Help me find yoga music please!

January 8, 2007 11:10 AM

Help me find yoga music please!

I've begun memorizing the poses, and would like to start doing yoga on my own without watching a video. My dilemma is that I don't have an enormous cache of new-agey music. Can anyone recommend music to do yoga by? One thing I've found already is the House of Flying Daggers soundtrack, so anything asian inspired, traditional, or ambient sounding would be cool. Thank you!

posted by supercrayon to media & arts (19 comments total)

Here's a bunch of music that I listen to while writing, which is mostly mellow and weird without being too "whales singing to pan-flute" Red Zinger jams:

Alias and Ehren -- Lillian

Anything by Japancakes

Anything by Boards of Canada (may be too weird)

Aphex Twin -- Selected Ambient Works

Ulrich Schnauss

John Fahey

Brian Eno -- Music for Airports

American Analog Set -- The Fun of Watching Fireworks

Massive Attack vs. mad Professor -- No Protection

The Blade Runner soundtrack

The Solaris soundtrack
posted by Bookhouse at 11:32 AM on January 8, 2007

Here you go. The Brian Eno one Bookhouse mentioned is possibly my favorite, though.
posted by miss lynnster at 11:44 AM on January 8, 2007

Dead Can Dance
Sigur Ros
Moby's more ambient stuff
posted by mkultra at 11:44 AM on January 8, 2007

Might I recommend Solace's Balance?
posted by rikhei at 11:50 AM on January 8, 2007

Third Brian Eno

Jalan Jalai is nice, too.

Loreena McKennit
posted by callmejay at 12:02 PM on January 8, 2007

I agree with every suggestion above, and can add a free one:

http://www.kahvi.org/

They have tons and tons of ambient.
posted by Monkey0nCrack at 12:03 PM on January 8, 2007 [1 favorite]

Go to the Target end cap thingy where they have cds set up to listen to. They usually have a bunch of what you're looking for and you can listen before you purchase. I bet almost anything that says "yoga" on it will be good. (I actually have a cd called "Yoga.")

Namaste. :)
posted by Sassyfras at 12:04 PM on January 8, 2007

Aguas da Amazonia by Philip Glass and Uakti was a favorite at one class I took...
posted by jumble at 12:04 PM on January 8, 2007

Yoga Journal has music reviews every issue. (Not all of them are music to accompany yoga, but it's reasonably easy to see which ones are.)
posted by occhiblu at 12:04 PM on January 8, 2007

Here, that is a song recorded by the vocalist of my band for doing yoga himself. His mother gave him a tanpura and he recorded that thing. The link should download the song straight and it's free. Hope it is useful to you.
posted by micayetoca at 12:06 PM on January 8, 2007

Yay! And from that Yoga Journal list, I just found the name of the group I've been looking for. My yoga teacher played a CD from Vas before class a few months ago and I loved it -- it was deep and resonant and perfect for the stormy day we were having. I've been meaning to buy it ever since. (I can't definitely say it was the CD I'm linking to, though; it looks like they have at least two albums out.)
posted by occhiblu at 12:08 PM on January 8, 2007 [1 favorite]

I love the Krishna Das album Pilgrim Heart for yoga at home.
posted by robinpME at 12:31 PM on January 8, 2007

Helios - Eingya
I think I've recommended them to someone else in the past on AskMe. Very subtle and relaxing. I highly recommend the album.
posted by yeti at 12:39 PM on January 8, 2007

Sundari: A Jivamukti Yoga Class
posted by nicwolff at 1:56 PM on January 8, 2007

Brian Eno for sure.

Aphex Twin -- Selected Ambient Works is very good ambi stuff, but it also has quite few songs that are more creepy and strange sounding, instead of your normal warm fuzzy sounds you'd typically want for yoga. If you made a playlist it could be perfect.

All of American Analog Set would be great - they basically just remake the same LP over and over again, but they are fantastic at it.
posted by rsanheim at 6:39 PM on January 8, 2007

V.M. Bhatt & Ry Cooder: A Meeting By The River

V/A: "A Raga for Peter Walker" (then email Peter and see if he as any copies left of the CD reissue is his great '66 LP "Rainy Day Raga")
posted by ryanshepard at 7:43 PM on January 8, 2007

Er, "of his great '66 LP", of course ... typing too fast there ;)
posted by ryanshepard at 7:45 PM on January 8, 2007

i really love wah's savasana. relaxing and inspiring.
posted by kiita at 8:20 PM on January 8, 2007

Check out Eluvium's album Copia. I just came across it and its nice. This is the blurb from Allmusic (that gives another nod to Eno):

Portland, Oregon resident Matthew Cooper records under the alias Eluvium. His ambient washes and symponic guitar pieces would feel equally as home on a Brian Eno record as a Fennesz recording. His debut release "Lambent Materials" was released on the Temporary Residence imprint in 2003.
posted by verevi at 11:17 PM on January 8, 2007