Chants, Psalms

Expanding Inner Space: Elecha Yah Ekra

Elecha Yah Ekra
Expanding Inner Space Hebrew text
To You, God, I call. (Psalm 30:9)

Methods: Concentration on reaching vast inner distances from an anchored depth. Projecting consciousness beyond the farthest horizon. Focusing and directing emotional energy. Absorbing and then radiating divine energy.

Goals: The expansion of inner space determines the power of the voice.

Phase 1: Chanting and visualization

  1. Elecha Yah Ekra – Reaching deep inside on the first note, grounding, then moving out, projecting your “call” wide and far past the farthest horizon you can imagine. Crescendo in emotion and volume.
  2. Elecha Yah Ekra – Feel the voice returning to you from beyond the horizon, coming a great distance, the words come to rest gently and deeply within you. Decrescendo in emotion and volume.
  3. Same as 1.
  4. Same as 2.
  5. Elecha – Focus your “call” on a point in the far distance. This call is refined and directed, like a laser beam from the third eye.
  6. Yah – Letting your call extend even further and dissolve into the “beyond-the-beyond.”
  7. Ekra – as if you have seeded the clouds with your longing and are now opening to the gentle rain and receiving the divine flow into you.

Phase 2: Chanting and movement

  1. Elecha Yah Ekra – Bowing to left side and returning to center, generating energy, intensifying commitment.
  2. Elecha Yah Ekra – Bowing to right side and returning to center, generating energy, intensifying commitment.
  3. Elecha Yah Ekra – Bowing to left side and returning to center, generating energy, intensifying commitment.
  4. Elecha Yah Ekra – Bowing to right side and returning to center, generating energy, intensifying commitment.
  5. Elecha – From center, longing, lifting, reaching, with both hands, palms up.
  6. Yah – Deep bow to center, surrendering to the vastness of God.
  7. Ekra – Coming back to center with palms at the heart.

Phase 3: Silent Chanting on the Breath

  1. Elecha Yah Ekra – exhale toward the place beyond the wide horizon.
  2. Elecha Yah Ekra – inhale receiving the call back from a great distance.
  3. Elecha Yah Ekra – exhale toward the place beyond the wide horizon.
  4. Elecha Yah Ekra – inhale receiving the call back from a great distance.
  5. Elecha – exhale focusing on a distant point with refined breath.
  6. Yah ­ inhale simultaneously through the crown and the root into the heart.
  7. Ekra – exhale, radiating divine light in all directions like the sun.
  8. Inhale in preparation, realignment, and setting your intention.

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For the musical notation, see The Magic of Hebrew Chant, page 274.

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