“Quieting The Monkey Mind: How To Meditate with Music.” Written by sound healing and New Age music pioneers Dudley and Dean Evenson of music label Soundings of the Planet. 160 pages color. Design, illustrations/photo-illustrations and layout by Bob Paltrow. Seated figure with chakras illustration on book cover by Elijah Evenson, from the Soundings of the Planet album Chakra Healing.

Drawing from over four decades of creating music for meditation and yoga, Quieting the Monkey Mind is filled with practical tips, exercises, photos, and illustrations to support you on an empowering journey of finding peace within. One can learn how to deepen and improve one’s meditation with sound tools and techniques using chanting, toning, mantra, affirmations, kirtan, singing bowls, and recorded music.

Quieting the Monkey Mind: How to Meditate with Music by respected music pioneers and purveyors of peace Dudley and Dean Evenson helps make meditation understandable, accessible and simple to do. Whether you have been meditating for years, or are just beginning on your path, you will benefit significantly from this beautiful guidebook designed for all ages and practices.

Drawing from over four decades of creating music for meditation and yoga, Quieting the Monkey Mind is filled with practical tips, exercises, photos, and illustrations to support readers on an empowering journey of finding peace within.

Quieting the Monkey Mind shares some basic principles of meditation along with a wide array of sound tools and practices that can be used to take one into deeper states of inner peace and meditative bliss. No matter where you are in your meditation practice, the Evensons believe readers will find useful tools and techniques that will allow you to access deeper levels of inner stillness leading to a more rewarding sense of self and personal empowerment.