Therapy Through Song: Choir Helps Lung Patients Breathe More Easily

Lung disease patients benefit from regular singing and the challenge of learning to performing longer lines and more difficult tunes. David Beale/Unsplash

A Hungarian doctor has prescribed her lung disease patients a new form of physical and spiritual therapy—singing in public as part of a choir.

The “Breathing for the Soul” choir, which was formed this spring, gave its second performance recently in the ballroom of a Budapest Hotel.