Music adapted from Stephen Wilkes’s Meditative Story, "What's most vital is right in front of me."

A movable feast of sound, this Sleep Song mixes a gently rippling synth melody with piano pauses and bright sprays of harp and strings, perhaps evoking the motion of the African savannah as animals large and small, walking and flying, move across a landscape as old as time. As the scene changes, a cello theme evokes an early-morning scene on a city street, following the sun as it begins to move across stone facades. In another scene, intimate piano makes way for synths that evoke the anonymous bustle of a public gathering, or a rippling field of flags. Scene follows scene as the music threads through your dreamscape.

Original music from composer Ryan Holladay.

Meditative Story combines extraordinary human stories with meditation prompts embedded into the storylines — all surrounded by breathtaking music. Think of it as an alternative way into a mindfulness practice, through vivid stories and cinematic music and production values. Find Meditative Story wherever you listen to podcasts.