Soundtrack for Home Workouts
Soundtrack for Home Workouts
From Roof of the World to Your Living Room
It was deep winter 2007, and I was heading up to Shelburn Falls, MA to write a story about Vipassana meditation for Fortune magazine. It was seriously snowing, and I shared a Hertz SUV with the photographer, a British ex-rocker in vintage tweeds and no overcoat named Steve Pyke. Pyke, it turned out, had made his name shooting old musician pals like Joe Strummer and Johnny Rotten in the 1980s. Crawling up I-91 in the snow, Pyke and I talked of music and meditation, and pretty soon he asked me if I had ever listened to a Tibetan singer named Yungchen Llahmo, for whom he'd shot some cover art. No, I confessed. He looked at me hard, and I promised I'd buy the CD if we survived the blizzard. We did, and I did, and Tibet, Tibet is now my go to soundtrack for yoga in the home. Run, don't walk to Amazon, where it's currently availabe for as little as $4.91. Best five dollars you'll ever spend.
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