Music For Maternity

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Music therapy is the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship, according to the American Music Therapy Association. Read more here…

A professor and her class at the University of Iowa have brought music-therapy sessions to people all over the area this semester, ranging all the way from pre-schoolers to dementia patients. Read more here…

Music therapists worked with the mothers of 272 premature babies for several sessions over two weeks using either two instruments, singing or no music. Playing live music to a prematurely born baby can slow its heartbeat and make the child breathe more easily, according to a new study. Read more here…

The American Music Therapy Association uses music therapy, which is officially defined as the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship. Read more here…

The researchers concluded that live music, played or sung, helped to slow infants’ heartbeats, calm their breathing, improve sucking behaviors important for feeding, aid sleep and promote states of quiet alertness. Read more here…

It sounds so obvious, I know. In fact, you’d think it would go without saying. But training the mind, meditating, being mindful, or whatever else we choose to call it only works if we actively engage with it. Read more here…

The harpist was Barb Guagliardi, one of several volunteers who play music to comfort patients, their friends and family members, and the hospital staff members who pass through the atrium. Read more here…

“We believe that music is healing, and our mission is to partner with organizations that aid at-risk children, but do not yet offer music. Read more here…

Yoga has been around for several millennia, and North Americans are relative newcomers to its practice. Yoga is a holistic technology that balances mind, spirit, and body and is central to Indian health practice. Read more here…

Musicians have been at the forefront of healing and optimizing health for the past decade. In a recent study that appeared in the journal Experimental Psychology aptly entitled “The Joys of Spring,” scientists using EEG technology to measure brain activity discovered that the uplifting “Spring” concerto from Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons can boost mental alertness while enhancing attention and memory. Read more here…