Music For Maternity

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Rigorous yoga is not recommended, because intense workouts can be detrimental to reproductive health.  Do sequences that feel luscious, connecting, and grounding. Move away from more demanding aerobic practices such as Ashtanga or power yoga, toward a more mindful approach to asana. Read more here…

Music therapy cannot be practiced as a pain reducer exclusively, but it can work if it is done alongside scientific treatment,” said Dr Venkatesh Neugi, an anaesthetist and a leading figure in pain therapy in Goa. Dr Neugi said that for patients admitted in ICU, music therapy is one of the remedies when they are on life support system. Read more here…

Breathing is intimately connected with life energy, and meditators throughout the ages have used that fact to refine their practice. Hindu yogis call the energy that we draw into ourselves when we breath prana and the practice of focusing consciousness through awareness of the breath pranayama. Read more here…

Music can also help patients who have difficulties in speech after having suffered strokes, he said, adding: “Music can also help unlock memories”. Music has unparalleled capacity to reduce pain and anxiety. Read more here…

Diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome when she was 4, Summer struggles with the socialization skills that come naturally to others. Her mother, Christie Wilkinson, said music has been the great equalizer for her daughter, the place she can go to shut down the exaggerated noises of the outside world inside her head. Read more here…

Meditation is gaining advocates among the medical community, with research showing its benefits for Alzheimer’s patients and sufferers of chronic inflammation. After 8 hours, the meditators showed a range of genetic and molecular differences, including reduced levels of pro-inflammatory genes. Read more here…

Mindfully meditating on the flow of the breath naturally brings us into the present while bringing our awareness inward, rather than being focused outward. The breath is just breathing, and yet it is never the same, each breath is completely different to the last one. Read more here…

It’s no secret that mindfulness meditation — a practice that encourages focusing attention on the present moment — can ease emotional stress. And evidence is mounting that mindfulness also may have key benefits for your physical health — from lowering blood pressure to helping curb addiction. Read more here…

Music therapy is different from music education and entertainment as it focuses on health, functioning and wellbeing, and music therapists work with people of any age and ability, culture or background. The use of music in healing has had a long history, but music therapy as a profession began to develop formally in USA in the 1950s to help war veterans suffering from physical and emotional problems. Read more here…

There’s no one right way to practice mindfulness meditation. You don’t have to be sitting on the floor with your eyes closed and your hands in the Vitarka mudra position to reap the mind-body benefits of mindfulness. Mindfulness meditation encourages practitioners to turn their awareness to the present moment and accept the current state of their lives and their being. Read more here…