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Music & Bonds
Music calms, music stimulates and music connects. The sense of hearing is the first sense to be developed in the womb. The voices of parents and siblings convey a sense of security and the mother's heartbeat is the rhythm of the beginning of life. These sounds also promote our development, especially the development of the brain.
Listening to children properly
Most parents do think about how they (want to) talk to their children, but hardly any of them think about how they listen to their children. And in doing so, we often forget to give children what we naturally demand of them: "Listen to me." Because we know that no matter how good we are at talking, without listening there will be no successful communication, understanding, or comprehension.
Playing music during the Holidays
Oh, come, little children, oh, come, one and all: Christmas time is the time for music! At least in Germany, Christmas is the time when parents want their children to show...
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The positive effects of nasal breathing
For years, I have known from the field of yoga that nasal breathing plays an important role. The mucous membranes of the nose enrich the air with moisture and filter out dust particles from the air which is inhaled. In addition to that, the airway through the nose is longer and by filtering and simultaneously warming the inhaled air, the risk of catching a cold is reduced. But nasal breathing also has a positive effect on our sleep and fitness training. In the following blog post, I will tell you which effects those exactly are and how nasal breathing has personally helped me.
5 reasons why you should learn an instrument in your adulthood
For those who love music and simply want to be in the thick of it, there is no "wrong" age. Any age is the right age to learn an instrument. We've had students who were 80 years old when they started learning their instrument and really enjoyed it.
Feeling music – how deaf people perceive music and what it can actually do
Spontaneously, we associate music with the sense of hearing. At the same time, we can also experience music with other senses. We are trying to make use of this in our early musical education. In our lessons, children should perceive music holistically, they should not only hear it but also feel it. And of course deaf people can also perceive, experience and make music. They can feel the music and concentrate on the vibrations. Because music doesn't just land in our auditory canal, it flows through our body and triggers certain emotions.