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Los Angeles, CA 1-7-2012 (JoeDolanPR) A self-assessment of personal wants in your life may often revolve around finding ways to reduce stress, relax and improve focus. These are common desires for anyone who spends hours in the day working, commuting and simply dealing with life’s daily stress. Using the power of healing music to achieve these goals is a tradition that music therapists have implemented for thousands of years, and with Vitale’s healing music, it is a therapy you can apply yourself, in the privacy of your own home. Read more here… 

The music therapy bill cleared the Indiana House’s Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee last week with unanimous support. If it clears the full House, the Senate would need to approve it. Read the rest here…

A violinist, Cecenas played through high school with the Ozark Festival Orchestra. Music therapy is a discipline first used in veterans hospitals. Michigan State University offered a degree in the field in 1944 and it became standardized as a widely recognized discipline in 1988. Professionals formed the American Music Therapy Association in 1998. Read more here…

Some of the clients are confined to wheelchairs. Some struggle with verbalization, while others struggle with motor skills. But during their sessions with DeKeyzer, they are all musicians, if only for a short time. Read the rest here…

MEDINA — Local musicians and students from Baldwin Wallace University are volunteering their time to play music for patients and staff at Medina Hospital. The hospital hopes to host the concerts at least once per month. Read more by clicking here 

A world renowned pianist and part-time faculty member of the music department of Edinburgh University, Tanya has been in her native homeland of Sri Lanka as a volunteer with the SJC 87 Initiative using instruments and song to help local children. “The musical creativity of the children and their amazing smiles as they expressed themselves through music were particularly powerful moments,” recalls Tanya. Read more here…

“The way that forensic music therapy works is the patient will select an instrument and improvise with it. The patient expresses themselves without words, gaining confidence through building the relationships with peers and the therapist in the room sufficient to feel brave enough to select an instrument and to improvise with it – even if they have never used an instrument before.” Read the rest by clicking here… 

The Music Heals series is being produced by Ministry Door County Medical Center and is intended to raise funds for, and awareness of, The Healing Project, a collaboration between MDCMC and the Community Clinic of Door County. Read the rest here…

If you don’t know who Andy Puddicombe is, just wait. Remember when there were no yoga studios in gentrified neighborhoods? The world can change fast. And Andy Puddicombe just might be the one to introduce meditation to the Western market on a comparably massive scale. Read more here…

IRVINE, Calif., Feb. 1, 2013 — /PRNewswire/ — Aviir Inc., a biotechnology company, dedicated to the prevention of cardiovascular disease through innovative laboratory tests, sponsored the Eco Hideaway Music Artist Stage at The Chateaux in Park City, Utah, January 19-21 during the Sundance Film Festival. In collaboration with GUARDaHEART Foundation, a non-profit committed to Heart Disease prevention, Aviir’s Music Stage included a diverse mix of over 30 musical acts, all in support of GUARDaHEART’s SaveThe1 movement, a campaign designed to promote Heart Disease awareness and education. Read more here…