Music to Move. Breathe. Flow.
Get grounded and find your flow with thomas
Featuring artists like
Four Tet • Frameworks • Edamame • Il: lo • East Forest • Jon Hopkins • Mary Lattimore
“Songs That Help You Float”
— Edamame
For me, Yoga is about connecting your mind, body, breath and spirit. For any music lover like me on the mat, the soundtrack and ambience we set for that one golden hour where we can take a breath and connect with ourselves can really take our practice to another level.
From teachers looking to set the right ambience for their classes, to yogis practising at home, drowning out the washing machine and getting in the zone. This list is based on my own experiences of yoga practice and how the right sounds, tones, rhythms and pace can complement and enhance practice.
Using components of typical class structures; moving from slow meditative grounding, through awakening and energetic flows, to gentle unwinding and blissful endings. Dynamic, contemporary, flowing sounds with an emphasis on creativity, playfulness and always aiming to focus the mind on the body and breath.
This is a list for all the Yogis, but extends to anyone looking to get in touch with body and breath, to dance, to feel the flow of life, to meditate…music is therapeutic and we can also just close our eyes, look inwards and sink into the sounds.
Goodbye Forever – Evenings
3 March 2021
Gentle waves lapping the shore, maybe a little calmer than before. An uplifting guitar picking pattern is joined by a jaunty but almost regimental marching rhythm, like a merry army of peaceful warriors guiding you towards Savasana – the final conscious, wakeful rest.
Komorebi- Catching Flies
23 February 2021
Melodic and moving, light in the dark, simple yet intricate, spacious while dense and uplifting yet grounding. Let’s play musical yin and yang, catching flies and playing with our breath and bodies in the dappled light flickering as we begin to awaken from winter’s slumber.
Beyond The Trees – Kisnou
16 February 2021
The Italian musician and composer behind the name turned to music as an escape from pain, to be free within his passions.
Bubbles – Yosi Horikawa
9 February 2021
Yosi Horikawa is what music with no limits sounds like. Move to Bubbles with no limits.
Affelaye – Morning Tremor
1 February 2021
As soothing as it is uplifting; Morning Tremor suits flowing asana’s and vibrant vinyasa flows. The intricacies of the track are submerged within soft, warm layers that wrap around you and flow through you like breath through the body.
Harvest – Tom Trago
26 January 2021
In the club or on the mat, hearts beating as one, breath flowing in tune as we still the rippling waves.
Batismo – Populous (Feat. RIVA)
21 January 2021
This playful track is for nighttime movers who want to get creative and playful with their flow.
Flight – Anoushka Shankar
12 January 2021
Anoushka Shankar, daughter of the legendary Ravi, plays a beautiful Sitar that in Flight soars across land and sea to the roots of Yoga.
Stream of Consciousness – Richard Crandell, Masumi Timson
6 January 2021
The Mbira, the sacred instrument of Zimbabwe matches perfectly with the classical Koto sounds.
Healing – Sampa the Great
29 December 2020
An awakening. The calm after life’s storms settle, that moment when we accept what has been and sink into what is. Let the healing begin.
Hold On -East Forest
22 December 2020
Hold on feels like the best advice we can manage just now as we ride out the turn of the year and in the midst of a storm that is yet to calm.
La Lettre – Warren Ellis
14 December 2020
La Lettre is from the opening sequence to Gauguin about the legendary French Painter of the same name as he looks for inspiration and freedom in the wild.