Session part 1.
Family Soundbath
A short sound bath where young people and their family member(s) can lie back and receive the many benefits of a sound bath experience. These may include:
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Stress and anxiety reduction
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Promotes relaxation
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Enhances focus and concentration
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Fosters social and family connections
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Models self-care and mindfulness for wellbeing
For those who struggle to lie down, colouring and/or a craft activity will be available
Session part 2.
Active music making
A short participatory musical interaction that is low-pressure, enjoyable and centred around the musical tastes of the young people. It may use voice, chimes or other accessible instruments. No musical skill is required! There are no objectives or performances, it is purely to be enjoyed! Other benefits may include:
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Stress and anxiety reduction
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Improving self-confidence and self-esteem
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Sense of fulfilment
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Fosters social and family connections
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Physiological health benefits from singing
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Improves social, emotional, physical and mental wellbeing
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Helps to release happy hormones
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HARROTONES Sound Bath & Music for Families
Music is a part of everyone. It runs through our bodies and through our lives. From the pulse of our heartbeat, the rhythm and frequency of our brainwaves to the tones of our voice. Consciously or unconsciously, we are living a life full of sound and music. Music is a universal language that can connect people, despite barriers of illness, disability or social isolation. It can bring people together no matter their age, language, background or life experience. We all inherently appreciate it and respond to it, whether it's the uplifting and igniting passion of a football chant in a stadium, the serenity experienced when listening to the rhythmic lapping of waves or hearing the chorus of morning birdsong. It soothes our souls from the moment we are born and our parents sing to us as babies and it accompanies us throughout our lives as we develop musical tastes and preferences as we are exposed to it in its many forms across different mediums. Through the internet, radio, television, in church, in school, in concerts, in the theatre, in the cinema. Music is everywhere and shapes who we are.
Since music and sound is a part of our very being, we must acknowledge that we can harness the positive impact it can have on our WELLBEING - whether that is physically, socially, mentally or emotionally.
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Hayley, who holds a Masters Degree in Music Therapy (Nordoff Robbins), a Bachelor's degree in Music and is a qualified Sound Therapy Practitioner (Levels 1, 2 & 3 - accredited by the International Practitioners of Holistic Medicine) is the owner of Resounding Wellness North, a company that has a two pronged approach to using sound and music for wellness.
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Drawing on her training and rich "musicianhood" - that is her experience of music from early childhood through her life and her interactions as a Music Therapist for 6 years, she has learnt that music can be a form of expression, whether it is through playing, listening or composing and can be a part of a healing process.
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She uses a two pronged approach for music and health where she draws on her own musicianhood and that of her clients, where the intersection of musical identity and therapeutic processes either in sound therapy or active music-making intersect in promoting health, healing and self awareness.
Your music.
Your health.
HARROTONES
Since our exposure to sound and music begins from as early as 18 weeks gestational age (when we hear our mother's heartbeat in the womb), children have already developed a rich musicianhood by the time they reach their tweens and teens.
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Musicians and teachers have raised alarm at the rapid decline in music education in state schools in recent years. Fewer and fewer children are taking music as a subject to GCSE and A Level.
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Hayley's personal experience of childhood music was that she received a very traditional Western Classical education where the emphasis was on skill acquisition and attainment. Somewhere along the way, amongst the hours of practice and music exams, finessing repertoire that she had no deep connection with and quantifying her self-worth and self-validation on exam results and academic achievements, her love and enjoyment of music was lost.
Music, with its powers to bring joy, connection and other health and wellness benefits ended up actually making her un-well. Much of her childhood was spent bracing herself for the next anxiety-inducing exam which she would hinge her whole existence on. The rollercoaster of emotions experienced in the process reverberated further into her adulthood.
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That is why she has founded the provision Harrotones. Employing her two-pronged approach to using music and sound for wellness, she combines the practices of soundbaths and music making into her family sessions.