Music That Goes to Class With You: Our New Course Albums

When we first built the members courses, the music sat off to one side. You did the lesson, and then, if you remembered, you put an album on afterwards. It never felt quite right. Anyone who has tried to learn something about their own feelings with a phone buzzing beside them knows how much the room matters, and sound is a large part of the room.

An album for each course

So we started writing albums to go with the courses themselves, one track for every module. The idea is simple. You reach the practice, you press play, and the music has already been shaped to what you are about to do. It is slow where the practice is slow, spacious where you are asked to look inward, and steady where you are asked to breathe.

Two of them are ready now.

The Emotional Landscape

The Emotional Landscape: A Terrain for Every Feeling goes with the Emotional Resilience Masterclass. It has eight tracks, one for each module, and each is named after a piece of ground: Bedrock, The Inner Weather, The River, Rainfall on Stone, The Clearing, The Tide, The Ridge and The Open Gate. Feelings behave a good deal like weather and water, so it seemed fair to let the music do the same.

Safe Harbour

Safe Harbour is the soundtrack to our newest course, Nervous System Regulation & Somatic Healing. It has nine instrumental pieces: a theme for the course, then a track for each of the eight modules. Everything sits at the pace of slow breathing, with warm piano, soft strings and a low drone that never changes key, so the whole album feels like one place you can come back to. It has a post of its own, so I will not go through it twice here.

You do not need the course to listen

They are made to sit beside the lessons, but they stand up perfectly well alone. Put one on while you cook. Put one on when the evening has been long, or before a conversation you are dreading. Members can stream every track in the members area and download each album as MP3 or FLAC.

More course albums are on the way. If there is a course you would like to hear a soundtrack for, tell us.