{"id":855,"date":"2010-06-29T22:41:43","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T03:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healingmusicenterprises.com\/blog\/?p=855"},"modified":"2014-11-18T22:21:12","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T03:21:12","slug":"instruments-of-healing-music-drum-circles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healingmusicenterprises.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/instruments-of-healing-music-drum-circles\/","title":{"rendered":"Instruments of Healing Music:  Drum Circles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How many of you have ever participated in a drum circle?\u00a0 Today drum circles are very popular and for good reasons!\u00a0 Drum circle are loads of fun, require no prior musical training, require no musical ability and enable you to connect emotionally and energetically with people that you&#8217;ve never met before that day.<\/p>\n<p>I first experienced a drum circle when I was a music medicine researcher at the University of Louisville School of Medicine.\u00a0 A very talented woman named Phyllis Free came and assisted in a toning group I was conducting there and suggested that we also do some drumming!\u00a0 Because few people had their own hand drums back in 1992, we found empty trash cans and large buckets which we turned upside down.<\/p>\n<p>A local TV station came and filmed the workshop for the 12 o&#8217;clock news because it was so unusual in those days&#8230;it was actually news.\u00a0 In 1993, the &#8220;Today Show&#8221; came and filmed Phyllis and me doing another toning and drumming workshop for medical students!\u00a0 You can see a clip of this at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.HealingMusicEnterprises.com\/clips.html\" class=\"broken_link\">www.HealingMusicEnterprises.com\/clips.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to understand more about the power of drum circles I have written an ebook that is chock full of information and sounds clips.\u00a0 To learn more about that, go to <a title=\"Drumming for Health, Wellness and Fun\" href=\"http:\/\/www.healingmusicenterprises.com\/products\/drumming\/Drumming-Health-ebook.html\" target=\"_blank\">Drumming for Health, Wellness and Fun.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I hope you&#8217;ll participate in a drum circle one day!\u00a0 It&#8217;s an amazing experience!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many of you have ever participated in a drum circle?\u00a0 Today drum circles are very popular and for good reasons!\u00a0 Drum circle are loads of fun, require no prior musical training, require no musical ability and enable you to connect emotionally and energetically with people that you&#8217;ve never met before that day. 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