Yoga Music for Classes and Wellness Video

Nearly all of it: about nine in ten tracks have no vocals, so an instructor's cues never compete with a lyric. The one vocal exception in the current lineup is Jonathan Still's African Chill, which carries voice, so preview it before placing it under spoken guidance. Everything else, from Outhouse's Prana to Crushed Stars's Asleep On A Bus Near Lowell and Tear Ceremony's Field Test, is instrumental.

It is built for both, though it leans still. Meditation and yoga are tagged equally across the collection, and the dominant sub-genres are relaxation, static drones and ambient textural pieces, with percussion present on only a handful of tracks. That makes it a natural fit for savasana, breathwork, guided meditation and slow hatha or yin sequences. For a faster vinyasa or power flow, look for the few tracks with percussion and preview them for pace; Pat Andrews's Yoga Workout Vid is titled with fitness video in mind.

Slow electronic drones, soft keyboards and world instruments define it, with hushed electric guitar and occasional strings, in the lineage of Biosphere, Brian Eno, Loscil and Lemongrass. What sets it apart from generic spa beds is the new age and ambient core plus an ethnic fusion strand: Chalf Hassan's Andalussia and Jonathan Still's African Chill bring North African and world color, while wolfram gruss's Ostwall and PNFA - A Break in the Clouds sit at the pure drone end.

Tracks average a little under four minutes, so a sixty minute class typically uses a sequence of fifteen or so cues rather than one long piece. Because most of them are drone or texture based with few hard hits, consecutive tracks crossfade cleanly and a single cue can be repeated for a long hold without an obvious seam. Study and aerial drone footage are also tagged, which tells you the tempo stays slow throughout.

It is royalty-free, not free, and the difference matters. Royalty-free means you pay for a license once and owe no ongoing royalties however many times the class video, recording or podcast is played; it does not mean the music costs nothing. Instructors and studios license tracks through a Personal or Commercial plan, billed monthly or annually, and every license is perpetual for the finished work it covers, with all tracks cleared for commercial use including monetized YouTube, social and client work.