Healing Sanctuary

Dean Evenson

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 5, 2002)
• Original Release Date: February 5, 2002
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Soundings of Planet
• ASIN: B00005YDN5
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #75,556 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
This Dean Evenson release is aptly titled, for Healing Sanctuary is an album one will want to meditate or chill out to by candlelight. While the album consists of eight compositions, they form a unified whole, maintaining a feeling of peace and tranquility throughout this hourlong journey. Evenson's soothing flute leads the way, underscored by his keyboards and accompanied by harpists Dudley Evenson and d'Rachael, with occasional guitar from Scott Huckabay and viola or hammered dulcimer from Phil Heaven. They gracefully weave an aural cocoon out of the ether, opening up a private place for mental and physical relaxation. Such concepts are nothing new to the New Age world, but the lush, inviting soundscapes of Healing Sanctuary maintain their allure and offer therapeutic qualities that many like-minded efforts do not. --Bryan Reesman

Product Description
"Leave your anxiety, tension, stress and fear at the gate and enter a Healing Sanctuary of relaxing and releasing sound in this gorgeous release from mystical flutist, Dean Evenson. In this serene space, personal or even planetary turmoil will lose their grip on the psyche as gentle waves of peace wash over the listener. Flutes, harps, keyboards and guitars gently drift in and out, creating tranquil soundscapes that are perfect for the healing arts, meditation, relaxation and sleep time. From the opening track, the listener is immersed in Peace Like a River and worldly concerns quickly seem to vanish like a distant shoreline, leaving the listener Quietly Floating Home in the soothing sounds and subtle energies of true serenity. In this place of spirit, one can connect to the healing forces of the universe and focus them on the outer world or Mending Your Own Mind, where this release leaves us. Immediately upon hearing Healing Sanctuary, I placed it in the #1 slot of my sleep-time music set, the slot that carries me into dream and I've found it sets the mood for deeply relaxing sleep and expansive dreams. Easily, one of Dean's best works, Healing Sanctuary receives my highest recommendation to all lovers of beautiful and relaxing new age music." -MUSICAL SOUNDSCAPES

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars At Last, a Peaceful Night, August 27, 2003

By A Customer

Until three days ago I was not a fan of New Age music. I have now ordered another Dean Evenson CD and know I will buy more. I feel strange thanking artists for putting me to sleep, but I want to assure them should they read this that putting this lifelong insomniac to sleep is no small task. The peace I feel when I listen to this music is deep. My mind drifts off into beautiful settings that are first part of waking dreams and then of sleeping ones. The warm tones of the flute and harps are real; so much New Age music is oversynthesized. The artists have created a sanctuary indeed.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ahhhhh......., October 23, 2006

By	Vanessa Jazz (Somewhere, In Arizona) - See all my reviews

Candles.... a hot bath... and this CD.... Need I say more?

Okay, how about: Candles.... a soothing massage.... and this CD.

What a wonderfully peaceful, spiritually evocative collection of instrumental songs! This is great for Yoga or any form of relaxation you can dream of. It even works great for background during more romantic and intimate moments.

This is a jewel!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Musical Sanctuary we all need, December 29, 2007

By	Harmony (Pacific Northwest) - See all my reviews

This is one of Dean's most healing and relaxing albums. He created it after 9/11 to give people a peaceful place to heal from the negative news of the world. And the world still needs all the help it can get. The music takes the listener to a very deep place to take a break from whatever is bothering us. Soothing flutes and harps really carry me away to an inner sanctuary. Highly recommended. Others of his I like are Spa Dreams, Ocean Dreams, Healing Dreams and Golden Spa Tones. They are all worth a listen and should be in your collection of healing music.