This comprehensive textbook by Christina Tourin is over 650 pages long, and covers over 100 topics about Harp Therapy. The included CD, Heaven's Seven, offers music in each of the seven tonal centers with music in the reflective and outreaching modes. This is a limited first edition book for Practitioners and others interested in getting the full version of all the information. The upcoming second edition, geared to the general public, will be condensed. 586 pages, paperbound.
Topics include
o What is Harp Therapy?
o The National Certification Requirements for Therapeutic Musicians
o Historical References
o Music and Healing
o ACADEMICS: Counseling Skills, TA, NLP, Anatomy, Resonant Kinesiology, Toning
o MUSIC DEVELOPMENT: Improvisation Techniques, Modes, Tonal Quality and Intervals, Musical Elements, Tempo, Entrainment, Inclusive Attention, Resonant Tone, Vibroacoustics
o SUBTLE ENERGIES - Energy Patterns, Chakras, Aromatherapy, Chinese Five Elements, Yin Yang, Tai Chi
o Celtic Circle of Music
o Mysticism and Science, Music of the Spheres
o NDE's, OBE's, STE's
o Hospice and the Dying Process
o The Grieving Process
o Less IS More
o Research on Harp Therapy
o Harp Acoustics
o Therapy Harps - What to look for
o MEDICAL CURRICULUM: Interactive Work, Ethics, Etiquette, Immunology, Hospital Machines
o WHERE THE HARP IS USED: Alzheimer's Disease, Attention Deficit Disorder, Anxiety, Autism, Blind Harpers, Cancer, Cerebral Palsy, Coma, Dentistry, Disaster Relief, Hearing Impaired, Labyrinths, Migraines, Military, Multiple Sclerosis, Neo-natal, Palliative Care, Parkinson's Disease, Pediatrics, Pets and Animals, Prisons, Psychiatric Hospitals, Rehabilitation, Stroke, Tai Chi Centers, Visualization
o INNER DEVELOPMENT - Alexander Technique, Reiki
o Starting a program, Marketing, Promoting Harp Therapy, Happenings and jobs, Training
o RESOURCES - lists of music, sources
o WORLD HARP ORCHESTRA
o THE TOOL BAG
o PRACTITIONER STORIES ABOUT THEIR WORK
