UNIVERSAL LOVE  

Healing Music  

mission:

therapeutic, rehabilitative, refreshing music

“And it came to pass…that David took a harp, and played with his hand:   so Saul was refreshed, and was well…”   Samuel 2.6:23  

Our mission is to give uplifting, positive-vibed, all ages healing music therapy using guitars, voice, bass and Tibetan Singing Bowls.   We especially care for those with physical or economic obstacles.

We reach out to people at hospitals, hospices, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, correctional system and rehabilitative centers.  

Love is the glue that holds the universe together -Teilhard de Chardin

We encourage inspiring, loving, and nurturing sounds and lyrics.

GIVE DEDICATE LOVE

Specific Goal: 

Directly benefit others through relieving, aligning effects of sound/vibration and song.

Drumming with Youth in Correctional System

Sound n' Vision Workshop in Corrections

Music Volunteers at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin giving monthly group and bedside music sessions since 2011.

"After the session my clients were relaxed and cheerful.”  Right Way Center for Independence

We create an environment where children and adults can simply listen and/or let go and create with us. 

Group session at local Adult Day Care for People with Disabilities  

"The music was positive, age appropriate and their communications with our participants was kind and respectful.  We look forward to having you visit again.”  Goodwill Community Opportunities Club   

We are conscious of lyrical content and sound levels are appropriate.  Singing, dancing, and playing percussion are encouraged!

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Tibetan Singing Bowls 

We have been incorporating  7-metal Tibetan Singing Bowls into our therapeutic work.  Singing bowls produce a unique sound that can be heard and processed and also a physical vibration that can be sensed and felt. The vibrations lead to a relaxation response in the body.  In the words of our clients: "So peaceful",  "Very spiritual",  "Ahhhh- I am so relaxed", "So calming".

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Current Sites

Catholic Charities Adult Day, Goodwill Community Opportunities Club (Daycare for People with Disabilities), Alexian Village Skilled Nursing/Rehab, Milwaukee Center for Independence, Lutheran Home Adult Day Services, Right Way Center for Independence, James Wright Center for Work and Training, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin

Testimonials

“Yes, yes, yes to all your healing, regenerative, replenishing possibilities.”  Janine Arseneau Founder Grandmother’s Without Borders

"Music on the weekends! It is such a needed and wonderful modality and sometimes our staffing is thinner on the weekends. A tremendous thank you for sharing your time and talents with our kids.  You are appreciated and bring light to their time with us at CHW."   Julie Johannes Children's Hospital Child Life Specialist

"We look forward to another enlightening performance. They were here once before and everyone LOVED them. THANKS AGAIN! " Brenda at Alexian Village

"Halleluia!"  Goodwill Site response to the Tibetan Singing Bowls

"Our clients (and staff) LOVE the the program! They are so energized after the sessions and love the interactive-ness and contributing their music with shaking the shakers, beating the drums and even dancing. We really hope you are successful in getting another grant to continue coming back." Catholic Charities

“Wow, fantastic. THANK YOU for what you are doing!”  Sasha Gainullin Noel Foundation

"Many of the participants here suffer from depression and they were not only smiling during the session but for the remainder of the day."  Goodwill Site

"Thank you for coming.  When are you coming back?  Please don't forget about us."   Client at Catholic Charities

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 We observe the ages, conditions and environment and choose appropriate songs.   

We create a space for small group, visit bedside patients, or visit your home. KT is also currently taking the Tibetan Singing Bowls to Hospice and home.

"Our clients are so energized after the sessions and love the inter-activeness and contributing music in  shaking the shakers, beating the drums and even dancing.”  Catholic Charities.

 We hope for you to leave us with a melodically based POSITIVE message that you can carry the rest of the day or longer.  This has been a goal for all of our sessions and from our feedback surveys - great success!

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Research

Since ancient times, and across cultures, there are stories of healing through music. Research in North America, Europe and Japan over the last 25 years has documented therapeutic and effective uses of music in various medical and rehabilitative situations.

Man In Nursing Home Reacts to Hearing Music  video with Dr. Oliver Sacks M.D.

"From  youth in the Wisconsin Correctional System to Children's Hospital and many sites in between; we go when called.

I incorporate the holistic mind/body martial art T'ai Chi and the Healing Vibrations of Tibetan Singing Bowls into the work."

Empowering youth of Milwaukee on stage at Summerfest

History:  I have partnered with many African and Milwaukee artists  over the years and I thank them all. We have had some great sessions!

Sound and Vision Workshops  with tia and kt,  some blog entries

Healing Sound and Vision on Milwaukee Renaissance

"Our clients thoroughly enjoyed the session.  They danced, sang and played along with the music.  They had their spirits lifted." Milwaukee Center for Independence

contact us through: kt rusch music

CALENDAR    

2013

May 7 Children's Hospital Wisconsin 10 am

March 5 Children's Hospital Wisconsin @ 10 am

Feb 5   Children's Hospital WI @ 10 am

Jan 20   Christ Church Episcopal Youth Group @ 1030 am

Jan 8   Children's Hospital WI @ 10 am

Jan 4 Community Opportunities Club South - Christ United Methodist Church 5200 S. 48th street  @ 10 am

2012

Dec 21  James Wright Center for Work and Training 6065 N. 91st Street Milwaukee (Daycare for people with Disabilities) @ 9:45 am

Dec 14 Community Opportunities Club South - Christ United Methodist Church 5200 S. 48th street  @ 10 am

Nov 16  James Wright Center for Work and Training 6065 N. 91st Street Milwaukee (Daycare for people with Disabilities) @ 9:45 am

Nov 14  Milwaukee County Caregiver Appreciation @ Event Zoofari Center 

Oct 19 Alexian Village  4 - 5 pm

Oct 12  The Right Way Center for Independence 2943 N. Martin Luther King Drive Milwaukee @ 10 am

Oct 6   Children's Hospital WI @ 10 am

Oct 5  Milwaukee Center for Independence 2020 W. Wells Street Milwaukee (Daycare for People with Disabilities)  9:45 am

Sept 28  James Wright Center for Work and Training 6065 N. 91st Street Milwaukee (Daycare for people with Disabilities) @ 9:45 am

Sept 21 Cultural Exchange with Mystical Arts of Tibet Tour @ Rusch Home

Sept 21 Community Opportunities Club South - Christ United Methodist Church 5200 S. 48th street  @ 10 am

Sept 16 Youth with Special Needs Picnic at Wil-OWay Underwood Park 10602 Underwood Parkway @ Noon Vibemaster plays 2-3  pm.

Sept 14  Milwaukee Center for Independence 2020 W. Wells Street Milwaukee (Daycare for People with Disabilities)  9:45 am

Sept 8th  Fondy's Farmer's Market  Haymarket Day  2347 W. Fond du Lac Avenue  10 - 1130 am

Sept 1    Children's Hospital WI @ 10 am

August 31  James Wright Center for Work and Training 6065 N. 91st Street Milwaukee (Daycare for people with Disabilities) @ 10 am

August  30  Catholic Charities  1919 N. 60th Street  Adult Day  Care Services @ 130 pm

August 10 Milwaukee Center for Independence 2020 W. Wells Street Milwaukee (Daycare for People with Disabilities) @ 10 am

August  3 Alexian Village Nursing / Skilled Rehab. 9255 N. 76th Street Milwaukee @ 10 am

August 1    Lutheran Home ADS @ 2 pm

July 26  Goodwill Community Opportunities Club 4240 N. 78th Street (Daycare for People with Disabilities).@ 130 pm

July 22   Christ Church Episcopal @ 915 am

July 21   Children's Hospital WI @ 10 am

July 20  The Right Way Center for Independence 2943 N. Martin Luther King Drive Milwaukee @ 10 am

July 19 James Wright Center for Work and Training 6065 N. 91st Street Milwaukee (Daycare for people with Disabilities) 12:30 pm

July 6th   Milwaukee Center for Independence 2020 W. Wells Street Milwaukee (Daycare for People with Disabilities) @ 10 am

June 20   Catholic Charities  1919 N. 60th Street  Adult Day  Care Services @ 1:30 pm

June 15   The Right Way Center for Independence 2943 N. Martin Luther King Drive Milwaukee @ 10 am

June 14   Lutheran Home Memory Care Assisted Living @ 2 pm

June 7 Alexian Village  Nursing / Skilled Rehab. 9255 N. 76th Street Milwaukee @ 2:30 pm

May 24 Goodwill Community Opportunities Club 4240 N. 78th Street Milwaukee (Daycare for People with Disabilities) @ 130 pm

May 19  Children's Hospital WI  @ 10am

May 17  Catholic Charities 1919 N. 60th Street Milwaukee Adult Day Care Services @ 130pm

May 3   Lutheran Home Memory Care Assisted Living 7500 W. North Avenue Milwaukee

April 26   Goodwill Community Opportunities Club 4240 N. 78th Street Milwaukee (Daycare for People with Disabilities) 

April 21   Children's Hospital WI 

April 19   Catholic Charities 1919 N. 60th Street Milwaukee (Adult Day Care Services) @ 130 pm

Feb 18   Children's Hospital WI

Jan 14   Children's Hospital WI 

*****SOME PERSONAL NOTES*****

My friend, Saskia Nassalang and I started a monthly music group at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin in 2011. This transforming, vitalizing project is now called  Healing Music and we take it right to the bedside of the kids.  We are thankful and humbled every time we go to the hospital to share our music. Healing Music is a mission and we take it to people with disabilities, rehab patients, frail elders, hospice and others who can't easily get out to be with live music.   We play positive, tropical-vibed songs and end our sessions with the subtle, peace-inducing sounds of Tibetan Singing Bowls.  This project is about friendship, sharing music and cherishing others -- whoever they may be, in the moments that we spend together. We have played for babies in comas, 90 year olds, people living with dementia and rehabbing from head injuries, people with serious chronic conditions who attend Adult Day Care, kids quarantined with infectious disease, and the list goes on and on. We create a warm circle of deep respect that includes our clients, as well as staff if they choose to participate, and then we  just open our hearts and give what we love-- inspiring music.   We are dedicated to this project.   kt  6/2012

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A very special aspect concerns the Tibetan Singing Bowls.  We are investigating the effects of 7-metal Singing Bowls.  Singing bowls produce a unique sound that can be heard and processed and also a physical vibration that can be sensed and felt. From our experiences, there is a definite relaxation response in the body.  Or in the words of our clients: "So peaceful"  "Very spiritual."  "Ahhhh- I am so relaxed".   Here is a little more information:

"According to singing bowl researcher Joseph Feinstein, singing bowls were traditionally used in Asia and the tradition of making sound with bronze bowls could go back 3,000 or more years to the Bronze Age.

Singing bowls are used worldwide for meditation, music, relaxation, personal well-being. They are used by a wide range of professionals, including health professionals, school teachers, musicians and spiritual teachers. Singing bowls are used in health care by psychotherapists, massage therapists, cancer specialists, stress and meditation specialists. They are used to help treat cancer patients and also for post traumatic stress disorder. 

Antique singing bowls produce harmonic  overtones creating an effect that is unique to the instrument. The subtle yet complex multiple harmonic frequencies are a special quality caused by variations in the shape of the hand made singing bowls. The art of making singing bowls in the traditional way is often called a lost art, but traditional craftsmen still make singing bowls in the traditional manner. They are one of the longest made traditional objects still being made today."  From Wikipedia and more sources coming soon.

"I loved the musicians from last Sunday's service!   The bowl/bells they were playing during communion really enhanced the atmosphere - it was a really beautiful experience."  Participant at Christ Church

" I feel the Bowls in my heart.  Thank you." Participant at Lutheran Home

"She relaxed her face for the first time this week. Thank you for coming here."  Social Worked speaking of client at Goodwill Site

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A Note to a Supporter on Facebook

"Thanks for your support. We need to keep making a case for our work. I wish you and more people could witness what happens.   Friday we took people to a whole different space.-- out of confusion and depression and into a place of smiles, happiness, participation and more. We have photos from Friday that really demonstrate the process. But being there LIVE is a unique, vibrant experience! We know, without a doubt, that in these moments together with the music that we give, that wonderful, intangible, deep goodness is working deep in the cells and souls of all the participants." 

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“Rusch and fellow musician Saskia are sponsoring a Rally for Compassion to raise awareness for human rights violations…”  Shepherd Express

Music eases tension from the heart, releases thoughts from the mind and inspires us to greatness.  I-Ching

Tibetan Monks and Lamas from Drepung Loseling Monastery, India are acclaimed Sacred Music Healers and visited with us in September during their 2012 Mystical Arts of Tibet North American Tour.