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The Mindful Music Therapist
When Music Therapists rush we can feel unprepared...for the unexpected. I remember the day I dropped my children off at daycare, raced to my first session, and realized when I got there all I had was a single drum and a shaker in my trunk. NO GUITAR...and NO PIANO at...
Making Music with Special Needs Children (5 strategies for teachers)
FIVE STRATEGIES FOR YOU, THE TEACHER! When introducing a new piece of music, play it through in its entirety - up to tempo and with all the dynamics and flourishes you hope to hear at the end of the teaching experience. Break down the lesson into small segments...
Five Ways Music Helps Us Learn
Music relaxes the mind and lowers stress levels that inhibit learning. When used intentionally, music can boost memories while allowing our brain to access it's reserves. Music stimulates creativity by increasing blood and oxygen flow to the brain - going from...
Let Music Help You Move Forward
Our team of therapists met last week to inspire one another before our New Year! To do that we started at the crux of what makes our services "therapy" - and that is reviewing our intentions towards reaching our client's chosen goals and aspirations. Now this may...
A Misplaced Teen in the Health Care System
Subtlety is another cornerstone of music therapy. The slightest change in music be it tempo, volume, pitch, key, can have tremendous effect on a person’s response to the music.
Music Therapy is not about playing a maraca or shaking a tambourine!
Music Therapy is about identifying how music reaches into your core emotional state and helps change it to where you want to be!
Morse Code is Music
JB's Musings: My number one favourite thing about music is that it CONNECTS PEOPLE - and isn't that what we all want for ourselves and for those we care about - to feel connected. Not only connected to others but also to that feeling that we are apart of something...
The Same Old Song
JB's Musing: I can't seem to grab a magazine that doesn't have something about music or music for therapy or music for healing somewhere in its pages. I have slowly collected these gems and often get nervous I am going to forget some of the treasures -- so today I...
The Proof is in the Power of Group Music
This month we have been highlighting the power of group music-making for all persons. To get a full listing of our articles under the topic click here. Here are just a few great articles (the proof) behind the benefits of group music. Drumming Up Good Feelings...
Children’s Groups: never just for the kids
It’s Thursday morning and eight visually impaired babies and toddlers accompany their parents to the music therapy program at the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB). They file in one by one, many of the parent’s looking disheveled and tired. The parents...