Music Therapy

Music provides great solace to all whether ill or not.  Music has a great therapeutic role in treatment and prevention of many disorders.  “Music Exalts each Joy, Allays each Grief, Expels Diseases, Softens every Pain, Subdues the rage of Poison and the Plague…” ….John Armstrong (1709-1779), the Art of Preserving Health, Book IV) Music is […]

Centuries back Gautam Buddha, recognized the crucial importance of attitude in our life. He propagated the need for developing the right attitude, which alone makes a person’s life noble, lofty and useful. He recommended some ‘rational’ adoption of one’s lifestyle pattern.  In other words, he emphasized for attitudinal adjustments so that one’s existence becomes purposeful and meaningful. Developing certain attitude would also

Nada Yoga, the ancient science of sound views that intonations is the source of universal manifestations. Application of sound vibrations to reach higher realms of consciousness is not new to the Indian System of yoga. Today’s modern science too endorses such a view.  The prophylactic and the therapeutic role of music on the mind-body system

Mythologically all living and non-living things are reported to have resounded to music. Today’s modern science too endorses such a view.  High intensity sound waves are used in diagnosis and treatment. In recent years, application of music as a complementary medicine has gained grounds in the advanced countries, especially in Netherlands, USA, Australia, and Japan apart from the

While music is well organized for its entertainment value throughout the globe, it was the Indian genius who had discovered Raga Chikitsa, raga cure. A raga is a sequence of selected notes that lands ‘colour’ or emotion. Depending on its nature, a raga can induce or intensify joy or sorrow, anger or peacefulness. Great legends too confirm. The remedial role

In recent years, using music as a complementary medicine has gained grounds in countries like the Netherlands, USA, Australia, Japan and also Argentina, Brazil, China, and India.  Indian music, known for its raga, often referred to as ‘Miracle of microtones’’; shows great potential for research, which is quite promising. While music is universally beneficial, as plants

As note is not swara, melody is not raga. At the most, melody is a loose arrangement of single notes. Raga, on the other hand, is a tighter fusion of swaras, making it a ‘total sound’ or a ‘tonal complex’. The individuality of notes in a range is totally merged to assume a totally different

Nature has thrown open a treasure house of rhythms and melodies in and around us, but we seem to be mostly unaware of them due to our preoccupation with the modern-day activities. Our body and mind are blessed with healthy resonance and rhythms, without which we would have long been dead and gone, the disharmony

Music is an intrinsic part of every one of us, irrespective of the fact whether we are singers or listeners. Pulse and rhythmic patterns found in our heart beat, in our breathing, in our thought processes, in our locomotion, in various physiological processes – including digestion, elimination or sleep are the basic indicators of the

An interactive workshop with music and visuals was held on 29th June, 2002 at the Indian Habitat Centre, New Delhi. It was conceived, designed, coordinated and presented by the well-known author and musicologist Dr. T. V. Sairam who was trained under Sangeetha Vidwan Sri S. V. Ramani. The workshop was attended by famous musicians, popular artists

“If music be the food of love, play on…” –  William Shakesphere Music is an intrinsic part of each one of us – regardless of what we are – singers or listeners. To quote Kabir, “Nada is music which plays in the body without strings.” Rhythm is the first organizing structure in an infant’s experience.

Yoga and music are the two beautiful things that could have ever happened to mankind. “Without music”, insists Friedrich Nietzsche, ‘life would have been a mistake’. Any sadhaka would agree with me that without them, the human being would have remained yet another animal on this planet! The reason behind this is the human brain