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About


Welcome to ZEN MUSIC... the space between the noise!

Home of Transcendental Soundscapes

Music designed for relaxation and total absorption... quiet music for discerning minds!

Our relaxing ZEN MUSIC is streamed worldwide into international hotel and spa resorts, cafe's and restaurants, and used by many Yoga and Meditation Teachers, Yoga Therapists, Massage Therapists, Reiki and other health practitioners globally.

ZEN MUSIC is the home to independent music and sound artist, Peter Morley (aka Sri Shanthi Bhavana) - composer and designer of Transcendental Soundscape music. The music works on this site are unapologetically experimental in nature. They are free-form creative expressions of music and sound art. The composer believes that: if you’re not pushing the edge...  then you’re stuck in the middle, and who wants to be there?

At ZEN MUSIC the aim is to link the listener with music and sounds that transport them to another place... to go beyond the everyday noise and busy mind - to a place of peace, serenity and harmony. These transcendent soundscapes are designed for stress-management: relaxation, yoga, meditation, self-contemplation, and many other forms of the healing arts, and joyful listening. I hope you enjoy! 

The bottom line for all my music, is... minimalist... music that has a relaxing, simple yet mesmeric structure, with lots of space between the notes... space to chill and relax and give our brain a rest... what I like to call "the Space Between the Noise!"

On this website, I have included a few of my favourite quotes from some of my favourite artists who continue to inspire me. They have managed to eloquently express exactly how I also feel about many aspects of music... so I have included these quotes. It is not about my ego, grandstanding or sucking up... its about me honouring them... it comes from my heart, a place of love and great respect. I thank every one of these legends... with deep gratitude for the inspiration!

“Music heals!” - John McLaughlin - Jazz Guitarist, Composer

— Grey Shepard online

Keith Richards view on the importance of SPACE in a recording: 

“I've always looked upon silence... that was being an extra tool, as an instrument... because it can produce that depth in a recording. If you fill it all up the whole space is in your face.” - Keith Richards - Co-Founder, Singer / Songwriter, Guitar Legend, The Rolling Stones

— Noisey - Guitar Moves with Keith Richards (Part 2) 2016

Peter Morley (Sri Shanthi Bhavana) - Music Composer, Zen Music

“In ancient Egypt, it is said, music was called the 'medicine for the soul'.” - Daisaku Ikeda - Buddhist spiritual teacher in Nichiren Buddhist philosophy; President of Soka Gakkai International (SGI)

— Reaching Beyond - Improvisations on Jazz, Buddhism, and Joyful Life (book) by Herbie Hancock, Daiaku Ikeda and Wayne Shorter / SGI

A Short(end) Back-Story

From A to Zen

This website showcases our unique range of soundscapes and spoken word visualisations, especially created for calming relaxation, yoga, meditation, sleep disorders, stress-management, massage, and other forms of healing arts.   

What you probably don’t know is that over 20 years ago I began creating my own music for relaxation - initially for myself.   

Back then, there wasn’t much specialised music for relaxation in the market and I wanted to create some long-form content (longer than 5-minutes), that I could use during my meditation practice, or as a preparation for meditation or for sleep, or just to provide a calm atmosphere at home when I wanted to relax.

Later, I studied yoga and again wanted some long-form music that was constant, and positive, and minimalist, with very little or no beat or rhythm, and again it was difficult to find. During Yoga, or whenever I was having a massage at a health spa, I would consciously listen to the background music. Invariably, just as I would become relaxed to a point where I was almost unaware of its presence, the music would suddenly include some random beats that had the effect of waking me up, distracting me from my blissed-out relaxed state. I realised that this 'everyday kind of music' was not necessarily helpful for people wanting to relax and become detached from worldly distractions, because it throws up too much agitation (it distracts the mind) and therefore kills the positive energy that flows through the body, and Chakras.  

I began experimenting with specific frequencies (sound wavelengths) and vibrational toning techniques in conjunction with slow tempo (typically 50 to 60bpm) to help slow the heartbeat and reduce blood pressure by stimulating the parasympathetic nervous system in order to switch on the so-called ‘Relaxation Response’ in the brain, and also to stimulate positive energy movement within the Chakra subtle energy system.

Over the years, I’ve had a lot of good feedback from many people who have used my music as an aid in helping them overcome various forms of suffering: grief, loss, sleep disorders, anxiety, depression, physical pain… even relief from Parkinson’s Disease tremors, and Tinnitus.   

Later, I became a Yoga Teacher, and that led me to Therapeutic Yoga and Yoga Therapy. During all this time I continued to experiment with vibrational toning techniques as a Sound Therapy tool and have used it in my Yoga and Meditation classes for many years - from large community halls to small functional groups and private individual clients - more than 2,000 participants over 11 years. I created albums and distributed these globally through over 50 online digital download and streaming providers, including: Apple Music, iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, TikTok, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Sound Exchange, etc., and these albums have sold to people all over the world.   

In 2020, I launched our own website, Zen Music, where people can listen to samples and download albums and tracks in just a few mouse clicks or finger taps. The website currently offers 40 albums and around 370 tracks, from easy-listening relaxation music, to long-form relaxation and meditation soundscapes, breathing techniques, and spoken-word guided visualisations.   

Zen Music is currently producing several new relaxation and meditation albums - and we have more guided visualisation albums in production too, as well as some progressive transcendental soundscapes!

 

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The Use of Sound and the Power of Intention for Healing:

…sound is the medium, and we bring forth positive healing energy through intention 

- Master Dorje Thingo (Kimathanka, Nepal) known as a great teacher and Ayurvedic medicine man 

Music... it is little vibrations going into the heart - the healing power of music is amazing

- Sir Paul McCartney 

                                 

What is ZEN MUSIC?

Minimalism: a Zen principle

“I provide the framework – the basic minimal structure – leaving plenty of open spaces for the listener to provide their story. What the listener brings to the process, is what manifests for them, personally – that’s Zen”.

 

ZEN MUSIC is the recording and publishing label for independent musician, composer and music producer, Peter Morley, (aka Sri Shanthi Bhavana, Shantha Sri) and Dr. Juliet Rohde-Brown.

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“I have to tell you, it is so amazing what you have done. This music will be here on earth long after you are gone and provide joy and comfort and clarity for many generations of people to come. It was really beautiful to sit and listen to each one. I loved them all!” - Amy Wheeler, Ph.D. – C-IAYT / Yoga Therapist

— Yoga Teacher, Yoga Therapist & Educator – Founding Director, The Optimal State Yoga Therapy Teacher Training Program, and the Healing Yoga Institute, California, USA

In 2001, Peter Morley began experimenting with creating music ‘soundscapes’, and he formed Energi Music. His first album, “Celestial” in that year was the result of experimenting with creating minimalist music. Over the next few years several more albums followed, including “Calm Light” and “Seascape” – both referred to as Meditational Journeys. The first 13 albums published as Energi Music.

 

California-based Integrative Clinical Psychologist, Dr. Juliet Rohde-Brown joined the Energi Music label in 2007 and Peter Morley composed music and produced several spoken word, guided visualisation meditation albums with her.

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“Zen Music is about finding an emotional relationship with resonance – in the Body, in the Mind, and within the Universe – a universal ambience, or personal resonance with all of the cosmic elements... what I like to call ‘synergence’. ” - Sri Shanthi Bhavana

— Zen Yoga Wellness / Zen Music

ZEN MUSIC was launched in 2019, as the name was a perfect entity for his Zen Buddhist life philosophy.

Peter is also known as Sri Shanthi Bhavana (his spiritual name as a Zen Buddhist Yogi – Yoga Teacher and Therapist). He records under the artist names, Shantha Sri, Sri Shanthi Bhavana, and Peter Morley.

 

ZEN MUSIC has continued to create music that sells globally to discerning listeners. It is centred in the intention of stimulating the so-called relaxation response in the brain – to help people find relaxation, calmness and inner peace, through contemplation.

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The ZEN Connection

Closing the Circle

Like the Zen circle symbol, enzo, which is an incomplete circle, this frame holds the essence of my music vision – just a few notes floating in a sea of resonance, carefully measured to provide space (space between the notes, or in reference to our busy minds – between the noise). The Japanese word, Ma, 

means "negative space", "gap", "pause", or "the space between two structural parts". 

 

This relates to all aspects of life – if we have no time, if our space is restricted, we are unable to grow. Zen Ma is in essence, what makes minimalism possible. It is in the quiet time in our busy lives, it is in the silence between the notes which make the music. 

 

The Japanese Zen Masters call this 'mind-scape' – where every intricate detail is important, especially the intentional creation of space. 

 

It is in this space that the discerning and perceptive listener discovers the rest of the music – they bring the ‘missing’ pieces to complete the circle, and thus experience the ‘whole’. And, as with all Zen art, the mystery lies in the fact that the art represents a different story or emotional journey for each individual – it provides exactly what the person requires at that point in time – and over time, this ‘message’ or meaning will change (evolve), as we do.

 

The more we sit with it and explore it, the more we will experience its mystery of subtle messages – constantly changing, evolving to meet us where we are – in any given moment.

“I am a light worker” - Carlos Santana

— NMW All In Podcast with Narada Michael Walden

“Silence is an integral part of all good music” - Aldous Huxley

What Else?

Use this site to find, listen to, and download Zen Music albums and individual tracks.

 

In addition to our specialisation in relaxation soundscape works that focus on resonance as a healing therapy, ZEN MUSIC is also working on more spoken word, guided visualization meditations, and some other interesting music ideas, like… relaxing Smooth Jazz, Ambient Cafe' and Ambient Guitar music, as well as experimental Ambient avant-garde Soundscape music.

 

Watch this space for more exciting news about upcoming albums for your enjoyoment!

 

That’s ZEN MUSIC! Because all life is constantly changing, or evolving, so too is Zen Music... continually evolving!

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“Damn the rules… its the feeling that counts. You play all 12 notes in your solo anyway. My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being… When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for good, to help humanity free itself from its hang-ups” - John Coltrane
“What is life without risk? … What is improvisation without risk? … You’ve got to jump off the deep end!” - John McLaughlin - Jazz Guitarist / Composer

— Grey Shepard online

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“Music is an incredible force, energy. It's like electro-magnetism - you can't put your finger on it, but it's there and it makes things go round. Without it, you're nowhere. That's the fascinating thing about it and why we talk about it, because there is no answer. A lot of music... really comes out of something that's unexplainable... it's an uncanny thing, which is why I am still fascinated by the damn thing, and I also realise how little I know about it.” - Keith Richards - The Rolling Stones / The X-Pensive Winos

Zen Music... the Space Between the Noise!

Our relaxing ZEN MUSIC is streamed worldwide into international hotel and spa resorts, cafe's and restaurants, and used by many Yoga and Meditation Teachers, Yoga Therapists, Massage Therapists, Energetic Healers, and other health practitioners globally... and people everywhere who just want to chill out… Thank you all so much. Enjoy!

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