Posts Tagged ‘music therapy’

PostHeaderIcon Tempe company offers musical therapy for psychological health

Carina Stafford

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

PostHeaderIcon The Healing Touch of Divine Music Moves Patients

Fr Joseph Thattarassery performing at the Ernakulam Government General Hospital at the KBF’s Arts and Medicine programme on Wednesday

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

PostHeaderIcon Elizabeth Frankel: Music therapy mentorship is reason to be grateful

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

PostHeaderIcon Art and Music Therapy Prompt Connections for Alzheimer’s Patients

Art and Music Therapy: Connections for Alzheimer’s Patients

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

PostHeaderIcon A Healing Harmony: Music Therapy & Premies

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

PostHeaderIcon Music helps heal wounded warriors

Angel Figueroa smiles as he leaves the guitar class. Photo: BOB OWEN / BOB OWEN / San Antonio Express-News / © 2014 San Antonio Express-News

Every Wednesday morning, wounded warriors gather at the San Antonio Military Medical Center for therapy that rocks. Warrior Cry Music Project, an organization based in San Antonio, provides free musical instruments and lessons to injured soldiers around the country to help them through the healing process. Read more here

PostHeaderIcon NAC Orchestra shares the ‘healing power’ of music on British tour

Pinchas Zukerman in Edinburgh, where he made a rare address to the audience. conducting the National Arts Centre Orchestra during a recent performance in Edinburgh. (Fred Cattroll/NAC)

The scene was a field of tall, poppy-wearing luminaries, nodding in polite conversation to Prince Charles as Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra came to the Royal Festival Hall in London on Monday night for a concert that is one of the highlights of its tour of the United Kingdom. Read more here

PostHeaderIcon Healing through music


HOLISTIC APPROACH—Ron Hyrchuk, director of spiritual care services at Simi Valley Hospital, is seated Nov. 18 at a player piano donated by Curt and Theresa Witeby to the Healing Arts program Hyrchuk founded. 
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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.” Read more here

PostHeaderIcon Dylan Kuehl: Healing the World and Living the Dream through Music

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What’s your dream? Are you living it today? If you are like me, you probably have it stored up on a shelf in your “someday” closet. I recently met a young man named Dylan Kuehl who lives his dreams every day. Dylan is 31-years-old, and a quick look at his resume makes me feel like I have some serious catching up to do. Published artist, motivational speaker, visual and performing arts company owner – these are some of the hats Dylan wears every day. He also wears an advocate’s hat because Dylan happens to have Down syndrome. Read more here

PostHeaderIcon Music therapy gets tech twist


Music therapist Lara Robinson shares a song with Cedarstone Enhanced Care residents Mildred Porter and Tonya Dean in Truro. Robinson manages the newly launched iPod Pharmacy in the area, taking donated iPods and loading them with music to meet clients’ needs and musical preferences. (STAFF)

TRURO — It’s medical music to Lara Robinson’s trained ears. “They had a lot of success with it out West, so I’m excited,” Robinson, a music therapist at Cedarstone Enhanced Care in Truro for the past 16 years, said of the iPod Pharmacy program. The program collects good-as-new iPods from people who don’t use them anymore, pairs them with new headphones donated from Skullcandy and an iTunes gift card and delivers them to music therapists for use with their clients. Read more here

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