On this page, Professor Nigel Osborne offers slow breathing exercises that use music to harmonise respiration with the rhythms of your heart and the flow of your circulation. Why breathe to music? Breathing to Bach Breathing to Bossa Nova Breathing to Marvin Gaye Why breathe to music? Hello, my name is Nigel Osborne, I am […]

On this page, music therapist Emmeline McCracken has created videos to help you to transport and transform yourself through music. They are also intended to be useful in other moments in your life, when you are no longer listening. We all use music almost every day to transport ourselves to other realms. Perhaps we listen […]

Music & Videos Wellbeing diary Discover the science Meet the team Feedback Welcome Music can help you change the way you feel. From Mozart to Marvin Gaye, and from Metallica to Mongolian voices, here you can listen to playlists to lead you from one state of mind and body to another in the way that […]

Welcome. If you’ve joined us here, you are feeling your usual self but would like to relax. If you are participating in the wellbeing survey you will find a link back to it once the playlist is complete. Please click on any playlist to begin. The music will begin close to your current state of […]

Welcome. On this page you can find playlists for the elderly, designed to be played by staff and carers at care homes and in the community. The playlists are approximately fifty minutes to an hour long, created for easy use. Artists and repertoire have been selected on the basis of the musical interests of residents […]



Welcome. In this section we will offer playlists for specific challenges in mental health such as depression, trauma, coping with bereavement or abuse, or difficulties in focus and concentration. For the some of these issues we have a solid foundation of scientific evidence for the benefits of music. For others we are inviting those who […]

Welcome. If you’ve come to this page, you are feeling your usual self but would like to liven up. If you are participating in the wellbeing survey you will find a link back to it once the playlist is complete. Please click on any playlist to begin. The music will begin at a “normal” level […]

Welcome. If you’ve joined us here, you are feeling good and would like to relax some more. If you are participating in the wellbeing survey you will find a link back to it once the playlist is complete. Please click on any playlist to begin. The music will begin close to your current state of […]

Welcome. If you have chosen this page, then you are probably feeling lethargic or “low”, and would like to feel better. If you are participating in the wellbeing survey you will find a link back to it once the playlist is complete. Please click on any playlist to begin. The music will begin “where you […]