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4 March 2025
Vol. 39 No. 4 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.4081/gimle.643

[Tibetan Singing Bowls and music therapy]

Le Tibetan Singing Bowls e l’intervento musicoterapeutico

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Chiara Imbriani
chiara.imbriani@gmail.com
Unità Operativa Ospedaliera di Medicina del Lavoro, IRCCS Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri, Pavia, Italy.

The use of idiofonic ethnical istruments known as "Tibetan Singing Bowls", characterized by a fascinating sound and a deep vibration, have been for millennials part of a culture including music, rythuals, theory of Chakra and oriental Ayurvedical medicine. The practice of utilization of the Bowls is related to Sound Therapy rather than to Music Therapy, since the therapeutic effects appears to be a consequence of the vibrations of the Bowls, and not from their music. Besides, the lack of a therapeutic relationship (terapist/patient) makes not possible to include this kind of treatment in the field of Music Therapy. Therapeutic use of the Bowls has been especially focused in the treatment of "pain". Up to know, not enough research has been developed in this field.

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[Tibetan Singing Bowls and music therapy]: Le Tibetan Singing Bowls e l’intervento musicoterapeutico. (2025). Giornale Italiano Di Medicina Del Lavoro Ed Ergonomia, 39(4), 273-279. https://doi.org/10.4081/gimle.643
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