"The Ear does a lot more than just hear!”
TOMATIS METHOD
Travel into the heart of the ear and discover the Tomatis® Effect!
A video that can help you better understand the action of the TOMATIS® Effect on the organs of the ear and the brain.
Let yourself be guided by the images and listen carefully to the TOMATIS sound contrast that we have reproduced on these images.
What makes us unique is our approach to the ear and its fundamental role in language, physical, psychological and social development.
Over the past 60 years Dr. Alfred Tomatis developed a new approach to the treatment of learning problems. He was also the first to realise that the desire to listen is the “royal road” for language development and communication, and provides the basis for human growth.
•The Tomatis Effect and Laws
- The voice contains only what the ear hears.
- If one gives the imperfect ear the chance of hearing correctly, the voice instantly and unconsciously improves.
- It's possible to transform the voice through auditive stimulation over a certain period of time to make the changes in auditory processing last. The Electronic Ear provides this simulation.
Dr. Tomatis designed an electronic device to rehabilitate the ear for improved listening. This device exercises the muscles of the middle ear like a workout. The music (Mozart and Gregorian chants) passes through filters that stimulate active listening. This device exercises the whole ear through bone and air conduction which is the key to language and learning.
•Language and Learning Difficulties
Tomatis centres and schools around the world use the Tomatis Method to help 1000s of children who suffer from learning difficulties such as: •Dyslexia
•Auditory processing
•ADD/ADHD
•Dyspraxia
•Speech delay etc.
Tomatis centres also provide facilities for children who are more intellectually and physically disabled (Downs Syndrome, global developmental delay…)
•Foreign Languages - Learn a language in half the time
With the help of the Electronic Ear and specific filters to study a language, the ALLP opens the auditory diaphragm by exercising the neuro-muscular system of the ear. This ear training allows a student, even a non-gifted one, to adapt to the specific linguistic components of a foreign language such as: •Rhythm
•Timbre
•Accent
•Fluency
•Personal development
Public speaking
Discover the best kept secrets of voice training, which will enable you to improve the sound of your speaking voice, close more sales and overcome your fear of public speaking. The electronic ear enhances the higher harmonics in the voice before feeding it back to your ears. After the necessary sharpening of your listening skills we then focus on the development of clear speech and improve overall communication skills. Activities include accent reduction, pronunciation training and voice clarity.
Stress
The Tomatis Method works on exercising the ears, but also on an emotional level. Emotional blockages can prevent people from listening. One can become stuck emotionally at a young age, namely the age at which they suffered the original trauma, preventing normal emotional growth and good listening. When treating stress-related disorders and depression, the combination of Mozart and Gregorian Chant is conducive to the therapeutic process by encouraging one to be more focused, present and forward-looking. Automatically, one then becomes more self-confident and anxiety disappears.
•Voice and music- fine tune your ears for a better voice"
The voice is a reflection that the ear hears. If one alters the way of listening, the voice, the timbre, the fluidity of the language will improve.
Exercises with the Electronic Ear are very efficient at improving diction and elocution, and therefore improve self-confidence.
These applications are particularly directed at:
Communication Professionals: lawyers, sales executives, politicians or businessmen who have to express themselves in public; in other words, all those professions where fluid communication is essential.
Comedians, singers and musicians: both professional and amateur, who want to make the most of their skills by learning how to use their voice and improving its pitch tone and rhythm.
Athletes, Dancers and actors: body language interests more and more specialists. The body has re-established its dominant role; it is more and more present in our daily life, both as a vehicle for communication but also in spoken expression and song.
Learning languages: The Tomatis Method in Sydney offers you the chance to enhance your ability to learn foreign languages such as: English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, Greek, Hebrew and German more quickly.
•Pregnant women
According to research by Professor Tomatis, the ear is the first sensory organ to develop and operate beginning in the 4th and a half month of pregnancy. At that time, the foetus is able to listen to its surrounding environment.
The Tomatis Method helps the mother to feel more relaxed and peaceful throughout the pregnancy. This will not only facilitate the delivery (less pain and fewer problems) but also the endorphin produced by the mother will be beneficial for the baby’s development. This is due to the fact that the foetus is particularly receptive to two hormones secreted by the mother, endorphin, the ‘happy hormone’ and cortisol, a vital hormone that is often referred to as the ‘stress hormone’, as it is involved in the response to stress.
A decrease in the mother’s anxiety and stress will also have a significant effect on the nervous system of the foetus who will receive less cortisol.
The Tomatis effect creates a relationship in complete harmony between the baby and the mother allowing the bond in utero to become stronger as the baby grows.
We have noticed that Tomatis babies are very alert from the start, develop early milestones and are relaxed. They also strongly look for interaction with others.
•Seniors
The human ear is very important. It will provide the necessary energy to the brain. In order to maintain its accuracy we must train our ear how to listen.
The Tomatis Method allows training the ears and the brain in order to boost thinking, problem solving and creativity. This strengthens the ability to comprehend, to learn, to communicate and to be attentive to the world around you.
One of the first symptoms of aging is often linked to some loss in the ability to hear which increases the lack of energy and fatigue and withdrawing from communication. Knowing that the ear is the organ which provides energy to the brain, it is necessary to maintain and boots this function of the ear. The Tomatis Method is able to retrain the ear for the senior to keep his/her level of energy and communication ability as much as possible.
Moreover, the ear plays a very important role in the postural control and the maintenance of balance. People suffering from back problems, can often suffer from an imbalance vestibular more or less important and characteristic of tension causing bodily pain and / or poor posture. The Tomatis Method helps to retrain and harmonise the vestibular system in both ears, which allows the skeleton to reposition itself and tensions to abate and disappear.
