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A Guide for Musicians and Non-Musicians

The only book available to help you play the magical Sansula! This book takes many different approaches to teach you about music with the help of the Sansula. 96 pages, CD included,

 This new innovative book takes several different approaches:

• guided improvisations - like guided meditations, but you play music with them.
• chords - the building blocks of songs and melodies.
• chord progressions - including backing tracks to help you improvise on your Sansula.
• Sansula tablature - helps you learn precise phrases or songs, but this section also teaches you general methods to help you create your own music.
• other tunings - we provide some tablature and chord dictionaries for the standard tuning and three alternative tunings, including Beautiful A, Heavenly E, and Morocco E.
• other resources - we provide links to more Sansula information.

Size: 21 x 28 cm, Paperback 96 Pages. CD 72 mins.

Liquid Mind series composer Chuck Wild has crafted another deeply relaxing album to help children and the 70 million adults with bedtime challenges find their way to a peaceful night’s sleep.

One of our all-time favourite tracks from the Liquid Mind catalogue is titled Lullaby For Grownups (on Liquid Mind III: Balance). Expanding on this theme, along with building on the popularity of the Sleep album.

This collection of Karunesh favourites is the perfect music to set the tone and enhance your own sacred collection time. Whether that be the doing of, as in yoga, or the receiving of, as in massage, blissful is how you will feel.

An intimate hour of music to help release accumulated stress, encourage the flow of good chi and guide the hands of the practicioner. Tibetan bowls, soft flutes and exotic Asian instrumentation.

The Mirror is Lucinda's first originals album since Bliss. Truly a writer and singer at the top of her game. there is an emotional maturity in the work not heard before. Even more truth and a joy shining through that is uplifting and fun.

Lucinda at the top of her game both as a songwriter and singer. If you really appreciate music that has a depth and unfolds with each new listen then this is for you. Songs like Poor Pride have a raw passion unheard in the Bliss era and Sit Right here, a song about stillness show Lucinda's lighter side. The joy will make you smile. A gorgeous album for the car  and the kitchen, for crying to and dancing to!

Trance Wave One is the first of three albums about the stages of Trance. The subject of this album is “Light Trance” as an entrance into the 'World of Trance'.

Further albums will widen and deepen the aspects of Trance into the essential levels of the self.

All three CD's were tested for several years in co-operation with therapists who work in the field of trance-induction, that were slightly changed for individual use.

Trance Wave One has its focus on a sphere, which is commonly known as alpha-wave space. This results in a mostly unnoticed re-tuning of mind and emotions, which are experienced as a general relaxation.

Talisman celebrates the twenty-fifth anniversary of R. Carlos Nakai's first release, Changes, and returns to the pure, haunting sound of the Native American flute unaccompanied by other instruments. Talisman is a continuous soundscape as Nakai alternates songs for one flute and songs for two flutes in a rich tapestry of music so soothing, it unwrinkles mind and soul...

The debut recording from a channeller, who has connected with her healing powers and wisdom. The listener can sense the ancient female divine power embodied by the goddess Isis.

Natural chants, chandelled from the divine are combined with keyboard nuances and percussion to create a meditative rhythm. Nhanda Devi uses her Goddess like voice more melodic and evocative than on her a capella CD 'Chants from ISIS'. The moods of the heavens are carried on these compositions. Get connected with the female ancient divine. A 'New Age Voice Award' finalist in the USA.

This beautiful recording creates a soothing sonic environment for deep relaxation and chakra healing. It features Jonathan Goldman’s extraordinary Chakra Chanting blended with the gorgeous sounds of over 20 different harmonically tuned Quartz Crystal Bowls. The vocal chants and bowls calm and relax, attuning listeners to powerful energies of transformation. This CD is excellent for healing, meditation, and energy work.
 

In response to the many requests received over the years, this long awaited album - capturing the magic of Deva Premal & Miten IN CONCERT - released on June 2, 2009.

Deva, Miten, and Manose have been touring together constantly for the past 4 years, during which time their concerts have gained a reputation for spiritual rejuvenation, high celebration and deep meditation, steeped in the richness of Sanskrit mantra. In 2008, they delighted an audience of over 40,000 in over 22 countries visited.

This double CD/DVD digi-pak captures the spirit of the trio’s live experience exquisitely, recorded in their ‘home town’ of Byron Bay Australia. It contains many of their most inspirational mantras and songs, and 6 previously unrecorded, brand new pieces.

The CD features the haunting, uplifting new anthem In The Light Of Love/Om Shree Dhanvantre Namaha, while the 2 hour BONUS DVD captures the magic of the evening, along with personal interviews and extras.

The eagerly anticipated follow-up to Ashana's highly acclaimed debut CD, "All Is Forgiven," "Beloved" is a love song to the heart. Tender, joyful, gentle, and breathtakingly beautiful, the music of "Beloved" is a healing balm for the soul that will lift your spirit and carry you on waves of love into the arms of the Divine.

Featuring Ashana's stunning angelic vocals and the luminous sound of crystal singing bowls, the songs on "Beloved" reflect a deep sense of compassion, vulnerability and lyrical sensitivity. Heard on this album is one of the most hauntingly beautiful interpretations of the Lord's Prayer, sung in the original Aramaic, ever to be recorded and an exquisite rendition of the Gaelic prayer, "Deep Peace".

Co-written, produced and arranged by Thomas Barquee, "Beloved" blends sacred song, chant, mantra and crystal singing bowls into a musical prayer for the heart, inviting you to step into grace and be bathed in pure love.  

"Jewels of Silence" is meditation music unlike any you have ever heard,

This extraordinary CD, when played during bodywork, prayer, meditation or before sleeping, quiets the mind and gently carries you into a state of deep rest and relaxation ... to the very centre of stillness within your being.

Divinely inspired, transcendent music for healing, meditation, and deep relaxation, "Jewels of Silence" is an incomparably beautiful recording of great depth and exquisite sensitivity. Perfect music for the journey within ... for prayer, yoga, reiki, bodywork and rest, "Jewels of Silence" features Ashana's angelic vocal improvisations, crystal bowl playing and the vocal and keyboard artistry of Thomas Barquee, accompanied by bansoori flute, esraj and santoor.

With each successive track, the listener floats into deeper and deeper states of profound relaxation. The exquisite music, accompanied by the constant droning of the crystal bowls, shifts brainwave patterns almost immediately into alpha, theta or delta states, quieting the mind and supporting meditation, rest and dreaming.

Experience the healing sounds of this divine music …

- to deepen your prayer and meditation practices
- as an accompaniment to yoga, massage, bodywork and alternative healing modalities
- to relieve insomnia and sleep disorders
- to relieve anxiety, fear, stress, worry and depression
- during pre- and post-surgical experiences
- to heighten creativity and inspiration

After spending 2 years touring and writing new music, Snatam Kaur releases Liberation’s Door, an album written and recorded as she experienced the magical creativity of her first pregnancy.  This album builds on the fluid, soaring music that Snatam is known for, but raises it to a new level with her maternal energy unleashing a depth of emotion and richness beyond anything we’ve heard from Snatam before.  Blending Gurmukhi mantra, Shabds (traditional Sikh prayers put to music) and the sweetest of songs, Snatam lays her heart and her devotion at the feet of the listener.  

 Snatam is joined by her longtime musical colleague, GuruGanesha Singh, on this album. GuruGanesha helped with the compositions and his guitar & support vocals bring incredible depth and breadth to the music. Manish Vyas also joins them on a few of the tracks with his voice like the sweetest of instruments dancing through the music.

Thomas Barquee’s masterful production skills are on full display here as he blends cello, flute, tablas, keyboard, sarangi and GuruGanesha’s signature guitar to cradle Snatam’s crystalline voice which will carry your spirit straight to liberation’s door.

Dynamic and joyful innovations demonstrating the infintely divine nature of musical possibilities.

Joy is Now features compelling duets and kirtan call-response between GuruGanesha and Snatam Kaur, whose unforgettable voices create a counterpoint of masculine and feminine, strength and sweetness, earth and ether.

GuruGanesha's signature guitar work enters new raag/jazz influenced realms in a sparkling conversation with a diverse ensemble of classical Indian insruments including sitar, sarod, esraj, flute and Indian violin.
 

BodyHealing - the fruitful collaboration between Shastro and shamanic healer/musician Nanda Re - was specifically created to support all healing modalities and to help increase one's sense of harmony with nature and with oneself.

Shastro's flutes are purposefully interwoven with Nanda Re's music tapestries, where cosmic and kinesiological principles are used to help unfold the full effect of the music tones. This unique sound experience is further enriched by the connection of shamanic knowledge and the power of mantras. 

BodyHealing takes place in a world of gentle rhythmic, flowing and multilayered sounds. Soft acoustic percussion with chill-out elements, singing bowls and bells, the sound of the ocean, tambura, harp and the orchestra strings lay the foundation for the soothing melodies of the cello, flute and oud as well as for the gently sung mantras, creating one hour of pure peace, spaciousness and tranquillity.

While the magical sound of Nandin's flute creates a tranquil and spacious surrounding, the use of ragas (Indian scales) adds an exotic eastern flavour to the music. Very suited for massage, spas, healing arts, meditation and personal well-being.

In Hindi, raga means ‘mood’ or ‘colour’ and evokes a particular atmosphere, often related to the time of day and season. Over the centuries the playing of these ragas has evolved into a form of meditation – a way to reconnect with our inner peace.

Track Descriptions:
Sparkling - The raga used in this piece, Megh, means clouds in Hindi – music for the monsoon season, with it’s glistening drops of rain and sudden showers.
The Call of the Goddess - The Hindu feminine embodiment of power, Shakti, initiates this piece with her clear call on the flute. Her softer side appears as the music becomes more calm and mellow, moving towards Raga Tilang with its overtones of yearning – a yearning that leads us to our true nature.
Into the Depths of Your Being - This piece reflects the raga Bairagi which is an early morning devotional raga as well as the word for a desire-less person who has renounced the world successfully.
Meditation - This raga, Malkauns, is traditionally played at night and has a mystic and inward looking nature.

Music for relaxation, sleep and beyond.

Two new ragas masterfully performed by the duo Mandala.

Specifically suited for evening relaxation, this third release in the successful Healing Ragas series is certain to please all of Mandala's fans.