Producer of 52 albums, 560 tracks... and over 110-hours of continuous original music and soundscapes.

Recording Artist Names:  Peter Morley and spiritual Yogi names Shantha Sri / Sri Shanthi Bhavana 

Musician, Composer, Sound Artist and Producer of Transcendental Soundscape Therapy Music, and Ambient Cafe' Smooth Lounge Jazz. Former Photographer and Filmmaker -  Cinematographer / Director of Photography / Videographer / Director and Editor, and Visual Artist (Painter)

Graduate Diploma of Film & Television Music - Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Griffith University, Australia (2001) - Graduate Diploma of Film & Television Music.

Level 1: Certified Integral Sound Healing with Tibetan Singing Bowls - Sound Healing Academy, UK

Studied Meditation with the Sri Chinmoy Organisation

Studied Mindfulness Meditation in the Buddhist Tradition

Studied Yoga and became a practitioner and certified Yoga teacher in the Krishnamacharya Yoga Tradition (specialising in Restorative, Therapeutic Yoga and Zen Healing Yoga)

Member:  

- Sound Healers Association (SHA)

- American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers (ASCAP)

Peter Morley (Sri Shanthi Bhavana) is based on the beautiful south west coast of Western Australia.

He has produced 52 albums, 560 tracks, and over 110-hours of continuous original music and soundscapes.

Peter Morley studied Film & Television Music at Griffith University, Queensland Conservatorium and is a graduate of that program (2001).

He is also a graduate of the Sound Healing Academy in the UK, in Integral Sound Healing with Tibetan Singing Bowls.

Peter Morley is a graduate of the School of Visual Art (SVA), Sydney, in Film & Television Production (1978).

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Film & Television - 1972 - 2012: 40-years freelance.

Peter Morley is a former commercial and industrial Photographer, an award-winning Cinematographer / Videographer / Director of Photography / Director and Editor in the Australian Film & Television and Video Production Industry, working for 40-years, mostly freelance. He has received many awards and worked on award-winning programs. Awards include:  2 Logie Awards, an AFI Film Award, a CLIO Advertising Award, a Gold Coast Media Award, an ACS Highly Commended Cinematography Award, and 6 MOBIE Corporate Video Awards. In 2012 Peter retired from film, video and television production as an image-maker, to concentrate totally on creating and producing original music, and also Yoga and Zen philosophy, and as a Visual Artist (Abstract Painting).

2000 – 2026

Produced 52 albums / 560 tracks (and over 110-hours of continuous original music and soundscapes), specialising in Relaxation Music – Specialist Soundscape Music for Yoga, Meditation, Massage, Stress Relief, Sleep Disorders and other Natural Healing Therapies, and Deep Relaxation. Used by Yoga Therapists, Health Spas and other health practitioners globally.

The Yoga-based music of Sri Shanthi Bhavana is used at the Optimal State Yoga organization, California, USA – providing Therapeutic Music content for their prestigious Yoga Therapy Training Program and online App.

Peter Morley produced easy-listening, chill-out Ambient Cafe' Smooth Lounge Jazz, and Ambient Guitar Soundscape albums. Used by Café’s and Resort hotels worldwide.

Zen Music is distributed globally by over 50 major online digital distribution and streaming organisations (Apple Music, iTunes, Amazon Digital, Spotify, Tik Tok, YouTube, iHeart Radio, Bandcamp, etc.).

Peter Morley's Smooth Jazz tracks have been featured on Internet Radio Channels: Funkmania Smooth Jazz (Spain) and Cheeky Radio Smooth Jazz Grooves (UK), and regularly feature on the Chill & Thrill Smooth Jazz Radio Show (UK and via MIXCLOUD.COM globally).

2008 / 2009 JPF Music Awards – Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

“Just Plain Folks Music Awards” founded by the Future of Music Coalition, the world’s largest grassroots music organization.

Feel Forgiveness Now album placed 2nd in the Spoken Word category [JPF Music Awards Top 6 places] – selected from 42,000 albums, over 500,000 songs entered from over 160 countries.

Music Composer, Sound Designer & Producer:  Peter Morley

Author & Presenter: Dr. Juliet Rohde-Brown – Integrative Clinical Psychologist

JPF Music Awards are judged by music industry/mentor/peer judges, and judged on production, song writing / music composition, performance, arrangement and emotional effect.

2008

Produced the single (song) Billy for US artist, Will Barkley for Neil Young’s online Radio channel. Recorded and engineered in Santa Barbara, California, USA.

2007 – 2008

Produced 3 spoken word guided meditation albums for Integrative Clinical Psychologist, Dr. Juliet Rohde-Brown, in Santa Barbara, California, USA. Composed original music, created and engineered sound design for relaxation music integration with voice guided meditations.

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 were published by Energi Music.

On becoming a Buddhist Yogi, and receiving the yogi spiritual name, Shantha Sri, he began recording as an artist under this name. Later this spiritual name evolved to become Sri Shanthi Bhavana. Recordings can be found in all three names: Peter Morley, Shantha Sri and Sri Shanthi Bhavana.

Sri Shanthi Bhavana is a Zen Buddhist Yogi, a Yoga Teacher specialising in Adapted Therapeutic Yoga. He teaches meditation and sound therapy techniques (Nada Yoga Meditation), using his specialist music soundscapes as the basis for reconnecting with our natural resonance (frequencies).

Sri Shanthi Bhavana has provided  yoga music  for "The Optimal State of Living Yoga School" (providing healing soundscape music and audio content for the prestigious 865 Yoga Therapist Training Program), and the Optimal APP for Yoga Therapy - California, US.

More recently (2021 - 2026), Peter has been producing super-cool Chill-Out Smooth Lounge Jazz music and has released 8 albums in this genre, Tracks in the Sand, the Ambient Cafe' Series - Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5, the relaxing Jazz album, Ambient Noir - Vol 1, and his latest chill lounge Jazz album, Not Famous - Just Peter Morley. More albums are currently in production in this genre. As the music artist and yogi Sri Shanthi Bhavana, he has also released the relaxation album, Ambient Zen Relaxation Music: Vol 1 & 2 - Music Designed for Relaxation, Meditation and Healing; produced another spoken-word guided meditation album, Mindful Tree  for Integrative Clinical Psychologist, Dr. Juliet Rohde-Brown, and as Peter Morley, released another relaxation soundscape, CLOUDS, as well as the deep relaxation and sleep inducing album, Sounds to Sleep - Vol 1.