Orangutan and hound dog friendship vid

Posted on June 14, 2011 by admin

http://5thworld.com/Paradigm/Postings/!Wisdom/OrangutanAndHound.html

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Fixing the brain using a drum

Posted on June 9, 2011 by admin

HelmTone healing Drumming video sample

June 9, 2011

Psychotherapy is like trying to fix your car while you are driving it.

What is needed is a way to disassociate in a healthy way from the emergency oriented intellect. Rhythm is the tool. By getting the attention of the intellect by using specific rhythms, we can slow it down to a meditative state or just to the normal healthy level of attention.

Rhythm slowing down is the key.

The missing ingredient in therapy is the capacity to slow down. It is abhorrent to the mind to slow down. It is equated with losing, failing, inferiority, weakness. etc…When people slow down their drumming they play softer. Why is that? It is a learned belief. It has nothing to do with reality.

Stay strong when you are slowing down

I tell the patient and myself. Repeatedly. Gently- with the groove relaxing and slowing down but still keeping a good feel.

Not just any drum will do

The patterns must be able to sustain the healing energy while it slows down. Not all rhythms do that. The 7 Essential Grooves are an on-going distillation of what rhythms work in a variety of ways for healing, meditation, manifesting, releasing, therapeutic, stress reduction, dancing, fun, joy, funk, etc.

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Drumming workshop Video sample

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festival drum with a black snake

Posted on May 31, 2011 by admin

black snake in Kansas at HSA festival with Drum

I had a wonderful time at the 26th Heartland Gaea Festival in Kansas over Memorial Day weekend. The weather turned out nice. I was sitting outside my cabin waiting to get picked up by the shuttle to go up to the hilltop pavilion for my 2 hour drumming meditation seminar. I remembering that I had forgotten my shaker so I went back into the cabin and suddenly came face to face with a big black snake slithering out of my bedroom and into the other bedroom. It was long and took its time. I watched for awhile, transfixed by its glistening slithering beauty, while I got over being slightly anxious. I waited til its tail came into view to make sure it was a non venomous snake. It seemed right at home. Then I remembered coming in the night before after midnight- tired but feeling good after drumming with the Kansas City Drum Tribe around the big gorgeous fire while dozens of people danced in the firelight under the stars. As I was getting ready for bed I heard a russsssstling but was too fried to check it out. It wasn’t the sound of a rat. So I slept like a baby with this giant black snake under my bunk bed. This local gentleman who was working in the mess hall preparing food for all of us was nice enough to come down and relocate Mr Black Snake for me, back out into the woods.

Here is a link to an article I was asked to contribute to the Heartland newsletter.

http://hsa.pagangrove.com/newsletters/current-online-issue/335-drumming-as-magick.html

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New Healing Djembes from Ghana

Posted on April 14, 2011 by admin

The master carvers we have worked with for 23 years have delivered some gorgeous and great sounding djembes. They have Adinkra symbols on them and some drums have the HelmTone healing wings logo.
Healing DJembe #1

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