Album Notes

DRAGON AND PHOENIX: Music for Massage, Yoga, Tai Chi
DRAGON & PHOENIX is a CD of soothing & relaxing music featuring Oriental sounds along with piano & strings. This music is perfect for Massage, Yoga, Tai Chi, Relaxation, Feng Shui, Stress Reduction, opening the bottom three chakras and balancing energy. In traditional Chinese medicine, the dragon represents darkness, water & strength and the phoenix represents the sun, sky and grace. This is the yin and yang of the universe. The music on this CD was composed using balancing elements of lightness & darkness, high notes & low ones, Oriental instruments & traditional Western ones. Dragon & Phoenix is written mostly in the musical keys of C, D & E to help open the root, 2nd and 3rd chakras that keep us grounded.
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HERE'S WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT DRAGON & PHOENIX

MAGICAL BLEND Issue No. 70
"Ahh...I listened to this CD as I meditated and worked on my chakras. The flowing eastern flavor of DRAGON & PHOENIX melded beautifully with my visions. As an accomplished pianist and composer, Marilynn Seits has successfully put her stamp on Oriental and New Age music, as well as bringing out the healing attributes of Reiki... while you listen you feel its healing properties in your chi..."

MASSAGE MAGAZINE Issue 83 Jan-Feb 2000
"DRAGON AND PHOENIX is Marilynn's sixth release on CMR Moongate Records. This hour-long tapestry of continuous ambient piano and Oriental music was originally composed by Seits for a medical Qigong healer, Reiki master and practicing Buddhist, Master Yu Xiang Chun in China. Master Yu developed the "Dragon & Phoenix" moving qigong form to help him recover from illness. The movement was successful in helping him back to health, and led him to ask Seits to compose music representing both the dragon and the phoenix as symbolized through the Chinese art of Feng Shui... Seits balances the symbolism of the yin and yang in this recording by uniting East and West through the marriage of digital samples of Chinese instruments combined with piano, strings and vibraphone. The result is peaceful and harmonious...the Eastern and Western musical traditions blended together..."

NAPRA REVIEW Vol II No. 2 Mar-Apr 2000
"DRAGON & PHOENIX: Music for Massage, Relaxation, Yoga, Tai Chi and Feng Shui by Marilynn Seits. An hour long recording of ambient Oriental sounds and piano flowing smoothly together to form a tapestry of continuous music suitable for massage, Reiki, meditation, Tai Chi, Yoga and stress reduction...:
-Peggy Randall
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If you love DRAGON AND PHOENIX, you will probably also love FEATHERTOUCH, FOR THREE FRIENDS, BLACK DRAGON and THREADS OF VIOLET LIGHT

Marilynn Seits is a composer and pianist who has released 10 CD's of healing music on the CMR Records label. She also practices Tai Chi & Yoga and lives with her golden retriever Phoenix in Florida.