Creative Measures Music Therapy

🚨FREE Touch-A-Truck Event🚨

Meet us out at J Pleasant Hines Park (formerly Pool Park) on June 12th at 10 am! It will be a morning of big trucks, cool vehicles, and community fun! Stop by and check out the cool tractors that keep our parks and community fun to play in!

Explore police cars, fire trucks, water trucks, lawn equipment, and more!

This is a FREE community event! See you there!

Southern Pines Parks and Recreation Town of Southern Pines

I love Laurie Berkner’s music and use a lot of her songs in sessions/classes. I’m tempted to go to the concert even though I don’t have a little one to take!

September 13th | Cary, NC

This is how important music is.

🎖️ Piano Fact: Steinway Built “Victory Verticals” for WWII Troops

Hurray, it’s World Music Therapy Week! 🎶 🎤 🎸 🎹 🎼 🪘

Whether it’s through rhythm, songwriting, listening, or movement, music therapy helps people express what words sometimes cannot.⁠
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This World Music Therapy Week, we recognize the impact of music therapists and the healing power of music all around the world. 🌍🎵⁠
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This would be a wonderful concert for young and old alike.

We have an exciting family concert coming soon! We'll be at Iron Mike Concerence Center at Fort Bragg for a musical tour of the orchestra. This concert is perfect for music lovers big and small, and is entirely free to attend! Come experience the wonders of the symphony on April 11th at 3pm.

With Moore County Choral Society – I'm on a streak! I've been a top fan for 10 months in a row. 🎉

Even if I didn’t love singing, it would make me happy to see these studies. Sing out!

Your voice holds power far beyond words.

According to a fascinating study, singing for just one hour can increase your body’s production of secretory immunoglobulin A, or SIgA, by up to 240 percent. SIgA is your immune system’s first line of defense. It coats the lining of your mouth, throat, lungs, and digestive system, blocking viruses and bacteria before they invade deeper.

Researchers compared people who sang to those who simply listened to music or sat quietly. The difference was clear. Singing led to a massive spike in immunity, while the other activities offered only minor changes.

The act of singing is not just emotional. It is physical medicine. Breath control strengthens the lungs. Muscle engagement improves circulation. Vocal vibration stimulates healing in the chest, face, and brain.

Even more impressive? Singing activates the vagus nerve. This nerve calms the body, regulates stress, lowers cortisol, and balances your immune system. It is the body’s natural switch between fight mode and healing mode.

This is not about singing well. It is about singing fully. Whether it is gospel in a choir, humming in the kitchen, or belting a pop song in the car, your immune system listens and responds.

Singing also boosts endorphins, creating a natural high that relaxes the mind and energizes the body. In a world overwhelmed by stress, that shift can be the medicine many people never realized they needed.

So sing like your health depends on it. Because science says it just might.
Your voice is more than expression. It is immunity in motion.

Scientists played Bach to newborns, and found they can anticipate rhythms at two days old Your two-day-old could be secretly judging your sense of timing, as new research finds we develop rhythm earlier than we first thought.