Rhythms & Myths of the Sacred Frame Drum with Krista Holland

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Salepage: Rhythms & Myths of the Sacred Frame Drum with Krista Holland

What These 7 Modules Will Teach You

The essential skills you’ll need to learn to play the frame drum and experience its therapeutic properties as well as the strong sensation of belonging and connection it offers are covered in this 7-part transformative intensive by Krista.

This course will include interactive exercises with Krista Holland and step-by-step instruction. You’ll gain a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to play the frame drum as a contemplative and ritual practice, immersing yourself in the techniques and the sacred drum’s beautiful musicality, resonance, and vibrations. Each session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones.
Setting the Foundation: Honoring the Earth, the Sacred Drum, and the Ancestors in Module 1

You’ll take an amazing trip into the mythology and practice of frame drumming in this first module. Using mythological time as her guide, Krista will take you to the moment when human musical expression first appeared, when rhythm and drumming were discovered on their own.

She will discuss the earliest known illustrations of the frame drum as well as the earliest known legends from a remarkably wide range of civilizations that relate to the sacred drum.

The tales and history surrounding the frame drum’s significant function in seasonal rituals, neighborhood festivities, rites of passage, initiations… and how it was employed in the blissful trance-based mystery schools of the ancient world will be explored.

Additionally, you’ll discover why drumming is such a common human activity and why frame drumming in particular is regarded as a global, cross-cultural phenomena.

You will learn in this first lesson:

Learn the frame drum’s fundamentals.
Reconnect your consciousness to the internal and external cycles of nature.
Discover how you are intertwined into a network of rhythmic relationships, from the biological rhythms of the human body to the cosmic macrorhythms.
Create a goal that will serve as a source of inspiration for your drumming journey.
By being aware of and respecting the ancestors’ origins and historical roots, provide the foundation for developing a lifetime frame-drumming practice.
Apply the Earth Strike your drum and consider how you may use your affinity for the earth element in your drumming.

Module 2: Drumming to Clear & Refresh Your Mind: Entering the Flow States of Consciousness

Numerous cross-cultural cultures employ the drum in their ecstatic rites, trance ceremonies, and healing activities because rhythmic drumming is a technique for altering consciousness.

Similar to dance in its universality, hand drumming is a worldwide and intercultural art form that has been reemerging and spreading once more.

You’ll learn in this session why more and more people across the world are curious in the possibilities of drumming for enjoyment, community, cross-cultural relationships, brain optimization, flow states of awareness, spiritual practice, and personal development.

In addition,

Examine techniques for enhancing flow states of consciousness, changing outdated thinking habits, and focusing and clearing your mind.
Study how to relax so that you can learn and practice the frame drum more easily.
To enter the rhythmic zone, practice classic trance rhythms and easy drumming methods.
Learn the Water Stroke and simple methods to incorporate your affinity for the water element into your drumming technique.

Creating Passion and Dedication for Your Frame-Drumming Practice, Module 3

Diverse cultural mythologies from throughout the globe explain the awakening of change and the illumination of human potential as a process of igniting the fire of our devotion via singing, dancing, drumming, and prayer.

The melodic spectrum of the frame drum is as wide and varied as the numerous nations who play it, and it embodies the memory of a potent ancestral legacy, history, and tradition.

You’ll discover in this section the numerous factors that have contributed to the frame drum’s popularity and its repeated use throughout history to improve people’s lives all around the world.

Your practice of frame drumming will remain lively as long as you remain connected to the strong legacy of frame drummers.

You’ll discover in this module:

Learn how developing a passion for your drumming may help you become more creative in all aspects of your life.
Discover how the frame drum was used by ancient religious groups and mystery schools that promoted trance.
Investigate techniques that can open up fresh cerebral pathways and improve thinking and brain activity.
Learn more about the many motivations for playing the drums, and use your own unique “why” to establish a thriving and long-lasting drumming routine.

Drumming to calm your nervous system and rebalance your emotions is covered in Module 4: Breathing Life Into Your Practice.

We are rhythmic creatures living in a rhythmically complex universe. We are all intertwined into a symphony of rhythms, from the mother and child’s heartbeats to the crucial breath exchange between lovers to the moon’s waxing and waning.

People all across the world are now starting to realize what Indigenous peoples from many cultures have understood for a long time: that drumming is a potent technique for changing awareness and acknowledging life’s minor and significant events.

And as more and more people seek out natural remedies to regain their equilibrium at this upsetting period, drumming is becoming known as a tremendous tool for wellbeing that transcends generations.

The force of drumming may also help you grasp and recognize the biological and cosmological cycles of existence with fresh knowledge and vibrancy.

You can learn to unwind into the Great Rhythm of All Things when you start to respect life’s innate pace and the variety of nature’s wise pacing.

As part of this workshop, Krista will

Teach you how to control your mood and reduce stress through breathing and drumming.
Share worldwide legends about the World Tree and the sacred drum.
How to use the frame drum to build basic personal and social rituals
assist you in revitalizing an established meditation routine.
teach you a new technique

Module 5: Attuning to the Powerful Space Between the Beats and Cultivating Spacious Silence

The frame drum is an instrument that many people find to be immensely calming and peaceful in a world that is frequently clamorous with a cacophony of aural impressions and an abundance of discordant soundscapes.

The frame drum is special because it can be played powerfully and vitally to get people moving, dancing, or even trancing, as well as softly, calmly, and meditatively.

You’ll discover in this module:

Recognize the strength and effectiveness of making room for relaxation and space in your frame-drumming routine.
Learn to calm your thoughts so you can hear the stillness better.
Experience moments of focused concentration and inner peace via rhythmic drumming and relaxing Practice utilizing the drum to awaken meditative levels of awareness

Alchemical Drumming, Module 6: Balancing the Elements for a Harmonious and Sonorous Life

Working with life’s components as you purposefully build rhythm results in a fulfilling and lovely combination that is rooted, flowing, motivating, expansive, and just plain potent.

Alchemical drumming gives you a strong and enduring link to a primordial past and primordial people while allowing you to connect to your own distinct present-day rhythms.

Our worldwide, cross-cultural, ancestral ancestry is woven together by these rhythmic threads, which date all the way back to the first peoples, who drummed and danced in adoration, ritual, and celebration.

As we move forward, Krista will direct you to:

Play your drum in an alchemical way by incorporating your own original thoughts and inspirations.
Learn to compose rhythms using all the drum’s components.
To improve your frame drum technique, experiment with different tonalities.
Learn how altering the loudness, speed, and time signatures influences your mood and drumming.

The Journey Home, Module 7: Returning to Your Original Rhythm, Individual Mythos, and Relational Connections

The fact that each of us gestates to the sound and rhythm of our mother’s heartbeat and blood flow when she is carrying us is one reason why so many people experience such a strong connection to drumming.

Drumming can help you reclaim a basic feeling of identity and connection and serve as a constant reminder that you can always find your way back to the center of life.

You will go over the numerous ways the frame drum is well situated as a holy tool for honoring life’s natural seasons, stages, ages, and cycles in this last lesson. The fact that it is a universal instrument that resonates with meaning and encourages deep connections is what matters most.

When this course is over, you’ll:

Learn a unique frame-drumming composition utilizing the skills you’ve developed over the past seven sessions.
Learn tips and techniques for starting to produce your own tunes and unique rhythms.
Develop concepts about how to advance and broaden your frame-drumming technique.
Learn how to connect with others via drumming on a personal and social level.

The Drum Bonus Collection for the Sacred Frame

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