Healing Touch: Music for Reiki & Meditation 2

Shajan | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 3, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sequoia Records
• ASIN: B0002IQLSU
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #41,610 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

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"An oasis of peace... lush and exquisite, let's you drift far away to a place of eternal comfort and calm."

Daily OM

London-born Reiki master Shajan has created a wealth of melodic tones, spine-tingling drones, and nature sounds with his second volume of Music for Reiki and Meditation. What immediately stands out is the bold sharpness of many of the notes and tones here. Shajan knows his business and is not afraid to go out on a limb with music that aims straight for pressure areas of the body via the ears. Just as reflexology uses points in the foot to access the rest of the body, Shajan uses the ear, giving us his masterful use of electronic musical tonalities to awaken the spine and nervous system with shivering delight. Thus while the mind reposes into a gentle state of meditation via birdsong, trickling water, soft wood-flute pizzicato, and unobtrusive drones, the body is played like an electric xylophone via Shajan's goose-pimple-inducing electricity.

"Light Touch" begins by layering ascending glissando synths to create a hovering sense of presence. One can feel the tonalities lighting up the spine with the tactile vibrations of a barber's electric razor on the back of the neck--and especially when a backsliding tone appears that sounds like a crying baby mixed with a Weed Whacker. Shajan is not wasting time here; the music hones in on its target like a healing missile before dissolving near the end into a dreamy vocal chorale. The following track, "Hands of Light," opens with the sound of peacefully chirping birds. These are gradually met by echoing plucks of synthesizer strings, creating a sublime sense of the natural external and internal worlds harmonizing.

Each of the album's tracks is an ideal length for beginning meditation, and each is different enough to create its own unique experience--from the gongs sounding like distant thunder in "Journey to the Heart" to the gently crashing surf and echoing pizzicato flute of "Turn of the Tides." A student of an array of musical styles before heeding the inner call of Reiki work, Shajan's music is fully functional as an aid to professional massage therapists and yoga and meditation teachers, since it's made by one who is a master of both healing and musical arts. These sounds are alive and seem to instruct the body in a language that bypasses the mind altogether. Close your eyes and you can feel yourself guided by his gentle melodic directions; the effect is like a slow awakening of electrical light throughout the body.

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Drift Away on a a Blissful Island of Peace, August 6, 2004

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Florian Evers (Taos, New Mexico) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Healing Touch: Music for Reiki & Meditation 2 (Audio CD)

Shajan is back with another amazingly serene follow up release on Sequoia Records.
His previous release has been a CD I use regularly in my own heaing practice and this new release "The Healing Touch" provides the perfect, incredibly gentle and relaxing aural landscape to sink into for ultimate relaxation. It's so easy to just drift away into blissful serenity with these four new tracks providing over an hour of music that exactly fits the bill for any massage or other healing arts sessions.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Peaceful and serene, March 23, 2008

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Dawn West (Idaho) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Healing Touch: Music for Reiki & Meditation 2 (Audio CD)

All three of these are just brilliant. I find this one just beautiful and it's true the song length is perfect. I like to turn down the volume on my pillates video and turn this on, MUCH better... Garden of Serenity is another that soothes the spirit.

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5.0 out of 5 stars An amazing tool, January 10, 2008

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MellowMama - See all my reviews

This review is from: Healing Touch: Music for Reiki & Meditation 2 (Audio CD)

The first and third in this series (Music for Reiki & Meditation and Ocean of Silence: Music for Reiki and Meditation, Vol. 3) are amazing and this is no different. Extremely soothing and progresses my spiritually guided meditations deeper, faster. Good serene balance and great song length. Very highly recommended.