Elecha Yah Ekra

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.

To hear the chant, use the audio player. To download the chant, right-click the note and save (or download) the linked MP3 file.

• Expanding Inner Space  

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

The Magic of Hebrew Chant ©2013 Shefa Gold. All rights reserved.

Elohim y’chaneynu vivarchaynu ya-er panav itanu Selah

God grace us, bless us, may Its light shine among us, Selah (from Psalm 67)

This practice can be used for protection, clearing, and for strengthening the energy field

1st Phase: visualization and energy patterning

1. Find a point of light deep in your belly and bring it up through the body, out the top of your head till it’s about a foot above your head.
2. Weave an egg of light clockwise from the point above your head down the body till you reach a point at the bottom of the egg about a foot below your feet.
3. Pull that point of light up through your perineum back to the beginning point in your belly.
4. Connect the point in your belly to a point within your heart.
5. Radiate out from the heart, filling the entire egg with a white/golden light.
6. End by rooting your attention back in the belly.

2nd Phase: visualization, energy patterning and breath concentration

1. Find a point of light deep in your belly and bring it up through the body, out the top of your head till it’s about a foot above your head. ON THE INHALATION
2. 2. Weave an egg of light clockwise from the point above your head down the body till you reach a point at the bottom of the egg about a foot below your feet. ON THE EXHALATION
3. Pull that point of light up through your perineum back to the beginning point in your belly. ON A PARTIAL INHALATION
4. Connect the point in your belly to a point within your heart. CONTINUE THE INHALATION
5. Radiate out from the heart, filling the entire egg with a white/golden light. BREATHING IN AND OUT FROM THE HEART
6. End by directing the breath into the belly.

3rd Phase: chant, visualization and energy patterning

1. Find a point of light deep in your belly and bring it up through the body, out the top of your head till it’s about a foot above your head. ELOHIM
2. Weave an egg of light clockwise from the point above your head down the body till you reach a point at the bottom of the egg about a foot below your feet. Y’CHANEINU
3. Pull that point of light up through your perineum back to the beginning point in your belly. VIVARCHEY
4. Connect the point in your belly to a point within your heart. NU
5. Radiate out from the heart, filling the entire egg with a white/golden light. YA-ER PANAV ITANU
6. End by rooting your attention back in the belly on the word SELAH.

4th Phase – Chant silently with Breath Concentration

To hear the chant, use the audio player. To download the chant, right-click the note and save (or download) the linked MP3 file.

• EFR Practice  

For the musical notation, see The Magic of Hebrew Chant, page 272.

The Magic of Hebrew Chant ©2013 Shefa Gold. All rights reserved.