Global musician and wellness advocate Moby has told Spa Business that while wonderful, most ambient music doesn’t allow people to switch off “because the people who make it want you to pay attention to it”.
He says: “What I had a hard time finding was ambient music just designed to sit in the background to provide an atmosphere of calm.”
This has prompted the music artist, who’s sold more than 20 million albums worldwide, to create his own chill-out tracks which he’s giving away for free. The Long Ambients1. Calm. Sleep album consists of 11 tracks and is available to download or stream and would make a great accompaniment for spas.
He describes the music as having “no drums, no vocals, just very slow, calm, pretty chords and sounds and things for sleeping and yoga and etc.”
Moby explains: “Over the last couple of years, I’ve been making really, really, really quiet music to listen to when I do yoga or sleep or meditate or panic. I ended up with four hours of music and decided to give it away.”
A believer in wellness himself, Moby practices yoga and is known to visit spas occasionally. “When I travel, I’ll sometimes go to the spa if I’m staying in a nice hotel because if you have a day off in a strange city it can be a nice way to kill time,” he told Spa Business, but he adds that there’s still some way to go before consumers truly understand the concept.
“On the one hand it’s really nice people are paying attention to health and wellness, but on the other hand there’s still a disconnect. There’s an idea that you can treat yourself terribly, but if you go to a spa every now and then it’ll all work out.”
Moby who’s also a vegan, recently opened Little Pine, an organic vegan bistro in Los Angeles.
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Global musician and wellness advocate Moby has told Spa Business that while wonderful, most ambient music doesn’t allow people to switch off “because the people who make it want you to pay attention to it”.
He says: “What I had a hard time finding was ambient music just designed to sit in the background to provide an atmosphere of calm.”
This has prompted the music artist, who’s sold more than 20 million albums worldwide, to create his own chill-out tracks which he’s giving away for free. The Long Ambients1. Calm. Sleep album consists of 11 tracks and is available to download or stream and would make a great accompaniment for spas.
He describes the music as having “no drums, no vocals, just very slow, calm, pretty chords and sounds and things for sleeping and yoga and etc.”
Moby explains: “Over the last couple of years, I’ve been making really, really, really quiet music to listen to when I do yoga or sleep or meditate or panic. I ended up with four hours of music and decided to give it away.”
A believer in wellness himself, Moby practices yoga and is known to visit spas occasionally. “When I travel, I’ll sometimes go to the spa if I’m staying in a nice hotel because if you have a day off in a strange city it can be a nice way to kill time,” he told Spa Business, but he adds that there’s still some way to go before consumers truly understand the concept.
“On the one hand it’s really nice people are paying attention to health and wellness, but on the other hand there’s still a disconnect. There’s an idea that you can treat yourself terribly, but if you go to a spa every now and then it’ll all work out.”
Moby who’s also a vegan, recently opened Little Pine, an organic vegan bistro in Los Angeles.
Read more from this issue of Spa Business magazine
Promotional feature: Phytomer
As a pioneer of marine skincare, Phytomer represents a story of three impassioned generations and a dedication to cultivating the purest spa ingredients from the northern French coast
Four Seasons Resort The Nam Hai in Hoi An, Vietnam, has put together a Global Wellness Day
(GWD) agenda with activations rooted in nature and shaped by four pillars of Joy – in
alignment with the day’s theme #JoyMagenta.
The Global Wellness Summit (GWS) will celebrate its 20th anniversary at the 2026 event in
Phuket, Thailand, later this year with the theme: The Science, Art and Soul of Wellness.
Auko, an all-inclusive development, is opening in Phong Nha in Vietnam in Q3 2026, with a
series of 30 tented eco-lodges and wellness hospitality operations by Lumina Wellbeing.
Therme Manchester’s 28-acre development, which will include interconnected glass pavilions
that measure 65,000sq m, will be the largest bathing and wellbeing attraction in the world once
complete, according to prof David Russell, CEO of Therme UK.
Naples Beach Club, a Four Seasons Resort, has opened a 2,800sq m spa called The Sanctuary,
with the design and concept inspired by the Native American people that populated Florida’s
Southwest coast – the Calusa.
Swire Hotels’ luxury hospitality brand Upper House has revealed it will roll out its two-day
House of Healing retreats at its three hotels in Hong Kong, Chengdu and Shanghai.
LVMH-owned beauty house Guerlain will launch up to five spas with partners a year as part of
its plan to expand globally, according to the brand’s international spa and wellness director,
Diane Davody.
A new global study by Kevin Kelly and Peter Yesawich, called WELLSurvey 2.0, has revealed
more than half of consumers in the UK, US and Germany would not choose numerous high-
profile wellness resort brands for a future trip.
Luxury hospitality and wellness pioneer Jeremy McCarthy has launched Leisure Alchemy, a
digital platform that will provide professionals with strategic guidance on how to build
transformational leisure experiences that drive profit.
