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Music – & Movement Therapy

according to Dr. R.Oruç Güvenç

The body is weakened when the soul is weakened. And it is worried when it is worried. Healing of the body happens through healing of the soul, in which the inner forces are strengthened through music and sounds that are suitable for this purpose.
– El Farabi (b. 870 in Otrar, Kazakhstan, d.: 950 in Damascus, Syria)

Receptive music therapy:

  • Improvisations in Makam (tone types)
  • Imaje Music
  • Pentatonic Improvisations

Active music therapy:

  • Archetypal Movements
  • Baksi Dance
  • Central Asian Dances
  • Sema Forms (Mevlevi, Bektaşi, Horasan and others)

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Ancient Oriental music and movement therapy originally comes from the Central Asian culture of the Turkic peoples. From the cradle to death with music and dance”, it is said there, where music, dance, healing and spirituality were connected over the millennia, first in shamanism. Songs, dances and the turning around holy places belong to the oldest expressions of cultural and spiritual actions of mankind at all.

Later, Oriental medicine developed, with approaches similar to Chinese and Tibetan medicine and influenced by the traditions of the Prophet Muhammad. It naturally incorporated the effectiveness of sounds/tones, like movements.

Although diseases can express themselves physically or mentally, body, mind and soul were conceived as a unity, working together individually in each person, depending on the influences of his living environment and integrated, indeed part of the cosmic movements and exposed to the astrological influences.

Music as sacred and healing sound, like movement and dance, expresses the cosmic rhythms and movements. Its healing vibrations and frequencies, have a profound effect on the body and soul.

In receptive music therapy, they experience the effectiveness of different tones (makame) on their body, emotions and mind. Or they can explore their visualization possibilities to special melodies and improvisations.

In active music therapy, they learn movements from centuries-old dances.

Active music therapy also includes singing, or sounding and improvising with one’s own voice, as well as water sound.

Music and movement serve to strengthen the good energies.