Module 1: Realign With the Rhythms of the Earth to Take Root in Your Body & Activate Inner Balance & Ease
You’ll begin by setting an intention and activating connections between your feet and hands… your bones and the land… your ancestors… the Earth… and your sacred drum.
Krista will walk you through the fundamental alignment principles and technical foundations for playing in the upright style of frame drumming with ease, simplicity, and agility.
You’ll explore the historical uses of the sacred frame drum from various cultures — and discover how you can use the frame drum in the upright style in ceremonies, rituals, and celebrations.
You’ll also receive compassionate guidance on how to inhabit your body more lovingly and dynamically as the practice of sacred frame drumming becomes an active meditation and a revitalizing (yet relaxing) embodiment practice.
Module 2: Enter Your Flow State to Release Mental, Emotional & Physical Blockages & Liberate Your Rhythm
Once you have created a solid foundation from which to explore your drumming, the energy and techniques of the rhythms will tend to flow more freely and effortlessly.
In this class, you’ll discover how to enter into a state of flow that will liberate your creativity and musical expression.
You’ll explore how the concepts and experience of flow and the flow state can significantly enhance and vitalize your drumming practice as you uncover methods for allowing the energy and prana to flow and express through your drumming and movement.
You’ll also begin to move through the landscape of your environment with your frame drum, which will open up a world of possibilities for you to venture and adventure into with your sacred frame drum.
Module 3: Activate Your Core Power to Transform Lethargy Into Vitality & Energy
You’ll explore the physical alignments and energetic signatures that will help you activate your core power for the practice of drumming and other vital life endeavors.
These methods and techniques can be applied to any area of your life, and you’ll find that these approaches become incredibly transformative when used in your sacred drumming practice.
You’ll also experience the direct and immediate effects of embodied drumming with an awakened core.
These methods can catalyze your practice and empower your physical and energetic posture and stance throughout your drumming and life.
Module 4: Synergize Your Breath With the Frame Drum to Rebalance Your Nervous System, Strengthen Your Focus & Expand Your Consciousness
What does the practice of conscious breathing have in common with drumming? They are two of the most ancient, accessible, and time-tested practices for transforming consciousness known to humankind.
From the yogis of India to the shamans of Siberia, the human quest for activating the body’s innate healing capabilities has spanned thousands of years. It shows up in some form in every culture around the Earth.
You’ll combine these two healing instruments — conscious breathing and the drum — to catalyze full-spectrum health and deepen your awareness…
… and learn basic breathing practices that — when combined with various rhythms — will help create a synergistic alchemy of health benefits.
These universal instruments of healing can act as complementary and adjunct healing tools in your traveling medicine bag for personal revitalization, balancing your nervous system, and self-regulation.
Module 5: Honor Your Life Experience to Release Trapped Emotional Energy, Create Inner Harmony & Enhance Your Drum Play
One of the main ways nature creates and maintains balance and harmony is through micro and macro rhythms. From the change of seasons to the cycles of the moon, life is in a continual process of balance.
One of the ways people can learn to optimize their body’s innate potential for harmony and balance is by maintaining healthy rhythms, such as working and resting in balanced cycles.
You’ll explore why it’s vital to your health to honor the full spectrum of your life experience by making space for the natural currents and emotional tides of life.
You’ll discover how to free stuck mental or emotional energy, open to change and growth, and plant fresh seeds of your vision for thriving.
As you begin to view your life in rhythmic cycles, you can apply the concepts of being in rhythm as a form of creative medicine that moves along a continuum from your heart to your breath… to your drum… to your everyday life — this is rhythm medicine.
Module 6: Engage Your Imagination to Let Go of What Doesn’t Serve You & Ignite Your Inner Vision & Brainpower
Many modern humans have lost the art of engaging their inner vision and imagination — and therefore have also lost a path for creating a life filled with purpose and meaning.
If you sometimes feel burned out, mentally overwhelmed, or creatively dried up, this class will help refresh your natural ability to engage your imagination for greater general wellbeing.
You’ll explore how drumming and stepping in rhythm can have measurable effects on your brainwaves… and how you can leverage this information to engage your imagination and activate your true inner vision — and the life you were meant to live.
This practice can have a positive effect on your entire being and may even bring a more profound sense of meaning and purpose to your life and your community.
Module 7: Integrate All You’ve Learned Into an Enriching Drumming Practice for a Lifetime of Postural Alignment & Healing
Sacred drumming is a practice that can become a lifetime journey of discovery. In this final class, you’ll bring together the various techniques and postural alignments that you’ve learned into a full-spectrum practice that will be adaptable for all bodies and abilities.
You will have experienced stepping in rhythm and walking and swaying with your frame drum… and explored different rhythms and techniques that can be expanded upon and refined over the years that you dedicate yourself to playing the drum.
You will have learned simple yet powerful principles of postural alignment that can be applied to your drumming practice — and help you stay aligned with the vision you hold for your life.
You will have awakened your core and inspired your imagination and vision.
And hopefully, you will have gained fresh insights into the potential of what a sacred frame drumming practice can provide to you over a lifetime of embodied drumming for healing and wellbeing.
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