INDIVIDUAL SESSIONS
Online, group Or in person Sessions for those in NSW Australia
Whether we aspire to become accomplished musicians or simply wish to enjoy the practice, music can offer something far beyond performance and technique.
My approach to teaching is grounded in the ancient wisdom principles of Yoga and Indian Classical Music, while remaining open to the knowledge, practices and living musical cultures I have encountered along the way.
Through this foundation, I have come to experience music and sound as Codes of Consciousness — patterns of rhythm, melody, resonance and vibration that can influence the way we listen, feel, communicate and experience ourselves and the world around us.
These principles are not something I claim as new. Ancient traditions have explored the relationship between sound, consciousness, nature and human experience for thousands of years. Codes of Consciousness is simply a contemporary language through which I explore, integrate and share these understandings within my own life, music and teaching.
Technique and musical knowledge remain an important part of the journey, but they are not necessarily the destination. The deeper practice is learning to listen, respond and enter a state of flow — where music becomes less something we do and more something we experience.
Having experienced this for ourselves, we can begin to share it as a living experience — through performance, teaching, creativity, healing, community, or simply through the way we live and relate to those around us.
Private Lessons & Mentoring
Sessions can incorporate Indian Classical Raga, rhythm, voice, improvisation, sound and listening practices, adapted to the experience and interests of each student.
Lessons can be arranged in person in NSW, Australia, or online from anywhere in the world.
From $80 AUD per 1-hour session
Minimum commitment of 4 sessions
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Exploring the codes carried through music, culture and consciousness.
Raga, mantra, rhythm, sacred geometry and traditional arts each carry patterns developed and transmitted through generations of human experience.
Codes of Consciousness is an evolving exploration of these patterns — and what happens when ancient knowledge, living cultures and contemporary creativity meet.
MUSIC, MEDITATION & MANTRA
Melody, Movement & Rhythm
MEDITATION
Incorporating Music
Music is a field of vibration coursing through the current of this moment; offering as the perfect medium to demonstrate where our consciousness is or isn’t. Based on Yoga and advanced practices discover how Music can create a constant stream to keep the mind engaged with the act or practice of meditation. Experience when the mind is empty how the music will just 'flow' through and keep us in the 'zone'
INSTRUMENT
Sing though your hands
Just about all Indian instrumentalist I have met can replicate their playing through their voice. The intrinsic connection between head and hands is not in the tone or tenor of our vocal range but in the feeling and conscious connection between the movement or language of sound
MANTRA
Voice & Sacred Sounds
Mantra means to release or liberate the mind; it could be as subtle or dynamic as one needs. Sanskrit mantra or Chanting sacred sounds or syllables through the power of will, voice or percussive rhythms is a profound meditative practice ’which allows us to discover the geometrical foundations of space and time.
THE NATURE OF RAGA
Crystal Slide
Raga's are based from nature and times of day/ night. Ragas require the musician to become a medium to invoke the mood and feeling above all else in learning a new scale. A small clip based on Indian Raga Durga.
Presenting the Trinity of Music ~?~
MOVEMENT
The physical body is also a vehicle of sound and communication between music. The trinity in Indian philosophy being Mother Melody (Raga) Father Rhythm (Tala) and the combined creation between them: movement or dance. Through the practice of Yoga and tuning into the physical body on a subtle plane one can experience dance like states through feeling alone; a free flow allowing the body to lead and the mind to rest and let go.
RHYTHM
The language of rhythm is a world of its own; and through the serious practice of Tabla Shivam has learnt how to speak intricate rhythms and syllables which allows him to play almost any percussive instrument with skill and dexterity. The practice his highly meditative balancing both brain hemispheres and is akin to chanting or doing ‘mantra’ meditation.
Another clear example signifying that first music should come from inside; because if you can speak it ~ you can play it!
MELODY
Based upon original and traditional sources including the ancient Raga system and intuitive nature of heart to head connection; Shivam teaches in depth and highly subtle movements between the major scales, tones and semitones which create the rich atmosphere and mood that is Raga. Using Voice and Instrument to demonstrate the dynamics; this too becomes a universal language applicable to any sincere music aspirant.