The Parkinson’s Journey & Music’s Role

The Parkinson’s Journey & Music’s RoleTami Briggs2022-01-14T15:28:16-06:00

THE PARKINSON’S JOURNEY AND MUSIC’S ROLE

This special session describes music’s role for Parkinson’s patients, families/caregivers and the attending staff. In this poignant presentation, Tami shares her personal and professional experiences with this disease – she was a primary caregiver to her dear uncle who had Parkinson’s/dementia; her father also has Parkinson’s. Intertwined with live harp examples, her powerful stories are reflections on the special moments, the sorrows and the lessons learned during the caregiving journey.

In this session, participants will:

Learn how the benefits of therapeutic music can be used effectively with Parkinson’s patients.
Experience how healing music can help create a sacred environment for those touched by the Parkinson’s disease.

What participants have said about The Parkinson’s Journey and Music’s Role program…
• “You spoke so eloquently from your heart and I could relate to every word of your presentation. Thank you for sharing your journey to ease my journey.”
Caregivers of Parkinson’s Patients Luncheon; Minneapolis, MN

• “She is very passionate to help those afflicted with this disease and those who give care to Parkinson’s patients. She brings a unique personal and professional perspective. What a wonderful resource … I am buying her CDs!”
State-wide conference on Parkinson’s and Using Complementary Care; Tulsa, OK

Program Structure

Presentation is experiential and includes:

Lecture, interactive discussion, questions and answers.
Meditative, live harp music as a self-care tool for stress reduction, relaxation and renewal.

Target Audience

National conferences on Parkinson’s
State conferences on Parkinson’s
Staff education courses (CEUs)
Events for caregivers
Parkinson’s patients and families/caregivers
Support groups

Length

One to two hours.

For more information about our presentations, or to schedule a presentation, please contact us.

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“Music is the answer to the mystery of life; it is the most profound of all the arts; it expresses the deepest thoughts of life and being; a simple language which nonetheless cannot be translated.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

“Seek out a wise player on a harp: and it shall come to pass…that he shall play with his hand and thou shalt be well.”

I Samuel 16:16

“David took a harp, and played with his hand: and Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.”

1 Samuel 16:23

“Surrounded by the right sounds, we all can be invigorated, energized, and balanced. It has been demonstrated clinically that music adds to our general health and well-being.”

John Diamond

“Music is God’s best gift to [humans], the only art of heaven given to earth, the only art of earth that we take to heaven.”

Charles W. Landon

“The human being is essentially sound, vibrations, and melody.…”

Holger Kalweit

“Art is more than important—it is central to how we see ourselves, what we believe about ourselves, and how we present ourselves to each other.”

Bill Ivey

“…the time is fast approaching when Man will select his music with the same intelligent care and knowledge he now uses to select his food. When that time comes, music will become a principal source of healing for many individual and social ills, and human evolution will be tremendously accelerated.”

Corinne Helene

“The more we cultivate great music in our lives, the greater will be our attunement to unlimited sources of the Creator’s power and direction.”

Hal A. Lingerman

“I am Music….Even before life began upon this earth, I was here—in the winds and the waves….And when Man came, I at once became the most delicate, most subtle, and most powerful medium for the expression of Man’s emotions….For I speak to all men, in a language that all understand….I am the food of love. I have taught men gentleness and peace. I comfort the lonely. I am a necessary luxury to all men.”

Anonymous

“Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible.”

Charles Munch

“Music is an extremely important instrument of the Divine.”

“Through vibration, harmony, tone, melody and meaning, music stimulates within us direct experience of expanded reality.”

Barbara Marx Hubbard

“Music speaks straight to our hearts and spirits, to the very core and root of our souls.”

Charles Kingsley

“Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out your horn.”

Charlie Parker

“Music touches our innermost being and in that way produces new life, a life that gives exaltation to the whole being, raising it to that perfection in which lies the fulfillment of man’s life.”

Hazrat Inayat Khan

“Music is the soundtrack of your life.”

Dick Clark

“Music has been called the speech of angels.”