Yoga
October 2008 
What has me all choked up....In the best way.
Posted on Jun 26th, 2008
by 
Sanieh
Sanieh
About 9 years ago, I once had the oppotunity to go see Luciano Pavarotti live in concert. One of few regrets that I have is that I lied to the young man who invited me because I was interested in someone else at the time.
An opportunity forever lost as Pavarotti died in Sept. 2007.
With that being said, even being a musician myself; who knows if I would or could have appreciated the expereince in the same way that I do now with music as means to invoke bhavana, or mood. Kind of like mantra or chanting or world prayers of many different kinds, even when you are unable to understand the words or translation, there is a bhavana, when delivered with passion and conviction, that is simply FELT.
Although I do not understand the italian language, the words are not important. We can all FEEL the words that this young man sings and I am so touched by his genuine expression of his truth and being witness to the beauty of the bufferfly who broke out of the cacoon right before our very eyes in this video... THIS is what it means to be in the flow....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k08yxu57NA
An opportunity forever lost as Pavarotti died in Sept. 2007.
With that being said, even being a musician myself; who knows if I would or could have appreciated the expereince in the same way that I do now with music as means to invoke bhavana, or mood. Kind of like mantra or chanting or world prayers of many different kinds, even when you are unable to understand the words or translation, there is a bhavana, when delivered with passion and conviction, that is simply FELT.
Although I do not understand the italian language, the words are not important. We can all FEEL the words that this young man sings and I am so touched by his genuine expression of his truth and being witness to the beauty of the bufferfly who broke out of the cacoon right before our very eyes in this video... THIS is what it means to be in the flow....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k08yxu57NA
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Sanieh! Every time I watch this video, I have the same reaction - and seeing the surprise, the shock and the emotion of the audience and the judges as his voice carries them all someplace else…. goosebumps!!!