Dudley Evenson is a best-selling author, multi-media producer, harpist, and photographer. She and her husband, Dean Evenson, are sound healing pioneers and have produced over 90 albums and videos since founding their label Soundings of the Planet in 1979.
Over the years, they have shared their music and guided meditations before such noted authors as Deepak Chopra, Joan Borysenko, Larry Dossey, Iyanla Vanzant, Denise Linn and don Miguel Ruiz.
For decades, Dudley and Dean have been on the cutting edge of music and media that heals and uplifts, consistently taking people to a place where peace prevails. Their motto Peace Through Music is reflected in their inspiring music of flute, harp and natural sounds which has been used in hospitals, prisons, schools, yoga, massage and spiritual centers to support people's healing or life process.
In 2018, Dudley released the book Quieting the Monkey Mind: How To Meditate With Music, co-authored with husband Dean Evenson. Drawing from over four decades of creating music for meditation and yoga, Quieting the Monkey Mind is filled with practical tips, exercises, photos, and illustrations to support readers on an empowering journey of finding inner peace in our often chaotic world. The Evensons believe readers will find useful tools and techniques that allow access to deeper levels of inner stillness leading to a more rewarding sense of self and personal empowerment.
In response to the often asked question “What is the benefit of meditation and music?”, Dudley Evenson shares, “What we endeavored to accomplish with Quieting The Monkey Mind, is to help make meditation understandable, accessible and simple to do. At its core, meditation is an inner training of our mental processes to attain a calm state of centered balance, awareness and spiritual expansiveness. It is a powerful and beneficial tool that can assist you in all aspects of your life. Silence and music are not only calming but deeply healing.”
In 2021, Dudley published her latest book, A Year of Guided Meditations: 52 Weekly Affirmations, a collection of 52 high-powered affirmations based on practical wisdom guiding us to affirm and manifest the best parts of our being. Out with the old, negative, and self-limiting thoughts - in with the new, empowering and positive beliefs. Affirmations allow us to recondition, re-program and re-set our perceptions and beliefs with greater clarity and wisdom—so we can be happier, more at peace, and more successful in our lives.
Each affirmation in A Year of Guided Meditations is complemented with beautiful contemplative photography and additional background information, allowing you to go deeper while personalizing each affirmation to fit your own life. Every week, explore and fine-tune another facet of yourself. Being able to focus on one guided meditation a week is an effective way to entrain yourself with more positive thought patterns—while allowing time to immerse, reflect, assimilate and integrate each one of these provocative and positive affirmations.
Dudley Evenson has written articles ranging from healing music, chakras, affirmations and relationships to environmental issues which have been published in Massage Magazine, Massage and Bodywork Magazine, Natural Awakenings, New Age Retailer, Napra Trade Journal, Children of the Dawn, Whatcom Watch, and The Bellingham Herald.
Evenson is currently working on an autobiographical book about Soundings of the Planet and her family’s adventurous journey from the ’60s to the new millennium.