Music in its purest form is a direct translation of the unknowable, the great mystery.  It is part of humankind's deep striving for sacred connection. Like many of the conditions that support life on our planet, air, water, ideal proximity to the sun, the physics of sound and the harmonic series supports a hidden vibratory world that both influences and mirrors human consciousness.

Thomas Edison considered sleep to be an unproductive state, and legend has it he slept no more than four hours a night. Edison did, however, hold the hypnagogic dreaming state in high regard and developed a technique for ‘hacking’ the hypnagogic phase between waking and sleep.

From using birdsong soundtracks as a sleep aid to studies showing an improvement in cognitive function when birdsong is played in the background…“A growing body of empirical evidence is revealing the benefits of nature for mental health, including higher mental wellbeing and lower risk of mental illness.”

Before I knew there was a term, Forest Bathing, from the Japanese Shinrin-yoku, I was immersing myself in the NZ rainforest on the farm where I grew up. The sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste of the New Zealand rainforest was a source of reverence and wonder to me as a child.

Brown Noise has an even deeper sound than Pink Noise and is prevalent in nature in the form of waterfalls and ocean waves. It is characterized by the roar of rushing water.

Did you know that noise is color coded? We are all familiar with white noise. In areas of the world that use air conditioning and heat white noise is ubiquitous. It is the sound of air being sucked into intake filters and expelled through cooling vents. But white noise is rarely truly ‘white.’ Just like light which contains all colors, white noise contains all frequencies.