first time. Coasting on a golden road leading into the blue sky with the ocean heaving a thousand feet below hills covered with wildflowers. We find sea... Read more...
Published a year ago

Thing to mind is a terrible waste
Well in the past month we've broadcast from Sonora, Yosemite, San Francisco, Drake's Bay and now downtown Toronto. I've been going with the flow, and finding Nature has a way with silence. Taking the sound of peace to create silence within us. My life has been so hectic and adventurous, with many... Read more...
Published a year ago

Yosemite Restorative Sound Yoga
Yosemite Restorative Sound Yoga This podcast is a chance to get inside my head. I recorded natural sounds in some incredibly energeticaly charged nodes of the globl web. This podcast is a recording of me speaking directly to you while sitting at the seaside. It also announces a new project and... Read more...
Published a year ago