Healing through arts: decoding the Indian paradigm
Author :Singh, Shanta Serbjeet
Keywords :Music
Dance
Drama
Art
Issue Date :2006
Publisher :Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi
Description :Indian traditional view equates the arts of music and dance with the fifth vedas. The Vedas deal with the nature of phenomena, of the existence of man and other aspects of the vast cosmos. Moreover, the Indian aestheticians and philosophers of dance have always pointed to these art being akin to Yoga and hence their training and teaching too. Classical dance involves both the physical and the neurological halves of the body. Present article is about replacement of raw material in human body continually creating a new physical body, which is at the heart of the Indian belief that the sharira, the body is the link between the earth and the cosmos between humanity and divinity. And to help this body remain healthy, the traditional knowledge of India has identified one major path: the creative impulse. Expression through the arts, music and dance, painting and sculpture, literature and poetry is the pathway that leads to all wellness.
Source :Sangeet Natak Akademi
Type :Article
Received From :Sangeet Natak Akademi
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Singh, Shanta Serbjeet
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2017-07-18T03:28:38Z
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2006
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Indian traditional view equates the arts of music and dance with the fifth vedas. The Vedas deal with the nature of phenomena, of the existence of man and other aspects of the vast cosmos. Moreover, the Indian aestheticians and philosophers of dance have always pointed to these art being akin to Yoga and hence their training and teaching too. Classical dance involves both the physical and the neurological halves of the body. Present article is about replacement of raw material in human body continually creating a new physical body, which is at the heart of the Indian belief that the sharira, the body is the link between the earth and the cosmos between humanity and divinity. And to help this body remain healthy, the traditional knowledge of India has identified one major path: the creative impulse. Expression through the arts, music and dance, painting and sculpture, literature and poetry is the pathway that leads to all wellness.
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