Naoko will offer a variety of joyful musical experiences tailored to each group, including sounds and rhythm explorations, interactive play, light movement. It will be offered in a supportive environment for everyone with all musical backgrounds and abilities and adapting of musical experience will be implemented if need be. The first class is an introduction with Naoko, followed by 4 group sessions.

About the Instructor: Naoko Funahashi, MTA (Canadian accredited music therapist), MT-BC (American board-certified Music Therapist) holds a Bachelor’s degree from McGill University and is currently working on her Masters of Science in Music Therapy at Molloy College. Naoko believes that everyone is innately musical, and music can be perceived in many different ways.

Music therapy is the use of music-based interventions to accomplish social, emotional, academic, physical, and communicative goals in a musical context. This can include singing, moving to, creating, and listening to music.