Tuesday 25 October 2016

How to listen - Evelyn Glennie

The experience of listening and our relationship with sound
https://www.ted.com/talks/evelyn_glennie_shows_how_to_listen/transcript

Sat 12th November Lifemusic Portsmouth

Join us for the next improvisation workshop at Fratton Community Centre on Saturday 12th November 10.30am-12.30pm £7. We are all musical! Don't think so? Come along and find that you are! Tea, coffee & homemade cake included. Just bring yourself, all instruments provided.


Lifemusic Workshops
with Janet Ayers
Saturdays
10.30am-12.30pm
at Fratton Community Centre

10th Sept - 8th Oct - 12th Nov - 3rd Dec 
Open to all human-beings!
Improvisation workshop - Whatever your life experience or background, come along and join in the musicking! 
Fee: £7 adv - Places are limited, so please book


Put very simply, Lifemusic promotes the idea that –

·        Everyone is musical  ·        There are no wrong notes in music
·        Every sound has a meaning   ·        Making music is an act of trust
Fratton Community Centre Trafalgar Place, off Clive Road, Fratton PO1 5JJ
Telephone: 023 9275 1441
Transport links: TRAIN: 10min walk north from Fratton station.
Free car park at venue (www.frattoncc.org.uk)

All instruments provided but you can bring your own.
Bring water to drink, a notebook and wear comfortable clothing.
Hot drinks & home-made cake included.

Contact Janet now to reserve your place
Tel: 02392 811802 or contact@janetayers.org
lifemusicmethod.blogspot.co.uk

Circle Dance for Wellbeing 27th October 10.30am



Join us for the second taster workshop of circle dancing for wellbeing on
Thursday 27th October 10.30am.
No experience necessary, just willingness to have a go and to try something new that's good for your wellbeing. Very easy and very enjoyable seated and standing dances for anyone who enjoys exercise and movement to music. Especially good for people with mobility issues, people recovering from Stroke, people with dementia or Parkinson's and their carers.

Come along and give it a go!

Circle Dance for Wellbeing
Led by Janet Ayers
A fun and enjoyable community based circle dance group for people with Dementia, Parkinson’s or recovering from Stroke, and their carers. Also suitable for anyone who enjoys gentle exercise & movement. The dances are both seated or standing.
Thursdays 10.30-12noonThree taster workshops
22nd Sept /27th Oct / 24th Nov
St Mary’s Community Building
opposite St Marys Lodge,
St Marys Rd, Portsmouth PO3 6BB
£5 for couples
£3 for individuals

Contact Janet for more info and to book a place
02392 811802 or email:
contact@janetayers.org
PARKING: PLEASE USE THE LEFT-HAND CARPARK, PARKING AT THE FAR END IN THE ‘VISITORS’ SPACES – THANK YOU. OR ON STREET PARKING





Sunday 2 October 2016

Home › Columns › Essay › The demoralized mind - Western consumer culture is creating a psycho-spiritual crisis that leaves us disoriented and bereft of purpose. How can we treat our sick culture and make ourselves well? asks John F Schumaker.

https://newint.org/columns/essays/2016/04/01/psycho-spiritual-crisis/

Julian Harrow shared this article which resonates with the many people I've met through the course of my work, who show such a huge lack of worth on their own creativity, that they are not musical, or artisitc. We seem to be living in an era of embedded low self esteem of pandemic proportions.

"Research shows that, in contrast to earlier times, most people today are unable to identify any sort of philosophy of life or set of guiding principles. Without an existential compass, the commercialized mind gravitates toward a ‘philosophy of futility’, as Noam Chomsky calls it, in which people feel naked of power and significance beyond their conditioned role as pliant consumers. Lacking substance and depth, and adrift from others and themselves, the thin and fragile consumer self is easily fragmented and dispirited."

Illness: The Cry of the Flesh (The Art of Living) by Havi Carel

Phoene Cave siggested this as a good read. Lots of issues come up about singing and arts for wellbeing s I think this will help with my practice

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Illness-Cry-Flesh-Art-Living/dp/1844657531/ref=dp_ob_title_bk

What is illness? Is it a physiological dysfunction, a social label, or a way of experiencing the world? How do the physical, social and emotional worlds of a person change when they become ill? And can there be well-being within illness? In this remarkable and thought-provoking book, Havi Carel explores these questions by weaving together the personal story of her own serious illness with insights and reflections drawn from her work as a philosopher. Carel's fresh approach to illness raises some uncomfortable questions about how we all - whether healthcare professionals or not - view the ill and challenges us to become more thoughtful. 'Illness' unravels the tension between the universality of illness and its intensely private, often lonely, nature. It offers a new way of looking at a matter that affects every one of us.