Music Therapy and Child Trauma

Studies show music helps shape an infant’s brain in the womb, and keeps babies alive after birth.

So surely children’s choirs can heal child trauma.

What if Bruce Perry or Bessel van der Kolk had been a Vienna Choir Boy? They’d be doing research to prove it! 

Want to heal developmental trauma in kids?  Create children’s choirs, I wrote last week.  Dr. Perry says “patterned, repetitive, rhythmic regulation” is what regulates the brain stem, and when it’s not regulated, we can’t truly reach the rest of a child’s brain.

The brain science studies have been done on yoga, meditation, EMDR and so on — not on Bach.  But is that only because those scientists were never given the chance to sing Bach?  Chalk it up to the decline of education.  

Or haven’t I seen the brain science studies on choirs?  Please leave me a comment if you have any leads, I'm old at music but new at trauma...

Plus: there’s a lot of science that shows music helps shape babies in the womb — and keeps them alive when they need it.  Science shows this “medical music therapy” helps people of all ages.  Put this with the fact that children’s choirs have been a keystone of civilization since at least 700BC and we start to see a pattern.  READ MORE...