Music Therapy is an established healthcare profession that uses music to address physical, emotional, cognitive, and social needs of individuals of all ages. Music therapy improves the quality of life, meets the needs of children and adults with disabilities or illnesses.
Music therapy interventions can be designed to:
promote wellness, manage stress, alleviate pain, express feelings, enhance memory, improve communication, and promote physical rehabilitation.
Healing Power of Indian Ragas
by Acharya Ratna Dr Rajam Shanker
Trikala Arts warmly invites you to register for a 40-minute introductory session, where Dr. Rajam Shanker and her students will share insights into the healing potential of Indian ragas through listening, reflection and guided understanding.
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- No prior knowledge of music is required.
- This session is open to anyone with curiosity and interest in the therapeutic dimensions of music
- Age - above 18 yrs
Most singers begin their journey with music through the lens of entertainment. As they progress, the focus often shifts toward performance, technique and mastery. Yet, within the Bhāratīya tradition, music was never conceived merely as recreation or art for display. Rooted in the Gandharva Veda, music was revered as a sacred, transformative force, a form of vibrational medicine capable of influencing the body, mind and consciousness.
The human body and its cells respond continuously to sound and vibration. Every physiological function - breath, heartbeat, circulation and many others operates in rhythmic, cyclical patterns, mirroring the fundamental nature of music itself. When musical rhythm, pitch and resonance align with these innate bodily cycles, they can gently support balance, regulation and well-being.
At Rajam’s Gurukulam, they seek to revive and propagate the healing wisdom of Indian ragas by exploring music as an experiential therapeutic practice:
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- Through ongoing research and practice
- By harnessing the power of swaras (musical notes) and ragas (melodic frameworks), woven into precise rhythmic patterns
- to work through internal resonance
This approach has been effectively applied to:
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- promote wellness
- manage stress
- ease discomfort
- support physical and neurological rehabilitation.
Register your interest !
