Need some tunes to reconnect you to your Earth Mother muse? In honor of Earth Day, yoga music label White Swan Records has curated a heart-centered soundtrack on their Spotify channel that will get you in the mood.
The 19 tracks, fueled with inspiring messages about rising up together, engaging in loving activism, practicing ahimsa (the yogic principle of non-harming), seeing the sun, the sky, and the ocean in our own bodies, and becoming the change we want to see in the world, are imbued with a purity of heart that’s so alluring, you may keep this playlist on repeat for days and weeks to come. It’s the perfect accompaniment for an earth-honoring yoga practice, meditation ritual, or a walk (or dance) in the woods.
The playlist moves and grooves through a variety of genres, including pop (Tina Malia’s “Heal This Land,” Donna de Lory’s “Be the Change”); hip hop (MC Yogi’s “Ahimsa”); medicine music (Xavier Rudd’s “Spirit Bird”); roots and folk (Trevor Hall’s “Mother” and Miten’s “River Man”); modern mantra music (Deva Premal’s “Om Dhara” and Sean Johnson & The Wild Lotus Band’s “Unity”); and trance (Liquid Bloom’s “Roots of the Earth” and Deva Doya’s “Myth of the Cave”). As Deva Premal & Miten observe, “Let’s be conscious of our actions today and see where we choose to support ourselves rather than the Earth. Then let’s do what we can to give back in some way to the Great Mother.” One thing is for sure: Earth Warriors will pull your heart back to Mother Earth — and inspire you to honor (and protect her) from a place of love — on Earth Day, and every other day. (Listen at tinyurl.com/wsearth.)
This article is a part of the 2018 April / May issue of Whole Life Times.