Illness prompted her to diversify into percussion instruments and to extract their benefits

Inas Halal .. A musical journey guided by voice therapy

Syrian percussionist Inas Halal started her journey with percussion and music instruments since childhood.

Photography: Mustafa Qasimi

The journey of the Syrian percussionist, Inas Halal, began with percussion and music instruments since childhood, but her chronic disease made her diversify her use of these instruments, and she turns to her therapeutic benefits, specifically voice therapy, so she combines playing percussion instruments, especially the strange ones, which she explores from Other cultures, percussion therapy to relieve stress, depression, insomnia, and other problems that require medical intervention, to improve the individual's condition.

Enas spoke to Emirates Today about voice therapy and its benefits, as well as her own journey with the percussion instruments that she uses in her musical performances.

Without melodies

About the beginning of her journey with voice therapy, Inas pointed out that her chronic fibrosis disease led her to the world of sound therapy, especially since the disease used to prevent her from spending more time with machines, noting that it is a disease that affects the muscles surrounding the joints, and on The patient may change his lifestyle, but voice therapy helped her reduce her use of very heavy medications and control the symptoms of the disease.

Enas assured that what is presented in sound therapy differs from music, because in therapy the normal musical notes are not used, and they must be without a melody, because putting any melody will make the mind busy with it, follow it and expect it, while sound therapy is deeper than the quiet music that is used to relax It works on sound waves and the mind, and how the vibrations enter to modify the body and the cells inside it, and ensure internal relaxation, and thus the brain processes itself, because it is completely separated from the outside world, so a complete relaxation occurs, and all the energy paths of the body are modified.

Regarding the conditions that can be treated through voice therapy, Enas noted that it helps get rid of insomnia, regulate cholesterol and blood pressure, and treat depression, and it also improves energy in individuals, as it works to improve blood circulation in the body, by working on energy paths In the human etheric body.

Regarding dealing with each area of ​​the body, the Syrian musician indicated that each area of ​​the body has a special wave, and with the pressures the energy decreases, so the sound therapy works to recharge it with energy on its own wave itself, while the machines are chosen for treatments according to the goal, noting that a machine "Gong" may not be presented in the first session, because it is heavy, and it gets rid of all feelings, and this machine requires getting used to, and it is necessary to start with what is lighter, so that the person is able to endure.

As for the stages of treatment, it requires arranging the machines according to the stage, as the part that is being worked on is tracked on the body, and one may need a group of treatments, but once a week is good, and more than once it does not harm at all.

As for returning to the music that led Inas to voice therapy, she pointed out that it is a story of passion that began in childhood, and she said: “My father and uncle were musicians, and they played many instruments, and when we visited my uncle I played the drum, and everyone was amazed at my abilities to play the rhythm, and when I was 17 years old. I asked my father to buy me (drums) so that I could practice them, but from the age of three to 17 years I always played in gatherings, and I was the focus of people's attention, being a girl who played the rhythm. ”

Permanent search

The story of the strange machines that you bring from abroad began through a permanent halal search for new machines that are easy to carry to move around, as it was difficult to move with "drums", and there is a constant need for the studio, because its voice is loud, and it is not possible to train it at home, so I tried Replace it with another machine that can be carried easily, and through the wide world of the Internet, she was able to identify new machines, including the "Aludo" machine, the eighth version of which was designed specifically for her.

And Halal pointed out that she bought “aludo” from its factory, while it takes the sound of an old instrument made of pottery, but it was made of aluminum so that it would be easy to deal with it, and it is considered very modern in the Arab world, and no one can play it.

In addition to this instrument, Halal bought from the same factory the Sundrum, which is a machine that can be tuned to the notes (its weight), which made it develop the way in which the musical performance is presented with these instruments, by placing six instruments on the platform, which are the drum and the aludo. And the Sundrams, the Bongoos and the Cakhon, which was specially designed for her, and she plays one song.

Children training

Syrian percussionist Enas Halal confirmed that she is working on teaching children music, a project through which she works with bands that draw large shapes in stadiums and large spaces through live playing.

She pointed out that this type of activity has many positive effects on children, who learn this activity to graduate with higher degrees, including medicine and engineering, because it teaches one to discipline, commitment and focus.

Voice therapy helps eliminate insomnia and regulate cholesterol and blood pressure.

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