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Welcome to my web page. I am a Board-Certified Music therapist, Sound healing practitioner, and an accredited Music and Art Teacher. Often I combine both, visual art and music when appropriate, especially for therapeutic purposes. I specialize (mostly but not only) in working with students and clients with various disabilities. I am well trained in behavioral and sensory integration techniques to address the unique challenges of many of my clients. I live in Chandler, Arizona, and work in the surrounding areas of Maricopa County. I can travel to my clients or they can come to me for services on weekly, biweekly or monthly basis. I am approved as a vendor on ClassWallet and work mostly with ESA families, or I take private pay. Here is what I provide with a lot of love and respect to my clients and their families and communities:
Welcome to my web page. I am a Board-Certified Music therapist, Sound healing practitioner, and an accredited Music and Art Teacher. Often I combine both, visual art and music when appropriate, especially for therapeutic purposes. I specialize (mostly but not only) in working with students and clients with various disabilities. I am well trained in behavioral and sensory integration techniques to address the unique challenges of many of my clients. I live in Chandler, Arizona, and work in the surrounding areas of Maricopa County. I can travel to my clients or they can come to me for services on weekly, biweekly or monthly basis. I am approved as a vendor on ClassWallet and work mostly with ESA families, or I take private pay. Here is what I provide with a lot of love and respect to my clients and their families and communities:
Music Therapy
Music Therapy
I am a Board-Certified Music Therapist and accredited Music Teacher.
Music influences movement, cognition, emotion, sensory function, and behavior. Music's impact is linked to its ability to engage multiple neural systems of the brain. Playing or listening to music can stimulate neuroplasticity of the brain. Studies have shown the method of Music therapy that works most effectively uses the principles of resonance and entrainment.
Music therapy session is active session. I help my clients to improve their level of functioning and quality of life. I use various music experiences and strategies to achieve success in individually tailored measurable treatment goals and objectives.
Most often I work on speech and language, pre-writing skills, fine and gross motor skills, emotional release, attention, social skills, memory, executive functions and many others.
Sound Bath is another modality I sometimes use. Voice and pure acoustic instruments are used to reduce stress, pain and improve emotional well-being.
I teach basic Piano, Guitar, Recorder, (in person only), and Music History (in person and /or on-line).
Clients who are interested in Instrument making will craft simple instruments like hand drums and shakers in my sessions.
Any age.
Individual, group, in person, online. Weekly, bi-weekly, monthly.
Siblings discounts available.
“When words fail, music speaks.”
Hans Christian Andersen
For more info go to www.musictherapy.org
Wellness Drumming
Wellness Drumming
I am a certified HealthRHYTHMS group drum circle facilitator.
HealthRHYTHMS® is a research-based group drumming program developed over 20 years ago through interdisciplinary collaboration of experts in Neuroscience, Music Therapy, and Recreational Music Making.
This scientifically studied drum circle program provides a host of benefits:
Reduced stress
Burnout reduction
Manage anger
Improved mood
Strengthen immune system
Build camaraderie
Emotional Support
Exercise
Self expression
Improved cognition
Team building
Accessible for all ages & abilities
For more info go to: https://remo.com/programs/healthrhythms
"In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God."
Art Exploration
Art Exploration
I am an accredited Art Teacher.
Students of any age (with disabilities or not) always enjoy creating art and learning about it's different forms, materials, techniques and history. I customize my teaching to the abilities and interests of my students. Art can be a powerful and therapeutic tool to create something beautiful, release emotions, stimulate senses and work on fine motor skills (like grasping) and spatial orientation. It is great for sensory integration. Touching/manipulating various textures helps to desensitize possible existing sensory issues for many clients with disabilities.
Individual or small group; on-line sessions for high functioning clients (Step by step drawing, Art History).
Weekly, bi-weekly, monthly.
Siblings discounts available.
“If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.” Edward Hopper
Sound Healing
Sound Healing
I am a certified Sound Healing practitioner.
Music positively influences physiological markers of stress (e.g. heart rate, blood pressure, breathing, hormones, amygdala function), as numerous studies showed. Stress and trauma are held in the body and manifest as disease, dis-ease and discordant energy. Sound healing works by applying the harmonic frequencies that resonate with different parts of our body to bring them back into balance. Sound healing (also called sound therapy or sound bath) is therefore able to shift us from feeling unwell to well. Sound healing is a safe and non-invasive therapeutic practice that uses the principles of resonance and entrainment when sound vibrations from voice and pure acoustic instruments like Himalayan or crystal bowls, tuning forks, gongs and chimes are used to promote relaxation and healing. It aims to balance the body, mind, and spirit, often leading to reduced stress, pain, better sleep and improved emotional well-being. Sometimes I pair sound healing with guided meditation, movement, and/or art exploration where clients can process and release the sound experience more deeply.
5 and up
Individual or group
Weekly, bi-weekly, monthly or as needed.
“As the nervous system experiences more safety, it begins to unwind allowing for limbic system processing. Through deep relaxation, resonance, and intention unprocessed emotions, memories, and experiences that have been kept out of awareness are invited back to be seen, met, felt, and heard.”
Paula Scatoloni, LCSW, SEP
“Everything in the universe is vibration. By harnessing specific frequencies, we can shift our consciousness, optimize brain function, and unlock new states of well-being.”
Marcus
Bird
“Future medicine will be the medicine of frequency.”
often attributed to Albert Einstein
For more info go to
https://www.soundhealersassociation.org
Contact:
Contact:
Petra Paukova, MT-BC
Touch of Music AZ, LLC
Phone: 602 758 4815
Email: ppaukova1@gmail.com
Neuroplasticity - Demonstrated ability of the brain to structurally and functionally reorganize.
Entrainment - A biological phenomenon in which adjacent rhythms gradually falls into synchrony. Entrainment helps us sync with an external rhythm or frequency through our nervous systems and brains. An external rhythm or tempo can entrain our internal rhythms to synchronize with it.
Sensory Integration - The neurological process that organizes sensation from one’s own body and from the environment and makes it possible to use the body effectively within the environment.......
Sound healing - The therapeutic application of sound frequencies to the body/mind of a person with the intention of bringing them into a state of harmony and health. It is based on the idea that all matter (including the human body) is vibrating at specific frequencies. Disease, illness and pain are thought to be caused by blockages or imbalances in these natural vibratory rates. When these blockages are removed, health and well-being is restored.
A drum circle facilitator is an individual who makes this interactive music making experience "easier" for the participants. A facilitator creates a space for the expression of community by empowering the group of participants with a safe and fun atmosphere and tools for expression, enabling them with technique and encouraging them with fun. Trained professional facilitators recognize the need for empowering each individual as the consciousness of the entire group evolves into a musical composition. Drum circle facilitators act in service to the group, helping individuals achieve greater personal potential, shared joy, and interdependent group dynamics. A facilitator develops a rapport with the participants and through various techniques is able to assist the music into various compositions unique to the population.
A drum circle is a rhythm-based event that utilizes a variety of hand drums and percussion instruments to empower a community of participants with the ability to create beautiful, spontaneous music. Drumming and cooperatively creating rhythmic based music as part of a group is a kinesthetic activity that involves everyone regardless of musical experience or ability. A drum circle benefits individuals by connecting them to a common purpose of creative self-expression. Drum circles are routinely utilized by community groups, corporations and organizations, support groups, children, youth at risk, well and unwell elderly, teachers, religious groups, college student groups, to name but a few. All of these groups have found the power that drum circles have to create an environment for joy, expression, team building, stress relief and communication.
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