Holistic Sound and Music Therapies for the well being of the Body, Mind and Soul

Welcome to Salacia Music Therapies website. After 10 years of work in the area of music and sound therapies, we decided to create this website where you can find all the information about the work we do in the area, and the various therapies we are offering at the moment.

We are located in the beautiful Island of São Miguel, Azores, Portugal, very close to Ponta Delgada.

Overview

Music is one of the most powerful tools for transformation. It is a blessing and a given skill to be able to connect to and receive these divine element.

Sound, the basis of Music, is everywhere. It is a quality innate to all existing things and this, alone, seriously suggests how fundamental it is nowadays to understand and experience its healing powers.

Music and Sound can take us to higher levels of consciousness, promoting healing and transformation by using our intention, focus and awareness.

Recent advances in this area based on studies coming out on a daily basis, help bringing more awareness and trust to these fundamental therapies.

Our relation with music and sound spans a long way back. From the time our brain evolved in a way that was able to process sounds, and serve as a channel to other states of awareness, music has been given great importance. The oldest musical instrument is 60 000 years old - a flute made of bone.

Music has been used in ceremonies and celebrations as well as to lullaby a child into sleep or to heal a patient’s mental illness. Recent and old studies have proved the use of music as a very effective tool in healing physical, mental, emotional and spiritual conditions, as well as being pleasant to the patient. Research has found that when a subject listens to music that gives them the chills, it triggers a release of dopamine to the brain - dopamine is a naturally occurring body chemical we receive as part of a reward system.

Other reactions also take place in the brain and body when listening to certain music but, there is something else to music. It is an element which is part of the human being but we know very little about. That mystery has been the object of research for many people around the world: scientists; medical practitioners; musicians; religious and spiritual people. All expecting to know more about the amazing effects music can have on a human being.

Recent advances in music therapy, based on studies published daily, have helped bring greater awareness and confidence to these therapies. Using intention, focus, and awareness when working with sound and music therapies can lead us to greater levels of healing and transformation.

One of the main points of focus on music therapy is the emotional side of a person, and it is by being familiar with emotions and understanding them better that we can have a life free of unpleasant feelings and toxic behaviors which most of the times leads to disease and illness. Music and emotions have a relation that we accept, but that we know very little about how to benefit from. This is where sound and music therapies play an important role.

Sound and Music Therapies involve several techniques that support a person with their endeavor into healing or going through a difficult time. They are harmless but at the same time efficient with given proof throughout the years as to bring one person back into a coherent and harmonic state at physical, emotional, mental and spiritual level.