“Even the best instruments need to be tuned,” says RIOPY. “I see the body as an instrument: We are the original embodiment of music. With this program, my hope is that people can take a moment to ‘tune’ themselves; to bring their mind and body into closer harmony, and in this way move themselves a bit closer to feeling calm and at peace.” TUNE YOUR MIND [by RIOPY] provides original sound meditations delivered without dogma and backed by neuroscience. This initiative reflects RIOPY’s work with binaural beats therapy, a field of sound therapy that works with the fact that our left and right ears each receive a slightly different frequency, which our brain then processes as a single tone. Listening to music pitched at different frequencies to heighten this binaural effect can help the brain reach the theta state — the same state activated during deep meditation. In addition to being rooted in peer-reviewed study, these are the same personal audio tools that RIOPY has used in his own daily meditation which, along with music, was key in his own personal healing journey. Growing up in a cult in rural France where music was banned, it was a chance encounter with a piano that gave him both an outlet and a sanctuary from childhood trauma. Since then, RIOPY has been an advocate for music’s use in helping others to do the same. Much like John Cage and Philip Glass before him, he has turned his music into a meditative practice and found the musical qualities inherent in meditation.