CMTE - Tuning in to the Key of YOU - Association of Ohio Music Therapists

Tuning In to the Key of YOU.
Utilizing Yoga, Music, and Meditation for Self-Care and to Enhance Presence

3-hour CMTE

Larisa McHugh, MA, MT-BC

Objectives

Description

1. Participants will identify methods to increase therapeutic presence through exploration of gentle yoga, meditation and music imagery. (CBMT Domain II.A.1 bf)

2. Participants will determine areas for their own professional and personal growth, setting goals for self-care. (CBMT Domain IV.A.1)

3. Participants will define holistic and humanistic/existential orientations and how these orientations might inform their practice. (CBMT II.A.3 cd) (This one is good as is.)

4. Participants will practice yoga postures to combat fatigue, increase relaxation, and to address physical stressors of music therapy practice (CBMT IVB.4)

From early time imagery and guided imagery have been utilized to address the whole person and this will likely continue far into the future (Cantwell, 2016). Imagery can serve as a doorway into the self, to the deeper self and to indicate aspects of the self that need attending to (Bush, 1995). All domains of the human being can be accessed through imagery, whether physical, emotional, social, or spiritual (Cantwell, 2016). Imagery provides an opportunity to connect with one’s self and to find inner knowing. In this workshop participants will discuss holistic, humanistic/existential orientations in music therapy and how imagery can be incorporated into the work. Following the discussion, the participants will be introduced to yoga for relaxation, then invited to experience imagery in music for themselves and then create mandalas for use in mediation. Participants will be encouraged to reflect upon areas for professional and personal growth, setting goals for self-care.

Schedule

8:00 – 8:10
8:10 – 8:50
8:50 – 9:45

9:45 - 10:00

10:00 – 10:10
10:10 – 10:30
10:30 – 10:45
10:50 – 11:00

Introductions
Lecture and Discussion (CBMT Domain II.A.1 bf) (CBMT II.A.3 cd)
Yoga instruction (CBMT IVB.4) (CBMT Domain II.A.1 bf)

Break

Music and Imagery (CBMT Domain II.A.1 bf)
Creating Mandalas and Goal Setting (CBMT Domain II.A.1 bf) (CBMT Domain IV.A.1)
Processing Experience/Discussion (CBMT Domain II.A.1 bf) (CBMT II.A.3 cd)
Questions and Course Evaluations

Presenter

Larisa has been a board-certified music therapist since 1997. After a decade of work, volunteering, returning to school, and life’s ups and downs, Larisa discovered yoga as a tool for self-care. In an effort to deepen her practice of yoga and to discover how it might influence her work as a music therapist she enrolled in yoga teacher training. In 2009 she began teaching yoga and now offers weekly classes and continuing education to yoga teachers and those in training. Larisa is also a Reiki Master Teacher. In all work, whether music therapy or yoga, she strives to offer a supportive atmosphere where all can explore and express their true nature.