Percussion/Drumming/Services
Hand Drum Engage "HDE"
Hand Drum Engage “HDE” is a curriculum based program designed to explore identity in communication, "parts of conversation", and teamwork.
It is designed to be a three class/group curriculums then allows for repeat and review to allow building of the skills practiced during the first three weeks. It is a flexible program. It can be presented in a lesser time frame. Its intention is to provide an activity that allows each participant to engage with the facilitator and other participants.
Components:
Introduction HDE 1: The story of the drums. Exercises on memorization, call and response
HDE 2: Communication/Teamwork-Participants will take turns leading drum circle
HDE 3: Pattern play, Hand/Eye Coordination, call and response activity
It is designed to be a three class/group curriculums then allows for repeat and review to allow building of the skills practiced during the first three weeks. It is a flexible program. It can be presented in a lesser time frame. Its intention is to provide an activity that allows each participant to engage with the facilitator and other participants.
Components:
Introduction HDE 1: The story of the drums. Exercises on memorization, call and response
HDE 2: Communication/Teamwork-Participants will take turns leading drum circle
HDE 3: Pattern play, Hand/Eye Coordination, call and response activity
comUNITY Drum Sessions
Created to be a relaxed environment and open invitation to the people wherever sessions are provided. We set up about 25 - 30 hand drums and say, "come play." The idea is to build relationships with people.
There is no sign up sheet. Simply come and go as you please. Bring someone with you! Bring a drum with you! These are kid friendly and pet friendly events.
There is no sign up sheet. Simply come and go as you please. Bring someone with you! Bring a drum with you! These are kid friendly and pet friendly events.
Drumming gives us an experience where we can be free to connect with ourselves and others, in order to release, restore and heal. It is a universal language where all people can be a part, free from words and concepts so we can experience life with an open heart.
Drumming supports individuals, families and communities during times of joy, sadness and change. As we drum together the rhythm can bring us closer to one another with respect and courage as we move towards healing wounds and restoring hope.
Drumming supports individuals, families and communities during times of joy, sadness and change. As we drum together the rhythm can bring us closer to one another with respect and courage as we move towards healing wounds and restoring hope.
Therapeutic Effects
Current research now shows the therapeutic effects of drumming techniques. Research indicates that drumming accelerates physical healing, boosts the immune system. In addition specific studies conducted by professionals in the fields of music therapy and mental health show us that drumming:
- Reduces tension, anxiety and stress
- Helps control chronic pain
- Boosts the immune system
- Releases negative feelings, blockages and emotional trauma
Life Quality Effects
Drumming induces deep relaxation, lowers blood pressure, produces feelings of well-being, a release of emotional trauma and reduces stress.
Stress, according to current medical research, contributes to nearly all diseases and is a primary cause of such life-threatening illnesses as heart attacks, strokes and immune system breakdowns. Chronic pain, which many of our veterans experience, has a progressively draining effect on the quality of life, drumming induces analytical problem solving, which is essential in primary learning environments.
Research suggests that drumming serves as a distraction from pain and grief. Specifically, drumming promotes the production of endorphins and endogenous opiates, the body’s own morphine-like painkillers, and can thereby help to control pain.
Stress, according to current medical research, contributes to nearly all diseases and is a primary cause of such life-threatening illnesses as heart attacks, strokes and immune system breakdowns. Chronic pain, which many of our veterans experience, has a progressively draining effect on the quality of life, drumming induces analytical problem solving, which is essential in primary learning environments.
Research suggests that drumming serves as a distraction from pain and grief. Specifically, drumming promotes the production of endorphins and endogenous opiates, the body’s own morphine-like painkillers, and can thereby help to control pain.
Community Effects
Drum Circles also provide an opportunity for participants to feel connected with others and gain a sense of interpersonal support. A drum circle provides an opportunity to connect with your own spirit at a deeper level. Group drumming alleviates self-centeredness, isolation and alienation. There are great benefits to feeling connected to others, especially those in similar situations.
Specific studies show:
Specific studies show:
- Creates a sense of connectedness with self and others
- Helps us experience being in resonance with the natural rhythms of life
- Provides a medium for individual self-realization
Creative Writing
Writing makes you Healthier
Research shows that writing about your life goals makes you happier and healthier. Most studies in the past have focused on writing about one’s past traumas in order to heal faster. What’s very interesting about this study is that they compared the effects of writing about traumatic events to the effects of writing about the participants’ “best possible future self.” The researchers found that both had similar positive effects, but writing about one’s goals was significantly less upsetting—which is understandable.
Writing makes you more resilient
If you’re going through a difficult experience, writing can help you cope better. A study that followed recently fired engineers showed that the ones who consistently engaged with expressive writing were able to find a new job faster.
Writing increases your gratitude
According to research, people who take the time to reflect on the good things in their life once a week by writing them down are more positive and motivated about their current situation and their future. I previously wrote about how writing things you’re grateful for can be part of the mental push-ups to add to your mental tool box routine.
Writing helps you communicate clearly
It may sound obvious, but writing regularly has been shown to help people communicate complex ideas more clearly. This has benefits both in terms of emotional intelligence—expressing how you feel—and in what are considered hard sciences such as mathematics.
Adult/Youth Writing Workshops
Go To You Room And Write This Down
The above is the name for a workshop designed to identify a room, well your room. A place that provides the opportunity for as much clarity in your writing process as possible. Allowing for the healing, Problem solve through barriers as you create through writing, vent on a piece of paper, learn how to convey your message clearly.
A common question during a writing workshop is: How do I know how much to write down? The answer is: What wouldn't you write down?
You can sign up for writing workshops via Eventbrite which will be shared through are Facebook page.
A common question during a writing workshop is: How do I know how much to write down? The answer is: What wouldn't you write down?
You can sign up for writing workshops via Eventbrite which will be shared through are Facebook page.
Photography
Mindfulness
Mindfulness, or being in the moment, is a particularly effective way at fighting stress. Many forms of art promote mindfulness, and photography is no different.
Mindfulness has long been associated with photography, though, and other The act of taking photos can engage a group, pushing them to be more focused on that moment. The association between photography and engagement are so strong, mindful photography exists!
Photography can help individuals stay social by giving them an interest they can share with others. This means more than just sharing your photos with loved ones or online followers, though. Through photography clubs or classes, you can meet and interact with other photography enthusiasts, giving you a chance to meet new friends! This can be really important for seniors since isolation can be a reality for most individuals that reside in retirement/assisted living environments.
Mindfulness has long been associated with photography, though, and other The act of taking photos can engage a group, pushing them to be more focused on that moment. The association between photography and engagement are so strong, mindful photography exists!
Photography can help individuals stay social by giving them an interest they can share with others. This means more than just sharing your photos with loved ones or online followers, though. Through photography clubs or classes, you can meet and interact with other photography enthusiasts, giving you a chance to meet new friends! This can be really important for seniors since isolation can be a reality for most individuals that reside in retirement/assisted living environments.
Brain Health
In terms of your general health, photography is also linked with promoting healthy aging in the brain. As we’ve said in the past, our brains work to use it or lose it way. Essentially, we need to stimulate our minds as we age in order to keep them sharp.
Visual Arts
1. Communication
Art makes us more human; it helps us to communicate in a different, personal language. This is a great benefit for all people and mainly for those who have conditions with a lack of communication or problems expressing themselves such as shyness, autism and other disabilities.
2. Therapy
Painting is an individual activity even in the workshop, virtual class o painting group outing; students enter into their own world, a world full of possibilities! The stimulus of the creative mind allows students to positively isolate from their immediate reality, which provides a mental rest that lowers stress and generates relaxation and happy feelings. This is especially significant for people with aggression or nervousness conditions.
3. Self-esteem
Working in a non-competitive, relaxed environment (the teacher plays a major role here) will enable the students to come closer to greater personal achievements; this will strengthen their individuality and self-esteem. This is especially significant for people with codependency, traumatic conditions and elderly people who need activities that can strengthen their self-esteem and autonomy.
4. Mobility and temporary healing
People who immerse themselves several hours painting or creating something enter a purer area and in a very strong state of concentration; they abstract themselves from their surroundings and time passes by without noticing it. Physical pains fade away; it is almost like entering another dimension without leaving the body. This concentration state is called Alpha; one part of the brain is conscious and the other pulls the unconscious out. There is more creation because pure energy is transmitted to what is being created, and we can spend hours without feeling tiredness, pain or other conditions (unlike other activities.) This is a state similar to that achieved through praying, meditation, music, aromatherapy, and being in love, including the orgasm. There have been cases of miraculous temporary healing in painters and musicians who, when in this state, are able to move their atrophied hands or don't feel pain when creating or executing. Painters Renoir and Gauguin and musician Andrés Segovia are examples of this.
Learning to hold and handle a brush or a pencil will help regulate the hand movements and stimulate brain connections at the same time the skill is being developed. In elderly people, painting helps them strengthen their fine motor skill.
5. Mental Health
Painting helps us get distracted from our problems; it helps us take anguish out and transform it into something else, to which we given a name. This helps us identify our feelings and increase our expression capabilities. This is especially significant for people with nervousness, mental conditions (like schizophrenia) as well as people going through an emotional imbalance like a break-up who use the visual expression to achieve catharsis. Adults who learn to paint fight the fear to confront themselves, learn to persevere and are encouraged to create something that belongs only to them, a personal project, unique and enormously satisfying.
6. Concentration and Brain Activity
Drawing and painting stimulate both hemispheres of the brain, both the left and the right. The left side involves the logical side while the right side exploits our creativity and emotions. In an age of growth and development this activity will be very valuable for the future and in adulthood too, to combat diseases such as Alzheimer's, for example. Painting is an activity that encourages the imagination and in Alzheimer's patients, while memory fades, the imagination has the ability to strengthen itself. This is possible because the imagination improves memory, you can only imagine with the information that is known, memory is the basis of the imagination, so it strengthens the imagination and in turn strengthens memory.
In the initial period of learning to paint, whether using photographs or painting what we observe, the brain gets used to recording images that are then tried to reproduce. This process exercises memory and increases concentration and is beneficial for anyone as well as for patients with memory loss.
7. Emotional Intelligence and Spirituality
Emotions are part of our creative world that we all carry inside, making those emotions flow through painting helps create harmony between the heart and the mind, which leads us to experience happiness, love, empathy and peace. Visualization and relaxation obtained through painting are tools that, applied continuously, can achieve the emotional, organic, energetic and spiritual welfare of the being, even within the chaotic and stressful world in which we live.
The practice of drawing and painting are procedures that demand a certain amount of patience and caution, it teaches us to wait, to listen and to appreciate silence, in short, to have peace, prudence and respect for ourselves and others.
8. Culture and Art Appreciation
Practicing, studying and talking about art creates a better understanding about it, the individual is reflected and motivated by the work of others, which allows him to also be the recipient of this type of communication that dates back to the beginning of humanity.
9. Self knowledge
The knowledge that a person can receive when learning to paint gives him the ability to understand his own Self, both through the aforementioned practices such as exercising patience, visualization, focus, self-esteem, passion ... as well as through the analysis of processes. The order in which the pictorial process, for example, must be carried out to obtain the desired results according to the technique, allows us to understand our personality type, since some techniques demand more patience than others, some are more fluid or more precise, more sensitive than others or freer; They demonstrate our ability to adjust to changing situations, especially if we can jump from one technique to another or are open or not to experimentation. Another example is the freedom that the creative process requires to let go, vibrate and exalt, this teaches us much more about ourselves than many therapy sessions together, if we are, of course, capable of carrying out this self-analysis. Under what conditions are we willing to experience ourselves through painting? How demanding are we with ourselves? Are some of the questions that learning a painting technique can answer.
In addition, if in the study of the portrait or the human figure the student allows himself to connect with the model through empathy (not only the anatomical proportions), he will be able to see himself in others and easily discover himself. It is worth mentioning that this practice brings excellent artistic results with less effort.
10. Fun
Learning how to paint has all the benefits of good entertainment: we laugh, socialize, learn something new, feel motivated to finish what we start, appreciate nature and feel passion for something good..
Art makes us more human; it helps us to communicate in a different, personal language. This is a great benefit for all people and mainly for those who have conditions with a lack of communication or problems expressing themselves such as shyness, autism and other disabilities.
2. Therapy
Painting is an individual activity even in the workshop, virtual class o painting group outing; students enter into their own world, a world full of possibilities! The stimulus of the creative mind allows students to positively isolate from their immediate reality, which provides a mental rest that lowers stress and generates relaxation and happy feelings. This is especially significant for people with aggression or nervousness conditions.
3. Self-esteem
Working in a non-competitive, relaxed environment (the teacher plays a major role here) will enable the students to come closer to greater personal achievements; this will strengthen their individuality and self-esteem. This is especially significant for people with codependency, traumatic conditions and elderly people who need activities that can strengthen their self-esteem and autonomy.
4. Mobility and temporary healing
People who immerse themselves several hours painting or creating something enter a purer area and in a very strong state of concentration; they abstract themselves from their surroundings and time passes by without noticing it. Physical pains fade away; it is almost like entering another dimension without leaving the body. This concentration state is called Alpha; one part of the brain is conscious and the other pulls the unconscious out. There is more creation because pure energy is transmitted to what is being created, and we can spend hours without feeling tiredness, pain or other conditions (unlike other activities.) This is a state similar to that achieved through praying, meditation, music, aromatherapy, and being in love, including the orgasm. There have been cases of miraculous temporary healing in painters and musicians who, when in this state, are able to move their atrophied hands or don't feel pain when creating or executing. Painters Renoir and Gauguin and musician Andrés Segovia are examples of this.
Learning to hold and handle a brush or a pencil will help regulate the hand movements and stimulate brain connections at the same time the skill is being developed. In elderly people, painting helps them strengthen their fine motor skill.
5. Mental Health
Painting helps us get distracted from our problems; it helps us take anguish out and transform it into something else, to which we given a name. This helps us identify our feelings and increase our expression capabilities. This is especially significant for people with nervousness, mental conditions (like schizophrenia) as well as people going through an emotional imbalance like a break-up who use the visual expression to achieve catharsis. Adults who learn to paint fight the fear to confront themselves, learn to persevere and are encouraged to create something that belongs only to them, a personal project, unique and enormously satisfying.
6. Concentration and Brain Activity
Drawing and painting stimulate both hemispheres of the brain, both the left and the right. The left side involves the logical side while the right side exploits our creativity and emotions. In an age of growth and development this activity will be very valuable for the future and in adulthood too, to combat diseases such as Alzheimer's, for example. Painting is an activity that encourages the imagination and in Alzheimer's patients, while memory fades, the imagination has the ability to strengthen itself. This is possible because the imagination improves memory, you can only imagine with the information that is known, memory is the basis of the imagination, so it strengthens the imagination and in turn strengthens memory.
In the initial period of learning to paint, whether using photographs or painting what we observe, the brain gets used to recording images that are then tried to reproduce. This process exercises memory and increases concentration and is beneficial for anyone as well as for patients with memory loss.
7. Emotional Intelligence and Spirituality
Emotions are part of our creative world that we all carry inside, making those emotions flow through painting helps create harmony between the heart and the mind, which leads us to experience happiness, love, empathy and peace. Visualization and relaxation obtained through painting are tools that, applied continuously, can achieve the emotional, organic, energetic and spiritual welfare of the being, even within the chaotic and stressful world in which we live.
The practice of drawing and painting are procedures that demand a certain amount of patience and caution, it teaches us to wait, to listen and to appreciate silence, in short, to have peace, prudence and respect for ourselves and others.
8. Culture and Art Appreciation
Practicing, studying and talking about art creates a better understanding about it, the individual is reflected and motivated by the work of others, which allows him to also be the recipient of this type of communication that dates back to the beginning of humanity.
9. Self knowledge
The knowledge that a person can receive when learning to paint gives him the ability to understand his own Self, both through the aforementioned practices such as exercising patience, visualization, focus, self-esteem, passion ... as well as through the analysis of processes. The order in which the pictorial process, for example, must be carried out to obtain the desired results according to the technique, allows us to understand our personality type, since some techniques demand more patience than others, some are more fluid or more precise, more sensitive than others or freer; They demonstrate our ability to adjust to changing situations, especially if we can jump from one technique to another or are open or not to experimentation. Another example is the freedom that the creative process requires to let go, vibrate and exalt, this teaches us much more about ourselves than many therapy sessions together, if we are, of course, capable of carrying out this self-analysis. Under what conditions are we willing to experience ourselves through painting? How demanding are we with ourselves? Are some of the questions that learning a painting technique can answer.
In addition, if in the study of the portrait or the human figure the student allows himself to connect with the model through empathy (not only the anatomical proportions), he will be able to see himself in others and easily discover himself. It is worth mentioning that this practice brings excellent artistic results with less effort.
10. Fun
Learning how to paint has all the benefits of good entertainment: we laugh, socialize, learn something new, feel motivated to finish what we start, appreciate nature and feel passion for something good..
Art Engagements
Paint with one of our artist. Engage in the process of art as direction is given. As you explore creativity with this avenue of guidance. Meant for all ages of all people. Touch a canvas. This is not spectatorship.