Sunset

By: The Big Quiet

Narrated by: Jesse Israel, Jackie Cantwell

Immerse yourself in a guided breathwork exercise that leads you into a detailed body scan over music featuring chimes, an ocean drum, and the harmonium-like shruti. The experience creates the ideal blend of focus and relaxation to help you become more centered and calm at the end of the day.

Jesse Israel was a successful music executive running his own label when debilitating anxiety and panic attacks forced him to step back and seek help. When he found meditation, it inspired him to switch gears in a big way. He founded The Big Quiet, a mass meditation movement that gathers thousands of people for large-scale moments of quiet around the world (including for Oprah’s 2020 Vision Tour with WW). Jackie Cantwell, who joins him in guiding this meditation, is the director of Medi Club and musician for The Big Quiet.

Guided by leading experts and personalities in wellness, sleep meditations are brief listens focused specifically on helping you decompress before bed. They don’t require any previous experience — they're easy to get into and designed to help you take a moment at day’s end to just relax.

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Jenavieve Varga: Violin

Jackie Cantwell: Shruti, crystal bowls, ocean drum

Topu Lyo: Cello

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Surprisingly good

I found this very relaxing. The guided meditation was very well set up and just found myself drifting off. Will definitely be listening to this again.

Fairly well, but off putting about halfway.

I’m fairly new to meditation and auditable, but half way through this one you get a very loud part and it was very unsettling at least for me.

relaxing!

Very nice and relaxing to listen to at the end of the day. I enjoyed it very much

Slightly jarring voices but still relaxing

I really like the meditative breathing. Even though the female voice comes across more like an instructor than a soother, I’m still able to relax. The male voice that follows the deep breathing always jars me a little—seems a little too loud following the very restful state I get in from the deep breathing exercises. Once I adjust to his voice, I am able to enjoy the sound bowls or whatever and continue to relax. Every time he speaks after a period of just restful noise, it jars me a little. Last night was the first time I was unfortunately still awake at the end and I thought they did a really great job with the sounds just sorta fading. All in all, this is one of my top 5 to fall asleep to. Just wish the voices were a little softer and less jarring.

Ok until the end

Why would you want to try to lull someone to sleep and then in the last two or three minutes jar them awake with what sounds like a bad version of a rain/ wind storm?

Perfect for an afternoon power nap

Just right for my afternoon power nap! I feel rested like I slept an hour. Wish it was one reader, as sometimes the switch from female to male voice startles me as I drift into the nap.

Well. This actually makes you sleep

Amazing book. This really makes you sleep. I use it every night now and I love it.

A little bit different.

I liked the narrator. some music wasn't relaxin6. On the whole a relaxing tape.

Loud ending?

For the most part, I think this is a fine evening meditation. I listened to it a couple of times to help me fall asleep, which it did. My complaint is in the ending, after the guided meditation stops. There are a couple of minutes of sudden, loud noises that startled me awake. Maybe this would be helpful if you wanted to be woken up, but I found it flustered me and spiked my heart rate back up. I won’t be listening to it again.

Plus and minus

Good guidance with words; jarring sound halfway through; voice and sound not balanced well in the mixing of the recording. Voice was too loud compared to sounds.