Devavani Shaking Meditation

Shaking and trembling: Naturally occurring somatic discharge of shock, fear or terror once ANS registers a return to safety.

Devavani: Sanskrit for “Divine Voice”

Phase One: 5 to 15 minutes

Stand with your feet shoulder width apart and your knees slightly bent.

Start shaking your entire body gently, beginning with your ankles and knee. Breathe easily.

Allow the shaking to rise up your legs, pelvis, shoulders, and arms, loosening your neck, jaw and head. As much as possible shake your head “Yes” to allow complete unwinding of the spine. Let your entire body be loose and moving, gently shaking off any tensions from the past day or night.

Begin exhaling through your open mouth.

Further loosening and moving your jaws, allow gentle sounds to come out of your mouth, like a babbling small child. These devavani sounds should not be of any language that you know. Let them arise from a long forgotten part of the brain, from a preverbal time in your life. Allow your windpipe to open and your voice to be softer or become louder as feels right. Give yourself permission to experiment with different sounds, volume, range, etc.

Allow any feelings to arise and leave through the shaking and through your voice.

Just as the shaking releases tension and stress from your autonomous nervous system, devavani helps unwind tensions in the heart, neck and throat, facilitates an opening of your voice, and gently stimulates the vagus nerve from freeze and/or shut down back into ventral vagal engagement with life.

Phase Two: 5 to 15 minutes

Sit, lie, or stand still, just being present yourself (to your breath, body, thoughts, feelings, energy). Relax and enjoy. Match the duration of Phases One and Two.

You can adjust the duration of this meditation. Please note that Phase Two should be as long as Phase One, e.g. 10 minutes Devavani Shaking followed by 10 minutes Silence, or 3 minutes Devavani Shaking followed by 3 minutes Silence.