Sleep Song

Warm, inviting tones, and the call of a piano's voice, announce it's time for tranquility and rejuvenation. Guided by light synth breezes and Una Corda, the sound of single string piano drenches the scene in a sea of cascading petals. The sound bath then dissolves into extended drones, collecting the day's fragments into unity, reverberating chords gathering our attention into a single soft focus.

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.

A quiet trembling begins, and something deep underground beginning to stir, while steady chords mirror the sun's encouraging rays warming the damp earth. Shakers, like the flight of winged insects and quiet rain, appear and recede. A refreshing wind of sound clears the scene, taking us to the misty exhalation of an inviting forest cave, as expansive drones encourage mental liberation and muscle melt. The stirring comes full circle, a reminder of all the promise awakening within, as warm, pulsing tones lead into blankets of reverb and comfort.

Original music from composers Ryan Holladay and Eduardo Rivera.

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.

Music adapted from Austin Mao’s Meditative Story, "Peeling back these layers of my inner truth."

We're met with a solo piano's lilting melody, strings joining in the spinning, circling tune, lifting the mind and spirit, ascending. Like visiting rehearsal rooms behind the curtain of everyday thoughts, we're guests to conversations between piano and violin, finding new ways to elevate each other's voices, and resolving into harmony and balance.

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.

Tremulous snare sounds and open notes gather the day's scattered thoughts, as a cello assures that it's time for new beauty, fresh unity of mind, and body. A new old memory of sloping panoramas, rolling fenced pastures, and worn dirt road, a place of comforting sunlight and abiding peace, where there's always enough time. Surreal porch chimes melt edges into watercolor blur, as the rising and falling of a harmonium mirrors the arrival and departure of each calm breath. The slow compression of organ pedals and joyful swells of strings, sax, and muted horns then paint the space with further reassurance of a restful night ahead.

Original music from composers Ryan Holladay and Eduardo Rivera.

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.

A celestial orchestra softly tunes, becoming the quietest invitation to coast across a wintry landscape of glassy crystalized sheets and aurora polaris glow. Piano trills joyously mimic the grace of figure skaters spiraling and sailing across a frozen forest lake. Looping guitars shift the panorama into a serene and contemplative journey through evergreen forest glades, while cheerful, spritely tones like twinkling lights guide the way to temple gongs and chimes suggesting deeper layers of inner grounding beneath the snowy scene.

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.

Music adapted from Rev. Monique Ortiz’s Meditative Story, "The heart comes out at night."

Sonorous cello, and lilting piano provide an invitation for an evening's dream stroll, as soft saxophones lull into a rhythmic lullaby. A midnight fanfare of expectant woodwinds drift us into soaring starlit cloud sky, finally resolving into quiet touchdown ... a space ripe for seedling worlds the heart can meet at night.

Original music from composer Eduardo Rivera.

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.

Music adapted from Meredith Arthur’s Meditative Story, "Ignoring inner me."

Greeted by a gentle piano, a melody conjuring childhood curiosity and innocence soon begins. Deepened by strings and open drones - the melody shifts to one of reflection and contemplation – like the coziest window nook on a rainy day. We’re then led into a world of ambient noises – the inner machinations of gray matter – made smooth with sampled guitar, uncoiling tensions, and inspiring deep rest.

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.

When you’re too sleepy to turn the record over on the turntable, new melodies start to emerge from beyond the crackle of the vinyl. As the record spins slowly, it opens a doorway to a soft and nostalgic standup piano. Falling farther into the piano’s chords, we’re led to a cascading sheet of tones, fields of evening cricket call, a calming open drone … all in turn giving rise to muted mellow notes like a lullaby out of time.

Original music from composers Ryan Holladay and Eduardo Rivera.

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.

A slowly rising sonic wave is met by the call of a single piano key, awakening a chorus of gentle wind instruments. Massaging tonal pulses dance along behind a winding piano, from which the sound space resolves into new vistas – the quiet voice of a peaceful stream – a cleansing cascade of shimmering tones, bathing the space in serenity, while a solo flute sets evening wishes aloft.

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.

Music adapted from Dr. Marla Spivak’s Meditative Story, "How the bees saved me."

Above a bed of colorful strings, a sprightly piano picks its way, moving through a bright melody. Others join, moving in harmony to create a web of busy, happy sound. The melody moves through into a musical wash of strings and heartbeat drums, carrying us to a wider, yet still deeply connected, space of peace and deep thought.

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.