To improve community health through singing 

“Singing for Health” is here for you to navigate the world of SINGING for all of its HEALTH benefits.

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Singing for Health Vision

Singing for Health vision is to change the PERCEPTION of SINGING in Australia to make SINGING easily accessible and affordable for all Australians to advance public health. Singing for Health follows the Social Prescription Framework of Australia, and is a core hub for

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• The general public to understand the benefits of singing and to find an appropriate choir/ teacher/ online space to sing

• GP who socially prescribes singing health practitioners and GPs to effectively navigate the singing and choral world, when socially prescribing, or recommending singing to patients; and have access to latest evidence based medical benefits of singing and to experience the benefits of singing through medically focused workshops

• And choral conductors and singing teachers and professionals to up-skill to become a Singing for Health recognised space that GPs can prescribe

 

Singing for Health will offer training for established and emerging choral conductors, choir co-ordinators, and professionals working in SINGING (teachers, conductors, coaches) to become safe “Singing for Health spaces, and/ or Creative Practitioners within the Social Prescription guidelines for safe practice.

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Singing for Health will provide a directory of willing medical practitioners and artists wanting to partner or connect to enhance and bridge their practices.

Singing for Health will have a directory of choirs working within Social Prescription Framework open to the general public.

 

 

 

A brief history of Singing in Australia

As human beings, we SANG BEFORE we spoke. It is an INTRINSIC PART OF BEING HUMAN, and over the ages, in some cultures, we have closed this side of us down; in many cultures it is still very much a part of daily living.

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As a society, and part of  “Singing for Health” , it is our mission to RECLAIM the dormant power of the VOICE; to release the voice, which is within us all and to feel good.  This  benefits of our own HEALTH, health in the workplace, and our society’s health at a national level.

As are our Voices, the power of SINGING and how it can benefit YOU and your life, will be different and unique to every person.

 

A Little About the Voice, our instrument, our body

• Our Voice is a reflection of who we are on every level.

• It is as unique as our finger print.

• It is our ability to communicate to everyone in our lives, from our first breath.

• It is fundamental to who we are and part of our survival.

 

As a human being, we are the musical instrument. (It is not external like for example a guitar that we play). It is therefore the most unique and wonderfully complex, and simultaneously very simple instrument “to play”.

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We are all built to sing (whether we practice singing or not).

Everyone has the ability to express themselves.

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Part of the “Singing for Health” mission is to create MORE spaces for everyone to have the opportunity to safely express themselves through singing and music.