Sing-play classes for children | Music Classes for Autism

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

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!

I offer one-on-one instruction using the Sing-Play approach for all my students, children, and adults, including those with disabilities.

My music teaching is informed by my training as a teacher of the Alexander Technique. I guide my students to help them adopt good breathing and postural practices, including the best way to hold an instrument, sit on a piano bench, and stand at full natural height.

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

Alexander Technique Lessons for Pain and Stress Management | Judith Muir

Exercise and physical activity, reports the National Institutes of Health’s MedlinePlus, are good for seniors and nearly everyone else, including endurance routines for better breathing and heart rate, strength exercises for stronger muscles, flexibility programs to stay limber and balance training to help prevent falls.

And yet, while fall-related injuries send more than 2 million seniors to the emergency room each year, it’s a fear of falling that causes many seniors and others with physical limitations or balance issues to avoid exercising, even while it can improve balance and overall fitness. One way to minimize worry while working out is by doing so while sitting in a chair or holding on to one.

Judith Muir, an Alexander Technique movement specialist and teacher based in Verbank, said chair exercises can help people with stability issues and physical limitations due to age or disabilities, regain their balance and improve their mobility and flexibility.

For Alexander Technique Lessons, contact Judith now!!

Phone: (845) 677 5871

Address: 60 Eddy Road, Verbank, NY 12585

Music Classes for children and adults | Sing-play music

 

Do you know learning to make music helps your child develop skills that are quite difficult to acquire from any other activity?

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.

Want music lessons? I offer one-on-one instruction using the Sing-Play approach for all my students, children, and adults, including those with disabilities.

My music teaching is informed by my training as a teacher of the Alexander Technique. I guide my students to help them adopt good breathing and postural practices, including the best way to hold an instrument, sit on a piano bench, and stand at full natural height.

Contact Judith now!!

Phone: (845) 677 5871

Address: 60 Eddy Road, Verbank, NY 12585

Help Yourself by Learning Alexander Technique

The Alexander Technique is a unique self-help approach that teaches people how to do things with more ease and freedom – from sitting in front of a computer or texting to playing the guitar or dancing. Regular application can help the student recognize and prevent poor postural habits that can lead to pain as well as underperformance.

Unlike therapies or exercises, the Alexander Technique teaches people to gradually improve the way they look after themselves in all their waking hours – both at rest or during activity. Through the Alexander Technique, the pupil becomes more and more autonomous, able to develop new strategies to do things with greater ease and often, greater enjoyment. As healthy postural support and an overall sense of focus and calm become more established, people are more able to let go of tensions and unproductive efforts they may previously have been unaware of.

For Alexander Technique Lessons, contact Judith now!!

Phone: (845) 677 5871

Address: 60 Eddy Road, Verbank, NY 12585

Find An Alexander Technique Teacher New York | Judith Muir

 

By teaching people how to increase their body/mind awareness, switch off patterns of stress and tension, activate beneficial postural mechanisms and connect with muscular activity, the Alexander Technique can help alleviate or prevent stresses associated with everyday movements, including those related to the use of technical equipment.

Beyond physical issues, working with technical devices also has an effect on people’s emotional well-being. One working paper “iPosture: The Size of Electronic Consumer Devices Affects Our Behavior” (Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-097, May 2013), by Maarten W. Bos and Amy J.C. Cuddy, found the smaller the technical device used was, the more inward a person’s posture and attitude became, which goes against the heart of what users want from their devices in the first place: maximum communications and productivity.

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.

For Alexander Technique Lessons, contact Judith now!!

Phone: (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

Alexander Technique for Accelerated Healing | Alexander Technique Teacher

Back 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 principles that govern human functioning. The genius of Alexander’s discoveries, is that we all can learn as adults how to recapture the ease and freedom of movement so beautifully demonstrated by young children.

It can be used to accelerate recovery from surgery or injuries caused by accidents. Alexander Technique works holistically. It not only helps alleviate physical suffering but can also help to improve overall health, both physically and psychologically.

Contact Judith now for Alexander Technique Lessons!!

Phone: (845) 677 5871

Address: 60 Eddy Road, Verbank, NY 12585