Rhea Mehta: "Bright Light"
Health and wellness advocate, Dr. Rhea Mehta, announces her upcoming EP Soul Ceremony, which will debut in early 2022. Her first single Bright Light (Gayatri Mantra mix) was released on 3 October 2021. The EP was produced and composed by award-winning John Capek of Nashville, TN and blends her Indian spiritual mantra tradition with western contemporary rhythm to bring forth a harmonious east meets west dynamic.
Rhea Mehta, PhD is a health and wellness advocate, molecular toxicologist, and singer who is on a journey to share mantra magic from her South Asian lineage with the world. Mantras have always been central to Dr. Mehta’s journey, from helping her fall asleep as a child to calming her adult mind. It is now her mission to bring these ancient tools to the modern world as we go through a collective time of healing.
Mantras are melodic words, phrases, or sounds that originate in one of the oldest spiritual bodies of wisdom, known as the Vedas. In South Asia and across the world, they are uttered and revered as magic spells with spiritual significance. Dr. Mehta’s first single features the Gayatri Mantra, which is considered one of the most important and powerful Vedic mantras. Historically it has been recited by everyday people of India in their homes, as the sun rises or sets, for purposes of purification and divine guidance.
People have a deep connection to this mantra, as it is one I recited before bed with my parents every single night until I left for University at the age of 17. Since then, I have been using it sporadically to heal my ruminating mind, and as part of my meditation practice, Rhea Mehta elaborates. People consciously reconnected with the mantra at a yoga sound ceremony training in Guatemala in early 2019. There it was melodically shared with us, but through a western lens with poor pronunciation, which I did not resonate with. I felt it lost connection to the essence of the mantra.
Bright Light is available on all streaming platforms since 3 October 2021 in celebration of Global Smoothie Day, a playful, plant-based wellness movement founded by Rhea Mehta.
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