Yoga and Gong Bath in the Cloister

The gentle patter of raindrops falling from the Cloister's stone tiled roof formed a natural backing-track to a yoga session in the cloister led by Philomena Plunkett this evening.  Around ten had signed up for this first ever yoga evening in the cloister, and after a successful event we hope next year to develop this into a little series.

The second half of the session saw Graham Bater take the assembled company through a "Gong Bath" meditation; a most remarkable experience as the sounds washed through the cloister, the acoustic augmenting the lower frequencies.

Graham brought with him a range of gongs, from the large to the small, and his expertise was apparent as he extracted an array of sounds from the percussive to the vocal from these simple metal instruments.

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