Original song · Tony Skrelūnas
The Warrior's Code
Not the warrior who goes out looking for a fight — the one who gets up before the sun, carries what has to be carried, and comes home whole. Written and recorded by Tony.
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Listen & watch
Put it on.
Let it run.
A word from Tony in the redwoods, a song he wrote, an anthem he plays before every room, and sixteen tracks to fall asleep to.
A word from Tony
One minute, standing in the redwoods.
Filmed at 1440 Multiversity
Tony, among the old coast redwoods at 1440, on what the three days are for — and who they are for.
The songs
Songs are how the old knowledge travels.
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Spoken word · Tony Skrelūnas
A Word Before You Begin
Nine minutes, spoken — the thing Tony says to a room before the breathwork begins. Made for the drive, the walk, or the first hour of the morning.
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The anthem
We Are A Tribe.
On YouTube · 4 min
“We Are A Tribe” by the Temple Step Project, featuring Murray Kyle and friends. Tony plays it before a room and after a room — it says in four minutes what the whole body of work is trying to say.
The Ancestral Watch playlist
Meditation and relaxation. Sixteen tracks, four continents.
Free · always on
Tony's own collection for meditation and relaxation — water songs, Diné chant, Baltic voices, mantra, and a sacred African choir, gathered from the same four corners the books come from.
Put it on and leave it. It is built to run underneath something else: the last hour of work, the drive home, a slow dinner, the long stretch before sleep.
- Water“Sing The Water Song”, “The Water Song”, and Klee Benally on weather changing.
- DinéShí Naashá, Yeha-Noha, and Tony's own Warrior's Code.
- Baltic & beyondNaktìs, Ubuntu Voices, Lokah mantra, Spirit of the Shaman.
Where it all comes from
Four continents, one thread.
Twenty places · one thread
After the headphones
The recording is the invitation. The room is the thing.
Three days in the redwoods, a program for your organization, or the essays to read on the way there.