Post by kaya on Jul 2, 2006 1:38:00 GMT -5
The WorldBeat Cultural Center
Presents
WEST AFRICAN DRUMMING CLASSES
Experience the Power and Healing of
Djembe Drumming with Senegalese Master
Babacar Mbengue
Event: On going WEST AFRICAN DJEMBE DRUMMING CLASSES
Taught by: Senegalese Master Babacar Mbengue
Where: WorldBeat Center, 2100 Park Blvd. In Balboa Park, San Diego, CA 92101
When: Beginning Thursday, June 22, 2006 - continuing weekly on Thursdays during summer
Time: 6:00 – 7:30 pm
Contact: Jesse or Christina at 619-230-1190
Website: www.worldbeatcenter.org
Email: outreach@worldbeatcenter.org
Cost: $12 per class, 4 classes card $45
WorldBeat Center
West African Djembe Drumming Classes
For hundreds, perhaps thousands of years, African shamans have used the Drum for healing, consciousness and awareness. Drumming is an ideal way to treat a lot of conditions where other methods might not have been very successful as drumming works with the life force itself in a profound way on all levels, physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually.
The drum has been used for healing purposes as well as a tool for social integration and to restore harmony. According to West-African wisdom teachings, emotional disturbance manifest as an irregular rhythm and is a bad vibration that blocks the vital physical processes. As regular even rhythms are regarded as a sign of health, these rhythms can heal the patient by touching him/her in an immediate and powerful way, removing blockages and releasing tension.
Some of the psychological applications in which hand drums are being used include assisting veterans to release the emotional pain of post-traumatic stress disorder, releasing the pent-up anger and negative emotions of "at-risk" adolescents, and promoting health in corporate executives through releasing their day-to-day stress, in addition to many other applications.
Alzheimer's Disease
Playing drums has been found to be the ideal activity for people with diminished physical and mental capacities.
Alzheimer's patients, even in the latter stages of the disease, can copy simple rhythms played on a drum. This form of interaction takes on great significance when all other forms of communication have been diminished. Drumming seems to focus Alzheimer's patients for a short time, and they seem momentarily coherent
Drumming and Stress Management
When people drum, they are generally having fun. It is difficult to be in a playful mode and be stressed at the same time. Also, as described previously, the drum has the capacity to release negative feelings-of which stress is clearly one. When one hits the drum, he or she is placed squarely in the here and now. Some of our stress is created from past or future thoughts of fear, worry, or regret, but it is very difficult to be stressed and be in the present moment.
Drumming increases our Alpha brainwaves, those brainwaves associated with feelings of well-being and euphoria. Alpha is associated with a general feeling of well-being and euphoria.
Presents
WEST AFRICAN DRUMMING CLASSES
Experience the Power and Healing of
Djembe Drumming with Senegalese Master
Babacar Mbengue
Event: On going WEST AFRICAN DJEMBE DRUMMING CLASSES
Taught by: Senegalese Master Babacar Mbengue
Where: WorldBeat Center, 2100 Park Blvd. In Balboa Park, San Diego, CA 92101
When: Beginning Thursday, June 22, 2006 - continuing weekly on Thursdays during summer
Time: 6:00 – 7:30 pm
Contact: Jesse or Christina at 619-230-1190
Website: www.worldbeatcenter.org
Email: outreach@worldbeatcenter.org
Cost: $12 per class, 4 classes card $45
WorldBeat Center
West African Djembe Drumming Classes
For hundreds, perhaps thousands of years, African shamans have used the Drum for healing, consciousness and awareness. Drumming is an ideal way to treat a lot of conditions where other methods might not have been very successful as drumming works with the life force itself in a profound way on all levels, physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually.
The drum has been used for healing purposes as well as a tool for social integration and to restore harmony. According to West-African wisdom teachings, emotional disturbance manifest as an irregular rhythm and is a bad vibration that blocks the vital physical processes. As regular even rhythms are regarded as a sign of health, these rhythms can heal the patient by touching him/her in an immediate and powerful way, removing blockages and releasing tension.
Some of the psychological applications in which hand drums are being used include assisting veterans to release the emotional pain of post-traumatic stress disorder, releasing the pent-up anger and negative emotions of "at-risk" adolescents, and promoting health in corporate executives through releasing their day-to-day stress, in addition to many other applications.
Alzheimer's Disease
Playing drums has been found to be the ideal activity for people with diminished physical and mental capacities.
Alzheimer's patients, even in the latter stages of the disease, can copy simple rhythms played on a drum. This form of interaction takes on great significance when all other forms of communication have been diminished. Drumming seems to focus Alzheimer's patients for a short time, and they seem momentarily coherent
Drumming and Stress Management
When people drum, they are generally having fun. It is difficult to be in a playful mode and be stressed at the same time. Also, as described previously, the drum has the capacity to release negative feelings-of which stress is clearly one. When one hits the drum, he or she is placed squarely in the here and now. Some of our stress is created from past or future thoughts of fear, worry, or regret, but it is very difficult to be stressed and be in the present moment.
Drumming increases our Alpha brainwaves, those brainwaves associated with feelings of well-being and euphoria. Alpha is associated with a general feeling of well-being and euphoria.