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Apr 26, 20173 min read

Getting in Touch with your Inner Sloth: Thoughts on Work-Life Balance, and Mindfulness

How often have you encountered the term mindfulness lately? I notice it showing up in titles of books, as part of a marketing thing...

Nov 17, 20162 min read

Peace, Love, and Music: My AMTA Conference Recap

I'm fresh from the 2016 American Music Therapy Conference, and I feel inspired, and musically refreshed. This was my third year at...

Jul 10, 20162 min read

Bach, Bach, Bach!

Today, I resurrected Bach...sort of. Based on encouragement, I decided to get back into the heart of violin playing. Though I have...

Apr 26, 20163 min read

Using Your Primary Orchestral Instrument in Music Therapy: Tips to Get Started

When I first started my training to become a music therapist, I wasn’t sure where my primary instrument would fit in the picture. I came...

Feb 24, 20162 min read

Give me an "A": The beauty of historic tuning.

In grad school I wrote a paper about historic tuning, and the benefit it would bestow to students to learn it. Many years later, I am...

Jan 19, 20163 min read

Save the date! FEB 3rd

Howdy folks! Texans, and Music therapy supporters everywhere, save the date of Feb 3rd! Why you ask? Because February 3rd is...(drumroll...

Jan 11, 20161 min read

Shout out: Rhyme

One of the great things I love about the field of music therapy is that research is always happening. Today's blog post is a shout out...

Tammy Takaishi, M. Ed., MA, MT-BC