Internationally-acclaimed electronic artist and active yoga practitioner, Moby, has shared a collection of ambient recordings designed for yoga, sleep and meditation – which he’s made available for everyone via free download on his website – because he’s good like that.

This means that more great film music is available for ElephantTribe.org’s inspirational films. We greatly thank Moby for this generous gift.

Originally recorded for himself, the veteran electronic producer and DJ says on his website: “Over the last couple of years I’ve been making really, really, really quiet music to listen to when I do yoga or sleep or meditate or panic. I ended up with four hours of music and have decided to give it away.”

Long ambients1: calm. sleep. offers up 11 instrumental tracks, perfect for pairing with a deep, relaxing meditation or yoga session. Moby describes it as “really quiet: no drums, no vocals, just very slow calm pretty chords and sounds and things for sleeping and yoga.”

Elevate your downward dog or savasana with these ambient tunes thanks to “one of electronic music’s most indelible figures.” Download them from his website or stream below. Namaste.

Your great mistake is to act the drama
as if you were alone. As if life
were a progressive and cunning crime
with no witness to the tiny hidden
transgressions. To feel abandoned is to deny
the intimacy of your surroundings. Surely,
even you, at times, have felt the grand array;
the swelling presence, and the chorus, crowding
out your solo voice You must note
the way the soap dish enables you,
or the window latch grants you freedom.
Alertness is the hidden discipline of familiarity.
The stairs are your mentor of things
to come, the doors have always been there
to frighten you and invite you,
and the tiny speaker in the phone
is your dream-ladder to divinity.

Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into
the conversation. The kettle is singing
even as it pours you a drink, the cooking pots
have left their arrogant aloofness and
seen the good in you at last. All the birds
and creatures of the world are unutterably
themselves. Everything is waiting for you.

  – David Whyte
from “Everything is Waiting for You”
©2003 Many Rivers Press

I was diagnosed with cancer in the summer of 1996 and my life, as I had known it, was to be changed forever. 

At that very moment – what do you do?

Just like cancer cells multiplying and subdividing in our bodies, a variety of contradictory feelings surface when you realize that your fate isn’t completely in our own control. It’s like you’re alone in a row boat in the middle of the ocean. All you can see is an endless horizon in every direction. The immensity is overwhelming and the fear crippling. Your only anchor available is the most human of all feelings, an irrational response in the face of uncertainty: Hope. But finding the strength to keep on rowing into the unknown can be as intense as the rowing itself.

Henrik Frederiksen, Founder ElephantTribe.org

When the doctor said: “You have cancer”…

Film Episodes:

• Overwhelming – The Elevator (in production)
• Fear (in production)
• Hope (in production)
• 2. uncertainty

Ways to Connect with Others…

We’re happy to share this event with our friends from “the Lightning in a Bottle Festival”

We greatly thank Google for their innovative and kind giving to non-profit organizations and are excited to announce that we have been awarded Google Grantspro.

This will enable us to further build on our strong growth in people watching our inspirational films.

“Google Globalgiving” is a great match for our organization, as we’re a collective of talented people from all over the world that have come together with one purpose in mind: “To inspire people to live happy, healthy and meaningful lives”.

Spectacular 19th Century. 

An amazing visit to the stunning exhibition in San Francisco of Pierre Bonnard’s paintings – giving us a rare opportunity to study – close up – how to incorporate nature and symbolism with color as the primary tool.

“Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.” – Pierre Bonnard, Painter