Our main sources of references are international medical and musical library databases PubMed, ScienceDirect, Web of Science and JStor and Norwegian databases for university libraries. We used search words “Yoik/Joik/jojk/sami singing and health”, “indigenous singing/music and health”, “music and emotions”. Inclusion criteria for yoik was works concerning yoik as music. Nonetheless, the topic turned out to be too heterogeneous and complex and possibly not clinical enough for a systematic or scoping review. Therefore this review is to be understood as theory building Review article striving for a scholarly review of the literature. Moreover, these results are integrated in well established knowledge and theories from stress research, behavioral medicine and health psychology.