You Can Relax Now

Shaina Noll

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 12, 2002)
• Original Release Date: September 12, 2002
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Singing Heart
• ASIN: B00006L50E
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #79,026 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

About the Artist
Shaina Noll is a singer/songwriter who received her vocal training during the years she spent studying to be an actress. She ultimately left that path, going on to receive a master's degree in transpersonal psychology. Her music combines her gifts as a vocalist with her desire to provide music that is healing and inspiring.

Shaina lives with her family outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her husband, Richard, co-producer and collaborator on You Can Relax Now, lends vocal harmonies and tenor recorder to the collection.

Product Description
You Can Relax Now offers nine songs to soothe, inspire and uplift the listener. Some tell a story, some weave a chant, some offer a new look at familiar spiritual concepts. Each song, in its own way, affirms the presence of the Divine in all things. The collection includes: "Each Holy Child" and other new songs by Shaina, a revisiting of "You Can Relax Now" which was first recorded for her "Songs For The Inner Child", "All Is Well", and innovative interpretations of "Silent Night" and "Angels Watching Over Me". Shaina’s distinctive vocals are backed up by her own work on piano and keyboards, lush harmonies, guitar, cello and recorder.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Inspired Singing, February 4, 2004

By	Emma Bragdon (Woodstock, VT USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

If you are looking to uplift your mood-or your consciousness-listen to Shaina Noll. This new CD, You Can Relax Now, is as charming as Songs for the Inner Child, her first. Again, each piece is sung with simplicity, love and clarity. Sheer elegance. The recorder, cello, guitar and piano add richness.
I've always felt that Shaina simultaneously sings to two universal themes within us: the vulnerable inner child and the expansive realized One. She's doing it again--holding our hand as we proceed on the journey.
Shaina writes to the listener: ..."each of these songs deeply supported me in making the transition from a life based in fear to a life based in trust." Her accomplishment with that transition resonates in the way she sings each song.
I use Shaina's collections to soothe myself or help my friends relax at difficult times. I heartily recommend this CD for your library, for the quiet times when you want to connect with the Divinity that you are, and the Divinity that surrounds you.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lullabies for Stressed Adults, January 22, 2004

By	Janet E. Mather (Philadelphia, PA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Shaina Noll's musical talents are an important piece of the beauty of this CD. Her voice is clear, pure, and seems effortless and unforced at all times. The arrangements are wonderful, soothing, and relaxing. But to me the most powerful part of this is the spiritual energy and healing love which infuses every song.

Shaina's CDs are an important and powerful part of my own healing journey. As with so many people, I find myself often struggling with fears and doubts."You Can Relax Now" is perfect for those times, offering what I experience as lullabies for adults, powerful because there is nothing artifical or inauthentic in them, but they are straight from Shaina's heart. At times they contradict my old recordings so exactly that many healing tears come. At other times I simply remember to breathe again, more deeply. When I need to, I can imagine myself curled up in her lap, being sheltered from the storms of life.

The qualities of unself-conscious, un-held-back genuine tenderness and love and reassurance expressed in these CDs are quite rare in my experience. They could only have come from her dwelling in the truth she sings. She sings as if there is no one to impress, no one to convince, no one watching and judging, just a pure offering of love. What a precious gift!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful!, October 19, 2002

By	Sonja Bohannon (Belvedere, CA United States) - See all my reviews

Since I first played this CD I have listened to it with my children every night as they go to sleep. This recording is truly a masterpiece! Soothing to the heart and yet musically so beautiful. The harmonies move my heart. Shaina and Richard have so masterfully but together some beautiful work. You can "hear" the love they have to share with the world.