You love music. You listen to music all the time. Maybe you sing, play an instrument, or compose music. You don’t need to have musical talent to use music to enhance your well being, and even your health.
Music for Wellness
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Approx. 10 hours
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What you'll learn
The effects music has on the brain
Strategies and techniques for regulating emotions and stress by integrating music with ancient practices such as mantra and pranayama
The scientific underpinnings that support the efficacy of ancient traditional practices used to promote wellness
How and why music can help you to live a happier, healthier life
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There are 5 modules in this course
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What's included
3 videos5 readings1 assignment
In this lesson, we'll begin to work on improvisation and creating music based on how we feel. Improvisation can seem daunting to many, but we will focus adding new ideas little by little until you are comfortable using your voice. We'll work on circle singing exercises and talk about looping in order to create your own song.
What's included
7 videos3 readings2 assignments1 discussion prompt
In this lesson we will focus on using music to comfort ourselves during stressful times. We will start with connecting to our breath and learning to control our breathing. We will continue by talking about creating lullabies and practicing Musical PMR. Finally, we will go through Pranayama exercises and how they can be used for different results.
What's included
10 videos4 readings2 assignments1 discussion prompt
In this lesson, we will begin to take the music that we create and the music that comforts us and use it to focus our feelings into something we need. We will start by chanting and learning about mantra. Then we will use repetition to meditate and change our mood. Finally we will create the modern form of mantra, jingles, to help us focus during different times in our life.
What's included
6 videos3 readings2 assignments1 discussion prompt
In this lesson, we will look at how listening to music can help us focus during stressful times. We will practice active listening and letting music help us control our emotions. We will then practice creating playlists for different needs in our life so that we always have music ready when we need it.
What's included
5 videos4 readings1 assignment1 peer review
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HM
5
Reviewed on Jan 20, 2023
Great professors, I especially enjoyed Suzanne's lectures, both are great! Thanks for making it available to all of us.
CY
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Reviewed on Jun 6, 2021
From theory to practice, linked to body science evidence. This is a good course worth to learn.
UO
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Reviewed on May 14, 2021
I enjoyed the lessons by Sussanne and Annette. They made it so easy for me to learn and understand how misc relates to wellness. It is my hope that I can create music for wellness.
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