About Serena’s Prelude:
Serena’s Prelude, the first track on Serena’s Garden, is a progressive relaxation exercise, one of the simplest and most effective relaxation techniques. Created by Dr. Peter Desberg, a practicing clinical psychologist and professor, this exercise gracefully and gently guides you into a looser, more relaxed mindset with an effective and easy breathing awareness technique.
One of the great advantages of learning a progressive relaxation technique like Serena’s Prelude, is the ease with which you can apply it almost anywhere, anytime. Whether you’re waiting in an airport, or just trying to relax, ease headache pain and melt away tension at home or work, you’ll find this progressive relaxation technique helpful and easy to apply. The music of Serena’s Garden is the ideal accompaniment for relaxation and stress-relief, spa treatments such as massage, facials and aromatherapy as well as meditation, yoga or any of the healing arts. Serena’s Prelude provides a great “entre” to a more relaxing and enjoyable mind-body-spirit experience.
About Serena’s Garden: Stephen’s music enhances relaxation by offering a lush, soothing collection of compositions designed to slow the rhythms of the body and the nervous system while entertaining the listener with beautiful melodies and instruments chosen from a pan-cultural palette. This is music designed to unleash the imagination, quiet the mind and create a deep sense of well-being
MUSICAL INSPIRATION
“There are really no formulas for creating something that’s relaxing. I think that a composer can find a place inside where, in writing something, you actually feel the experience of letting go and relaxing or you feel the experience of opening to a space that’s beyond thought. Maybe it’s a question of identifying that place in oneself creatively and then expressing it musically.” “I have always been in love with music, in love with the experience of making music. My father wrote concert and chamber music and my mother was a violinist and dancer. Music had a special place in our life; it was revered and it was a special kind of treat to be enjoying music. . . Every music project that I take on has a special challenge; I got interested in doing relaxation music because I’m intrigued with that natural meeting place of being involved in a spiritual practice and thinking about healing myself first and then healing other people. SERENA’S GARDEN brings a lot of things together because in a way it’s an individualistic type of creative project but on the other hand, it’s intended very much to communicate with people in a very universal place.” –Stephen Cohn
Running time: 60 min