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Performing Arts

Listening Therapy is one of the best-kept secrets of the performing arts. Maria Callas, Beniamino Gigli, Romy Schneider, Juliette Binoche and Gerard Depardieu have all been clients of Professor Tomatis.

A career on the stage is possibly one of the most challenging and difficult professions. Performing engages all of our being; mind, body and spirit must be primed and focussed to bring out the best performance.

Listening is a true engagement of our whole body, not something that is confined to our heads. When our listening patterns allow us "to become all ear" the we can experience an awareness that nature intended.

A change in listening is brought about by treatment with the electronic listening device that filters selected frequencies of sounds therby exercising muscles in the middle ear that have lost their vibrancy and ability to respond accurately and quickly to certain frequencies. Returning these muscles to condition the ear becomes more receptive and following this our own production of sound alters as well. The course is intensive and the results are permanent - unlike coaching and other discursive procedure's the treatment is not geared towards learning a technique but works gently and without rote learning of any sort.

By improving our listening patterns we can bring benefits and awaken :

Mind - focus, memory, concentration, precision and accuracy, sense of melody,inflexion and articulation.

Body - spatial awareness, balance, muscular tone, posture, energy levels, and sense of rythym. The voice is improved in resonance and delivery can be more convincing by the sheer force of it'sbalance, proportion and musicality, without being strained .

Spirit - connectedness to one's true potential, the creative force and wealth of imagination previously only partially tapped

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