The role of positive emotions, optimism and belonging/social support as health protective factors has long been established. Even though many of these results are derived from severely traumatised groups, such as holocaust survivors, the accumulated knowledge has nonetheless general and fundamental significance for our understanding of resilience [5–7]. The role of positive emotions such as love and the social bond for human and animal well-being has meanwhile been accepted even in neuroscience . What is less known is the acknowledgement of music as a related human expression. Jaak Panksepp, the pioneer of affective neuroscience describes in his hallmark publication, Affective Neuroscience—The foundation of human and animal emotions, the role of music as such: “That audiovocal experience speaks to us of our humaneness and our profound relatedness to other people and the rest of nature” . It is striking how much this understanding of music resembles the meaning of yoik expressed by many yoikers. What could confirm the neuroscientist’s perspective better than the statement of a female yoiker Biret Risten Sara from Northern Norway: “Where words end and become insufficient to express the depth of the experience, that is where yoik begins” .