As few of you may know, I am trained as a music therapist. Also, I had a little bit of training (and besides that, a lot of expertise) in sound healing with tuning forks, singing bowls and didgeridoos. Lately, I’m more moving into improvised music, healing music, and ecstatic dance music. A few months ago I started to do weekly Sound Journeys on YouTube Live. But I want to talk about the healing powers of music. I have seen it happen with so many clients – how music brightens them up and giving them new strength to go through their day, their life. And last year music helped me as well in the battle against long COVID. I’m still not there, but thanks to music I’m getting to the good side of life and health again. I wrote a mantra, called “Morning Affirmation”. It’s available on all streaming platforms. I started to play live music again, together with my (then not yet) new girlfriend who invited me to join her Mantra Jam. And since we are together we are making music together. We already did a few Mantra Jams, a number of amazing performances, a Sound Journey, and started a tribe called Music as Medicine, a platform where the healing powers of music are emphasized. Yes, you read it right, a lot has happened since last winter (and it really was the winter of my life!). A lot has evolved and a lot of development has taken place in the meantime. Every musical activity has a “coat rack” now – a foundation. Healing. Music as Medicine. And yes, nowadays I am re-starting to take it to the streets as well, with handpan, didgeridoo and percussion. In the meantime, my book about streetperforming is being written as well. Every Tuesday there will be a Sound Journey. And the 16th of January there will be a real-life Mantra Jam in The Hague. Oh, and we started a brand new Ko-Fi page as well, check it out here!
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