Music Classes for People with Down Syndrome | Judith Muir

Music is an intrinsic part of all of us: rhythm in our heartbeat, breathing, and movements; melody in our laughing, moaning, crying, or singing; the full spectrum of human emotions is contained in all the various musical styles and genres. These powerful connections with music are hard-wired into our brains and we can access them when shown how, regardless of any disability.

Research shows that music lessons help special needs children improve their development while engaging them in a powerful expressive outlet. It’s proven to help people with Down syndrome:
1. Social and Communication Skills
2. MotorSkills, Movement, and Coordination
3. Memory and Learning

Whoever you are, music can make your life better and brighter! To learn more and to find out if music lessons are right for you, contact Judith now!!
Phone Number: (845) 677 5871
Address: 60 Eddy Road, Verbank, NY 12585

Award Winning Music Teacher | Music And Wellness Workshops

The Sing-Play Approach is a dynamic teaching process that is easy and effective for students of all ages. Sing-Play will enable you to master an instrument, retaining and enhancing your innate love of music throughout the process.

Sing-Play helps us to feel how music moves in many different ways, depending on the genre. We learn to play the rhythm of the words in songs and how moving as we play helps our music-making.

Sing-Play helps us to connect to the music inside us and bring it out. As we already hear the music it becomes very easy to master the specific technical aspects that each instrument has, so we are making-music that is fluent.

Sing-Play helps develop our memory for new songs and remembering songs from many years ago.

For Sing-Play Music Lessons, contact Judith now!!

Phone: (845) 677 5871

Address: 60 Eddy Road, Verbank, NY 12585

Tailor Made Music Programs | Sing-play classes for children

We all have a natural, in-born ability to make music. It is the unhesitating impulse of a mother to sing to her child to soothe it, to make it feel better, not to call attention to herself or her own vocal performance. She is making a gift of her lullaby to her child. Doing this, she does not need to wonder if she is singing in tune, or whether she is ready for Carnegie hall.

We activate this generous impulse to give of ourselves every time we go and sing with — not to — seniors at a nursing home. The purpose of singing is to help these older people feel better, not to get a top score in a competition.

Outreach programs take place in senior and assisted living facilities, where your music will awaken a profound joy, a sense of well-being for you and for others, that will have you wanting to come back week after week. And like magic, week after week, your music – and your well-being – will grow.

For Music Lessons, Contact Judith now!!
Phone: (845) 677 5871
Address: 60 Eddy Road, Verbank, NY 12585

How Special Needs Children can benefit from Music Lessons

We all know how powerful music can be in our lives, and in the lives of our children, but why is music so fascinating and captivating? What exactly is it about music that makes it such a profoundly rewarding experience, as well as helping children with special needs?

Music-making helps children in so many areas regardless of what their special needs may be. They are easily able to participate in music-making sessions that are individually devised for them. Focusing on what they can do, instead of what they have difficulties with is incredibly empowering.

The regular music-making session for children with special needs easily gives the child an experience of being able to express themselves creatively, a sense of accomplishment, enjoyment, and confidence in themselves, as well as­­ enhancing the neuroplasticity of the brain.

Scientific studies keep on showing us how music lessons are very powerful. They develop our ear and memory, improve our cognitive functioning, movement and speech.

What’s more?? While listening to music can improve our mood, and keep us engaged for hours on end, it is being involved in the activity of music-making that will enrich our lives the most.

Contact Judith now!!

Award Winning Music Teacher | Sing-play classes for children

 How Music Enhances a Child’s Learning & Development??

The real advantage is that even if music lessons don’t extend to a higher professional level, your child will have developed a love of music as well as music skills that will enrich their entire adult lives.

1. From learning foreign languages to bringing back memories in Alzheimer’s patients, music improves memory and brain function.

2. Before children can understand words and gestures, they learn to recognize musical notes. Subsequently, the music develops fine motor skills.

3. Whether grown-up or child, music improves spatial reasoning. How? It is because visuospatial ability and music stimulate the same neurons in the brain.

4. When a child takes a music lesson, they learn to process different types of complex sounds which in turn improves their listening and speaking skills.

Why not try this out for your child?? 

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Phone: (845) 677 5871

Music- Pickup where you left off!!

It’s been a while since you last picked up the saxophone or sat down at the piano, and you only sing in the shower or car -it’s probably been years. Right??

It’s not like you stopped enjoying it. BUT Life got busy and time had to be devoted to other things, however, you are conscious of something missing in your life and remember that it is the deep satisfaction of being able to make music.

And now, you might be curious but nervous about returning to making music again after such a long break. Is it even possible, or have you lost years of valuable skill-building?

In fact, it’s so much easier as you are an adult, many people have done it. You may be a bit rusty, but it’s a lot easier than you think. While life may have caused you to take a break, the memories and love of music remain. It doesn’t matter what instrument you played as a kid, the skills are easily transferred to another instrument. The piano is a great instrument for an adult to take up later on in life. It is really easy to work out how to play all your favorite songs, and by learning simple chords, you can provide your own harmony.

However, the most important thing is that you can pick up where you left off and immerse yourself in the world of music.

AND, Enjoy the new journey!! Contact Judith now!

Music- It’s never too late to start again!!

Many of us took music lessons as a child but stopped when we left school, went to college and life took over. Now more than ever, is a particularly good time to upgrade all those things that you learned as a kid so that your music-making can help enrich your life as an adult, so what are you waiting for?

Ahh… don’t say you are too old for learning music or that you will never be as good as your favorite musician. Remember, it is never too late to start again!!!

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.

• Music reduces stress and anxiety
• Music improves our immunity and therefore general health
• Music decreases feelings of depression and loneliness
• Music enhances memory and recall
• Music alleviates pain and promotes physical rehabilitation

More importantly, you will have a lot of fun and enjoyment in the process. So if you think it’s time to get that item ticked off your bucket list, just go for it. In fact, as an adult, you will have developed a whole bunch of skills that make progress in your lessons so much faster, and deeply rewarding. Of course, this comes with the caveat that you may now as an adult have more responsibilities than you did when you were a kid!

You’ve got nothing to lose and everything to gain. Contact Judith now!!

Alexander Technique Lessons for Pain Management | Alexander Technique Classes New York

Whether 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 lies in the repeated and often-held positions people take for extended periods of time when the use technical devices, such as hunching over, leaning to one side, or hanging their head down, the latter leaving some people with what’s now known as tech neck or text neck – the back, neck, and shoulder strain caused by dropping one’s head to view a screen. Worse, the use of technical equipment often is tied to people’s careers, intensifying their use of the devices, which furthers tension on the body, causing pain and contributing to lower emotional and mental states.

By following the principles of the Alexander Technique, people can learn how to make practical changes for optimal movement, productivity, and well-being, including the best way to hold and use devices and other equipment, plus ideal sitting, bending, standing, and walking postures, thereby avoiding discomfort and pain. In fact, reports show that practicing the Alexander Technique not only improves one’s physical condition, but also emotional and mental states, resulting in heightened self-esteem, productivity, and social connections.

Contact Judith Now to learn Alexander Technique!!
Website: Find An Alexander Technique Teacher New York
Phone: (845) 677 5871

Music Outreach Programs | Sing-play classes for children

Music Wellness means that every time you make music you are helping others, by playing to them and yourself by thinking outwardly. This can be part of your daily life.

Music 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.

If you think of wellness as developing a lifestyle that you can easily live on a daily basis it covers three broad areas, Body, Mind and Spirit and Music Wellness addresses the Spirit. You learn to make music with the aim of giving it out to others, regardless of whether they are in the room or far away.

Contact Judith Now!

Phone: (845) 677 5871

Music Outreach Programs | Sing-play music

 

We all have a natural, in-born ability to make music. It is the unhesitating impulse of a mother to sing to her child to soothe it, to make it feel better, not to call attention to herself or her own vocal performance. She is making a gift of her lullaby to her child. Doing this, she does not need to wonder if she is singing in tune, or whether she is ready for Carnegie hall.

We activate this generous impulse to give of ourselves every time we go and sing with — not to — seniors at a nursing home. The purpose of singing is to help these older people feel better, not to get a top score in a competition.

Music outreach programs take place in senior and assisted living facilities, where your music will awaken a profound joy, a sense of well-being for you and for others, that will have you wanting to come back week after week. And like magic, week after week, your music – and your well-being – will grow.

Contact Judith

Wellness | Music And Wellness Workshops New York

 

Many of the aches, pains, and stress we feel are brought on by the demands of our daily lives and too often we turn to painkillers or pharmaceuticals for relief. I am trained to teach you how to develop a wellness lifestyle that is easy to maintain on a daily basis. I use the Alexander Technique, Stretch and Breath Classes and Music-making to address the three broad areas that are embraced by a Wellness program. Body, Mind and Spirit.

Get More Info : Music And Wellness Workshops New York

For more Information, contact Judith Muir

Sing play Music Outreach Programs | Sing-play music

 

The Sing-Play Approach is a dynamic teaching process that is easy and effective for students of all ages. Sing-Play will enable you to master an instrument, retaining and enhancing your innate love of music throughout the process.

You will learn to:

• Listen to music and remember the melody;
• Sing the melody you hear;
• Learn to reproduce that melody using your instrument.

Sing-Play will help you develop your creativity as you learn to sing and play all your favorite songs.

For more Information, contact Judith Muir

Music Wellness

 Music 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 radically different approach to developing excellence that I was learning at the time from my famous teacher. This led me to becoming a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique and introduced me to a whole new world.

If you think of wellness as developing a lifestyle that you can easily live on a daily basis it covers three broad areas, Body, Mind and Spirit and Music Wellness addresses the Spirit. You learn to make music with the aim of giving it out to others, regardless of whether they are in the room or far away.

While I teach this to all my music students, it was brilliantly demonstrated to me by one of my music students, only four years old. During our last music session, she was singing one of her favorite songs and playing the drums, while I was playing the piano. Then she spontaneously made up a song to all her grandmothers, (they are all in heaven), and another song for all her grandfathers, who are also in heaven. In the process of offering them her songs, she was connecting directly with them – despite the great distance between earth and heaven! – and creating wellness for herself.

Music Wellness means that every time you make music you are helping others, by playing to them and yourself by thinking outwardly. This can be part of your daily life.

For More information click here : Music And Wellness Workshops