Shared Attention and why it is important for children Latest Posts • 22. august 2022 Shared Attention – that is the ability to share attention. Sounds simple, but in fact it must be experienced and learned by young children before they can derive certain behaviors from it. Shared Attention is an important socialization experience. Below, I will explain why it is so significant and what can happen if it falls short. To experience Shared Attention, we need to experience what it is like to focus on one thing together. This thing can be a shared activity, but it can also simply be looking fo ..read more

Children and Digital Media Latest Posts • 7. July 2022 Digital media is playing an increasingly important role in our lives – including the everyday lives of our children. And many parents are concerned about this development. They ask themselves how they can protect their children from the dangers of the virtual world, how they can teach their children appropriate behavior when dealing with social media, and how they can retain control over their offspring’s media consumption. The answers to these questions are actually quite simple. Digital media has developed rapidly, especially in th ..read more

6 Reasons To Start Playing The Piano Right Away Latest Posts  •  10 March 2021 There are many reasons we get excited about playing the piano. A piano has an impressive sound and it is incredibly versatile. The piano is certainly not the first instrument that comes to our mind when we think of rock and pop. Yet it plays a crucial role in many of the “classics” of this genre. But well, I am biased, because music is simply an important part of my life. But I also have a few reasons up my sleeve that will convince even musicophobes of the benefits of playing the piano. 1. Playing ..read more

The positive effects of nasal breathing Latest Posts • 02. February 2022 For years, I have known from the field of yoga that nasal breathing plays an important role. The mucous membranes of the nose enrich the air with moisture and filter out dust particles from the air which is inhaled. In addition to that, the airway through the nose is longer and by filtering and simultaneously warming the inhaled air, the risk of catching a cold is reduced. But nasal breathing also has a positive effect on our sleep and fitness training. In the following blog post, I will tell you which effects those ..read more

5 reasons why you should learn an instrument in your adulthood Latest Posts  •  20. December 2021 Clearly, the reasons people start learning an instrument in adulthood often look different than when they were young. At 14, you might dream of becoming successful with your own band. And for all those who want to become professional musicians and stand on the stages of the world, it is quite clear that the earlier you start, the better your chances become to be successful later on. But even of all the children and young people who learn their instrument of choice, the vast majorit ..read more

Feeling music – how deaf people perceive music and what it can actually do Latest Posts  •  25. november 2021 Spontaneously, we associate music with the sense of hearing. At the same time, we can also experience music with other senses. We are trying to make use of this in our early musical education. In our lessons, children should perceive music holistically, they should not only hear it but also feel it. And of course deaf people can also perceive, experience and make music. They can feel the music and concentrate on the vibrations. Because music doesn’t just land in our aud ..read more

Language Promotion Through Music Latest Posts  •  September 28 2021 Music and speech have a lot in common. Characteristics such as pitch, tempo, intonation and timbre play an equally important role in speaking and in making music. In fact, musical and linguistic stimuli are even processed in the same regions of the brain. And on top of that, children develop the ability to sing and speak at the same time. It’s no wonder that musical language development is used so successfully. But how exactly does language promotion through music work?   For age-appropriate language devel ..read more

Losing Weight with Intermittent Fasting Latest Posts • September 02 2021 At the age of 35, my weight was always around 90 kilograms. But a photo with my then 1 year old daughter shocked me a little because she was basically sitting on my stomach although I was standing upright. As described in my blog post My Journey to Health, I only began caring about health in my mid-thirties and I started reading a variety of books on this particular subject. The book Fit for Life by Harvey and Marilyn Diamond finally paved the way to my ideal weight. The most important message I took away from the b ..read more

Why do we love music? Latest Posts • July 23 2021 Some love Mozart, some love AC/DC, and others love neither of those. But we all like music. Music accompanies us through our entire lives. As a lullaby in babyhood, as a participatory song in kindergarten. Maybe one day we learn to play an instrument ourselves. We go to concerts or at least sit in a bar for an evening or two while jazz, rock or funk plays in the background. Music influences our mood. It sets us in motion or makes us calm down. And our favorite songs give us goosebumps. But why is that actually the case? Why do we like mus ..read more

3 Tips For More Music in Everyday (Family) Life Latest Posts • May 29. 2021 There is a reason why the biographies of many musicians begin with phrases like “Music was put in my cradle. I grew up in a musical family.” Anyone who naturally comes into contact with music at an early age is unlikely to succumb to false beliefs such as “I am unmusical.” Instead, he or she learns that musicality is something natural, something we don’t have to learn explicitly. Musicality is within us and unfolds if we only have enough contact with it. With musicality it is like with the first language we speak ..read more