Em. G. Dm. Am. Slow down Melodic mantra is my favourite way to self soothe, lullaby myself, regulate, breathe, slow down. Join me online, once a week, for an hour of melodic mantra in A Gathering of Voices. We come from all over the world and we soothe ourselves and each other.Xxx | Allison Davies - Music and the Brain
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Em. G. Dm. Am. Slow down Melodic mantra is my favourite way to self soothe, lullaby myself, regulate, breathe, slow down. Join me online, once a week, for an hour of melodic mantra in A Gathering of Voices. We come from all over the world and we soothe ourselves and each other.Xxx | Allison Davies - Music and the Brain
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Melodic Mantras for everyday life. I first started the practice of Melodic Mantra at a time when I was seriously anxious. From the outside, I seemed to be kicking goals in life, but on the inside I was struggling more than I ever had before, and more than I ever have since. As a Neurologic Music Therapist I knew how to use music strategically in ways that would totally help me. So, I started doing what I now call Melodic Mantra. Very quickly I realised it's power, and noticed a multitude of tiny
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Melodic Mantras for everyday life. I first started the practice of Melodic Mantra at a time when I was seriously anxious. From the outside, I seemed to be kicking goals in life, but on the inside I was struggling more than I ever had before, and more than I ever have since. As a Neurologic Music Therapist I knew how to use music strategically in ways that would totally help me. So, I started doing what I now call Melodic Mantra. Very quickly I realised it's power, and noticed a multitude of tiny
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Slow down This feeling that’s it’s so fast And that I got no time Is just a trick of the mind A melodic mantra to remind us: The pace of the modern western world is all just a trick!!! Join us in A Gathering of Voices for weekly singing of melodic mantras, it’s my fave place to be, come sing with me there!!! | Allison Davies - Music and the Brain
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Slow down This feeling that’s it’s so fast And that I got no time Is just a trick of the mind A melodic mantra to remind us: The pace of the modern western world is all just a trick!!! Join us in A Gathering of Voices for weekly singing of melodic mantras, it’s my fave place to be, come sing with me there!!! | Allison Davies - Music and the Brain
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Every day my courage grows. A staple and an original from the melodic mantra experiment, which eventually became a way of life for me and is now a way of life for many of you too! Everyday my courage grows is an ode to my nervous system, my body and brain, a lullaby to my inner child, a reminder that I get to choose and maintain agency, a way of soothing the inner voice that tells me scary things. Come and melodic mantra with me each week!! Check out A Gathering of Voices for details - online an
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Every day my courage grows. A staple and an original from the melodic mantra experiment, which eventually became a way of life for me and is now a way of life for many of you too! Everyday my courage grows is an ode to my nervous system, my body and brain, a lullaby to my inner child, a reminder that I get to choose and maintain agency, a way of soothing the inner voice that tells me scary things. Come and melodic mantra with me each week!! Check out A Gathering of Voices for details - online an
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Allison Davies "Every Little Cell in my Body is Happy & Well" Melodic Mantra Affirmation Song Looped
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Allison Davies, Music and The Brain on Instagram: "“I forgive myself for thinking it had anything to do with me.” Melodic mantras don’t have to be affirming or positive or clever or creative. Just honest and simple and sung on repeat. Join us at A gathering of Voices for an hour of melodic mantras every week xxx"
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Allison Davies, Music and The Brain on Instagram: "“I forgive myself for thinking it had anything to do with me.” Melodic mantras don’t have to be affirming or positive or clever or creative. Just honest and simple and sung on repeat. Join us at A gathering of Voices for an hour of melodic mantras every week xxx"
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For a community based in one of the most magical, emotive and life filling resources such as music, it’s fascinating that there is still so much gatekeeping around who gets to be included. To think that only the ones privileged enough to own instruments, be able to afford/ access lessons or be born with ‘a musical gift’ can be called musical blows my mind over and over again.Lets broaden our definition, because there are enough seats at the musical table for every one of us xxx | Allison Davies
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For a community based in one of the most magical, emotive and life filling resources such as music, it’s fascinating that there is still so much gatekeeping around who gets to be included. To think that only the ones privileged enough to own instruments, be able to afford/ access lessons or be born with ‘a musical gift’ can be called musical blows my mind over and over again.Lets broaden our definition, because there are enough seats at the musical table for every one of us xxx | Allison Davies
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“Keep my body warm, and rested, don’t stress too much, just rest”. A #melodicmantra for pain, sickness, recovery or rehabilitation 🫶🏼 Come join A Gathering of Voices for more melodic mantras like this one, and a weekly only song sharing circle with folk from all around the world! Xxx #MelodicMantras #SongCircles #AGatheringOfVoices #MusicTherapy #FYP #ForYou #MindfulSinging #OnlineSingingGroup
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Did you know our voice is one of the greatest tools for supporting our brain to feel safe, in control and soothed? 🧠🎶 Even if all around us is uncertainty, triggers and fear, our voice can support us in powerful ways to feel safe. My brand new webinar, “Using Your Voice as a Tool for Trauma Recovery” will teach you: 🎶 How to use voice as a tool for feeling safe in your own body, 🎶 Using your voice for expressing emotion and 🎶 How to feel safe in advocating for your needs. This webinar is fo
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We have been taught to think we have to meet the social expectation, the developmental milestones, the normative standards… but someone made all of these things up. And neurodiversity means we can let them go xxx | Allison Davies - Music and the Brain
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Everyone is trying to be as human centred as possible, which is a noble intention. But diagnosis and autism are both human centred and holistic words and concepts. Seeking a diagnosis doesn’t mean we align with the medical model, identifying by our neurotype doesn’t mean we limit ourselves. Having clarity around our neurotype is actually a very practical, empowering and wise thing to have! So for anyone nervous about taking this path, I promise you, all you will discover no matter where the path
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Another day another audition 🎬😮‍💨👯‍♀️ with Kristy Forbes - Autism & ND Support xxx 🤣🧡🤣🧡 | Allison Davies - Music and the Brain
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Ancient, ancient medicine in action right here... Singing to your sick child, it's about as wise as medicine gets! 👌🏼👌🏼 #traditionalmedicine #allisondavies #neurologicmusictherapist | Allison Davies - Music and the Brain
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With the neuroscience we now have in our hot little hands, today’s teachers are basically the first generation to fully, seriously, actually know for scientifically certain that braincare trumps behaviour management. Brilliant news for our kids!! Very tricky times for our teachers. Not only are they (you!!🥰) trying to align the neuroscience within a system that caters for outcomes over actualisation, they are also implementing new ways of supporting and understanding children that really challe
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Regulation as an ableist concept! Thoughts?? X | Allison Davies - Music and the Brain
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A Gathering of Voices is an online singing community founded and facilitated by former neurologic music therapist Allison Davies. We are neuro-affirming and trauma informed and welcome every one of you wondering if maybe this community is for you! Each week we hold song sharing circles where we share our simple, repetitive melodic mantras. A therapeutic tool for supporting emotions to move, empowerment to deepen, ana to develop a relationship with our own voice. We come from all over the globe.
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Read full article on Substack at ‘The Neuro-Affirming Path’. Xxxx | Allison Davies - Music and the Brain
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An underlying foundation of felt-safety in any relationship is vital for it’s authenticity, and true relational safety makes any accomodation or support towards ourselves or another individual more genuine, trustworthy and ethical. ✨✨ Watch the full video at my Substack allisondavies.substack.com (please note this one is for paid subscribers) xx | Allison Davies - Music and the Brain
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Day 10 #autismacceptancemonth The reason anxiety can sometimes be the reason we don’t explore our neurotype xxx | Allison Davies - Music and the Brain
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Almost all of the information and thoughts I share are filtered through a mainstream experience, not the majority experience, including the fact that my neurodivergence’s are limited to autism and ADHD! My experience can’t speak to anything that I don’t live with myself. And my privilege keeps me in a relatively mainstream place, unawares of the complexity of trauma, suffering, displacement, brutality, inability to access support, assessments, diagnoses etc. What a blessing! Please follow and le
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It’s a very common situation! One person in the family gains clarity around their neurotype and it opens up a can of worms within the greater context of extended family. One of the most common stories of tension I hear about is the tension amongst extended family. For older members of the family who have lived their lives with the same neurotype, but have had to work hard to suppress it, fit in, act, mask, its understandable that the neurodiversity paradigm can be triggering! | Allison Davies -
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Fix the systems, judgements and rules that make life difficult-to-impossible for autistic (and all) children, don’t let them be suffocated by these structures and then tell them they need more resilience. Grrr | Allison Davies - Music and the Brain
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It's time we start dispelling the myths about autism that until recently had been accepted as truth. Join us for the live cohort of my 6 week program 'Autism: Dispelling the myths understanding the culture'. We get started on Mon 15th September - link is in my bio or comment CULTURE for the link xx | Allison Davies - Music and the Brain
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I am SUPER excited about my next event, and you should be too, and if you’re in Lutruwita do *everything* you can to get there!! Next Saturday Nov 18th 6-11pm come along to the TANA (Trauma Awareness Network Australia) event ‘Only The Beginning’. This is a sample of a piece we will be singing together, all voices welcome, and there will be hundreds. I can not wait to hear the power of therapy style group singing 🧡🧡 There will be music, creativity, performance, food, drinks, good times, dancing
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One of the many surprising benefits that comes from online group singing is the way we can sit in our emotions and let them flow as long as they need. When we touch and physically comfort someone while they cry and emote, often it leads to a sense of regulation that stops their tears, or leads to a sense that it’s time to stop the tears, or changes the situation in a way that emotions change. This is also the wonder of human connection. But I LOVE the way that tears during ‘A Gathering of Voices
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A little ditty about emotions and that funny thing we called emotional regulation and emotional dis regulation. Emotions are meant to move, they can’t be measured and suppressing them inflames us. Learn about this and more in Autism: Dispelling the myths Understanding the Culture, 28 day program beginning May 5th. Comment CULTURE to find out more xxx | Allison Davies - Music and the Brain
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It’s inevitable folks, and will it really matter? But omg can you just picture the outrage!!?!???🤣🫣😆😒 Join Waitlist 👉🏼 Autism:Dispelling the Myths and Understanding the Culture. Launching Sept xx | Allison Davies - Music and the Brain
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“I swim in an ocean of peace (x3) and when I don’t believe it I swim in an ocean of trust.” Want to learn more about how you can create your own #melodicmantra practice in your life? One that amplifies your intentions just by the fact that melody, rhythm, repetition and your own voice is involved? Check out ‘The Magic and Medicine of Music’. We start March 16th xxx | Allison Davies - Music and the Brain
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You LOVE the chanting!! YOU LOVE IT SO MUCH! And I, for one, am stoked, because not only do I also seriously love chanting, but I know how exceptionally good it is for your brain functioning and therefore EVERYTHING else about you. So? Here is 1 tiny minute of chanting. From me (and Maple) to you. Listen along or sing along. Enjoy. www.allisondavies.com.au/subscribe | Allison Davies - Music and the Brain
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