Once again, Sunrise, one of twelve relaxing solo piano meditations from my album Arctic Aquarelles, will be featured on the popular meditation platform Insight Timer. Carefully selected by their team, Sunrise will feature for the next 24 hours on their app’s Music Featured List. With almost 50,000 spins to date, Sunrise captures the icy landscapes […]
Category: Meditation
Interview Musings with Kerani on OWMR Radio
During my recent visit to the Netherlands I had the pleasure to sit down with Kerani, host of radio program Musings with Kerani. In her program, Kerani allows musicians to express in their own words how the essence of their work connects with their listeners. Previous interviews hosted by her include Andreas Vollenweide and Eric […]
Lotus Dreams Hits 250K Spins
The title track Lotus Dreams, from the album with the same name, echoes the soaring harmonies of one’s imagination where the erhu — a bowed, two-stringed Chinese fiddle — sings its soulful song throughout. This week this track surpassed 250 K spins on the popular streaming platform soundcloud. Alternating between tender, sonorous, and stirring, this […]
A Thin Place
My latest single, entitled A Thin Place, is according to a New Age, Celtic belief, an invisible membrane that separates the conscious world from that of the spirit, where connections are made and spiritual awakening occurs. Through messages of respect and recognition, it shows us the larger world in which mind and spirit dwell, and […]
Taygete of the Pleiades
Located in the constellation of Taurus, Taygete is one of the famous Pleiads and the opening track of my album Pleiades, released this month. Taygete is one of the Seven Sisters of the Pleiades. In Greek mythology the Seven Sisters were Alcyone, Maia, Electra, Merope, Taygete, Celaeno, and Asterope, names now assigned to individual stars. Visible to the naked eye from as far north as […]
Pleiades – The Album Released
Throughout history, people from all corners of the globe have woven into their myths their fascination with the famous star cluster known as the Pleiades. The legends surrounding these stars have had an enormous influence on the human psyche and the collective awareness of our place in the cosmos. The Pleiades, also known as the […]
The Benefits of Balanced Breathing
This week, on NPR’s “Fresh Air”, I learned about a 20 year old study done by Italian researchers who gathered a group of subjects and had them recite the Ave Maria, the Catholic prayer cycle. Subsequently they had them recite the Buddhist prayer Om Mani Padme Hum. What they discovered was that it took about […]
Om Mani Padme Hum
Christel Veraart’s perception of the famous mantra Om Mani Padme Hum as a guardian spirit that soars above our world, extending thus her blessing. A brush between her personal Western musical roots, and the ancient invocations revealed to Hindu sages in the deepest states of their meditation. Om Mani Padme Hum, according to Tibetan culture, is said […]
Mirror of Love
I operate from a quiet place, a place where stories are born and voices are heard in the silence of my thoughts, and share with Ken, a transformative mediator I met years ago in Mexico, the more introspective sides of life. Mirror of Love is one of a series of meditations by Ken Macfarlane, that […]
Branches, a Homage to Nature
Branches is a sound-memory that evolved out of a drive years ago down the Bolivian Andes, down a treacherous road often referred to as the “death road”. Branches is based on Wagner’s “Im Treibhaus”, one of many melodies that pop up into my mind in different places of the world. Like confluences of landscape and […]