Essential and Healthy

The playful interaction in music has a positive effect on all areas of life, as well as on learning.

It can help people  to be seen and to show themselves, to open up and to express themselves non-verbally.

Emotional consequences of negative experiences can be alleviated.

Making music  reduces the feeling of separation and creates the vital feeling of fulness, joy and recognition.

It is very energetic to make music with each other in a group or to create sound in a group.

Through making music we connect with each other and beyond origin, material status or religious background, a "paying attention to each other" arises.

Without much effort, music takes us to where we can pay attention to ourselves and to where we can pay attention to the other player, 

as well as allow us to listen to each other attentively.

My many years of experience as a performing musician and as a music teacher in working with children, teenagers and adults of different origins and cultures has shown me again and again that music has a healing, unifying and absolutely positive effect on us humans.

I have learned through research and realised that music making must have been there from the beginning of humanity.

Singing, dancing, drumming and creating sound seems to belong to us as an essential human need.

In fact, this has been forgotten and we believe that it is enough to consume music.

At the level of listening, it is certainly a wonderful experience.

To experience the music of other people, to feel their resonance, to be touched and to be inspired by them is wonderful.

However, it is much more intense when we play a musical instrument ourselves, sing with our own voice

(and create music in a group with others)

All the senses are then active and an inner sense of coherence arises.

This activity can become an ever-lasting memory, a positive experience stored in our body-nervous system, if we ourselves are producing our own  sound.

We are experiencing an important perception and presence.