Music For Maternity

Posts Tagged ‘therapy’

Have violin, will travel: That was Mark Weingarten’s mantra as he trekked two hours by bus each way from his yeshiva in Yavne to Jerusalem to play music at Hadassah Hospital. “I figured I would just go around to each patient, play for a few minutes, say good Shabbos, and move on,” he recalled. Read more here…

Musician, artist and former social worker Diana Rose Frances founded St. Francis Healing Works to extend access to the healing arts through Spacecraft, a creative re-use store; Forte Expressive Works, a music program, and more. “I consider the creative healing arts anything that connects people to their own human nature,” Frances explains. “Like, in our human nature, we want to make music and sound, we want to move our bodies and dance, we have an instinct to have healthy food and we all feel rejuvenated after we’re around nature and animals.” Read more here…

ALLAHABAD: Music has healing properties, claimed musicians and now, doctors at Beli\TB Sapru hospital too are singing the same tune. To make patients stress free, TB Sapru, known as Beli hospital authorities have introduced music therapy at six wards of the hospital. Read more here…

“Every time I would go to shows and the drummer would be doing a solo my belly would just be going nuts, he responded to that,” she said. So when he started showing anxiety and signs of Autism, Julie used what he loves to help him through regular tasks. Read more here…

CAMDENTON, MO — A local rock band known for helping disabled veterans played an afternoon of music at The Fish and Company
in Camdenton on Sunday in order to raise support for their cause, to give acoustic guitars and music lessons to veterans at Fort Leonard Wood. Read more here…

“Have you ever had music just hit you in a place where it immediately brought you to tears? Music has that power.” This looks wonderful. Winner of the Documentary Audience Award at Sundance 2014 earlier this year, Alive Inside is a doc by Michael Rossato-Bennett about the power that music has to “awaken memories and emotions that have been asleep for years”. Read more here…

Hot off an award-winning streak, Brentwood College singers and instrumentalists are tuned for Friday’s benefit Concert For A Summer’s Eve.The 20th- annual fundraiser for a special-needs program, called Monday Morning Music, will hear hundreds of Brentwood students — groomed by teachers Phil Newns, Elizabeth MacIsaac and Scott McGill — swing into action at the T. Gil Bunch Theatre. Read more here…

The HARP NuLife Residential Treatment Program for addiction and substance abuse related matters announced this week the launch of a breakthrough music therapy program currently unseen throughout the Southern California region. Located in Woodland Hills, California, considered among Los Angeles County’s more prestigious areas, the inpatient recovery facility is merging a professional in-house recording studio within a full-scope therapy program aimed at further enhancing long-term sobriety success rates. Read more here…

The Sunbeams Music Trust has already made its mark in Cumbria, proving the power of music to heal.But now this inspirational charity has its sights set on creating a £2 million music therapy centre on a site at Redhills near Penrith. Read more here…

Taylor Swift has donated $50,000 to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania to fund a new music therapy initiative.The “Love Story” singer’s generous sum will help fund a specialized programming system, which will allow young cancer patients to create and produce their own music during their treatment. Read more here…