Healing music

Local musician and acoustic therapist Ian Hepburn has been having a very good start to 2009.

Hepburn said he continues to perform harp concerts in the hallways of the Hawkesbury and District General Hospital and his clinics for vibro-acoustic harp therapy are also becoming more popular.

 

Ottawa journalists, television film crews and a CBC radio documentarian have recently been visiting Hepburn’s home studio to ask about his method.

Having first written about Hepburn’s forays into vibrational harp therapy in March 2007, The Review paid him another visit this week.
Hepburn said he’s delighted to see vibrational therapy attracting more attention outside the Eastern Ontario region, and said it is gaining acceptance from mainstream medical professionals.
“I think that vibrational medicine is going to be one of the next big breakthroughs in medicine as we learn more about it,” he said. “We tend to think of it as something new but we’ve known about the healing power of vibration for thousands of years. We are simply rediscovering what was already known, and putting it into our modern scientific language.”