Active music therapy engages the patient in musical production: instrumental improvisation, therapeutic singing, body percussion, and composition. This expressive approach mobilizes creativity, motor skills, and the sound relationship to support conditions as varied as autism, stroke, or Parkinson's disease.
Music therapy is a codified clinical practice that uses music and its components (sound, rhythm, melody, harmony) as therapeutic mediators. Between active and receptive approaches, it draws on neuroscience to support patients with psychological, neurological, or somatic disorders.
Receptive music therapy uses musical listening as a therapeutic vector. Directed listening, U-shaped musical montage, Helen Bonny's GIM method, or psychomusical relaxation: these techniques support pain management, pre-operative anxiety, palliative care, and neonatology.
Sound therapy uses sonic vibrations produced by specific instruments — Tibetan singing bowls, crystal quartz bowls, and therapeutic gongs — to induce deep relaxation and promote well-being. Based on acoustic resonance principles, it applies to stress management, meditation, pain, and sleep disorders.
Sonic vibration therapy explores the therapeutic effects of specific frequencies on body and mind. Therapeutic tuning forks, Solfeggio frequencies (432 Hz, 528 Hz), bioresonance, and therapeutic didgeridoo: these approaches propose using vibration as a tool for rebalancing and well-being.