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GREENVILLE, SC (FOX Carolina) – A nationally recognized music therapy program could come to Greenville Hospital System if the community rallies to get it there. The Jeffrey Frank Wacks Music Therapy program combines uplifting songs and group therapy to create a communal healing process for cancer survivors and patients. Cancer survivors tested the program out Tuesday, as a certified music therapist came to the Greenville Cancer Institute to demonstrate the benefits of the program. Read more here…

Music not only has its effects on the body, but it also helps in releasing a hormone called serotonin which happens to be the feel good hormone and helps in promoting the feeling of happiness and helps our moods to stay away from anxiety. Read more here…

Sager, a music therapist, artist and composer, explained how direct engagement in the creative arts can help heal people and act as a medicine for the mind, body and soul. “Music is a powerful way to engage people,” Sager said. “Direct engagement brings a person back. Gone are the days of passive observing. It’s about remaining active and participating.” Read more here…

Once a Sunday School pupil at The Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea, Nicholas Sager returned to the church Saturday to lead a workshop, Creativity and Aging. “There are so many negative stereotypes about aging, and we forget that we’re more than our disease,” Sager said. “Creativity allows us to wake up what’s alive within us.” Read more here…

If you ever wondered whether music could help protect your health, consider the life of Maria von Trapp – “Louisa” in “The Sound of Music.” Read more here…

(KPLR) – On Monday’s Afternoons on 11, music can be a powerful motivator and impact on people’s lives. Today April will show us how music is being used to promote healing in the St. Louis area. Read more here…

Marchers turn up the volume on music therapy. MISSISSAUGA — Dressed in orange and handing out fliers, around 20 campaigners marched through Port Credit on Sundayin an effort to highlight the transformative power of music. Read more here…

Music can bring back distant memories and have a big impact on a person’s mood. For the past year, Kylie Klym, an accredited music therapist, has taken advantage of music’s therapeutic qualities to help residents at four long- term care homes in Sudbury. Read more here…

Musicologist John Lehman visits SarahCare of Campbell adult day care center every Monday and Wednesday to spend one hour with the elderly. As executive director of the nonprofit Senior New Ways, his mission is to enhance the lives of adults who are 65 years old and older in the South Bay by stimulating their memories with music. Read more here…

Russell Peters, who owns Tonal Connections Music Therapy and moved to Thompson in the summer of 2010, is the only music therapist in Northern Manitoba. He carried his daughter, Ella, around the walking track March 30 at the Thompson Regional Community Centre (TRCC) as part of the local four-kilometre walk to raise money and awareness for music therapy. Read more here…