Bernadette Yao
Music Composer/Producer, Sound Healer

New music available now!

I composed and produced Solace to create space to process complicated feelings of sadness, anger, and grief. When listening to this piece, find a quiet space where you feel safe to close your eyes, take a deep breath, drawing your breath all the way down towards your elbows, holding the breath, then slow exhale through pursed lips. Allow the music to move you, noticing what comes up in your heart. Shift your energetic focus from fear to love. Come into your center and feel your heart expand.

To deepen your sound/music healing practice while listening to Solace:

Somatic Movement: Gently rocking or swaying while seated can help the body "digest" the sadness or anger that the music stirs up.
Journaling: After the music ends, writing for five minutes without pausing can help capture those "expanded heart" insights.
Vocal Toning: Adding a soft hum to your exhale can further stimulate the vagus nerve, deepening the shift from fear to love.

Available now on Bandcamp, Apple iTunes, YouTubeMusic, Pandora and other streaming services. Please check it out. Thank you!

Credits:

Composed, performed, produced, engineered by Bernadette Yao, ASCAP

Cover Art by Bernadette Yao

LISTEN FILM SCORE

00:00 / 01:02

Intro Mother Earth -
vocal, hopeful

00:00 / 01:34

Stormy Reflection
Vocals, strings, synths, bowls

00:00 / 02:15

00:00 / 01:30

00:00 / 01:13

Spring Seedlings - textures, ethereal

Summer Plantings -
anticipation, hopeful, playful
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Autumn - painful memories -
Singing Bowls
an

Heading 1

00:00 / 02:06

00:00 / 03:32

Winter
Dissonance, soundscapes
Bowls

Springtime Blooms -

colorful expressions

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00:00 / 01:56

Asian Chill

00:00 / 02:36

Middle East Dance

LISTEN SONGS

00:00 / 06:07

How Do I Listen, words by Hafiz, music by Bernadette Yao (translation by Daniel Ladinsky)

00:00 / 03:15

Until, Based on a poem by Hafiz (translation by Daniel Ladinsky), lyrics by Hafiz & Bernadette Yao. Music by Yaniv Salzberg & Bernadette Yao

00:00 / 04:26

Rain

00:00 / 04:32

I Feel

00:00 / 03:29

I Feel Remix demo

00:00 / 03:59

Beautiful Dancer

THE FLOWERKEEPER (Documentary Short)

Nora Jane Long, Director, Cinematographer, Editor

Original music by Bernadette Yao

The Flowerkeeper” directed by @norajanelong, premiered at the 15th Annual American Documentary and Animation Film Festival @amdocfilmfest in Palm Springs, CA, an Academy Award qualifying festival on March 2026. I am so grateful and proud to be asked to contribute to this project as a film score composer.