About

“What can music possibly do here?” said the Hospice Director on our first meeting.

We’re certain that many of you recall the music that is woven into some of your strongest life experiences. Our earliest memories are of music, and many of the dominant experiences in our lives have centered upon music. As touring musicians, we experienced how powerfully music affected audiences. And whether they listened or danced, they were emotionally engaged, physically involved, and transported to a new consciousness.

Our passion to understand and use the power of music coupled with our desire to help others led us to study and master the healing effects of music. We explored and went where the need is great – to hospices to create live music programs. James plays in hospice situations and has witnessed the amazing results of therapeutic music such as patients and their families finding peace, reduced pain, and increased comfort. Six months after we began the first music program, the same hospice director claimed that the music program was so successful that it was responsible for a substantial increase in donations!

Nurses and staff members asked us for music that could be used 24/7 when clinical musicians were not available. As we traveled to various facilities, we saw the extreme need for therapeutic music. We taught professional caregivers how to choose and use therapeutic music to comfort patients.  We shared our knowledge and experience of the science behind the music. Soon healthcare facilities invited us to help their staffs understand and use music to improve patient experiences. We received positive feedback from pastors, chaplains, alternative healthcare practitioners, nurses, social workers, volunteers, and many at-home caregivers who used therapeutic music to support their work.

We believe music is a powerful, greatly overlooked modality for healing. Music can help you heal, rest, recover, balance, restore inner peace and change your thoughts to find new solutions to old problems and behaviors. We want to bring these amazing benefits to you!

Part of our mission is to refute the misinformation, smoke and mirrors, pseudo-science and confusion around ‘healing music’.

A search on the internet for healing music brings mind-numbing results. VanYoung Music is different because every selection of music, affirmations, and meditation is created with the intention to bring healing and created with our clinical and artistic experience. We want to bring you a music experience that REALLY works.

VanYoung Music is a place where you can come for self-care or to share with those in your care. 

Rest assured that all you hear has been composed, performed and recorded for your well-being and wholeness.

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James Schaller C.M.P  & Maria Elizabeth Del Rey

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Composer James Schaller is a Certified Music Practitioner trained to play therapeutic music in medical situations.  Together with his wife, Maria Elizabeth Del Rey, they are Grammy-nominated producers of bilingual family media.  James founded a not-for-profit organization that has mentored thousands of volunteers, clinicians and caregivers in hospices, hospitals, churches, nursing homes and community service organizations to use therapeutic music to relieve pain and suffering.  James is the co-founder of VanYoung Music - an online resource for healing music, affirmations and meditation.

Award-winning recording artist and filmmaker Maria Elizabeth Del Rey creates fresh work for families that articulate the architecture of compassionate, social justice principles through intuitive songs, publishing and family films.

Since 1989 she has released over 60 international award-winning media titles in multiple languages, into the family media market.  Maria is the co-founder of VanYoung Music - an online resource for healing music, affirmations and meditation.

Maria was the founder and publisher of ChildGood Magazine, The Journal for Creative Families. The magazine grew to reach thousands of readers in over 49 countries and consistently listed in the Top 10 for best family magazines in the world on Apple's 'What's Hot List' for over 170 weeks on Newsstand. 

As a family media producer Maria is responsible for over one million internationally distributed units of music, videos, and children’s educational books in collaboration with companies such as Warner, Disney, Hampton Brown-NTL GEO, Random House, and Family Circus.

Among many honors and awards, Maria is a Latin Grammy Award Nominated producer and four-time Parents’ Choice Award Winner of Gold, Silver and Honorable Mention awards. She was also invited to represent the children of the Americas at the United Nations Global Peace Initiative for Women in Geneva, Switzerland. Maria was honored as one of 50 state-role-model women of accomplishment to inspire at-risk girls by The Pennsylvania Commission for Women.