music therapy
Sound therapy is any audio that creates a relaxing experience including music, ambient sound, or silence. It also includes having fun making music, it's freeing and relieves the soul.
intro to screendance
Screendance is a powerful art form that combines dance and film to create a unique way for audiences to connect with movement and emotion. In this vlog, I explore the history of dance films and how they help promote self-expression, emotional release, and healing in dance, art, and music therapy.
Lightscape
Inspired by the art, film, music, and dance therapy of Doug Aitkin, I vlog about my brainstorming process for dance films. This powerful practice helps me uncover personal truths, let go of ideas, and spark something new.
inner child healing
Inner child healing is a powerful practice that allows us to reconnect with our authentic selves by addressing past emotional wounds and cultivating self-love. As I rediscover my inner child, I'm meditating on my identity and healing parts of myself for a more radiant self-expression.
ss: spas 3
Drawing relaxing spas for snails with a playlist of Beethoven’s peaceful piano pieces.
peaceful piano pieces
This brief overview on piano concertos and sonatas showcases their emotional depth and musical beauty. Highlighting Beethoven's second movements amongst other serene compositions, this music therapy creates a relaxing experience, enriched by peaceful piano pieces.
ss: spas 2
Drawing snail sanctuary spas with my car playlist in the background. The simple flow of art and music therapy also brings in a little dance as well.
flowershop meditation
Part music therapy, art therapy, and nature therapy, the flowershop meditation blends operatic arias with glimpses of european flower shops as a reminder that flowers aren’t just for the wish list—they’re for our homes and belong on the grocery list.
ss: aqueducts 2
After my bachata and salsa dance break, I channel the energy from the music and movement into my art to continue designing silly aqueducts.
bachata salsa social
For my dance break, I play through some of my favorite bachata, salsa, and merengue songs. Afterwards, I talk a little about my dance experience and how dance and music therapy help me feel better and get ready to work on my projects.
ss: aqueducts 1
ss: aqueducts 1 features snails, a dance break, and doodles of silly aqueducts. During fire season, I de-stress with art therapy, dance therapy, and music therapy, accompanied by my playlist 2025 is a punk rocker
Nutcracker Appreciation
One of the most popular ballets, scores, and slices of our culture, The Nutcracker ballet is not just a seasonal tradition, but a chance to come together and celebrate the magic of dance, year after year.
Intro to Singing Therapy
Singing Therapy brings out the best in us, helping us express who we truly are and how we genuinely feel. It enhances brain activity, improves breathwork, and turns the body into a resonating singing bowl, offering healing that goes beyond what we can measure.
Blessed Assurance
Blessed Assurance is an example of how women in gospel music can embody technical, emotional, and spiritual depth. Through music therapy, I healed my cramps while unlocking a deeper relationship with God and the robust strength that comes with repetitive pain.
Intro to CATs
Creative Arts Therapies (CATs) are mental, physical, and emotional health specialties that integrate art, dance, music, theater, and poetry to foster authentic healing, enhance self-awareness, and provide multidimensional forms of communication. After meditation, progress to our personal truths may arise as well as emotions, memories, and traumas. CATs can help to heal those tough emotions as well as enrich our soul.
Song of the Open Road
Song of the Open Road extends an awareness of how beautiful the synchronicity of everyone and everything around us is. With scenes of our expanding universe, symbolism, concepts, and analogies, it ignites the feeling of freedom, wonder, direction, drive, and travel. Join me for an evening of lit therapy, float therapy, music therapy, and the song of the open road.
favorite tv intros
Making playlists is great fun, it has art, tech, and music therapy wrapped in one. I wasn’t expecting it to have any therapeutic benefit but this topic created a specific venn diagram of music and video content that struck chords in nostalgia, self-realization, and emotional healing. Favorite tv intros are specific enough to cut the fat from popular opinion and get down to the intros that spark joy in relaxing and watching tv.
Prema Yoga
Granada Hills, CA
Prema Yoga in Granada Hills, CA offers different types of yoga classes including hath, vinyasa, kundalini, and yin. Other classes specialized in energetic and physical healing such as urban zen, meditation, yoga nidra, and spine health. I would recommend their studio for those who want to try a variety of yoga styles taught by educated and spiritually-minded instructors.
Hall of Healing
The Hall of Healing at the Los Angeles Conscious Life Expo are specialized rooms for concentrated technologies to enhance a meditation experience. This year I’ll be working in these spaces and in this introductory blog post, I’m sharing what they have to offer, what to expect, and how to be emotionally and spiritually prepared. At first glance, the event descriptions sound esoteric and distant but these healing modalities are essentially wellness paths to feelings of love and expansion.
Charging Crystals at a DJ Set
Los Angeles, CA
I didn’t go to see Ross From Friends with the intention of charging my pocket crystals but after a night of all-encompassing vibrations in a space packed with nice people, the next day I noticed a difference in the crystals that I had in my clutch. When I go out dancing, I prefer to drink soda water and wear earplugs so my kind of hangover is more like some really sore legs and discovering these positively charged crystals.
From Music to Memories
Since music is processed and stored in multiple parts of the brain, especially our memory, there is a strong and special connection to the importance of music in each of our lives. In patients with Alzheimer’s disease, studies have linked listening to music with stronger memory recall, proving music therapy to help heal emotional traumas, self-expression, and the feeling of joy.