Rhythms & Myths of the Sacred Frame Drum with Krista Holland
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What You’ll Learn in These 7 Modules
Krista will take you through the foundational skills you’ll need to learn to play the frame drum and benefit from its healing qualities and profound sense of belonging and connection in this 7-part transformative intensive.
This course will include step-by-step instruction and immersive exercises with Krista Holland. Each session will build on the one before it, so you’ll have 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 techniques and the sacred drum’s beautiful musicality, resonance, and vibrations.
Module 1: Laying the Groundwork — Respecting the Earth, the Sacred Drum, and the Ancestors
This first session will take you on an extraordinary trip into the mythos and art of frame drumming. Krista will take you back in time to the most primitive birth of human musical expression – the spontaneous discovery of rhythm and drumming.
She will present the first known pictures of the frame drum as well as ancient legends associated with the sacred drum from a remarkably diverse range of civilizations.
You’ll learn about the stories and legends surrounding the frame drum’s significant position in seasonal rituals, community festivals, rites of passage, and initiations… as well as how it was employed in the ancient world’s euphoric trance-based mystery schools.
You’ll also discover why drumming has become such a ubiquitous human pursuit, and why frame drumming, in particular, is regarded as a global cross-cultural phenomena.
During the first session, you will:
Discover the fundamentals of playing the frame drum.
Reestablish your connection to the natural cycles of yourself and environment.
Learn how you’re intertwined into a network of rhythmic relationships, from the biological rhythms of the human body to the macrorhythms of the universe.
Set an intention that you may return to for inspiration on your drumming journey.
By understanding and embracing the ancestral origins and historical roots, you may lay the framework for a lifetime frame-drumming practice.
Utilize the Earth Stroke your drum and consider how you may incorporate your connection to the earth element into your drumming practice.
Module 2: Flow State Consciousness – Drumming to Cleanse and Refresh Your Mind
Many cross-cultural cultures employ the drum in their ecstatic rites, trance ceremonies, and healing activities because rhythmic drumming is a technique for shifting consciousness.
Hand drumming is a worldwide and cross-cultural art form that, like dancing, has been reemerging and becoming a mainstream phenomenon.
In this workshop, you’ll learn why more and more people across the world are becoming interested in drumming’s potential for personal change, musicality, community, cross-cultural connections, brain optimization, flow states of awareness, spiritual practice, and sheer pleasure!
You will also:
Investigate methods for optimizing flow states of awareness, shifting obsolete thinking patterns — and clearing and focusing your mind.
Learn how relaxing may help your learning and frame-drum practice sessions.
To enter the rhythmic zone, practice ancient trance rhythms and simple drumming methods.
Practice the Water Stroke and learn simple ways to leverage your connection to water in your drumming practice.
Module 3: Instilling Passion and Devotion in Your Frame-Drumming Practice
Diverse culture mythologies explain the illumination of human potential as a process of lighting the fire of our devotion — enacting their worship and awakening transformation via singing, dancing, drumming, and praying.
The melodic range of the frame drum is as varied and diverse as the numerous cultures who play it, and it contains the memory of a powerful ancestral legacy, history, and tradition.
In this session, you’ll discover why the frame drum has become so popular, and why it has resurrected over and again to improve people’s lives all around the world.
Connecting with the rich legacy of frame drummers will give you the fire you need to keep up a vigorous frame-drumming practice.
This module will teach you:
Discover how developing a passion for drumming may help you ignite the creative fire in many aspects of your life.
Learn about the employment of the frame drum in ancient trance-based mystery schools and devotional groups.
Investigate activities that can aid in the discovery of new neural pathways to improve cognition and brain function.
Learn more about the different motivations to play the drum — and use your unique “why” to build a dynamic and sustainable drumming practice.
Module 4: Infusing New Life Into Your Practice — Drumming to Calm Your Nervous System and Rebalance Your Emotions
We are rhythmic beings living in a linked rhythmic universe. We’re all enmeshed into a symphony of rhythms, from the synchronization of mother and baby’s heartbeats to the essential interchange of two lovers’ breaths to the waxing and fading of the moon.
Today, people all over the world are realizing what Indigenous peoples of many cultures have understood for centuries: drumming is a potent technique for shifting awareness and celebrating life’s tiny and great moments.
And, as more people seek natural methods to restore balance in this chaotic time, drumming is becoming recognized as a powerful tool for health, connection, and eternal wellbeing.
Drumming’s power may also aid to instill new awareness and energy in your comprehension and appreciation of life’s biological and cosmic cycles.
You may learn to relax into the Great Rhythm of All Things once you begin to honor life’s innate cadence and the multiplicity of nature’s wise pacing.
Krista will do the following in this session:
Teach you breathing and drumming methods for mood modulation and stress reduction.
Share stories from around the world about the World Tree and the holy drum.
Show you how to use the frame drum to create simple personal and communal rituals.
Assist you in revitalizing your existing meditation practice.
teach you a brand-new technique
Module 5: Developing Spacious Silence — Tuning in to the Powerful Space Between the Beats
In a world that is sometimes clamorous with a cacophony of audio impressions and an abundance of dissonant soundscapes, many people find the frame drum to be immensely peaceful and pleasant.
One of the numerous characteristics that distinguishes the frame drum is its ability to be played gently, calmly, and meditatively, as well as with enough strength and vigor to get people moving, dancing, and even trancing.
This module will teach you:
Recognize the importance of providing for space and respite in your frame-drumming practice.
Learn how to calm your thoughts so you can hear the stillness better.
Experience states of concentrated concentration and inner quietude via rhythmic drumming and relaxing by utilizing the drum to induce meditative states of consciousness.
Module 6: Alchemical Drumming — Elements Balancing for a Rhythmically Harmonious and Sonorous Life
When you actively make rhythm with the elements of life, you produce a gratifying and beautiful combination that is grounded, flowing, inspirational, expansive, and simply powerful.
Alchemical drumming connects you to your own unique present-day rhythms while also providing you with a deep and permanent connection to a primordial past and primordial people.
These rhythmical threads run through our worldwide, cross-cultural ancestors… all the way back to the earliest peoples who drummed and danced in religious ecstasy, ritual, and celebration.
Krista will walk you through the following steps in this session:
Alchemically play your drum by bringing in your own creative thoughts and inspirations.
Practice rhythm compositions using all of the drum parts.
To improve your frame drum practice, experiment with different tonalities.
Experiment with modifying the volume, pace, and time signatures to see how it changes your drumming and mood.
Module 7: The Journey Home — Returning to Your Original Rhythm, Mythos, and Relational Connections
One of the reasons so many of us are drawn to drumming is that we all gestate to the sound and rhythm of our mothers’ heartbeat and blood flow while in utero.
Drumming can help you return to a primal sense of belonging and connection, and remind you that you can return to the heart of life again and again — that home truly is always where the heart is.
In this final session, you’ll review the many ways the frame drum sits uniquely poised as a sacred tool for celebrating life’s natural seasons, stages, ages, and cycles. Most importantly, it’s a universal instrument that vibrates with meaning and fosters profound connections.
To close this course, you’ll:
Learn an original frame-drumming composition using all the techniques you practiced over the 7 sessions
Receive insights and instruction on how to begin to create your own compositions and personal rhythms
Cultivate ideas on how to continue to develop and expand your frame-drumming practice
Discover how to use drumming for personal and community connection
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