Music Enters: Where Words Cannot Pass
By: Barry Bittman, MD
Category: Therapeutic
Population Served: Others
It wasn't an ordinary day at the Mind-Body Wellness Center, and our facilitator wasn't an ordinary drumming leader. On the surface, he was a guest presenter at a conference to be held the next day. Little did we know he was far more than that. For what we were about to learn changed each of us.
Healing: To the Beat of an Inner Drummer
By: Barry Bittman, MD
Category: Wellness
Population Served: Others
Everyone immediately saw and heard the Light. With infectious energy, his intense beat kindled our will to survive, to flourish and to express ourselves despite any obstacle that could ever appear in our path. We played with intensity and joy as a sense of camaraderie literally joined us together as one. And we drummed beyond our limits, beyond our fatigue, beyond our limitations.
Creating a Musically Accessible Culture
By: Christine Stevens, MSW, MA, MT-BC
Category: Wellness
Population Served: Others
It's like creating handicapped parking spots.
It's like building on ramps.
It's like making reachable doorknobs.
We live in a culture of musical disability.
It's time to return music making to the accessibility it enjoyed in hootenannies and jamborees, to it's purpose beyond entertainment and performance.
Active Music Making and Wellness
By: Karl T. Bruhn and Alicia Ann Claire, PhD, MT-BC
Category: Wellness
Population Served: Others
People are demanding more than the absence of disease to be well. They also want reduced illness risk, managed stress, better energy, daily enjoyment, personal development, satisfying relationships, and feelings of belonging. Active music making provides the opportunities to a help achieve wellness in these ways.
