The Savara Journal

There's a particular quality to the sound of singing bowls that's difficult to describe and almost impossible to ignore. It doesn't just fill a room, it changes it. The air feels different, the space feels different. I'll be honest: staying awake while listening back to test recordings of this track was a genuine challenge! The musician behind Rest Our musician Joanna plays regularly for newborns in a hospital setting, so she came to the recording already knowing what works.

There's a moment most parents know. It's late, your baby won't settle, you've tried everything you can think of, and then almost without thinking you start to hum. And something shifts. Not dramatically, not immediately, but something in the room changes and your baby starts to soften. That moment happened to me too, and it's a big part of why Savara exists. But it also shaped one of the most important decisions we made in building it: every sound on Savara would be recorded

If you've spent any time in wellness or music circles, you may have come across the idea of 432 Hz. It has a devoted following, a fair amount of scepticism, and a complicated relationship with scientific evidence. For us, it wasn't a question of whether to build Savara around it. It was always going to be central. Here's why. The basics: what does 432 Hz actually mean? Every musical note is a sound wave vibrating at a specific frequency. The standard modern tuning system is b

I first heard a handpan at my friend Shirley's house. She had it playing in the background and I stopped mid-conversation to ask what it was. It has the warmth of a steel pan but something more meditative underneath it, something that draws you in slowly rather than announcing itself. Right away I knew that I wanted it on Savara. What is a handpan The handpan is a relatively young instrument, first developed in Switzerland in the early 2000s. It's played with the hands, produ