Know Your Rhythm
Know Your Rhythm (KYR) offers its services via an international network of artists, researchers and therapists.
contact: arnabninad[at]gmail.com, whatsapp/call +91 98940 29256
We have Engaged over 25,000 'care givers' of society including
managers, professors, administrators, youth, teachers & students, medical practitioners with their patients, therapists, special educators at conferences and workshops in India, Austria, France, Belgium, Russia, Thailand, USA, China
Presented at SYTAR 2022 (Symposium on Yoga Therapy and Research, USA);
6th Conference of International Association for Music and Medicine (IAMM) at Berkelee Music & Health Institute, Boston (2020); 18th Dialogues on Humanity, Metropolis of Lyon, Govt. of France (2018); 14th World Congress for Music Therapy, Vienna, World Federation for Music Therapy (2014)
Published over 25 papers, case studies, chapters, articles with
Springer Nature,
The British Journal of General Practice Life , MIT Technology Review,
International Journal of
Pharma and Bio Sciences,
International Journal of Yoga - Philosophy, Psychology and Parapsychology,
Yoga Therapy Today,
WONCA (World Organisation for Family Doctors) newsletter,
NAMAH Journal,
Open Yoga Journal (Moscow)
INHS Asvini Calling 2024
Arnab is 2021 SEVA Award recipient from International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT) for stress management program for Covid healthcare workers across India.
Serves as Senior Researcher at Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, Pondicherry for the past 2 decades;
as member of the board of directors at International Association for Music & Medicine (IAMM)
served at faculty at Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education,
Auroville-based Sustainable Livelihood Institute, a joint venture between
Govt. of Tamil Nadu (India) & Auroville
served as member at International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT), MIT Media Lab's 'Music, Mind and Machine Group'
He traces his musical lineage to Baba Allaudin Khan, master-teacher of Pandit Ravi Shankar, sitar maestro, and Pandit Rabin Ghosh, violin maestro, who was Arnab's grand-uncle.
Tone of Mind: Music and Mental Health: theme song co-created with key members of the global multi-year
'Tone of Mind' project where we explore the symbiotic relationship between Music and Mental Health,
under WONCA's Mental Health division.
WONCA (World Organization of Family Doctors),
with over 600,000 General Practitioners (GPs) is the world's largest association of its kind.
WONCA works closely with WHO in the area of primary care.
4 project holders from Global South: Brazil, India, South Africa, Australia;
will share their artistic, cultural, therapeutic, research, educational journeys. Know Your Rhythm represents India.
Our paper published by
The British Journal of General Practice Life , supported by
Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), London. We will premiere our documentary film at WONCA World Conference 2025
at Congress Centre, Lisbon in September 2025.
Divya Shakti (Divine Power): film of our Nritya Yoga (Indian ballet) performance at
Amphitheatre, Matrimandir, Auroville, 25th February, 2025, celebrating the birthdays of The Mother and Auroville.
script & music composition by Arnab; choreography by Madhumita Patnaik, Devasmita Patnaik, Anurekha Jhunjhunwala, Sonali Das;
co-created with 50 artists from Europe, Russia, USA, Sri Aurobindo Ashram and Auroville. Trailer
Shanti Mantra- dedicated to peace and well-being celebrating 10th International Yoga Day,
closing mantra for Common Yoga Protocol, Ministry of Ayush, Govt. of India
released during the scientific presentation on Know Your Rhythm at the national seminar 'Harmonious Healing: Integrating Music and Yoga Therapy for Wellbeing',
organised by Advanced Center for Yoga Therapy Education & Research (ACYTER), Department of Physiology,
JIPMER (Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research),
an institution of National Importance, under Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Govt. of India.
JIPMER is one of the top 5 medical institutions in India
Seva award winner for 2021 - honoured to receive from
International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT)
for Project Susthiti, our online healing program blending Yoga Therapy and Music Therapy for Covid healthcare workers.
oral paper presented at 5th Medicine Annual Conference Virtual 2020, Department of Medicine, Christian Medical College (CMC),
Vellore, India, one the top 5 medical institutions in India.
Koham-Soham (Who am I? I am That): our
meditative film inspired by Sri Aurobindo's poem 'Who',
released for Sri Aurobindo's 150th birth anniversary and India's 75th Independence Day on August 15th 2022.
Our film trailer was part of program
led by Indian Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi ji during the launch of Sri Aurobindo's commemorative coin and stamp, 13th December 2022.
Playlist: Prelude - Alaap, Part 1: Multiplicity, Part 2: Attributes, Part 3: Enlightenment
AUM TAT SAT (All That is Truth): film of our Nritya Yoga (Indian ballet) performance at
Amphitheatre, Matrimandir, Auroville, 30th August,2023.
script & music composition by Arnab; choreography by Madhumita Patnaik, Devasmita Patnaik, Grace Gitadelila;
co-created with 50 artists from Europe, Russia, USA, Sri Aurobindo Ashram and Auroville.
Trailer
presented at 'International festival on Indian Dance' (October 2024) organised by Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy of Music, Dance and
Drama, under Ministry of Culture, Delhi via a paper by Arnab titled
'Embodiment of AUM TAT SAT, the Mantra evoking the Supreme Absolute Truth with Nritya and allied art forms,
in the Light of Sri Aurobindo’
The magic harp of Leela the fairy -
music excerpt from our musical tale on love and transformation created for children with special needs and orphans, premiered at Rachmaninoff hall, Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Moscow, under Russian Ministry of Culture, December 13th, 2021.
Vuvu - the wizard of thunderstorm gets transformed into gentle rain by Leela the fairy. Our story was narrated by senior Russian actor Mr.Petr Tararizky.
Our composition explores the healing properties of Indian classical Ragas (melodic modes) in orchestral form. Our program was reviewed by Karusel TV, a Russian channel dedicated to children and youth.
In March 2024, ‘The magic harp of Leela the fairy’ won the 1st prize for original orchestral composition from Pushkin Hall of Culture, city govt. of Saint Petersburg with special mention of ‘blending of Indian and Russian cultures’.
Playing with Sunlight - Re-imagining our world beyond Covid, solo piano composition dedicated
to all the Covid healthcare workers across the world,
released on National Doctor's Day, July 1st, 2021; premiered at SYTAR 2021 (Symposium on Yoga Therapy and Research, USA)
'Spandan' (Cosmic Pulsation) - live composition-performance as final artist of the opening ceremony
Spandan evokes Empathy via a recurring theme based on Raga Kafi (piano, tabla, orchestral) for a live 1,500 member audience from 40 countries, with Mr.Wolfgang Sobotka, former Minister of the Interior and music conductor, Austria, as chief guest.
at 14th World Congress for Music Therapy, co-hosted by
University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna and
IMC University of Applied Sciences, Krems
with support from Govt. of Austria, July 2014. This program was live broadcast by ORF TV, Austria's leading public broadcaster.
'Know Your Rhythm' was among the 8 training programmes selected by
World Federation for Music Therapy (WFMT) to be presented as a full day Pre-Congress Seminar with CME accreditation.
‘Ta Na Na’ - a musical phonetics-based song
with 10 special educators with their 60 students with special needs, Special School, CERTH-India Hospital, Pondicherry
presented as participative therapy at
the 4th International Conference of International Association for Music and Medicine (IAMM), Beijing, June 2016, as part of our paper presentation; based on a 2 year Know Your Rhythm training program
On the occasion of Gita Jayanti, 18th December 2018, Dakshina Chanting group chanted the Gita in full i.e. 700 verses across 18 chapters across 3,5 hours at Savitri Bhavan, Auroville. Presenting a few shlokas from Chapter 11: Vishwarupa Darshan Yogah or The Yoga of the Vision of the World-Spirit. This training began with Know Your Rhythm in early 2017 with Dakshina Chanting group, Auroville. Submitted to Indian Ministry of Education.
L'aurore s'allume - poetry-music composition,
with from the opening stanzas of the iconic poem of Victor Hugo
at 18th Dialogues en humanité (Dialogues on Humanity conference) on 6th July 2018 at the Parc
de la Tête d'or, Lyon, France, organised by the Metropolis of Lyon, Govt. of France, with Mr.Jean-Marc Ayrault, former Prime Minister of France, as chief guest.
Dialogues en humanité emerged out the 2nd Earth Summit (2002).
'My Forest has a Face'- a short film on Auroville's Pitchandikulam forest shown at United Nations Forum on Forests (New York, 2013) and 3rd International Water Symposium (Tamera, Portugal, 2013).
'A God's Labour'-
theatrical presentation in 5 movements, centered on 'A God's Labour', a poem on spiritual transformation by Sri Aurobindo written in 1935-36.
Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (SAICE) celebrated its 71st anniversary on 1st December 2014. Venue: Sri Aurobindo Ashram Theatre, Pondicherry, India.