Music For Maternity

Posts Tagged ‘healing’

SURREY — Whalley’s Long & McQuade music store is ringing in the holiday season once again with its annual painted instrument auction to benefit music therapy efforts at BC Children’s Hospital. The program, which has been running since 2007, sees musical instruments painted by locally and nationally-known artists sold in a silent auction, with proceeds going to the hospital. Read more here…

An infant in the pediatric intensive care unit is soothed by lullabies sung in tempo with the rhythm of her breathing. A toddler recovering from surgery marches to the beat of a drum in his room, encouraging him to walk, unknowingly promoting healing. A teen freestyles, expressing his battle with cancer as he transforms the unit into a recording studio. Read more here…

The newly-founded Friends of the 73a Day Centre recently presented a cheque for £330 to go towards music therapy equipment and craft materials for the centre’s clients. In 2009 the 73A Day Centre changed hands from East Sussex County Council to Together Your Way, a mental health charity based in London. Read more here…

Sweetest music is the kind that can bring joy to children who need it the most. Huntington, the founder of independently owned and operated True Joy Acoustics of Liberty Twp., this week will donate 25 premium Flea-brand ukuleles to the music therapy program at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Read more here…

Curt and Theresa Witeby— no strangers to the Simi Valley Hospital ER and intensive care unit—are now helping patients and their families heal through the “universal language of mankind.” Beginning in mid-December 2006, the Simi Valley couple, ages 61 and 60 respectively, and their three adult children spent 15 days in the emergency ward with Theresa’s father, John Finnegan, after he broke his neck in a serious car accident. Read more here…

Seven-year-old Krish Vyas of Tempe giggles and claps his hands after he strums a guitar. He marches, dances and roars to a song about dinosaurs. He beats drums in time to familiar songs, such as “This Old Man” or “Down by the Bay.” Read more here…

KOCHI: Clad in the customary white cloak, a priest rendered songs ranging from soothing Christian devotional to weighty Carnatic to peppy Malayalam film numbers at Arts and Medicine programme organised at the Ernakulam General Hospital by Kochi Biennale Foundation (KBF). Read more here…

For as long as I can remember, my family members have had a tradition of coming to Thanksgiving dinner prepared with a thought, observation, or piece of artwork that illuminates their gratitude. Read more here…

For people with Alzheimer’s disease, art and music therapy can provide outlets for communication and connections with the past, even after memories and speaking ability are diminished. Read more here…

WEST JACKSON, Tenn. – For ages mothers have sung to their babies to quite their cries and lull them to sleep. That maternal instinct is proving more than just calming. Music therapists say research shows music combined with touch can heal. Read more here…