Music Learning | Tailor Made Music Programs | Judith Muir

 

We all have fond memories of learning skills that are play based. Time flies by and we didn’t notice how many hours we spent learning how to ride a bicycle or put the basketball through the hoop. We were busy having fun.

Having fun learning music can start very young, and continue for a lifetime.

My approach to acquiring music skills, (regardless of the instrument), is based on having fun. I carefully choose songs and activities that engage the student and help to develop all the skills necessary to do something well and improve in all these other areas.

1. Language Skills

2. Cognitive Functioning

3. Physical Functioning

The goal is to have music making become an activity that is rewarding and will last a whole lifetime.

If you're interested in learning music lessons, contact Judith now!!

Phone: (845) 677 5871

Address: 60 Eddy Road, Verbank, NY 12585

Having Fun: Play Based Music Learning

 

We all have fond memories of learning skills that are play based. Time flies by and we didn’t notice how many hours we spent learning how to ride a bicycle or put the basketball through the hoop. We were busy having fun.

Having fun learning music can start very young, and continue for a lifetime.

My approach to acquiring music skills, (regardless of the instrument), is based on having fun. I carefully choose songs and activities that engage the student and help to develop all the skills necessary to do something well and improve in all these other areas.

1. Language Skills – singing generally, and specifically, is potentially helpful for developing the function of language including the following areas: speech, vocabulary, articulation, flow, and even literacy.

2. Cognitive Functioning – developing memory, learning how to learn, mental processing, and clarity. Note that there is a lot of information available about how music can help develop the brain. While this is true, I am talking a great deal more than this: enhancing specific mental abilities as a consequence of becoming a more accomplished musician.

3. Physical Functioning – singing and playing instruments require a high degree of coordination, and, at a higher level, flow. And, as music making becomes more flowing and coordinated, so too does the body usage. It is possible to use the acquisition of musical mastery, therefore, to enhance body usage.

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The goal is to have music making become an activity that is rewarding and will last a whole lifetime. Contact Judith now!!

Sing-play music | Music Classes for children and adults with Special Needs

 

Is early childhood music education an alternative to daycare, or will your child learn valuable skills and cultivate a love for music?

Learning how to maximize music’s deeply therapeutic power becomes a wonderful adjunct to our daily health and wellness programs. Listed below are some of the well-known scientifically proven benefits.

1. Music reduces stress and anxiety

2. Music improves our immunity and therefore general health

3. Music decreases feelings of depression and loneliness

4. Music enhances memory and recall

5. Music alleviates pain and promotes physical rehabilitation

If you think your child will enjoy taking music lessons, we'd love to hear from you! Our classes are playful, rich, and engaging and helps children of all ages—babies, toddlers, preschoolers, and big kids—discover their inner music.

To learn music lessons, contact Judith now!!

Phone: (845) 677 5871

Address: 60 Eddy Road, Verbank, NY 12585

Alexander Technique Teacher Hudson Valley | Pain Management

The Alexander Technique teacher does some of the same things, that is, she observes with her eyes what movements you are making. But mainly she feels with her hands what you are doing. The process is not in fact so localized, but rather her hands act as the terminals of a neurological circuitry between your body and hers that helps her to recognize with her more finely tuned apparatus what is going on in yours. Different distributions of muscle tension give characteristic patterns of strain or ease. When muscle fibers contract, pulses of energy are given off. Relaxed muscle is quieter. Recognizing the best mix of quiet and noisy muscle in a body is the equivalent of recognizing from experience the optimum consistency for a cake mix, or the qualities that render a sonata more musical.

Using her hands to bring your attention to different parts of yourself, the teacher guides your musculature towards a new consistency. She uses some verbal instruction, but mostly she is showing you with her hands where you are holding where you shouldn’t be and where you are not holding where you should.

A good pair of Alexander-trained hands gives you a feeling of load shedding. Lengthening and widening gives you an experience from where you can discover what you habitually do that pulls you down. You learn how to tune in to your body so you can collect more reliable information from your proprioceptive and kinaesthetic senses. The teacher’s aim in tuning in to her pupil’s body is the same as that of the tennis player who is acquiring the fine co-ordination that will hit the ball plumb in the middle of her racquet every time.

To learn Alexander Technique, contact Judith now!!

Phone: (845) 677 5871

Address: 60 Eddy Road, Verbank, NY 12585