23.7. 1993 Vitoria-Gasteiz / Spain - World Federation of Music Therapy

Example 1 + 2)
These two pieces of music is from the beginning and the
end of an 18 minutes long improvisation with the title "I
try to play my own birth in a smooth way". This student
formulated as a main topic for the self experience work
to focus on a nonbalanced use of energy: the student
felt either too paralysed for action or too active. Here like
in most individual and group work we take turns in
playing music together and reflect verbally on the music
in between. After having explored the topic with different
methods we one day decided to go back and work with
the student's birth as the theme. The student was told
by the mother that the birth had lasted for a very long
time, and then suddenly the child came out like in an
explosion. This life rhytm seemed somehow to follow
the student also as an adult.
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In the music I play the part of a birth helper, but at the
end I do press the student through my drum playing and
keep the student in high energy untill the climax.
Music example 1.
The student plays piano (including the strings inside the
piano). - After the improvsation the student lay down on
the floor and said nothing. I placed myself nearby and
was just present. After a couple of minutes the student
told that it was the first time this student had had such a
kind of body feeling. This kind of body feeling became a
guideline next time the student felt unbalanced - it was a
tool for focusing the search for more balanced energy.
Special circumstances and ethical rules around
Self experience in practice.
This kind of compulsory training built into a recognised