In 1983, I met a teacher that changed my life. Lloyd was a master drummer, healer, and my mentor. He showed me a world of drumming that I didn’t know existed.

When I first met Lloyd, I was enrolled in the Musician’s Institute studying percussion. I had just completed a 50-week tour and 4 solid years as a professional drummer.

Needless to say, I was no stranger to drumming and rhythm.

But I had yet to fathom the power that the drum could have on players and listeners. With Lloyd, I experienced how drumming becomes the foundation for a healing ceremony, ultimately determining its success (or not). I watched as Lloyd corrected behaviors with his rhythms. I was tutored on how to use core rhythms in improvisation to heal another person. 

The lessons I learned from Lloyd settled into my soul and eventually drove me to a 25-plus year career (so far) pushing the bounds of drumming and its clinical applicaton to influence the brain and behavior.

Since 1992, my music has been used by hundreds of thousands of people to help calm, focus, sleep, meditate, create, energize, and uplift.

Up until last year, I rarely shared my background and techniques with others. Writing my book Different Drummer shifted my desire to do more than just scratch the surface.

So I created my online Drum Healing Course. With it, I tried to convey the core aspects of my studies with Lloyd and my other teachers, offering some powerful techniques, history and rhythms, and opening the door to a deeper healing than is available in a drum circle or shamanic practice.

Yet I knew, when I created the Drum Healing Course, that an important piece was missing: Experiencing these techniques with others in a live setting.

Drum Healing Live! is the missing link.

Here, you will feel the reverberation of the bass deep in your chest.

You will transform with the rhythms as they pulse through your entire body.

As you learn the rhythms and techniques and feel the drive of our collective rhythms, you will have the true experience of the drum. I will mentor and instruct. We will play. You will feel the impact of my gonga’s bass.

For an intensive 3 days, we will explore the roots of rhythm healing. Experiential. Immersive. Kinesthetic. We will move through cultures and history and into the science and clinical application of rhythm. Jumping from Shamanism, Shango, and trance drumming, I will bring you into the deep seat of rhythm healing.

You will understand why certain rhythms calm the body while others focus the brain.

You will learn how to play the drum for healing and self-care.

You will feel the power of the drum in your mind and your body.

I will play. We will play. You will meditate, journey, and heal. This is the very root of rhythm, the core of being one with the drum.

At the Strong Institute, we call rhythm healing by other names: auditory driving, stimulation, specificity, and synchronization. There is a little bit of entrainment, too. No matter how you play it, the rhythms will drive your brain and your body toward health and wellness.

Geared toward drummers – and soon-to-be-drummers - of all levels, Drum Healing Live!™ will swing open the doors to a profound relationship with rhythm.

Discover how the drum can change your body, your mind, and settle its rhythms deep into your heart.

Drum Healing Live!™ covers everything in the online Drum Healing course and adds the power of community and the physical impact of drumming in a live setting.

I am conducting this workshop in my hand-made adobe home outside of Santa Fe, at the North end of the Galisteo Basin. We will be an intimate group of drummers, dreamers, rhythm-makers, and healers.

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