DOCTOR ARUNA MEHTA AYRUVEDIC OBGYN,

DOCTOR ARUNA MEHTA   AYRUVEDIC OBGYN,

 LINDA  MARY  MONTANO WRITES:  I MET DOCTOR ARUNA MEHTA AND HER HUSBAND DOCTOR A.L.MEHTA, BOTH AYURVEDIC DOCTORS IN MONROE NY, 1991, AT THE ASHRAM OF MY GURU, SHRI BRAHMANANDA SARASWATI. FOR THE NEXT 20 YEARS I WAS INCLUDED IN THE FAMILY LIFE OF THE MEHTAS WHERE I WAS INTRODUCED TO THIER JAIN CULTURE AND DEEP SPIRITUAL  WISDOM. DOCTOR ARUNA MEHTA, MATAJI , WAS A PRACTICING  OBGYN PHYSICIAN PRACTICING OBSTETRICS  FOR 30 YEARS IN INDIA,  AND ATTENDED AT THE  BIRTHS OF 2000 INFANTS. DURING  THE TIME I KNEW HER, I WAS AMAZED BY HER BEAUTIFUL WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT, LOVE, INNER JOY, AND I SHARE THEM NOW WITH YOU THANKS TO VIDEO EDITOR, TOBE CAREY’S SKILL AND ABILITY TO BRING HER MESSAGE TO LIFE VIA AI. MAY DOCTOR ARUNA MEHTA’S MESSAGES, CONTINUE TO BRING A REBIRTH OF LOVE TO ALL.

EXPLORING AND PERFORMING THE SEVEN CHAKRAS. Linda Mary Montano.

 EXPLORING AND PERFORMING THE SEVEN CHAKRAS.  Linda Mary Montano.                                             

 This performance workshop is inspired by Shri Brahmananda Saraswati’s teachings of the Seven Chakras. We will perform:

1.Via Guruji’s  Chakra Chant.         

 

 2. Via performance art prompts.       

 

 3. Via movements for each Chakra.    

 

4. Via sounding the Chakras.             

 

  5. Via writing exercises.                      

 

 6. Via exploring the challenges of each Chakra.                                         

 

  7. Via sharing personal Chakra past experiences.                                            

 

  This will be an opportunity to experience a performative  inner Chakra frequency in the beautiful healing atmosphere of ANANDA ASHRAM. Please bring about 7 sheets of recycled paper for writing, a pen or pencil, a  beautiful piece of cloth or scarf, a fake flower( optional) and if you wish attend the workshop dressed in your favorite CHAKRA COLOR CLOTHES .                              

 

  REFERENCES:         FUNDAMENTALS OF YOGA: DR. R. S. MISHRA.                                                THE TEXTBOOK OF YOGA PSYCHOLOGY : DR. R.S.MISHRA.      EASTERN BODY WESTERN MIND : JUDITH.                                                   YOUTUBE:  THE 7 CHAKRAS: CHAKRAPHONICS, LINDA MARY MONTANO.                                            14 YEARS OF LIVING ART: LINDA MARY MONTANO.  AMAZON.                          

 Bio: Linda Mary Montano is a performance artist and student of Shri Brahmananda Saraswati.

DOCTOR ARUNA MEHTA'S AYRUVEDIC HERBS FOR CHILDBIRTH

DOCTOR ARUNA MEHTA AYRUVEDIC MEDICINES FOR CHILDBIRTH  

                                    ONE DAY I ASKED MATAJI, WHAT HERBS DID YOU USE IN YOUR OBGYN PRACTICE? THESE ARE THE ONES SHE TAUGHT ME:             1. DASMULARIST:  “ Boil and make liquid. For uterus problems, fallopian tube pain, after baby born take 10 days. 2. ASOKARIST: too much bleeding during period. When not regular. Take this.   3. KUMARYASAVA: stomach ache, gas,  abdomen.  4. CHANDRAPRAVATI: General tonic, good for uterus, good for healthy baby when pregnant.  5. PATYADYUNGALA: stomach pain, tablet, general tonic, clear urine.   6. TRIPHALA GUGGULU:  General tonic. 7. DAS MULAQUAT: everyday. Boil. Herb powder. Tea of 10 herbs, uterus. Discharge. Tube swelling. 8. GODANTI. BHASMA: calcium, given during pregnancy.  9. LOHA BHASMA: iron given during pregnancy for anemia. 10.VANSHLOCHAN: calcium given during pregnancy. 11. DRAKSHASAVA: General tonic given during pregnancy. 12. MANDUR. BHASMA: iron given during pregnancy.

LINDA AND ROBERT AS DOCTORS FOR JANUARY 1, 2025

 LINDA AND ROBERT AS DOCTORS:                                                                                                     HELLO FRIENDS. MY NAME IS DOCTOR JANE GOODING. HELLO, MY NAME IS DOCTOR.ROBERT LANGTON.. WE ARE BOTH HEALING SOUND DOCTORS. TONIGHT WE ASK FOR YOUR SONIC COLLABORATION SO WE CAN MAKE SOUND HEALING MEDICINE TOGETHER. LETS REHEARSE? CAN WE ALL MAKE LAUGHTER SOUNDS TOGETHER? 1,2,3GO.NOW MOANING SOUNDS?1,2,3,GO. CRYING SOUNDS?1,2,3,GO. JOYFUL SOUNDS?1,2,3,GO. ANIMAL SOUNDS? 1,2,3,GO. NOW WHAT DO YOU WANT TO HEAL WITH SOUNDS? MAKE SOUNDS AND  HEAL YOURSELF AND THE PLANET UNTIL THE BELL RINGS 1,2,3,GO.         Linda Mary Montano. & Robert Langdon. & Susan Quasha 2024

THANKSGIVING MEAL. 2024

 

   

                                THANKSGIVING MEAL    2024

Dreaming the night before seemed to foreshadow the next day, that is in the dream I was in the backseat of a moving car with family and we needed to turn back to get forgotten food. Should have listened because although next day in real time, in non-dream time  going over the river and driving warily through the woods in a semi dangerous snowstorm to our destination was fraught with slippery road travel concern but felt Christmassy and  festive, the real meat of the story began when we reached the ancient Alps-like mountain”manor.” That was where we were to Celebrate Thanksgiving. Okay so far so good, the outside of the large building looked inviting enough but golly gee the real fun began when we opened the door! Was it the musty carpet? Sensitive to smell, the combo of musty Carpet and ancient furniture and BURNT FOOD set the scene for a no-win experience! Suffice it to say it warranted  to not be an opportunity to relax with family in a comforting, nurturing home away from home but was more like entering a desolate/dangerous/ movie set from the 40’s. OK hold on Linda, and wait a little before quick judgments  completely suppress your holiday spirit! But no, it got worse! The “ door greeter” in her late 70’s seemed miffed to see me or was it us? Is it my deep and deeper wrinkled 82 year old face that frightened her out of good cheer? Or is this comment about her and about ME my chance to practice ageism, sexism and mean spiritedness! Calm down. It’s just that I didn’t feel welcomed or welcome! Then sin number three, the room that smelled like burnt food was cold as hell frozen over and even though the man from another table asked if they could turn the heat on, it never happened! I kept hearing the words in my fertile subconscious : “NURSING HOME, JAIL, NURSING HOME. Linda this is a rehearsal for a NURSING HOME FROM HELL!” OK, OK let’s give this shit show a chance? The beer was really drinkable and granted  a modicum of mercy and forgiveness , so it seemed like this RAY OF HOPE made it safe for us to metaphorically bundle up so as to be warm enough to face the gauntlet of metal trays offering burnt food. Three or four larger than life unhappy women servers in their 30’s offered no social prompts for us to celebrate life or the holiday with them. Dear Heaven I couldn’t even feign hunger or desire .And I’m a performance artist! Their message was, this is not about joy! Just eat the stuff and pack on the pounds like us. They were truly  unenthusiastic about their vocation as FOOD CHEERLEADERS  and for good reason: their daily scenario when the manor was open for customers was: the musty room, the burnt food ,being uninspired by the matron greeter( probably owner)and their job of filling up the trays with more “awful” after guests slinked back to their tables having not suddenly lost their appetites! But STOP! Linda, TALK WITH THEM ! Dissolve the wall! Do Tonglen! Find: where is the miracle here? The deus ex machina?THE FORGIVENESS? Where is THE MYSTICAL BODY OF CHRIST? The gratitude?  It’s Thanksgiving! OK let’s try this? The planet still turns on it’s axis and we don’t fall off! Water stays in swimming pools! Members of our families have survived the unsurvivable! And here we are!!! Hip Hip Hooray!  And we ( I am) are walking new testaments reflecting back to our  wacky, scary, dangerous, gut wrenching, fear-making world what it looks like to survive the same unsurvivable! Bring on the BURNED MASHED POTATOES!!!

Linda Mary Montano.  Saugerties NY. 2024

POST ELECTION SOUNDARAMA AT CURIOUS 2024.



POST ELECTION SOUNDARAMA AT CURIOUS 2024.                                 1.  INTRODUCTION.GRATITUDE TO ALANNA MEDLOCK & HER NEW SPACE CURIOUS. GRATITUDE TO PAULINE OLIVEROS & HER SONIC MEDITATIONS. GRATITUDE TO LAUGHTER YOGA AND GRATITUDE TO SOUND ITSELF BECAUSE HEARING OUR SOUNDS OUTLOUD IS HEALING AND HELPING . SOUNDS HELP US   WHEN THERE ARE EITHER TOO MANY CONFLICTING AND FRIGTENING WORDS IN OUR HEADS OR WHEN NO WORDS AT ALL ARE AVAILABLE THAT ARE STRONG ENOUGH TO HOLD OUR FEELINGS. IN CONCLUSION , MOST OF THE EXPERIENCES  WILL BE TIMED BY ALANNA FOR 3 MINUTES. SHE WILL RING A BELL. STAND STILL AFTER EACH SOUND EXPERIENCE AND FEEL THE ENERGY.                                                  2.  FIRST EXPERIENCE:  SHAKE BODY AND SOUND 3 MINUTES.       3. MAKE A WRATHFUL DEITY FACE AND SOUND . MOVE AROUND AND SHARE SOUND AND MOVEMENT. 3 MINUTES.                   4. PASS OR THROW THE  BALL AROUND AS YOU MAKE A  SOUND  3 MINUTES.                                               5. ONE BY ONE, STAND ON THE RISER-BOX AND SAY YOUR NAME/ SAY A SHORT POST ELECTION CONCERN/ CREATE A MOVEMENT AND SOUND THAT EXPRESSES YOUR CONCERN . AND THEN EVERYONE REPEATS WHAT YOU SAID BY SAYING YOUR NAME/ CONCERN/ MOVEMENT AND SOUND ONE BY ONE.                          6.  MOVE AROUND THE ROOM REPEATING YOUR SOUND AND MOVEMENT.  IF YOU LIKE SOMEONE ELSES SOUND AND MOVEMENT BETTER THAN YOURS, THEN IMITATE THEIRS.       3 MINUTES.                                              7. CHICKEN. DANCE  : A GROUP CELEBRATION  OF LIFE                      8. INNER/ OUTER PEACE LULLABY. HOLD YOUR INNER CHILD IN YOUR ARMS AND SING, COO, HUM TO YOUR CHILD SELF.   BE PEACE.   LINDA MARY MONTANO. 2024. NOVEMBER                                                        

WHY I AM A PERFORMANCE ARTIST

 WHY I AM A PERFORMANCE ARTIST

I GET IN TOUCH WITH MY ANCESTORS AND THEIR SIMILAR GIFTS TO MINE

I CONTINUE THE AESTHETIC GIFTS OF MY PARENTS

I CREATE SELF IMPOSED EXTRAORDINARY EXPERIENCES

I PRACTICE ENDURANCE AND ENDURANCE GRANTS ME BRAVERY FOR LIFE

I DUPLICATE JESUS'S TEACHINGS

I PRACTICE FRIGHTENING THINGS SO I CAN PREPARE FOR THE FEAR OF DYING

I DUPLICATE SOME OF THE ACTIVITIES I LEARNED WHILE IN THE CONVENT

I GIVE MYSELF ASSIGNMENTS LIKE HOW CAN I LEARN TO LOVE

I DUPLICATE THE SCULPTURES FOUND IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AS ART

I HONOR MY OUTSIDER GRANDMOTHERS WILD FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION

I SING AND PLAY INSTRUMENTS LIKE MY MUSICIAN PARENTS

I ACT WITH DEDICATION AND ENDURANCE LIKE MY FATHER AND MOTHER

I MAKE BELIEVE I ABLE TO HEAL MYSELF WITH ART JUST AS MY MOTHER HAD

I NATURALLY DUPLICATE SOME MAGICAL RITUALS THAT ARE SHAMANISTIC

I GIVE MYSELF PERMISSION TO BE ART NOT JUST TO DO IT

I ACT LIKE AN UNSCHOOLED CHILD AND CALL THAT ART

I USE MY MANY TRAUMAS AS SECRET MATERIAL FOR MY PERFORMANCES

I FLY OUT OF MY LEARNED PERSONALITY BY DESIGNING MY OWN ACTIONS

I SCULPT MYSELF  AND PERFORM AS A DUPLICATED CATHOLIC CHURCH STATUE

I USE MY SINS AND NEUROSIS AS MATERIAL FOR MY ART

I CURE MYSELF OF ANOREXIA VIA A VIDEO CONFESSION

I GROW CONFIDENT FROM THE APPLAUSE AND APPRECIATION OF MY AUDIENCES

I LEARN HOW TO MOURN AS ART

I LEARN HOW TO SPEAK AS ART

I LEARN HOW TO LOVE AS ART

I MEDICATE MYSELF WITH ENDURANCES

I DUPLICATE THE CATHOLIC CHURCH'S RITE OF CONFESSION AS ART

I INCLUDE LIVE CHICKENS IN MY ART 

I INCLUDE CHICKENS IN MY ART  AND CALL THEM ME 

I FACE FEAR AS ART AS A REHEARSAL FOR THE TRIALS OF LIFE FEARS

I ASK AUDIENCES TO JOIN ME IN ACTIONS AND NOT JUST BE OBSERVERS

I LEARN ABOUT MY SUBCONSCIOUS DARKNESS VIA PLAY

I BECOME A PRIEST IN MY OWN SELF DESIGNED RELIGION

I RESOLVE SUBCONSCIOUS MONSTERS

I SEE MY LIFE AS A SYMBOLIC PLAY

I CONTRIBUTE TO THE REINTERPRETATION OF PATRIARCHIAL READING OF ART HISTORY

I GIVE UP MY PERSONALSELF LIES BY BECOMING OTHER PERSONAS

I DISSASOCIATE CREATIVELY

I EVOLVE FROM TAUGHT BELIEF TO SELF DETERMINATION

I USE ART TO EXPLORE THE CONCEPT OF EMPTINESS

I EMBRACE TERROR 

I REALIZE THE NEED FOR EMPTINESS AND KNOW THAT MY WORK WILL GIVE THAT TO ME

I AM NOT EMBARASSED BY BEING DIFFERENT

I CLEAR MY TRAUMA AND KARMA

I SELF HYPTOMIZE MYSELF

I GIVE OTHERS PERMISSION FOR THEM TO FACE THEIR FEARS SAFELY

I BECOME MY OWN UNPAID TEACHER

I LIVE SIMPLY AND WITH HARDLY ANY FINANCIAL SUPPORT FROM MY ART

I FEEL CONFIDENT IN MY OWN INTUITIVE METHODOLOGY

I BEFRIEND TERROR

I PUBLICALLY DEMONSTRATE FIGHT-FLIGHT

I PUBLICALLY TURN FEAR AND TERROR INTO PLAY AND RELEASED ENERGY

I RENAME AND REDO MY PERSONAL TERRIBLE NARRATIVE AS PERFORMANCE

I CREATE SELF IMPOSED DIFFICULTIES TO HELP ME FACE LIFE CHALLENGES

I REFRAME TIME ACCORDING TO MY OWN NEEDS AND THERBY DO AWAY WITH TIME

I BECOME MY OWN HEALER, BOSS AND SHAMAN

I WANTED TO BE A SAINT AS A CHILD AND ART ALLOWS ME TO BE ONE

I ALLOW MYSLEF TO BE MESSY AND WRONG AS ART IN PUBLIC

I CONTINUE TO ADMIT MY GUILT, SHAME AND LIFE SINS

I CONFESS MY ADDICTION TO SUFFERING AND BY SO DOING IT RETREATS

I HOPE VIEWERS CAN HEAL AS I PERFORM AS THEIR SCAPEGOAT

I DIE AS ART AND THIS PRACTICE PREPARES ME FOR MY FINAL DEATH

I AM AN ARTIST: LIFE IS NOW MY ART

I AM AN ARTIST: SELF SAINTHOOD IS GUARNATEED

LINDA MARY MONTANO 2024, SAUGERTIES NY