Meet Taiina (Tolle): The Wellness Music Artist Creating Soundtracks for Stillness
As the demand for wellness music, meditation music, and sleep music continues to grow, artists are finding new ways to create spaces for calm through sound. For Los Angeles-based composer and producer Tatiana Sowers, known to listeners as Taiina and to the Plenitude community as Tolle, creating music for wellness has become a natural extension of a lifelong relationship with music, curiosity, and quiet.
While many listeners know Tolle for immersive ambient compositions designed for relaxation, mindfulness, meditation, and sleep, Tatiana’s creative world extends well beyond the wellness space. She is also an accomplished producer, composer, and recording artist under her own project, Taiina.
Like many children growing up in Russia, Tatiana began studying piano at an early age. At first, practice felt more like an obligation than inspiration. Everything changed when she found herself alone at the piano, away from lessons and expectations.
“I remember just doodling on the piano and coming up with melodies I liked,” she says. “Those were my first moments of excitement and of finding my own inspiration and footing in music outside of school.”
Those quiet moments of exploration became the foundation for a career built on curiosity, emotion, and sound design.
“A friend asked me to create music for his meditations, and that started my fascination with this world.”
Already someone who values meditation and intentionally seeks moments of calm throughout her day, composing music for meditation felt like a natural creative path. What started as a single collaboration soon evolved into a deeper exploration of ambient sound, mindfulness, and restorative listening.
Today, the techniques she developed while composing meditation music continue to influence every aspect of her work, whether she’s producing for other artists, composing for film and television, or writing under her Taiina project.
For Tatiana, inspiration rarely arrives in predictable ways.
Nature is an endless source of ideas, but so are everyday sounds that many people overlook. A melody playing in the distance, the rhythm of city life, or even traffic outside her Los Angeles home can unexpectedly become the spark for a new composition.
One particularly memorable discovery came during a sound bath.
She heard a practitioner playing two Koshi bells simultaneously, creating shimmering layers of overtones that felt almost endless.
“I felt like I could hear swarms of music and harmonies,” she recalls. “I’ve been using them in my music ever since.”
It’s this openness to listening that gives her ambient wellness music its organic, evolving quality. Alongside her synthesizers, pedals, and digital instruments sits an ancient folk instrument called the Gusli, often compared to a miniature harp.
Rather than relying on one signature sound, she lets each project determine its own sonic palette.
“I like coming up with a theme for the album I’m creating and gravitating toward whichever instruments or sounds feel inspiring at that moment.”
Whether those sounds originate from acoustic instruments, software synthesizers, or field recordings, they become part of immersive compositions designed to help listeners slow down, relax, and reconnect.
Tatiana’s musical influences span centuries and genres alike. Artists including Radiohead, Nina Simone, Jeff Buckley, Chopin, Rachmaninov, and Debussy have all helped shape her artistic voice. That broad musical foundation allows her to create ambient music and wellness soundscapes that feel both emotionally expressive and harmonically rich.
While Taiina explores a wide range of musical ideas, Tolle has become a space dedicated to studying emotion through sound. Each release begins with a central concept. One album explored the relationship between analog synthesizers and natural environments. That project eventually inspired a new creative direction centered around sunset.
“The kind of music you’d listen to as the world is quieting down, or as you’re falling asleep,” Tatiana explains. “There’s a very specific feeling and visual that goes with that time of day, and Tolle is where I get to explore all of that and put it into sound.”
The result is music designed to accompany evening routines, mindfulness practices, relaxation, and restful sleep—inviting listeners into moments of stillness at the end of the day.
Now based in Los Angeles, Tatiana originally studied voice before expanding into songwriting, composition, production, and sound design. Outside the studio, she’s a mom, a pet owner, and someone who continues to find wonder in music’s ability to transform everyday moments.
“I’m very grateful for music,” she says. “It’s been the one constant that’s given me inspiration, energy, and wonder.”
Whether you’re looking for calming background music while you work, music for meditation, or peaceful sounds to help you fall asleep, Tolle’s growing catalog reflects the heart of what wellness music can be: intentional, immersive, and deeply human.