Nada Yoga—The Sound of Inner Turbulence

Bhakti traditions employ nada yoga—the yoga of sound—as a path to presence and integration. Mirabai's devotional singing and dancing were not performances but sonic practices that moved energy through her body. Rage and grief create turbulent inner frequencies: tension, trembling, vocal constriction. Nada yoga invites us to listen to these frequencies and express them through sound—singing, humming, vocal toning—rather than letting them calcify as chronic holding. When anger cannot find vocal expression, it lodges in the body as pain, numbness, or explosive outbursts. By attending to the inner sound of our turbulence—literally making sound with our voice—we create a channel for integration. This is why keening, chanting, and singing are cross-cultural grief practices. For those working with rage beneath grief, nada yoga offers a somatic pathway: what wants to be sung through you? What is your anger's true note?