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3/8/2009

Dolphin Full Moon Drumming Cruise

Drumming with Buddy Helm on 51 foot Morgan sailboat, Call for reservations  ($50/$40 if returns)727-360-7411.

Drums provided

3/10/09

Equinox Fire drum celebration
Oaktrails bookstore, Palm Harbor, FL
$20
727-785-1960

3/11/09

Tavern on the Green on USF campus St. Petersburg
Buddy Helm sings and plays guitar with friends performing songs off his new CD 9 pm. Come have a beer!

3/12/09

Buddy conducts a healing drum seminar at Gulfport’s Longhouse healing center $25
727-688-8950

Longhouse at 49th St. in Gulfport, Florida

3/13/09

Evolve Healing center in Orlando

Evolve 604 N. Thornton Avenue, Orlando, Florida

Buddy conducts healing drum clinic for two hours, “Circle of Souls”

7 til 9  $25

3/14/09

Concert/ drumming workshops

with Hecate’s Wheel

Drumming(3 til 5)/$25
Concert with Hecate’s Wheel @ 6 $10
Soul Mirror
2025 W Bearss Ave
Tampa, FL 33618
(813) 964-1156

Drumming Meditation Groove Workshop and Concert

Saturday March 14, 2009

$35 workshop & concert * $10 concert only * CD Signing/Meet & Greet after concert

* Drumming Meditation Workshop   3pm – 5pm *We are now in the JUMP that is taking us to the next level of consciousness in human evolution. This jump is greater than all the others combined. We cannot imagine where it will take us. But we can have a gyroscope to keep us balanced during this time of transition. Our personal sense of rhythm is a vital tool in staying clear, focused, balanced and in a state of joy, gratitude, confidence and abundance. Learn with Buddy Helm, and play the ancient grooves that have always been our allies of power. Understand how rhythm affects reality. Use your GROOVE!

Secrets of the grooves are revealed in a supportive, easy-to-play style with no competition.  Lots of Fun. Some  Djembes available for playing/ purchase. No experience needed. Beginners and advanced are all welcome! Experience healing deep trance with no stress with Drummer, Teacher, Author, Motivational coach, Drum therapist and martial arts drumming instructor, Buddy Helm. He started in Santa Monica, California, at Seasons, twenty years ago and travels, teaching familiar rhythms that are also ancient healing and manifesting tools. His drumming, singing and story telling connects to Universal rhythmic power!

* Concert 6pm *

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International recording artists Hecate’s Wheel; an acoustic folk trio made up of Vicki Scotti, LuAnn Morris & Amy Otero. We have been playing and singing together in the Tampa Bay area for several years. Our music is inspired by, and dedicated to the Goddess in all Her guises. We sing an eclectic variety of cover songs and original music. Our voices have a natural harmonious blend; we consider ourselves to be musical soul mates! Loved by Witches & Muggles alike; let us inspire & enchant you! We guarantee you’ll walk away with a warm & smiling heart!

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Here is a cool radio interview I did over the weekend with Todd on Nightwatch radio out of Kansas City.KChost radio.

We talk about dolphins ad drumming and stuff.

http://www.nightwatchradio.com/

These Affirmations are current evolutions of the Helmtone Drum Therapy Protocols; a 20 year process of rhythmically reprogramming behavior and beliefs, releasing trauma, stress and issues that interfere with quality of life. Private One-on-One sessions are available around the country.

“My Outcomes Are Successful”

“Spirit Gives me Great Self Worth”

Here is the drumming affirmation on my birthday, Feb. 19.

Plus a great picture of Lily drinking from a very expensive Delft pitcher….

LILY drinking from Pitcher

I got a request to put this version of the song back up. So here is the latest revision of the song with a new bridge.

When I was a kid, I rode down to Georgia from Indiana with my mother and my sister. When we came into Georgia, it was a hot day. Somewhere we came along a chain gang working along the road. They were wearing white and blue striped prison clothes and were chained together by the side of the road. They were using machetes, chopping down  the “Poke” swamp grass that was growing down in the ditches along side hiway 41. It was only a two lane road back then in 1959. One of the prison inmates looked up and stared at my sister. It gave us all the willies. The guard on a horse was holding a shotgun and wearing sunglasses. I made an oil painting of the road about thirty years later without using brushes. I used only my finger tips and patted the canvas with pigment much like playing a drum. Only very lightly. The canvas made a drum sound. The effect was lush and soft focus. Don Henley bought one of those Landscapes in the shop, Seasons on Montana, one day in 1998.  It was a small painting. This one is about four feet wide.

This drum prayer was requested by a subscriber in Washington state. The whole piece is on the private page:

http://www.buddyhelm.com/helmtone-healing-drum-protocols/drumming-to-change-helmtone-protocols-and-videos-for-practitioners/videos-for-helmtone-subscriber-page

Newborns can follow a rhythm, a new study has found, suggesting rocking out is innate.

The finding, published in the Jan. 26 issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, adds to growing evidence that the newborn brain is not the blank slate it was once thought to be.

Rather, scientists have shown, at birth we already have sophisticated methods for interpreting the world. Discrimination may be crude, explained lead researcher István Winkler of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest, but “the basic algorithms are in place already.”

This may be particularly true when it comes to sound. Infants as young as 2 days old can process pitch and tell if a series of notes are rising or falling in scale. And it is now known they have rhythm, too.

Newborns can’t exactly swing their hips to prove they can jive, so Winkler and his colleague Henkjan Honing of the University of Amsterdam monitored the brains of 14 infants listening to variations of a rock rhythm — complete with drum, snare and high hat cymbal.

When “metrically-unimportant portions” of the beat were silenced, nothing much changed among the auditory-related activity in the brain, Honing said. But when the rhythm was disturbed, particularly by omitting the downbeat, the infant brain responded with an error signal: An expectation for a rhythmic pattern was not met.

“A baby’s auditory system is working the same way as an adult’s, in that it is always making predictions,” Winkler said. If the prediction is incorrect, an error signal helps gauge “how much you are off the actual target,” he said.

Perceiving emotion
While spoken language can take more than a year to develop, “music is one of the earliest things parents have with their children,” Honing said.

On a note-to-note level, adult speech usually lacks the pulsing regularity of music, but when parents talk to babies, they instinctively switch to melodic and rhythmic intonations “as a way of communicating emotional messages,” Honing said.

Infants can perceive anger, happiness and sadness from a caregiver’s cooing and baby babble, he said.

A study last year found that babies as young as 5 months can distinguish an upbeat tune, such as “Ode to Joy” from Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, from other gloomy tunes.

At a structural level, certain conversation protocols require rhythmic synchrony and are likely unique to humans, Winkler said. While other animals, such as birds and frogs, do have significant auditory skills, few, if any, perceive rhythm or carry on a dialogue, he said.

“If you ever talk to someone who will really not synchronize with you, for example like with a computer,” Winkler said, “you have the feeling that you can not communicate.”

An infant’s perception of rhythm may make him receptive to the distinctively human tendency to teach, Winkler said. “Apes never teach,” he said, explaining that baby apes learn by simply emulating their parents. But humans engage in a sing-song form of information exchange, where the recipient of new knowledge must respond in a synchronous way (not too fast, not too slow) to convey understanding.

Therefore, evolution may have favored brains wired to rock for learning purposes, said Winkler, and “music went along for the ride.”

this play “Word Magic” is happening this weekend at Miles Playhouse on Lincoln Blvd in Santa Monica. Jan 31 & Feb. 1 matinees and evenings shows.

laurel Arica and Buddy Helm perform "Word Magic" at Miles Playhouse