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Sounding Bowls: Craftsmanship, Art and Spirituality

by Tobias Kaye

This article focuses on Sounding Bowls, which begun as musical works of art that later became sought after as therapy and healing instruments in diverse applications, including for...

Speech and Language Therapy today

by Maria Farry

Speech and Language Therapy is the process of enabling people to communicate to the best of their ability. A speech and language therapist will assess, diagnose and treat a variety...

The Alchemy Of Voice – Transform and Enrich Your Life

by Stewart Pearce

The author the practice of an African tribe, in which the heavily pregnant woman is taken into the bush by her sisters, who listen for the ‘song’ of the unborn child, and return to ...

The Healing Power of Music

by Celia Harper

Music can take many forms and have many different effects on us: it can invigorate or calm us, arouse or amuse us, call us to arms, inspire us and lift up our spirits.

The Healing Power of Music

by Simon Heather

This article focuses on the healing power of music. According to the author, one of the reasons why listening to music is so healing is due to the power of musical intervals…create...

The Healing Power of Sound

by Simon Heather

The healing power of sound has been recognized for thousands of years, and this article provides details of extensive research illustrating the effect of different instrumental and...

The Joy of Group Singing

by Heather Parker

The author describes the experience of singing as an experience of sharing, freedom of expression, also giving health benefits through the endorphins released, lowering blood pre...

The Mystery of Sound

by Meggan Brummer

The fact that everything is in a state of vibration means that everything is constantly creating sound, even if too subtle for the human ear to detect. Every cell type, organ and s...

The Role of Music in Healing - Music, a Dying Bird and a Miracle of Insight

by Sally Oldfield

Sally Oldfield, renowned musician and sister of Mike and Terry Oldfield, writes a very moving account of profound experiences over the last year, whilst suffering from chronic fati...

The Seven Tone Method - Musical Healing

by Mary Masselos

It was the genius of Beethoven who declared that ‘Music is truth’. When so many of us are similarly moved and inspired by music we may or must recognise that music is the bearer ...

Tomatis Listening Therapy – Your Voice is a Barometer of Your Health

by Ella Williams

Listening therapy works on the premise that effective listening - external, internal and vestibular - naturally leads to effective communication and that, except for pathological a...

Tomatis Therapy for Children with Learning Disabilities, Dyslexia, Speech Delay and ADHD

by Ella Williams

This article focuses on the application of Tomatis Therapy on children with learning difficulties, following on from the author’s two previous articles in PH which provided a gener...

Using the Harp for Healing

by Christina Tourin

This article focuses on harp therapy. A breakthrough experience is just one example of how therapy has become so effective in hospitals, hospices, birthing centres, rehabilitation ...

Vocal Toning and Energy Alignment

by Jennifer Warters

The author gives an extensive account of the basis of energy theory in Eastern traditions, reinforced by modern scientific research.  She then describes the development of her own ...

Voice - the forgotten fitness factor

by Angela Caine

From a very early age I loved anything to do with music, singing, playing the piano and dancing, so when at 17 I gained a place at a music college where I would be trained as a sin...

Voice Movement Therapy - Healing Mind and Body with Sound and Song

by Paul Newham

Healing Mind and Body with Sound and Song by Paul Newham Fifteen years ago I founded a form of therapy now known as Voice Movement Therapy.