Lyre Workshops

The lyre workshops have been designed to work within the theme of ‘Healing with the Lyre’. They will be suitable to all abilities. If you have any questions about you choices please email:
Anna Cooper - aprokhovnik@hotmail.com

We originally hoped to offer a choice of 15 workshops on the theme, but we are delighted with the 11 that have been offered.

Workshops on the Theme

1. Tales of Inclusion – Elizabeth McKay. Using the pentatonic scale and lyre to heal barriers between individuals and groups in the community.

2. Healing forces of the element ‘Water’ - Martin Tobiason. Following the ‘path of water’ in several musical pieces from different centuries, in improvisation and technical exercises for lyre.

3. Tones and Sequences Towards Therapy – Christof-Andreas Lindenburg. Playing mirrored scales and mini-melodies for people with special needs, and also intervals and tone sequences addressing the Inner Life Household.

4. The Lyre and Breathing – Suzanne Heinz. Exploring how the player and the music breathe in harmony, using pieces by Arvo Part, and single tones.

5. Where Pedagogy meets healing – Sheila Johns. The healing role of the lyre in the Waldorf Curriculum, and with teaching individuals and groups.

6. Therapeutic Music in Curative Education in the U.K. and Ireland. – Edeline Le Fevre, Antoine Roulet and Christoff Reppel. Basic elements of music applied therapeutically. The development of the therapeutic lyre.

7. A Path of listening through Mirrored scales – Channa Seidenberg. Discovering the unique qualities in the tonal and rhythmic aspects of the 7 mirrored scales, and developing a sense for their restorative nature.

8. ‘The Way to Silence – a source of healing’ – Christian Giersch. Basic exercises in free playing, and simple lyre compositions, to develop the way to produce and receive silence as a spiritual power.

9. Accompanying Threshold Experiences with Music – Kerry Lee. Improvising with the lyre, we will explore personal and common thresholds, and how we can help ourselves and others work through them.

10. The Importance of the lyre in Music Therapy – Anna-Barbara Hess. Exploring the relationship between lyre music and human emotions.

11. Singing with the Lyre as a Listening Therapy – Diane Ingraham Barnes. Beginning with Warbeck singing exercises, we will explore inner experiences of tones and intervals.