Learn Healing Through Western Medicine Music Therapy

Healing Through Western Medicine Music is a gentle, therapeutic singing journey that helps you reconnect with your emotional, spiritual, and energetic self through Western healing songs. The course teaches you how to use your voice as a healing instrument—through mindful breathwork, warm-toned vocal expression, somatic awareness, and intentional singing that relaxes the nervous system, opens the heart, and awakens inner strength.

You will learn to soften emotional tension through breathwork, use gentle singing techniques to calm the nervous system, develop somatic awareness to understand where emotions live in the body, and release emotional blocks through intentional sound. You'll also learn how to approach Western healing songs with presence and how music can support emotional, energetic, and spiritual alignment.

Rather than focusing on performance, the course centers on healing, expression, emotional openness, and inner transformation.

To support this journey, the curriculum follows a carefully paced, progressive structure designed to help you feel safe, grounded, and emotionally supported at every stage:

Grounding & Emotional Calming - Breath-led grounding, gentle humming, and slow healing songs help balance your system and create inner stability.

Emotional Release Through Sound - You explore songs and vocal techniques that open the heart, soften old emotional patterns, and release stored feelings.

Spiritual Trust & Inner Connection - Uplifting Western spiritual songs guide you toward gratitude, hope, and deeper spiritual alignment.

Personal Empowerment Through Song - You strengthen your inner voice, build confidence, and reclaim expressive power through intentional singing practices.

Joyful Integration & Self-Love - The final stage focuses on joy, peace, self-love, resilience, and emotional harmony through affirming songs and grounding rituals.

Each module blends breathwork, gentle movement, guided song exploration, visualization and imagery, intention-setting, reflective journaling. 

This holistic combination makes the course accessible for beginners yet deeply transformative for anyone seeking emotional or spiritual healing through music.

Here’s a list of songs that you will learn in this  course - 

• A Million Dreams – The Greatest Showman
• A Mother Like You – JJ Heller
• A Thousand Years – Christina Perri
• All Things Bright and Beautiful
• Another Day in Paradise – Phil Collins
• Believer – Imagine Dragons
• Blowing in the Wind – Bob Dylan
• Bones – Imagine Dragons
• Butterfly Fly Away – Miley Cyrus
• Can’t Stop the Feeling – Justin Timberlake
• Circle of Life – The Lion King
• Count on Me – Bruno Mars
• Country Roads – John Denver
• Dream a Little Dream of Me – Christina Perri (version)
• Easy on Me – Adele
• Fix You – Coldplay
• Firework – Katy Perry
• Goodness of God – Bethel Music
• Great Is Thy Faithfulness
• Hallelujah – Leonard Cohen
• Hallelujah (Soft Piano Version)
• Happy – Pharrell Williams
• Heal the World – Michael Jackson
• He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands
• Hey Soul Sister – Train
• High – Lighthouse Family
• Hosanna
• I Am My Mother’s Savage Daughter – Wyndreth Bergé
• I Can Only Imagine – MercyMe
• I Can See Clearly Now – Johnny Nash
• I Love Myself the Way I Am
• I See the Light – Tangled
• I See the Light – Tangled (duplicate removed but kept one)
• I Won’t Give Up – Jason Mraz
• I’ll Be There – The Jackson 5 (or Mariah Carey version)
• I’ll Rise Up – Andra Day (corrected from “I’ll rise up”)
• I’m Not Alone – Kari Jobe
• Imagine – John Lennon
• In the Arms of an Angel – Sarah McLachlan
• King of My Heart – Bethel Music
• Lean on Me – Bill Withers
• Let It Be – The Beatles
• Light a Candle for Peace
• Look for the Silver Lining
• Look Up Child – Lauren Daigle
• Love Is Still the Answer – Jason Mraz
• Loyal, Brave and True – Christina Aguilera (Mulan)
• Make Me a Channel of Your Peace
• Make You Feel My Love – Adele
• My Favourite Things (Mellow Version)
• My God, In Him I Will Trust
• My Sleeping Child – MLTR
• Oceans (Gentle Parts) – Hillsong
• On a Day Like Today – Bryan Adams
• On My Way – Phil Collins
• Overcomer – Mandisa
• Rise Up – Andra Day
• Shake It Off – Taylor Swift
• Shine Your Light – Robbie Robertson
• Sing Peace Around the World
• Singing in the Rain – Gene Kelly
• Somewhere Only We Know – Keane
• Somewhere Over the Rainbow – Israel Kamakawiwoʻole
• Superman – Five for Fighting (correct likely version vs. Tom MacDonald)
• The Bare Necessities – The Jungle Book
• The Boat Song – MLTR
• The Climb – Miley Cyrus
• This Little Light of Mine
• Titanium – David Guetta ft. Sia
• Top of the World – The Carpenters
• Truly Madly Deeply (Soft Version) – Savage Garden
• Try a Little Kindness – Glen Campbell
• Unstoppable – Sia
• We Are the Champions – Queen
• We Shall Overcome
• When You Believe – Whitney Houston & Mariah Carey
• Wind Beneath My Wings – Bette Midler
• You Are My Sunshine
• You Are My World
• You Are the Reason – Calum Scott
• You Got a Friend in Me – Randy Newman
• You Raise Me Up – Josh Groban / Secret Garden
• Young at Heart – Frank Sinatra
• Count on Me (duplicate removed; kept single instance)

About the Teacher

Kanika Mankotia is a dedicated Western vocals teacher with over 20 years of musical experience. A self-taught artist, she began composing songs in English and Hindi at age 10. To deepen her expertise, she pursued a three-year certification in Indian classical vocals at Sri Ram Bharatiya Kala Kendra, New Delhi.

Recognized for her proficiency in Western singing and English, she was invited by schools to teach Western vocal techniques to children. Her unique teaching approach integrates music, storytelling, meditation, and chanting, fostering holistic development and emotional well-being in students.

Passionate about empowering young minds, especially those from underprivileged backgrounds, Kanika designs songwriting workshops and structured training programs that nurture creativity, self-expression, and cultural appreciation. She seamlessly blends technical training with ethical values, encouraging students to develop social responsibility, empathy, and kindness.

Kanika's classes create an inclusive, supportive learning environment, where students are inspired to explore their musical passions while building confidence and self-awareness. Through her professionalism, innovation, and heartfelt mentorship, she continues to earn the trust and admiration of students and parents alike.

If you are interested, you can explore the other course for dedicated vocalists offered by Kanika on ipassio - Learn Popular Western Songs.