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

Alexander Technique Teacher Hudson Valley | Judith Muir

The Alexander Technique is an educational method for improving mental and physical wellbeing. It teaches us how to recapture the ease, and freedom of movement that we enjoyed as young children.

One of the most important ways Alexander Technique is used is for Pain Management. Going beyond mere treatments for physical problems, Alexander Technique offers the chance to retrain ones body usage in such a way as to gain long term relief from such aliments as:

1. Back and neck problems
2. Repetitive Strain Injuries
3. Scoliosis

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.

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

Music Classes for children and adults with Special Needs | Judith Muir

 

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.

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American society of alexander technique

Back sensitive is a common condition managed in primary care and one of the commonest causes of disability in Western societies. Drugs and surgery are the customary methods to arrangement following backache.

For beyond a hundred years lessons in the Alexander Technique have taught students how to put into bureau the principles that rule human energetic. The genius of Alexanders discoveries, is that we all can learn as adults how to recapture the ease and forgive of to-do so sweetly demonstrated by youth children.

Lessons in the Alexander Technique are every allocation of frequently used for Pain Management. Going future than regular treatments for physical problems, students profit long term serve from such aliments as:

    Back and neck problems
    Repetitive Strain Injuries
    Scoliosis

It can be used to accelerate recovery from surgery or injuries caused by accidents. Alexander Technique works holistically. It not only helps dispel liven up thing be poorly but can with facilitate to fix overall health, both physically and psychologically.

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Alexander Technique in Six Easy Lessons

 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.

The tension mix is felt by the teacher’s whole body which in turn counteracts the wrong pulls with messages from her own better balance. Like many things that are evident in life nobody really knows quite how it works. But experience confirms that when the hands of a body that is opening out – or, in Alexander language, one that is “going up” – are placed on the muscular wrapping of someone who is shortening and narrowing, they stimulate it to release and open out. The experience can feel much like relaxing but without collapsing into a sagging shape. It would seem to be a sort of recognition response similar to the one that spreads smiles or yawns through a group.

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.

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Alexander Technique Hudson Valley | Judith Muir

The Alexander Technique is an educational method for improving mental and physical wellbeing. It teaches us how to recapture the ease, and freedom of movement that we enjoyed as young children.

Its basic premise is that the relationship between the head and neck is crucial to balanced posture and ease of movement. We all have this as children, but gradually lose it in response to the stresses and strains of adult life.

Through regular one-on-one lessons, students develop awareness of unconscious patterns of body usage that are counterproductive to optimal wellbeing. Using gentle touch and verbal instruction the teacher shows the student how to change these patterns. This gives an experience of ease and freedom that leads to a long-term improvement in psychological and physical functioning.

For Alexander Technique Lessons, Contact Judith now!!
Phone: (845) 677 5871

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.

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