1. Of, relating to, or being New Age
2. Contemporary, modern

A soft soothing form of instrumental music often used to promote relaxation.

Movement of the late 1980s characterized by an emphasis on the holistic view of body and mind, alternative (or complementary) medicines, personal growth therapies, and a loose mix of theosophy, ecology, oriental mysticism, and a belief in the dawning of an astrological age of peace and harmony.
Drawing on the hippie counterculture of the 1960s, new-age ideas include monism and pantheism, preferring intuition and direct experience to rationality and science. Critics of new-age thinking argue that it is so eclectic that it is incoherent. Nonetheless, new-age principles have inspired many business organizations to decentralize and produce less rigid management hierarchies. The rise of European Green parties provided the new-age philosophy with a practical and political forum for its ideas.