“Such a beautiful and unique experience in an amazing space”
– Lie Down and Listen attendee
Lie Down & Listen returns to Edinburgh this June 2026. Experience a deeply relaxing sound healing and lying down classical concert experience like no other, offering an opportunity to experience metamorphosis and shift energy through sound and music.
Experience Lie Down and Listen 'Metamorphosis'
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As you enter the stunning cathedral space and you'll cosy up on soft mattresses, cushions and blankets.
iThen, Christina will guide you into deep relaxation and deep listening, allowing you to feel the pure and resonant vibrations of Tibetan bowl sound healing followed by live classical music.
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You won’t just hear the music, you’ll feel it.
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At the heart of the experience is Philip Glass’s Metamorphosis — the transformative five-
movement work. Hypnotic and deeply moving, the music captures a life experience, with the inner movements generating energetic and rhythmic drive, passion and at times relentlessness, before settling into the stillness and reflective state of the fifth and final movement.
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You’ll leave feeling rested, connected and perhaps even transformed.
"De-stress and get your culture fix all in one"
Evening Standard Magazine
"Utterly blissed out"
Financial Times
Location
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St Giles Cathedral,
High St, Edinburgh, Scotland EH1 1RE, UK
Tickets
£50
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​Includes the 90mins experience,
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Mattresses, cushions, blankets provided.
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The concert experience has partnered in unique heritage spaces in Scotland, including The Collectors Hall in Glasgow and St.Giles Cathedral in Edinbugh. The spaces themselves are as much part of the experience, offering guests to truly dwell and experience a feeling of awe in historical and natural places and spaces,
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Meet Your Host: Christina McMaster
Classical pianist, sound healer and founder of Lie Down and Listen
“One of the most talked about concerts of our festival.” Alistair MacGowan, Artistic Director of Ludlow Piano Festival
“She is an incredibly sensitive intuitive player who brings out the mystery and beauty of these pieces”
Sarah Walker BBC Radio 3
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​Founder and Classical Pianist Christina McMaster noticed that it wasn't only the rituals of classical music concert halls that led to a disconnected listening experience, but in daily life, we are experiencing more disconnection than ever, leading to loneliness, anxiety, stress, sense of emptiness etc.
Lie down & Listen began after a chance meeting with Prof. Sir John Strang and a series of events at Kings College London to recreate the wellbeing benefits of a hallucinogenic experience without hallucinogenics- but simply using a certain combination of music in a lying down concert experience as they did in the 1960’s in downtown New York loft apartments where music of Philip Glass, Terry Riley, Steve Reich - also known as the New York Hypnotic School.
After training in sound healing, Christina then evolved the meditation, sound healing and lying down concert experience of today which creates space for deep relaxation and for listeners to reconnect within.
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Find out more about Christina here.
"Powerful healing experience. Body tingling all over with energy moving and incredible feeling of lightness"
"Total immersion and resonance"
"I felt so relaxed and was made aware of a lot going on in my body and space"
"Blessed to share these moments with people who love and let love in"
The sound bath element cleared so much from my mind. I felt connected at that point on a different level - it was other worldly"
