Playing Handpan for Meditation - Thoughts and Ideas

[@AmyNaylorMusic]

💚Thanks for watching everyone! What other topics / tutorials would you like to see? Comment below! ☀️For more beginner handpan videos see my playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLkOKiXPWwJmxgWWLLlmOfCGLSwdV0mOD8 🙏Links for my classes, for Master The Handpan classes, or to support me on Patreon are all in the description box above

[@dmitriykamenskikh4517]

Thank you, Amy! Playing for meditation was one of my big questions. And also the second part of it - how to play for 1 hour in a row. But now I think I have an answer for it :) My thoughts were "I need to play very interesting things" etc.. Now I started to divide two situations: when you're playing for yogis/meditation class and when you're playing concert/performance for 1 hour. It's totally different approaches. So Thank you for the food for my brain :) and the topic from me: what do I need to play 1 hour performance and how to prepare for it? :)

[@sorayanwolf]

How can handpans with different scales be harmonized with each other? Which strategies to play multiple handpans or instruments togheter? 🙏🙏🙏

[@alexkinsmen]

I would love to hear your thoughts on sound bath would this be the same approach?

[@ric1386]

Thank you, sounds great. Could you do more meditation patterns for the Rav Vast ? ❤

[@InfinitelyGr8ful]

Thank you young Lady, I am 53 and I am learning that I need to slow down and your videos are AWESOME!!!! Very thoughtful and inspiring you are!!!

[@maraijesussantiagoqui]

here from Catalonia! I'm very happy to find your tutorials of hand pan!!. Thnaks thanks a lot for your gently and easy explanations about this!! Have a nice life!! Musical greetings!!😍💖🙏 🕊🥀🌞🌈🎶🎵🎵🎵🎶🎶

[@nashonholloway]

You’re a wonderful teacher.

[@naturewatcher7596]

It's like purring of your cat - simple, soft, repetitive and very soothing and relaxing. :)

[@qingwang1514]

I've tried in my yoga class when the students doing shavasa. It's really not about skills, it's about letting my relaxation and love flowing out through the handpan to the surroundings. Sometimes I imagine playing for a little baby hahaha

[@loveleegiove]

Loved this video Amy. I’ve been watching bunches of your videos the last 2 months or so. Sooooooo good. Thanks for your presence and so much that you share with us. You are a gem :-)

[@AmyNaylorMusic]

Thanks so much Lee!

[@TrevEdDawE]

I'd be curious to hear new developments and insights from your practice using the hang as a sound in space. You are awesome!

[@HaPa-JOe]

Your explanations, your perspectives, your thoughts, your opinions are easy to understand, very conveincing and helpful. I agree with your positions. Thank you very much!

[@trevbeats77]

Wicked youtube.....I have been playing the drums for 30 years... Bought a handpan this year.....You have helped me not play to a fixed pattern ....A breakthrough...thanx...x

[@richardloxley]

Thank you ❤ That just inspired me to pick up my RAV Vast and just play. I’ve had it for 2-3 months and haven’t really got anywhere with it. A bit of being too afraid to touch it as I don’t know what I’m doing. Just being playful and not worrying about it definitely helped!

[@YogawithDrRohitChobe]

I am liking your videos and learning also! Thank you

[@DoranMitchell_Handpan]

Well done Amy! I love your insightfulness & guidance on meditative playing. I play several times a day as my escape from pain. These instruments sooth soul & the body . Thanks my friend.

[@AmyNaylorMusic]

Thanks Doran 💚 I've found playing the handpan to be great for pain management, perhaps it's because of the breath and the relaxation. I'm glad you enjoyed the video

[@jeffpartin9493]

Love this one thanks Amy.

[@wafflewoffle]

Playing along with your breathing sounds really inspiring, gotta try that out!! Thanks for a great lesson!

[@AmyNaylorMusic]

Yesss, it really helps to tune into those dynamics too. When I focus on my breathing, my strikes become much more sensitive

[@zerokewl88]

Even years later, beautiful and inspiring thank you - love your rythmns and explanations :)

[@AmyNaylorMusic]

My pleasure!

[@satnamyogaankara]

You’re really amazing. I like you and many thanks from Turkey✨💙🌸

[@SilviaBlaser]

Absolutly … and this is with all Instruments especially in that we make healing sound ... slowly repetitive in the heartbeat ❤ Thank you - this incouraged me!

[@Felix-yk7fg]

This video help me a lot ! I’m appreciate!❤

[@samirrane7163]

Amy you are amazing soul.... blessing ! Very nice Namaste

[@jaynecabirac6778]

THANKS FOR THIS AS THIS IS MY GOAL TO FLOW WITH SPIRIT

[@YULIAALIMOVA]

Hey! I wanted to say how much I love your explanations of how tos and everything is else ❤thank you

[@keinyandradefotografia106]

So true … Play soft and In waves! Thanks!

[@TrevEdDawE]

Awesome!!!!

[@2024-motherandson]

The rav melody remindes me at the "stranger things" Main Theme 😊... very beautiful!

[@KaiMiano]

Beautifully wonderful

[@RavenRaven-se6lr]

Wonderful soft gems 🇦🇺👍❤️

[@chialara5302]

You’re so awesome, thank you xx

[@sheridant4711]

Something so simple yet amazing. Love this as a new hand pan student ❤️

[@AmyNaylorMusic]

Glad it resonates with you ☺️

[@thefluteprayer]

Thank you for sharing your experience 🙏

[@sabralindgren1695]

Thank you. Very helpful!

[@learnconversationalhypnosis]

Amazing!! love the slow meditative sounds

[@orashiosensei9432]

Thank you again for another great tutorial

[@sorayanwolf]

Love this video. Thanks 👏👏👏🙏

[@AmyNaylorMusic]

Thanks Silvia!

[@DanielSiono]

Thank you! Really honest info

[@jocelynem8025]

Thanks ever so much for all this generous and genuine sharing. I really feel grateful to you, Amy ! All the best to you

[@johngrant3010]

Amy I can really relate to this good insight into the necessary relaxed focus to combine playing into meditation. I hope fellow players will do this outdoors and appreciate the interactive qualities of being in a natural environment.

[@AmyNaylorMusic]

Mmmm yes. I can't wait until it's warm enough here for me to play outdoors comfortably. Something special about it. It definitely slows my playing down, helps me to be more present with the instrument and my surroundings

[@amargimargo]

Thank you for this video,...

[@kalealee3675]

Amy , thank you 🙏🏻

[@markbuhl5647]

Great job Amy. It's so nice to see a RAV played slowly. It really shows off the resonance and sustain. Thanks for all your wonderful tips. This video is among your best.

[@AmyNaylorMusic]

Thank you Mark! I was feeling a little unconfident about this video (filmed it twice) so I really appreciate that 💚

[@Juliane.Mangold]

Thank you Amy 💙 totally what we need of meditative handpan sounds...🎶

[@AmyNaylorMusic]

💚💚

[@edwardrussell1762]

Thank you so much! for reminding me that less can be better. Wise words.🙏🏽

[@AmyNaylorMusic]

The spaces between the notes are oh so powerful 🥰 thank you

[@tiziaoconnor9014]

Beautiful! I like your style🌺

[@StevePaulSounds]

Brilliant inspiration

[@tremonryan]

Fantastic explanation x

[@yogastepsfrank]

Thank you Amy, as a yoga teacher with pan drum, his was super helpful...

[@vincentvincent997]

Thank you Amy for your kind sharing. This is very helpful.

[@giwrgosdamianos3243]

Amazing

[@emmetjeuhh]

I really love your videos Amy 😄💛 thank you for your lessons, they help me a lot !

[@AmyNaylorMusic]

Thanks Em! I'm glad ☺️

[@binhueiwong7068]

Thank you for making this video! 💙

[@allisonic7]

Love this Amy! I love 💗 playing meditatively and you are spot on explaining it

[@AmyNaylorMusic]

Thank you 🥰

[@goddessdivinity333]

Thank you so muuuch for this video !! THIS IS HOW I WANT TO PLAY MY HANDPAN, this is super beneficial for me!!!!! I appreciate you SMM

[@AmyNaylorMusic]

Yessss, I'm glad you found it helpful 🙌

[@JonPerson]

Thanks so much for this, Amy! Meditative play is something I need to explore more. Despite there being an interesting mental state which can come from a song which requires _all_ concentration to play, this style is more aligned with actual meditation by far. Thanks again.

[@AmyNaylorMusic]

Yes, that all concentration kinda state is more like flow state. I'd like to explore that in another video sometime too! Thanks for the support Jon ☺️

[@TruthIsNot4Sale]

I found my teacher!😁👏👏

[@gra6649]

🎼Thanks Amy, you've expanded my universe.🙏 I remember that you suggested I play something very similar to this a couple of years ago. Selfless spontaneity, where the drum plays itself. Or at least something like that.

[@AmyNaylorMusic]

Drum plays itself, exactly! I feel like the best point, is when it feels like a 50/50 conversation between you and the instrument

[@gra6649]

@@AmyNaylorMusic 🎼 I know quite a few artists, and this is a common theme among them. They all have said at one time or another that when they're really in the groove they kind of just disappear. The guitar, the brush. the drum, the pencil, the writing all kind of takes care of it's self. When the art just happens, and the artist disappears. According to what my teachers have taught me, to disappear into whatever one is doing, this is Zen.🙏

[@DivineRaven]

In love with your music and videos. Thank you kindly for doing this.

[@AmyNaylorMusic]

Thanks Alex 🙌

[@hinaet7792]

Beautiful

[@0mgg677]

Perfect video! I started in my first yoga class with just the idea to play ding 3 notes ding 2 notes and a muted ding technique for Kapalaphati. The rest came automatically. I played things I never played before. ☀️

[@AmyNaylorMusic]

Amazing!

[@zaqwsx28]

I'm glad to see rav pan getting some use!

[@AmyNaylorMusic]

Yesss. Loving it more and more

[@YogaWithGail]

Love this!

[@johngrant3010]

Amy I just loved this as I am planning a meditation session with a good friend. What is the tuning of the RAV you are playing I liked it very much as well.

[@FabrizioStivanello]

Lovely lesson Amy! Thank you very much. Now I trying to practice a little every day and is good for prepare to intuitive play. So every video from you is like fresh air 😊. (Love the sound of your stainless steel handpan 😍 as always)

[@AmyNaylorMusic]

A little practice often is the best way 🙌 glad to hear you're always improving 😊

[@krolltheknight]

Solid vid.

[@wafigowong]

thank you Amy

[@AmyNaylorMusic]

Thank you 🙏 I'm glad you liked it

[@Rhythmbeatsmaker]

You're a legend for this

[@AmyNaylorMusic]

🙌🙏

[@norochmusic]

Great video, I definitely need to practice this more, just slow down yeah

[@AmyNaylorMusic]

Slow and steady... As the saying goes

[@gilesdhabalia8921]

Thank you once again, Amy! I'm sure it's no surprise this is 'music to my ears & heart...' :-)

[@AmyNaylorMusic]

Hehe, thanks Giles. Thought you'd like it!

[@gilesdhabalia8921]

@@AmyNaylorMusic I think it links really nicely to your video 'Handpan on the Veranda' - F Pygmy :-)

[@sandraseipold8559]

thanx so much Amie. i feel you make the Video for me. you are a so sweet Person. Big hug for you 😍

[@AmyNaylorMusic]

I did! 😝🙏 So glad you liked it, and thank you for the inspiration. I will definitely be exploring more meditative grooves in future play-along videos. Thank you for your support 💚

[@sandraseipold8559]

@@AmyNaylorMusic I feel Connectedness

[@sandraschmoeckel4957]

❤❤❤

[@Yoga.withLea]

Hi Amy can I ask what f pygmy this pan is please? Thank you 😊

[@susannagiove857]

Thank you for sharing. I am using meditative playing with my handpan and find it extremely relaxing You mentioned the scale of your handpan but not the scale of the rav Really love the tone of the rav Could you please share the scale Again thank you for all your helpful advice and tutorials

[@AmyNaylorMusic]

Thanks Susanna! Well spotted, I forgot to mention. It's a B Rus. Took me a few years to come to love it but now I'm really feeling it 🥰

[@sandraseipold8559]

i hope i see more paterns for meditativ playing (whith diads,triads) for example? you now? my english is not so good. thanx for you 😍

[@wickeddubz]

You have that hippie-ish vibe and remind me one of my teachers of English. Do you mind if i stay here for a while? I don’t have hang drum, but i have Rav Vast , it’s less percussive, but also nice for meditiation and zoning out

[@davidthompson9289]

I got a hand pan yesterday, a Lidah Dm (8) no Bb. when you're playing do you always orientate the drum the same or do swing it depending on the main chord in the piece.

[@AmyNaylorMusic]

I mostly just play in the same position, but it is possible to change around depending on what you want!

[@tonigonzalez610]

Hello. Thank so much for the videos. What is your handpanmaker,and your scale un this video? So sorry for muy english

[@AmyNaylorMusic]

In this video I use a RAV Vast, B rus scale. And the handpan I play here is from Meridian Handpans, F Low Pygmy Scale

[@handpanwithamour]

👏🏼👏🏼

[@carpenterfamily6198]

Which RAV is that ? Thank you 🙏

[@AmyNaylorMusic]

B Rus

[@gregoryschimanski7689]

Top

[@panostsimpakis7191]

💖💖💖💖

[@8thsinner]

I actually noticed there is a qi gong geometric flow in your movements in one of your videos I was watching last night or this morning. Which may explain when you're saying it just feels really nice. Because as each tone resonates up the body it's going to trigger and interfere with, energetically the meridian line that your using to tap because each finger has it's own connected organ and chakra base. Makes me wonder if you are trained in anything like tai chi or qi gong before, or yoga.?? Anyway, follow up question, pretending for a moment that I win the lottery or something, a small win so I can only get one handpan, I would be looking for 432 tuned only, but for the likes of meditation and healing, but maybe also capable of playing known songs (not many, because as a rule 90% of music hurts my autism so I generally don't like it) The one company I have looked up so far is oasis and they have their own healing based scales, though I really don't know anything about music, I like their larimar sound, from your perspective from any other companies but mostly what are the scales I should look at for my purposes mixing the capability of meditation and maybe some covers?

[@GPS379]

RAV tongue drum ?

[@dan.agostino_soundhealing]

✌️🎶💚

[@AmyNaylorMusic]

💚

[@hinkemiki]

I like "therapeutive" more

[@AmyNaylorMusic]

Mmm yes good call! I like that too

[@sandraseipold8559]

Atmen kann auch ein wichtiger Teil einer Meditation sein. Vielleicht weißt du einen guten Rhythmus dafür?

[@AmyNaylorMusic]

Maybe I will share some meditation specific Build a Beat videos 😊

[@sandraseipold8559]

oh sorry, its in german. i hope you can translate it.

[@jocelynem8025]

Sorry, Amy, but it goes too fast for me to see exactly how you play, which fingers, which notes… I would need slower demonstration to start with, so I feel a bit frustrated…

[@beyond_the_tequila_rift3194]

You do realize you can slow down the video so you could catch hand strikes patterns? That's how i do it for regular drumming, handpan, xxylophone, and Kalimba.

[@jocelynem8025]

@@beyond_the_tequila_rift3194 Thanks a lot, I did ´t know it was possible.

[@cyberinstinction]

1001😂

[@Tyler_Durden23]

Great technique but pity you talk too much

[@KarlSnell-k2j]

Dito

[@KarlSnell-k2j]

To you, not Amy

[@tundertimi69]

❤❤❤