By Allie Feder and Ben Stanton. Original arrangement for Why I Dance, a film celebrating dance, empowerment, self-love, and a woman's right to her own sexuality. To purchase the track, visit  http://whyidance.bandcamp.com/releases

Down In The River To Pray

Where can we go when we're feeling lonely?

The First Seal

Where can we go?

Dolphin Song

Dolphin Sounds Only

For cellist Dave Eggar, the parallels between Mozart and yoga reside in the (sense of) flow and grace we feel in our bodies. “There is a lot of depth to Mozart’s pieces,” he says. “Where Mozart intersects with yoga is in the depth of these pieces corresponding to the depths of your body on an energetic level.” Just as a master musician creates an effortless journey between the phrases of each piece of music, so the yogi is able to accentuate each posture with a natural poise. This idea was the foundation of his new album, The Yoga Sessions:Dave Eggar Quartet: Mozart (Yoga Organix/White Swan). 

The idea of devoting Mozart to a yoga class happened nearly instantaneously between Eggar and producer David Schommer, founder of Yoga Organix and The Yoga Sessions series. “David told me about his yoga series,” Eggar remarks, “and I had been thinking about how to create music suited for the yoga experience. I go to class a lot, and I hear world music, trance, and singer/songwriter material. I thought it would be an interesting concept to record classical music intentioned to function in a Yoga class.” 

Music has been in Eggar’s life since youth. A natural born prodigy, at age three he learned cello and piano, performing on Broadway and at the Metropolitan Opera by age seven. His training includes time at Julliard and Harvard University, but his passion lies in the healing modalities that music creates and in the exploration of musical diversity. That diversity can be understood through his work: As an Artist, he has recorded the celebrated New Age albums, Serenity, Angelic Embrace, Left of Blue), and most recently his newest, Kingston Morning, which featured contributions by reggae legends Luciano and Sly and Robbie. Eggar's diversity extends through his studio work, recording with the likes of COLDPLAY, Amy Lee and Evanescence, the FLUX Quartet, as well as being featured on numerous original scores for film. He has also been workshopping new pieces with and for his karate dojo, blending his knowledge and practice of the martial arts, and recently performing that collaboration at Lincoln Center for the Arts.

Especially inspired by the D major Andante of Mozart's D Major String Quartet, the 'Prussian' (K.575), Eggar went to work with Schommer and longtime collaborator and Violinist Rachel Golub figuring out exactly how this music would move with the format of a yoga class. “The salutations and flow parts were the most natural to pick pieces for,” he says. "One of the interesting things we found was that slowing down minuet movements elicited a very powerful emotional response. We started playing some pieces at half tempo, and it was beautiful. For the piece 'Vishranti' (For Savasana) and the album starter, "Om" piece we were presented an opportunity to create something original, based off of Mozart's melodic structure".

OM Mozart -sample

I Bow to my Inner Teacher, I Bow to my Inner Light

Ong Namo Guru Dev Namo

Om Namo

Gretta Brodin on vocals
Eric Vaughan on Shakuhachi flute

Hema Lekhaa - Remember

Official Videoclip here:

https://youtu.be/lac3oIqU88E

The day has finally arrived! We are glad to present "Eolus", a composition with Mediterranean essence and other musical influences... This song is part of the album that we are preparing for the end of this year, so we´ve been working hard this last month to be able to present you the videoclip with a Mediterranean flavor filmed in the Maresme, we hope you enjoy it! 🙂

Por fin ha llegado el día! Aquí os presentamos el videoclip de “Eolus”, una composición con aires Mediterráneos con pinceladas de otras músicas… Este tema es uno de los que formaran parte del disco que estamos preparando para finales de esta año, así que hemos estado trabajando duro este último mes para poder presentaros un video con sabor Mediterráneo filmado en el Maresme, esperamos que os guste!

Eolus

Studio singer for film, television, and commercials. Live performer throughout Los Angeles. 