Music Evoked Imagery (MEI) is an experiential therapy designed to access and explore the psyche. It uses music to draw forth feelings, stimulate problem solving and awaken the healing potential of the body, mind and spirit.

MEI supports the universal principle: the answers lie within. This powerful and established method relies on the fundamental belief that deep within each of us is a "blueprint" of our own innate wholeness. MEI is based on the view that music has the ability to reach, and speak directly to, this intrinsic wholeness.

Derived from the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music (Dr. Helen Bonny, 1970's) MEI has been successful in exploring issues of growth as well as some of the more challenging obstacles that we encounter along life's path.

Music Evoked Imagery Carries Tremendous Potential for True and Authentic Healing

The Music Evoked Imagery therapist is trained in the specific application of the great classical masterworks of our culture. These masterworks, with their special language of rhythm, texture, melody, dynamics and movement, begin to orchestrate the psyche in a way that can speak directly to the unconscious mind. The MEI therapist is essential to the process and must undergo an intensive three-year post Masters program with a strong clinical emphasis to be credentialed.

We have all heard the stories of music's abilities to "soothe the savage beast". Even Plato believed music "gives rise to the imagination". But in recent years, the disciplines of music therapy and sound healing as well as mainstream medicine, have begun to show us that music can be an effective and dynamic force in assisting people in reaching their potentials.

In the Music Evoked Imagery process, purposefully selected music stimulates and evokes images. Unlike other imagery methods, there is no preplanned script or specific image to visualize. The imagery is not directed by the therapist, but is spontaneously produced unfolding from one's own psyche. These images provide for the expression of one's feeling and emotional states. This expression often results in deep emotional release, insight and healing.