Music Immersion Sessions
Music has a bewitching power when it comes to our thoughts and emotions. If you’ve ever cried to a sad song, hidden beneath blankets under the influence of scary music from a horror film, or swelled with a sense of heroism on hearing a rousing tune, you’ll agree.
Below I have the options available for my music immersion sessions as well is a brief look at the neuroscience behind music, and how a simple series of sounds can have weighty impacts in our minds.
During a music immersion session, you will experience a relaxation
oriented fully body massage enhanced by a louder, surround sound music immersion to
enhance your mental and emotional experience,
taking you away from your daily life and stresses.
Nature Getaway
Immerse yourself in the sounds of nature for a grounding experience.
Experience a blend of bubbling streams, rain, waves, soft birds, and the breeze through the trees. Sometimes connecting with mother earth is just what we need.
Meditation Escape
Fully immerse yourself into the deep oasis of low frequencies, soft instrumentation and echoing ambient tones that will lull you out of your head and into a deep state of meditation. Healing your body and mind while focusing on the total relaxation of your massage.
Emotional Release
During your massage, you will experience an emotional blend of choral music and soundtracks that are meant to evoke emotional responses and satisfactory releases to help you feel the satisfaction of our brains emotional response to the beauty of music.
Music
and our brains.
The psychology of music has been recognized and studied since ancient times, with Plato theorizing that different styles of music stirred different emotions in listeners. Pull up your favorite song or the soundtrack from a horror movie, and you’ll see that he was right. It’s easy to understand that music has a profound effect on us, but modern science has given us clearer glimpses at the neuroscience of music, and why and how music plays with our minds.
Our favorite songs arouse emotions, memories, and even physiological responses like dilated pupils and increased pulse and blood pressure. There is also increased activity in the cerebellum, the region of the brain associated with movement. Interestingly, these intense reactions occur just before our favorite parts of songs, in the so-called “anticipatory phase.” It’s conjectured that this build-up of anticipation, along with subverted expectations in musical patterns, is what primarily heightens our enjoyment and engages our brains.
Because of the ways music influences us, we can—and do—use music to achieve desired results! As music’s effects are more studied and better understood, we can use that information to “hack our brains” with powerful song choices.
