Raga Chikitsa: The Miracle of Microtones
Contents: Foreword. 1. Raga Chikitsa: The healing music of India/Sanjivanee Damle. 2. Raga Chikitsa and its relevance in contemporary music therapy/Siddhartha Rao. 3. Indian music therapy in the Parkinson’s disorder/Vinod Ingalhalikar. 4. Echoes of the eternal: integrating Sri Vishnu Sahasranamam into modern wellness practice/Shobha Srinivasan. 5. Raga Chikitsa in the modern age: the shruti kriya protocol for physiological recovery and mental recalibration/Shambhavi Das. 6. Therapeutic efficacy of Carnatic music on individuals with neuro-diverse needs/Meenakshi Ravi. 7. Synthesizing functional domains and response monitoring in Indian Classical Music-based interventions for autism spectrum disorder: insights from a recent study/Geetha R. Bhat. 8. Integrating music therapy into Indian medical education: curriculum frameworks for training and professional development/Vijayalakshmi Subramaniam. 9. Music and resilience: moving from an evolutionary to a salutogenic perspective/Lakshmi Sravanti and Farah Husain.
The book "Raga Chikitsa: The Miracle of Microtones" is yet another mile-stone from the multi-disciplinary group of researchers of IMTA, who are drawn from -apart from music- other disciplines such as medicine and psychology. These contributors have years of experience with music and music therapy and have voiced a full-throated support for raga music therapy as a complementary medicine for the Nation and beyond its borders as well!
The erstwhile Nada Centre for Music Therapy, Chennai and its sister organization, Indian Music Therapy Association, Bangalore are instrumental in reviving Raga Chikitsa by bridging ancient vedic sound traditions with modern, evidence-based clinical science. Through people-to-people contact, through symposia and conferences, and through the world's pioneering Distance Learning Programme in music therapy, the volunteers have tried to rediscover the ancient glory of the raga system to meet the current challenges of a developing nation.
