The Wanderer: A Soma Faith Movement Playlist
There are seasons where we don’t have a clear map.
Where direction feels less like certainty and more vague.
This is the space of the Wanderer.
Not lost: discovering.
Not aimless: attentive.
Helen created 3 playlists as part of a Soma Faith movement practice centered on the Wanderer aspect of the Explorer archetype; the one who learns to trust the unfolding path, step by step, breath by breath.
Rather than starting with choreography or structure, I began with a question:
What does it feel like in the body to not know where you’re going and still keep moving?
The answer became a journey through music.
How This Playlist Was Created
Each song was chosen to support a specific phase of embodied movement, mirroring the natural developmental arc of the body:
Beginning in stillness (embryonic)
Awakening through subtle movement (creeping)
Exploring through rhythm (crawling)
Rising into awareness (crouch to standing)
Walking fully present and free (upright wandering)
I wove in global influences: African rhythms, Middle Eastern tones, ambient and instrumental layers, to create a sense of movement beyond borders. The Wanderer doesn’t belong to one place, or one genre. The journey is expansive, human, shared.
The music builds gradually, never forcing intensity, yet certainly the invitation is there, before we can then gently dissolves back into stillness.
An Invitation
This is more than a playlist.
You are invited to sense this as an experience.
I invite you to set aside about 50 minutes, press play, and let your body lead.
You don’t need to perform.
You don’t need to get it “right.”
Just begin where you are:
Start low, close to the ground
Follow small impulses
Let your movement grow naturally
Rise when you feel ready, when it feels right
Walk, wander, pause, listen = anything goes, nothing forced
Let the music guide you, let your body respond.
Closing Reflection
Wandering isn’t about finding the fastest way forward.
It’s about becoming someone who can move without needing all the answers.
My hope is that these playlists gives you space to explore that
not just in your mind, but in your body.
Choose playlist options 1 2 or 3.
Choose to play in order or click shuffle!
Press play.
And begin.
The “world music” wanderer Playlist
Ambre – Nils Frahm
We Move Lightly – Dustin O'Halloran
Midnight – Lane 8
Yèkèrmo Sèw – Mulatu Astatke
Sauti – Niyaz
La Femme d'Argent – Air
Breathturn – Hammock
Dawn – Anoushka Shankar
Abwoon (Our Father) – Lisa Gerrard
Playlist 1: Full 2.5 hours of music.
Playlist 2: Soma Faith Journey 52 mins
Playlist 3: World Music Journey 52 minutes