Earth Songs

Most relaxation videos combine beautiful images and a soothing voice to lead viewers into a state of meditative bliss, but filmmaker and body-mind-spirit healing expert Brian Luke Seaward's Earth Songs is more focused on the healing power of nature. Actor Michael York warmly narrates as cameras travel around the planet—stopping at Greenland, Patagonia, Hawaii, Iceland, New Zealand, and other locales—to capture a wide variety of topographies, animals, and climates while making the case that our relationship with nature should be a spiritually nourishing one. Subtitled “Mountains, Water & the Healing Power of Nature,” the film's dazzling imagery—backed by engaging music from Brian Keane and Michael Hoppé—nicely balances long-shot overviews and close-up detail of hummingbirds, glaciers, foxes, rivers, the wild meeting of sea and coast, and more. Also featuring a music-only option for meditation, DVD extras include deleted scenes. Recommended. Aud: P. (T. Keogh)