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- Sing-Play Way | Sing-Play Classes for Children | Judith Muir - by Submitted on Mar 25, 2021 from Judith MuirThis is an integrated approach to music-making that fosters personal development as well as skill acquisition. It offers us a lifetime of enjoyment and satisfaction. Sing-Play develops the ear, so no music notation is taught in the beginning. We learn how to hear more accurately and be ...
Views: 57 - AT for Pain Management - by Submitted on Feb 10, 2021 from Judith MuirBack pain is a common condition managed in primary care and one of the commonest causes of disability in Western societies. Drugs and surgery are the traditional methods to deal with pain. For over a hundred years lessons in the Alexander Technique have taught students how to activate the ...
Views: 65 - How making music can help people living with Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s - by Submitted on Feb 09, 2021 from Judith MuirMusic touches us in profound ways, and while many of us enjoy listening to music, it is the activity of making music that has the most powerful effect on our wellbeing. The Sing-Play approach makes learning how to do this an easy and rewarding experience. We have so much music inside of us just ...
Views: 112 - Special Needs | Sing play Music Outreach Programs - by Submitted on Jan 29, 2021 from Judith MuirWhile the title “Special Needs” does not begin to cover all the many different sorts of labels that currently exist for people, it is a very useful umbrella. Having a music therapy degree as well as thirty years of teaching experience, I have developed many ways to help these people engage in ...
Views: 109 - Chair Exercises Can Help Those with Stability Issues - by Submitted on Jan 20, 2021 from Judith MuirSometimes Barbara Schutzman exercises while standing. Other times she does her workout from a chair, like during Mary Beth Perfas’ Sit & Stay Fit class at Northern Dutchess Hospital Women’s View Center at the Healthy Annex in Rhinebeck. “The fact that she’s able to address almost the entire ...
Views: 126 - Alleviating Tech-Related Stress with the Alexander Technique - by Submitted on Dec 31, 2020 from Judith MuirWhether a smartphone, tablet, laptop, or desktop is your go-to favorite, there’s no doubt about it: technical devices are a vital part of how modern society works, plays and communicates. Unfortunately, the equipment also is a major contributor of physical and emotional stresses. The problem ...
Views: 149 - How making music can help people living with Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s - by Submitted on Nov 18, 2020 from Judith MuirMusic touches us in profound ways, and while many of us enjoy listening to music, it is the activity of making music that has the most powerful effect on our wellbeing. The Sing-Play approach makes learning how to do this an easy and rewarding experience. We have so much music inside of us just ...
Views: 154 - AT for Pain Management - by Submitted on Oct 28, 2020 from Judith MuirBack pain is a common condition managed in primary care and one of the commonest causes of disability in Western societies. Drugs and surgery are the traditional methods to deal with pain. For over a hundred years lessons in the Alexander Technique have taught students how to activate the ...
Views: 147 - Music Wellness - by Submitted on Sep 10, 2020 from Judith MuirMusic Wellness is an approach to music learning that has evolved over many years of my ongoing interest in different wholistic modalities. It was sparked by the instant improvement in my clarinet playing from just one lesson in the Alexander Technique. This was such a shock, as it was a ...
Views: 164 - Sing-Play Music - by Submitted on Aug 01, 2020 from Judith MuirThis is an approach that has evolved over many years of teaching. I am always trying to improve how I teach and have tried many things. The obvious issue starts with music notation. Those fixed black things on a page that the jazz musicians call the dots, to try and demystify them. The most ...
Views: 243 - Outreach - by Submitted on Aug 01, 2020 from Judith MuirOutreach as the name implies, is reaching out to help others using your creativity – to lift their spirits. Any of the creative arts can be used as a vehicle for this, music, dance, theater, photography, writing, art, poetry. Embedded in this approach is the intent, that by reaching out to ...
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