FIND YOUR Rhythm - music as medicine

04/02/2020

Seems we just got started.... we will drum together again! Keep the faith and keep playing those drums!

03/01/2020

Just finished 11 hours of drum training in McMinnville Oregon. About half of that time involved actual drumming, so my hands are a wee bit sore tonight! And that was only Day One! It’s an amazing course and I am learning so much... so excited for what’s to come! I have so many plans...

02/24/2020

That’s exactly what drumming does for your brain - gives it a good workout!

02/24/2020

I have been working with people who are living with early-onset Alzheimer's Disease for many years, as an exercise specialist. More recently I have begun to add drums and other percussion instruments into my routines, and the results have been wonderful. Creating music as a group has created a sense of "togetherness" difficult to achieve through other means. I see the joy in their faces and their movements, and in their words as they are leaving. I truly feel blessed to work with these incredible people...

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Drumming and rhуthm mау offer some small comfort tо thоѕе with dementia, early onset dementia and Alzheimer’s disease and their fаmіlіеѕ. It is often the case that music аnd rhуthm can create moments, brіеflу, of apparent consciousness or recognition, even from an otherwise blаnk...

02/24/2020

A simple pattern in the djembe drum to help you work your brain in a bi-lateral manner

02/24/2020

02/21/2020

PART TWO: Same person - same day. Walking while listening to an upbeat song on her headphones. You are witnessing the power if the "beat". Music is medicine!
https://vimeo.com/197842848

This is "Walking w Music" by Pamela Quinn on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

02/21/2020

PART ONE: What can rhythm do for people living with Parkinson's Disease? Watch and see... the first video shows a PWP who is displaying one of the cardinal symptoms of PD - a greatly diminished ability in walking gait.PWhat can rhythm do for people living with Parkinson's Disease? Watch and see... the first video shows a PWP who is displaying one of the cardinal symptoms of PD - a greatly diminished ability in walking gait.https://vimeo.com/192731165

This is "Walking Without Music" by Pamela Quinn on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

02/21/2020

Incredible people like Mickey Hart (drummer from the Grateful Dead) are continuing to connect the dots and highlight the influence that rhythm plays on the brain...

"Rhythm and vibrations are the basis of all life," Hart explains."The brain is rhythm central. It tells us what to do and what not to do, and it all has to do with interacting rhythms. Each part of the brain is putting out pulses that interact with your whole body. I'm a rhythmist, so I'm interested in the sound of the brain. I want to know how to control rhythm and use it as an interactive sound tool. And now I can hear my brain waves and see them in real time using this contraption that I put on my head which reads what my brain waves are doing and then makes sound out of them. This becomes music. This is my brain on rhythm."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nir2xLUYpPo

Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart's search for the scientific basis of "good vibrations" for his encore career after The Grateful Dead's 50th Anniversary and...

02/16/2020

At our next Rhythm Circle (Tuesday Feb 18th) we will be making a visit to AFRICA...

02/14/2020

"When the rhythm is right you feel it with all your senses; it's in your mind, in your body, in both places. The head of the drum vibrates as you strike it. A feeling not unlike trust settles over you as give yourself to the rhythm. You don't fight it, but instead allow yourself to be propelled by the insistent but friendly feeling. All sense of the present moment disappears, the normal categories of time become meaningless...
Mickey Hart, Grateful Dead drummer/percussionist