Sacred Drumming is dedicated to helping create cross-cultural connection and inclusion among diverse peoples. ⚪️ Music and frame drumming, in particular, are Universal languages and a worldwide global phenomenon that bring people together from all demographics of life to be in circle and collective rhythm. ⚪️ We stand with our black community members, the indigenous, oppressed, and minority people in the U.S. and the world over who are suffering and demanding change. ⚪️ We ar

Who out there needs some more good reasons to drum? "Current research now shows the therapeutic effects of drumming techniques. Research indicates that drumming accelerates physical healing, boosts the immune system. In addition specific studies conducted by professionals in the fields of music therapy and mental health show us that drumming: Reduces tension, anxiety and stress Helps control chronic pain Boosts the immune system Releases negative feelings, blockages and em

“Mythos: a pattern of beliefs expressing often symbolically the characteristics or prevalent attitudes in a group or culture.” 🌀 We are individually and collectively crafting the mythos. ✨ There's a fresh mythos now germinating from ancient seeds buried and perpetually tended to from long, long ago... 🌎 It's a mythos of a culture that aspires to remember ancient and indigenous wisdom and reminds us to tend to and share the collective commons with deep reverence. The re-eme

"Mythos: a pattern of beliefs often expressing the characteristic or prevalent attitudes symbolically in a group or culture." As you look around the world through the lens of media, your tv, the internet matrix, what do you see? Do the collective patterns of symbols, stories and attitudes inspire your soul? Sometimes yes? Sometimes no? We are individually and collectively crafting the mythos. For 2,000 + years up to the present day, the dominant voice has been that of the pa

Am I late to the - I wish you all a Happy New Year! 2020 party? Well, if so, it's because I've already decided to slow this year way the f down... I woke up on New Year's Day morning, and the first thing I heard (from inside my mind) was a loud voice saying, "time to get up and YOU BETTER HIT THE GROUND RUNNING!". No kidding. Hmmm, okay, wow. Uh, no. How 'bout time for some self-reflection, metacognition, and meditation. And so, instead of getting up and immediately "runnin

Thank you to @liron_meyuhas for sharing the drum, songs and rhythms with us! Now she’s off on a West Coast tour with @peiabird. Check ‘em! #Drum #FrameDrum #FrameDrumming #FrameDrumAcademy #SacredDrum #SacredDrumming #SacredDrummingAcademy

This is a section of a new original composition that the muse gifted me while on Crete this summer + my 20 years of practice... The entire composition has since been coming in successive waves of rhythms and there’s all kinds of interlocking patterns and syncopations for a group of drummers to play...I can hear it in the ethers. I can’t wait to teach it to some other drummers & hear the full composition in real life....Come lean to play the Sacred Drum. Sign up here I #Trance

I’ve recently traveled from the lush, wet, muddy, emerald green rolling hills and sacred sites of England to the bone dry, technicolor desert of New Mexico. I’m here on my birthday ~ full moon spring equinox celebrating and preparing to teach Mythic Drumming at Georgia O’ Keefe’s Ghost Ranch in a few days. I feel like I’ve been on an initiatory journey of sorts these last few years, and life has just taken me through yet another gateway. Some of you know of my unusual child

“The drum represents cyclical time ~ seasons, stages, ages, phases. It helps connect women back to the inherent life rhythms ~ circadian rhythms, diurnal rhythms, nocturnal rhythms, moon cycles and life cycles. The drum represents circular time, like the ouroboros, the snake eating its own tail. We drum to honor the eternal cycles of life. The drum brings us back to the heartbeat rhythms from within the womb of Mother and Grandmother. In the myth of the Sacred Drum it is the