Category Archives: Calming Music Information
Teaching Your Child About Music
Teaching Your Child About Music Are you a Home School parent and teacher ? Or perhaps you might be a parent who simply wants to teach your child about music ? Music soothes the soul and calms the savage beast. This applies to children as well ! Music education and appreciation is VERY important. It…
Calming Jazz Music
Best Calming Jazz Music Calming music can take on may forms. It can span many genres. Here at Calming Music Weekly, we love all kinds of music – especially if it calms the mind and soothes the soul. So, in the interests of expanding our definition of “calming music” to follow are six examples of…
Healing Powers of Calming Music
As part of our Guest Posts series, please welcome to our blog Steve Rees. In case you are unaware, Steve plays the most calming and relaxing Harp known to human kind. His music stills the mind, soothes the soul, relaxes the body – and it sounds great too. We are also very lucky to have Steve as one of…
If Julia Roberts can, so can we.
If Julia Roberts can, so can we. A number of years ago, Julia Roberts played the lead role in a movie called “Eat, Pray, Love”. It was a great movie (and a great book by Elizabeth Gilbert before that) about a woman who was unhappy with her life and decided quit her job to follow…
Interview with Jeff Gold
Interview with Jeff Gold A couple of months ago, I had the pleasure of stumbling across the website of Jeff Gold. After a few minutes I realised I had found a VERY fine musician indeed. So much so, that I spent far too much time listening to the various examples of his wonderfully calming music…
Video 8 Ways Music Can Help You To Calm Down Part 3
Video – 8 Ways Music Can Help You To Calm Down and Fire Up – Part 3. Continued from Part 2, which in turn was continued from Part 1. The final video in our series, I am discussing the ways in which music can help us to calm down and fire up. Keep your ears…
Video 8 Ways Music Can Help You To Calm Down Part 2
Video – 8 Ways Music Can Help You To Calm Down and Fire Up – Part 2. Continued from Part 1 Part 2 of our video series continues on from where Part 1 left off. Sitting by the river in Jamieson, surrounded by the sounds of the Australian bush, I continue with my discussion about…
Video 8 Ways Music Can Help You To Calm Down Part 1
Video – 8 Ways Music Can Help You To Calm Down and Fire Up – Part 1. Recently I was away from my home in Melbourne, Australia, and visiting a little town known as Jamieson. I have mentioned Jamieson before in other posts – it is very peaceful, very soothing and I simply love it…
Podcast Waves clouds and all that Jazz
Podcast – Waves clouds and all that Jazz. Welcome to Episode 5 of our Calming Music Weekly Podcast series. In this episode we discuss the relationship the ancient Inuit (Eskimo) people had with their music and their deliberate attempts at relaxation and meditation, in what must have been a very stressful and harsh existence. Click…
The Art Of Stillness
The Art Of Stillness TED.com is a very inspiring place to hang out. Full of interesting and thought provoking speakers, there is something for everyone to learn from. In this TED Talk, Pico Iyer discusses serveral of the ideas mentioned here at Calming Music Weekly. He talks about the concepts of being still, of taking the…
