Music as Medicine: How Sound, Breath, and Movement Rewire Stress with Chris Boardman

On Healthy Mind, Healthy Life, host Sana talks with veteran film/TV composer Chris Boardman, founder of SoundBridge Health. After developing PTSD, Chris turned decades of musical storytelling into a practical nervous-system toolkit that blends personally meaningful music, breathwork, and ritual movement. We unpack the neuroscience—hippocampus memory recall, amygdala signaling, dopamine release—and why tempo, not genre, is the lever for calm or focus. We also cover how to build on-the-spot “pre-shot routines” to interrupt spirals and why music from ages 12–20 often regulates us fastest. Direct, science-backed, and immediately usable.

About the Guest :

Chris Boardman is a renowned composer/arranger/orchestrator whose career spans symphony, Broadway, film, and records, collaborating with icons such as Quincy Jones, Julie Andrews, and Shirley MacLaine. He is the creator of SoundBridge Health, a pre-launch program that teaches people to self-regulate using music, breath, and movement.

Key Takeaways:

• Music is embedded in long-term memory (hippocampus); hearing a familiar piece rapidly retrieves associated memories and feelings.

• Positive recall can trigger dopamine via amygdala → frontal cortex signaling, creating a fast mood lift and physiological shift.

• The brain’s autonomic threat response (startle, hypervigilance) can be interrupted by focused listening paired with breath and movement.

• Tempo entrains physiology: choose slower BPM to downshift anxiety; faster BPM to energize. Genre doesn’t matter—personal relevance does.

• Music from ages 12–20 often regulates best due to heightened emotional imprinting during coming-of-age changes.

• Pair music with box breathing/pranayama to anchor attention in the present and with ritual movement to quiet rumination.

• Build a simple on-demand routine: select 3–5 personally meaningful tracks by target tempo, add a fixed breath cadence, and repeat the same micro-movement sequence to train the response.

• SoundBridge Health is pre-launch and preparing pilot programs with physicians; interested listeners can join the waitlist to be notified.

Connect with the Guest

• Join the waitlist: soundbridgehealth.com (site is pre-launch; email signup available)

• Instagram | LinkedIn

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