Bio:

Joshua Brill is a healing artist devoted to using music as a medium to facilitate inner peace, expand awareness, and raise consciousness. A mystic, a musician, and a yogi, Joshua creates music that uses the sacred laws of vibration, a deep energetic awareness, and advanced looping technology via guitar and laptop to create flowing waves of expansive soundscapes that transform space.
Joshua’s musical accompaniment for yoga practice is a delicate balace of healing ambient guitar textures and supportive dowtempo grooves. It creates a dynamic energetic container that allows for transformation and deeply healing experiences.

Weaving sacred laws of vibration, modern technology, professional musical training, and a deep energetic awareness, Joshua is able to create music in the moment that instills peace, harmony, and balance.

Joshua has performed and supported yoga practices across the US and internationally. He has worked with Shiva Rea, Alanis Morissette, Dr. Robert Svoboda, Sean Corne, Sianna Sherman, Dave Stringer, Wade, Morissettte, Saul David Raye, Scott Blossom, Janet Stone, Suzanne Sterling and others. Joshua is also an acclaimed teacher and former instructor at the Berklee College of Music. Joshua has been featured in Yoga Journal, LA Yoga, and Gitaar Plus.

Artist Statement:

Music is the Universe singing. By tuning into this vibration, we then become one with the infinite manifestations of reality. My role as a musician is to be a sympathetic being to the divine voice, so that I may grace others with universal resonance. My aim in this lifetime is to raise peace, consciousness, and awareness through music.

Yoga and Music:

Playing for yoga classes is one of my favorite musical experiences. It allows me to find a deep sensitivity to the energy and flow of the class that enables me to support the class and teacher, rather than call attention away from practice. the function of this music is to support the space and keep the attention directed inward.

Testimonials:

"Joshua brill has the uncanny ability to complement perfectly the movement and pulse of any yoga class no matter what the theme. His music reminds us of our divinity while inspiring and challenging us to explore deeper on a human level! A musical virtuoso!" -Wade Morissette (Yoga Teacher)

“...a beautiful voice" -Alanis Morissette (Artist)

"Collaborating with Joshua in yoga classes and workshops has been wonderful. He weaves music that is deeply insipiring for the inner journey of Yoga. He is one of the most intuitive and skilled musicians I have ever worked with." -Scott Blossom (Yoga Teacher)

“Joshua sets a vibration, a hum that draws us toward the Universal breath and awakens a deep level of knowing.”- Janet Stone (Yoga Teacher)

“Joshua Brill is an extremely talented, professional and intuitive musician who understands fully how to bring sound into yoga practice. His live improvisation creates layers upon layers of enchanted soundscapes, giving rise to beauty and deep contemplation.” -Chandra Easton (Yoga Teacher)

“Each time I’ve heard Joshua play music in a yoga class, time seems to disappear, and my personal space expands. Josh’s music is seamless. His music pulls me away from the music, from the literal, and into the mystery of myself.” -Melina Meza (Yoga Teacher)

"I've had the honor and pleasure to play with Joshua Brill many times. Besides being an amazing groove meister, he also has the ability to create a sound-net that at once is both enveloping and melodious, and yet so intrinsic that you may not even know it's there sometimes. Not an easy thing to do. I dare say his sound is healing!" -Joey Lugassy (Kirtan Artist)

"Joshua Brill has an innate sensitivity to the energy in the room and responds accordingly through his largely improvisational music of rich textures that feel both ancient and modern. His presence is strong but quietly contained and is a joy to collaborate with." -Kate Duyn (Yoga Teacher)

“Joshua's evolving soundscapes both guide and follow the flow of a yoga class, creating a mood that feels almost other-worldly. The room is transformed by his music and it's a delight to practice yoga accompanied by a musician who has such a deep respect for the tradition.” -Kerry Maiorca (Yoga Teacher)

On Music:

I see music as an objective presence in the universe that requires a musician to act as an interface to allow music's presence to exist on earth. Once music comes into empirical existence, an audience is necessary to complete the triad of creation: active (musician), passive (audience), and neutral (music). With this in mind, I view my performances and productions as a co-creation between myself, the audience, and music. When this harmony of three is achieved, the roles of active, passive, and neutral become one and music comes to life.

Yoga of Music Workshop:

Yoga of Music

Your Body as a Sacred Instrument:
Opening the Third Ear

Everything in the universe is in motion, which means everything has a specific frequency and rhythm. By learning to hear and feel our own unique inner frequencies and rhythms, we can then tune ourselves to the music of the universe. When we are in tune, we become open channels to the universal sound that is the fabric of all existence.

Through the practice of music, we are able to tune our attention, awareness, and consciousness to the inner music that is universally present. When we are in tune with ourselves, we are in tune with the universe and we then live in harmony.

Yoga of Music will offer the practitioner techniques to develop deeper levels of awareness through the practice of music. We will explore how to establish a musical practice using techniques such as chanting, mantra, breathing, divided attention, movement, meditation, and other familiar yogic practices. In addition, the participant will learn how to find their own inner frequencies and how they correspond to their chakra system.

Focus areas include:
Expanding Attention and Awareness through music
Opening the Third Ear
Mantra and chanting
Establishing and deepening our inner sense of rhythm
Establishing and deepening our inner sense of pitch
Musical notes of the Chakras
Toning personal frequencies
Shifting our energy fields and consciousness through music
Developing divided awareness
Mystery School's secrets of music
How to sing in tune
Active listening
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