Music For Maternity

The role of music in therapy has gone through some dramatic shifts in the past 15 years, driven by new insights from research into music and brain function. These shifts have not been reflected in public awareness, though, or even among some professionals. Read more here… 

This presentation is the first of the Special Needs Foundation mini-lecture series. Emma Donaldson, co-administrative director of SNFC, said, “These sessions are designed to discuss a range of therapies and expertise in the field of special needs. We were delighted to have Cayman Music Therapy discuss how music can help with special needs children.”   Read the rest here..

“Many people like to come to our residence and meditate at the Singmo Buddhist Institute. We are actually having an open day on Saturday from 10am to 3pm which we are inviting the community to, there you can learn about meditation,” he said. “People are very interested in stress release and Buddhist thought transformation and meditation does this.” Read more here… 

They are wrong. Repetition is its fundamental appeal. Swimming is meditation for people who can’t sit still. You think of little but the next stroke. And the next. And the next. You count the laps. Lose count. Start again. The water washes out all other burdensome thoughts. “It’s like yoga,” a fellow swimmer said to me during the week. Yes, downward doggy paddle. Read more here…

Hall works as a mental health counselor for Uplift Counseling. In addition to the weekly meditation sessions, she is offering a four-week workshop on primordial sound meditation starting Thursday at 7 p.m. Read more here…

‘There’s a lot of coping methods out there that are offered to our veterans. This needs to be one of them,” the heftily built man said in a shaking voice at a meeting of the David Lynch Foundation, which promotes meditation for treating post-traumatic stress disorder. Read more here…

Mulvey has been a very popular fixture on the indie folk-rock scene for about two decades, thanks in part to frequent touring and acclaimed recordings and performances. A Milwaukee native and current resident, Mulvey played, wrote and sang in bands while studying theater at Marquette University. Read more here….

The Waterford Healing Arts Trust’s Healing Sounds music programme presented a live performance by local Group, Jordan’s Rigout at Waterford Regional Hospital on Monday 14th of January. Healing Sounds aims to provide an enjoyable diversion for patients, staff and visitors to the hospital through a programme of high quality live music performances. Read more here…

“I thought, well, you know, even if it makes these kids who have been through so much, if it brings them and afternoon of joy and excitement then that’s what I can do, then that’s what I’ll do,” she said, adding: “I think there’s nothing more hopeful than hearing children’s voices in unison all together. So yeah, I think people will feel that way, I hope so.” Read the rest here…

The Salt Lake Veterans Affairs health care system includes music opportunities in its services. As part of the program, a man who had suffered a stroke was able to write a song for his wife a few years ago, and a Vietnam veteran with PTSD improved by leaps and bounds after a guitar class. Read more here…