Music For Maternity

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Bugs!” the 1st-grader at St. Paul’s Lutheran School shouted enthusiastically. No, we weren’t in the middle of an entomology lesson. I was giving a demonstration on the didgeridoo, using the actual instrument from the Vogel Library World Music Instrument Collection at Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa. Read more here…

RENO, Nev. – NoteAble Music Therapy Services is a program that works with people of all backgrounds and abilities through music.  Read more here…

Let me say at the outset you not only want Manish Vyas’s Atma Bhakti Healing Sound of Prayer you need it. Composer, multi-instrumentalist and singer Manish Vyas from Gujarat, India is the artist behind such recordings as Healing Ragas, Shivoham, Sattva, Prasad and Prem Joshua and Manish Vyas: Water Down the Ganges with the German fusion musician Prem Joshua.  Read more here…

A experts thanks to the initiatives of the Health Ministry’s Traditional and Complementary Medicine Directorate to officially inaugurate music therapy treatments at hospitals and other health institutions. Music therapy is expected to decrease dependence on prescription drugs, said Dr. Levent Öztürk, a professor of physiology at Trakya University’s Faculty of Medicine. Read more here…

Before Teresita Heinen met “Mr. D.,” the only word he said was “begot.” The man suffered a stroke five years earlier and was in a rehab hospital in Texas. He only spoke this one word in response to any question. Read more here…

EDINBORO, Erie County – A new Edinboro University program will address the region’s growing need for allied health services and prepare students to practice music therapy as a form of care for physical and mental health. It will be available beginning this fall. Read more here…

Music therapy improves the health of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a new study finds. COPD is the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S. Patients with COPD experience symptoms including shortness of breath, wheezing, an ongoing cough, frequent colds or flu, and chest tightness.  Read more here…

The High School for Health Professions is taking action to improve the overall health of elderly in the Orangeburg community. The Health Occupations Students of America chapter and The Knights of the Sound Table band, under the direction of Dr. Donald Lee, collaborated with the Longwood Plantation Assisted Living Community to take music to residents there from 5:30 to 7 p.m. on Dec. 16. Residents enjoyed listening to holiday music performed by the band. Read more here…

Children at special schools in Dorset are able to benefit from live music thanks to donations from a local charity. Talbot Village Trust has given £8,000 to Live Music Now, a charity which has visited each of the Dorset’s six special schools to offer musical sessions to pupils who often find it hard to access live music because of their complex needs. Read more here…

SALT LAKE CITY — A local doula offers a unique service by pairing her expertise and her passion. Music therapist and doula Beth Hardy said she assists parents through labor and birth using personalized music. Read more here…