With clear, concise writing and a relaxed--even conversational--style of instruction, Dennis Maberry takes the pressure out of learning to drum. Maberry's practical, step-by-step guide will take any novice from the basics, such as learning the instruments and tones, to beginner and intermediate rhythms. By the end of this book, the reader will have the fundamental knowledge and skills necessary to participate in most recreational drum circles.
Drum Circle Grooves is also an effective facilitator's guide, providing insight into simple and. The beat is universal -- drumming as a way of communicating with other people, spirits, and self exists around the world and throughout time. And contemporary drumming is thriving! In the neo-pagan community, the most popular festivals and workshops are those that feature drumming circles.
In healing centers, nursing homes, women's centers, and schools across the country, people are forming drumming circles. Sacred Beat honors and explores every aspect of drumming -- historical, contemporary, practical. In Part I, Telesco and. Indigenous shamanic peoples of diverse cultures have gathered in community drumming circles for thousands of years.
Drawing upon twenty-five years of experience, shamanic practitioner Michael Drake has written a step-by-step guide to shamanic circling. The stick reminds the speaker that Great Spirit is listening to the message as well. If the speaker feels they cannot honor the Talking Stick with their words, they should refrain from speaking. All people must listen and not interrupt the individual holding the stick. The stick is passed to each individual in the group so that they have a chance to say their piece.
Many items can be used as a talking stick including a stick, feather, peace pipe, wampum belt, shell, or some other sacred object. Shamanic journeying is a very ancient technique that has been practiced by healers, shamans and medicine people all over the world for at least 40, years in many cultures on every continent. Journeying enables one to mindfully send their awareness into the hidden realms of their own consciousness to connect with inner wisdom, receive healing, receive answers to problems, or to discover information that can facilitate personal growth and understanding.
A shaman is one who can go into an altered state of consciousness at will. While in this altered state, they make a conscious choice to journey to another reality, a reality which is outside of time and space. This other reality is composed of 3 realms: the lower world, the middle world, and the upper world. These non-ordinary realities are inhabited by helping spirits and guides.
The shaman is able to establish relationships with these spirit-guides and to bring back information and healing for the community or the individual. Shamanic journeys are always undertaken with a specific purpose in mind. The classic way of entering the spirit world is by using a steady rhythm of drumming. The drum is known as the horse that the shaman rides into a trance. Shamanic journey drumming is a cycles-per-second beat that approximates the frequency of the Earth itself.
This induces the theta brain wave state of altered consciousness. Not all drumming circle participants may be experienced journeyers so journeying is optional.
If the group does journey they can do individual journeys or they can journey as a group on a common theme. Spirit Canoe is ceremony where shamans journey as a group. Spirit Canoe originated in the Coast Salish culture of western Washington. They ride in an imaginary canoe to travel to non-ordinary realities. The journey is accompanied by singing, drumming, and rattling. The traditional purpose of a Spirit Canoe ceremony was to recover power for a client.
Today the ceremony has been broadened to include journeys to the spirit world for various purposes. One suggestion for a new drumming circle is to have the group journey to retrieve a totem spirit for the circle.
A totem is a spirit being, animal, sacred object, or symbol that serves as an emblem of a group of people, such as a family, clan, lineage, or tribe. People from the same clan have the same clan totem and are considered immediate family. Except where acknowledged. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account.
Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Drumming can provide the following benefits: Reduces tension, anxiety, pain, and stress. Releases negative feelings, blockages, and emotional trauma Boosts the immune system.
Induces synchronous brain activity. Produces natural altered states of consciousness. Creates connectedness with self and others. Synchronizes us with the natural rhythms of life. Provides a secular approach to accessing a higher power. Hides used on drums are generally one of the following listed from highest to deepest tone : Cow: medium weight; light color; rougher texture Elk: thinner, lighter weight Buffalo: thicker hide; darkest color Moose: produces the deepest sound; lighter color than buffalo Commercial plastic headed drums are available that retain their tone in all weather and do not need to be tightened like natural hides do.
The following list of procedures will facilitate a good relationship with your drum: Smudge it with sage. Run your hand over the skin so that your oils will moisten it and wake it up.
Play it gently at first. Journey to the spirit of your drum and meet the animal it was made from to say thanks and begin a partnership of healing work. Journey to the tree who gave the wood for the frame. Following up on his definitive handbook on shamanic drumming, The Shamanic Drum , the author provides a new series of exercises and lessons that allow for a deeper understanding and utilization of this core shamanic practice.
He has written a guide to becoming a shamanic healer that encompasses the power of the drum, of community, and of the accountability inherent in authentic shamanic practice.
This empowering book is a call to build relationships with helping spirits. Spirit helpers are the caretakers in the unseen world who want to support the earth and her inhabitants at this time. They are here to teach us how to gather wisdom from the spiritual realms, the natural world, the past, the present and the future in order to give birth to new ways of being.
The shamanic relationship between humans and helping spirits supports our spirit's quest for self-realization. Helping spirits, if engaged regularly and skillfully, offer flexibility, creativity and perseverance in fulfilling our own unique path. The spirits are here to assist us in doing the principal, unique thing we have come here to do in a way that benefits all living things. Michael Drake is a blessing for all who wish to understand more about traveling on the drum and the spiritual practice it can lead to.
Rapalyea Amazon Reviews. It gives you the confidence that you can do it on your own without guidance from a teacher. In your heart you know. Michael Drake shares his journey of being "called" by his higher self.
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