Alt Yoga

When you want your vinyasa flow to really flow, the right sonic environment is crucial — you need music that will let your thoughts stream freely, allow your pranayama (breathing) to cleanse and elevate, and invite your asanas (poses) to reach their full physical potential. Enter Alt Yoga Essentials, our playlist of carefully selected scene-setters for your essential yoga practice. These unique sounds make it that much easier to achieve peak mind-and-body energy exchange, so surrender to the sonic wash of Yeasayer’s “Waves,” relax into the propulsive mantra of LCD Soundsystem’s “Great Release,” and shine your heart to the acoustic ambience of Bon Iver’s “Skinny Love.”

While Cocteau Twins conjure a “Lazy Calm,” we’re steaming into Next Steps for more Alt Yoga sounds.

A meaningful yoga practice demands serenity, whether you strive to achieve spiritual peace, meditative bliss, or even just a ripped physique. That’s why we’ve done our best to ensure an atmosphere of calm and tranquility where — and whenever — you crave it, with everything from the soft sonic radiance of Yume Bitsu’s “Surface I,” to the shimmering melodies of Röyksopp’s weightless “In Space,” to the yoga-perfect philosophy of Telefon Tel Aviv’s “Life Is All About Taking Things In and Putting Things Out.”

“You Own Me,” sing the American Analog Set, and we help you to own your practice with more Alt Yoga Essentials in Deep Cuts.

Attaining mental and physical oneness gets just a little easier when our uncommon Alt Yoga Essentials set introduces the determined sonic drive of Windy & Carl’s “Resolution.” We’re here to help you get all you can from your relationship with this ancient practice, whether you’re just beginning to find a new you to the sunrise sounds of Carpet Musics’ “Dawn,” or following a path you know in your very muscles to the tones of Dabrye’s “Encoded Flow.”

Yoga is more than just exercise — it’s a holistic discipline that works mind, body, and spirit to enhance strength and flexibility, bring bodily functions into balance, and even massage internal organs, all while striving to achieve a meditative inner peace. You’re definitely going to need more than just a good beat to motivate and enhance your yoga practice, which is where Alt Yoga Essentials comes in. Our long-lasting set of tranquil yet non-traditional tunes offers a serene and steady musical environment to help guide you to ultimate yoga fulfillment. Which means that Grizzly Bear is standing by for when you’re “Ready, Able,” and receptive to the radiant, rousing ripple of “Wake” from Darker My Love, Tristeza’s light-and-dark balancing act “Chiaroscuro,” and the so-high sounds of Boards of Canada’s celestial “Skyliner.”