Speaker: Anja Tanhane (Online, Joining from Melbourne)

Mon 8 Sept | 7.00-8.30pm AESTLocation: In person at Western Sydney University (74 Rickard Rd, Bankstown City Campus), Room 1.4.34 on level 4;

or Online (Zoom link below)

Cost: Free

Many religious traditions use music together with meditation and prayer for spiritual development, and music psychotherapy can also assist people to access spiritual states. In this presentation, Anja Tanhane will draw on her clinical work as a music psychotherapist to explore how music can be used to support mindfulness, healing and meditation.

About the Speaker: Anja Tanhane is a music psychotherapist and mindfulness teacher with many years of clinical experience in private practice, hospital settings and community health. She is a qualified MBSR teacher and has taught mindfulness courses, workshops and retreats for nearly 30 years. Anja is a long-term Zen practitioner and Tai Chi instructor, and is currently the Director of Training for the AABCAP Buddhism and Psychotherapy Professional Training course.

Anja is a Registered Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) Therapist, a Registered Music Therapist, a Primary Trainer in the Bonny Method of GIM, and a past President of the Music and Imagery Association of Australia (MIAA). She has presented lectures at the University of Melbourne on the therapeutic uses of music in altered states of consciousness. For her Master’s thesis, Anja researched the use of mindfulness in music therapy, and in her work she integrates music and imagery, mindfulness, Buddhism, and our connection to nature for healing and personal growth. Her writings have been published in a number of magazines, and she offers a regular mindfulness blog on her website - http://mindfulnessmeditation.net.au

Hybrid event: Attendees will have the opportunity to participate in an interactive session in person at the Metta Centre or online by clicking on this link to access the session: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83506489824?pwd=cmpNQ1ljSmFVYURLWVN1dWllYUN1dz09 Alternatively, you can dial in from your telephone (call charges apply): +61 2 8015 6011 | Meeting ID: 835 0648 9824| Passcode: 718905

If you are feeling unwell, please consider staying at home and joining online instead.