Holotropic Breathwork Music

One of the key components of Holotropic Breathwork is the music. Some facilitators can and will spend weeks and even months to put together a three hour music set. Below you will find lists from a few Holotropic Breathwork facilitators of their favorite music CD's for breathwork. Feel free to sample and enjoy. Even if it is not for Breathwork you will find great listening enjoyment.

~ Jack Blackwell


Lon Rankin's 10 Best

El Canto del Tiempo/Ayahuasca Icaros
Icaros: Shamanic Songs ~
“Traditional, voice oriented icaros from South America. Many excellent and varied tracks for use in many places in the session. Helps break up monotony. Very deep. Not for everyone.”

Tales of the Inexpressible
By Shpongle ~
“Modern, psy-oriented. The best first hour CD I know of. If I was stranded on an island and had just one CD…..”

Blumenkraft
By Ott ~
“Similar to Tales, and almost as good. Brilliant and energizing. Constant change within songs adds dimension.”

Induction
By Byron Metcalf ~
“The master of percussion and shamanic music has just released this ‘best of’ CD specifically edited for use in HB music sets. Brilliant. Impossible not be energized by these cuts. The title says it all.”

DownTemple Dub: Waves
By Desert Dwellers ~
“Originally recorded for support of yoga. Energizing and movement oriented with a spiritual and flowing quality. The entire CD is excellent.”

1492: Conquest of Paradise - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
By Vangelis ~
“Emotionally moving music with heart. Heartbreaking and uplifting at the same time, a rare mix. Fantastic classic for HB.”

Close To Silence
By Thomas Otten ~
“There is no other CD I know of which captures the depth of soaring spirituality which has found its way into this amazing piece of music. Powerfully beautiful.”

Disciple
By Mark Seelig ~
“Long tracks of profoundly deep meditative Indian music. An editing program is recommended for this CD. Recorded by a certified breath worker who knows the territory. One of my all time favorite CDs.”

Music for Yoga and Other Joys
By Jai Uttal and Ben Leinbach ~
“Classic third hour. Tearfully gorgeous.”

Rain of Blessings: Varja Chants
Lama Gyurme and Jean-Philippe Rukiel ~
“Again, classic third hour. All tracks are very moving. Portions can also be used as a first hour intro.”


Jannelle Weakly's Favs

Rise
By Shankar ~
“Every cut can be used somewhere in a session several good, powerful first and second hour pieces."

The Gathering
By Inlakesh ~
“Great Didj!”

Volume 5: Anatomic
By Afro Celt Sound System ~
“amazing first hour and Sene is a good post breakthrough piece. All of their CD's get GREAT reviews."

The Meeting Pool
By Baka Beyond ~
"All the Baka Beyond CDs! Joyful!"

Gati Bongo
By Gati Bongo ~
"Gati Bongo, recorded in the forest with the Baka people on a laptop computer -- fun and playful music!"

Journeys of a Dervish
By Mercan Dede ~
"Especially like the cuts Fire Drums and Water Ceremony."

Nataraja
By Shive Rea ~
"Compilation CD, all cuts useful somewhere in a set."

He’s in Trance Now
By Nyanyo Addo ~
“More amazing rythms -- quite powerful!"

Silk Road Journeys: Beyond the Horizon
By Yo Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble ~
“lots of good 2nd hour pieces all of an Asian and Caravan sound -- quite lovely."

The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford
By Nick Cave and Warren Ellis ~
15 reviews almost all 5 stars.

Munich
By John Williams ~
“You will never go wrong with a John Williams soundtrack."

Rescue Dawn: Music from the Motion Picture
By Klaus Badelt ~
“Great Reviews!!”

Ka
By Cirque de Soleil ~
“Fabulous, beautiful and powerful music. You must check out Cirque de Soleil's 'O' also.

3:10 To Yuma - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
By Marco Beltrami ~
“11 out of 12 five star reviews.”.


My Top Picks

Sunyata
By Vas ~
“this is an incredible CD with many great songs, just notice the first review on Amazon, 'One of the Most Amazing CDs I Have Ever Experienced'"

Global Meditation, Vols. 1-4...
By Various Artists ~
"Now, it is not that I love all of the songs on this 4-CD set, there are many that I really don't like, but where can you this many good, usable Breathwork songs all in one place - you can't!"

Himalaya
By Bruno Calias ~
"Honestly one of the MOST beautiful CD's I have ever heard, don't just get it for breathwork, get it for yourself."

Ritual
By Gabrielle Roth ~
“All of her work is incredible, I just picked one at random."

Tribe Vibe
By Ganga Giri ~
“Lot of great first hour drumming & didj music."

King Arthur
By Hans Zimmer ~
“Sweeping and epic - Grand in scale"

Tra
By Hedningarna ~
“Buy all of their music, wild first hour stuff with an edge."

Akwaba
By Tya ~
“You will love this!"

Feet in the Soil
By James Asher ~
“Classic, good, first hour, Holotropic drumming."

The Lama’s Chants
By Lama Gyurme ~
“Beautiful, peaceful, lovely, I don't know you decide. Third hour."

Baraka
By Various Artists ~
“A must watch DVD, perhaps an even better soundtrack..."

Duality
By Lisa Gerrard ~
“ALL OF HER STUFF!!!"

Nomad
By Nomad ~
“Discontinued - Get it! Buy it used! Amazon reviews, out of 25 people an unbelievable 24 give it 5 stars."

Music to Disappear In
By Raphael ~
“I am not a huge third hour music fan (more first hour drumming-ish), but this is pretty good stuff."

Braveheart: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
By James Horner~
“Classic, great second hour soundtrack."

The Last Of The Mohicans: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
By Trevor Jones, Randy Edelman, Joel McNeely ~
“See the Braveheart review above."

Rob Roy: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack From The Film
By Carter Burwell ~
“Ditto."

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
By Carter Burwell ~
“All three soundtracks are great!"

Ancient Voices
By Ah-Nee-Mah ~
“A beautiful, very well reviewed third hour CD."

Rhydhun - An Odyssey Of Rhythm (1)
By Rhydhun ~
“This is a very hard to come by CD. Excellent first hour drumming with a little wildness. Only 2 copies left on Amazon used. Hurry and get it."

From Stanislav Grof's book ~ Psychology of the Future

Mustt Mustt
By Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan ~
“This CD is able to disregard the need for descriptive terms - it is music which can be 'felt' and not described."

X
By Klaus Schultze ~
"...I was blown away by the sheer brilliance of this man."

A Passage in Time
By Dead Can Dance ~
"Before Enigma/Deep Forest/Delerium there was... DCD!!"

The Power Of One: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
By Hans Zimmer ~
""This is one of the most amazing choral works I have ever listened to. It is one of my favorite albums and I can't begin to guess how many times I have listened to it. I still get goose bumps listening to the rainmaker."

The Mission: Original Soundtrack From The Motion Picture
By Ennio Morricone ~
"Haunting melodies, ethnic percussion, dramatic dark moments, all combine to evoke a myriad of emotions for the listener. The oboe playing is extraordinary. Highly recommended!!!"

Dance the Devil Away
By Outback ~
"WARNING: This will make you dance. This will make you feel awesome. This will take you places. Do not buy this unless you are willing to risk all of the above every time you play it."

Passion
By Peter Gabriel ~
"This recording is a journey...a pilgrimage, and/or vision quest...beautiful and dream-like..."

Globalarium
By James Asher ~
"Mystical and haunting"

Dorje Ling
By David Parsons ~
"I own about 300-400 meditative CDs, all I can say is if I could only keep one, this CD would be the one I would keep."

Music From Koreyoshi Kurahara's Film Antarctica
By Vangelis ~
“Vangelis' soundtrack to Koreyoshi Kurahara's seldom seen and all but forgotten '84 film 'Antarctica' is one of the true undiscovered classics of the last twenty years."


By Tim Read

Season of Souls
By Tulku, all their albums ~
“My favourite song here is Meena Devi as an opening piece. Also good car music for the start of the day, inspirational. First and second hour."

Shri Durga
By DJ Cheb Sabbah ~
“Indian classical ragas. Powerful moving, first and second hour."

Echoes: The Einaudi Collection
By Einaudi ~
“Classical music for second and third hour – a selection from his previous 4 albums."

Wait For Me
By Moby ~
“Just released. half the tracks are instrumentals of which 6 would sit well in a breathwork set including one beautiful breakthrough piece."

Selected Ambient Works, Vol. 2
By Aphex Twin ~
“Brooding electronica from England’s Celtic fringe. First and second hour."

Mystic Spirit Voices
By Lesiem ~
“For me – the best of the post Enigma monastery rock bands. Mostly second hour."

Garden of Dreams
By Ali Akhbar Khan ~
“Indian classical. Amjad Ali Khan and "Moksha" is similar and just as good."

Hippjokk
By Hedningarna ~
“Of theirs this is the one that I would recommend most highly. At least 3 for the first hour."

Under an Ancient Sky
By Coyote Oldman ~
“Meditative and mellow."