What if the act of drumming could focus your mind, shift you from stress to presence, and spark playfulness and creativity — while also providing you with a daily meditative practice for accessing Spirit?
Learn specific rhythmic practices that help you stay grounded, merge with your heartbeat, and connect to the pulse of global unity and healing.
Drumming can be a powerful and mesmerizing tool for spiritual awakening, coaxing you into a state of bliss...
... much like a repeated personal mantra that shifts you out of the busy mind and into the flow of the present moment — what’s known as the experiencing network.
According to music therapist Christine Stevens, author of Music Medicine and the founder of UpBeat Drum Circles, “rhythm mantras” on the drum are like mala beads for the mind — repetitive, grounding, and meditative. When you practice, shifts happen quickly — the rhythms soon become effortless and you enter a state where you’re no longer “driving the bus,” but co-creating with Spirit.
Drumming rhythmic patterns — whether you’re pounding a beat on your own body, a bucket, a hand drum, frame drum, or djembe drum — is also one of the easiest ways to make music on your own or with community.
What’s more, playing the drum links you to spiritual wisdom traditions from a variety of different global cultures, connecting you to a deep lineage of healing music makers that goes back centuries — even millennia.
Are you ready to unlock the sacred language of rhythm?
In this inspiring one-hour event, Christine will take you on a rhythmic experiential journey, where you’ll start unlocking the universal language of drumming to access healing, joy, and profound spiritual evolution. (No prior drumming or musical experience needed!)
Adopted by Uncle Manny Eagle Elk Council Pipe in a Making-of-a-Relative Lakota ceremony, Christine has learned drumming from Indigenous masters and primary teachers of West African, Nigerian, Sufi, Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, Egyptian and Native American traditions, and has received permission from her teachers to teach their music.
She’ll bring her decades of expertise and passion for global drumming traditions to guide you in this transformative practice.
With or without a drum of your own, you’ll learn accessible rhythms from around the world — gathered during Christine’s global travels — that will serve to ground you, awaken your natural creativity, and help you find your unique place in the rhythmic symphony of humanity.
Christine will first guide you through a visualization to honor the cultural healing tradition of drumming, grounding you in the moment and helping you access your connection to your heart and Spirit.
She’ll then teach you a simple rhythm to use for active meditation, so you can feel, in the moment, how the repetition of the pattern changes your brain state from thinking to surrendering.
Yet, this event isn’t just a lesson in drumming. It’s an opportunity to feel the joy of creation, the peace of connection, and the power of a unified beat. Through Christine’s expert guidance, you’ll discover how drumming can be a tool for relaxation, a means of self-expression, and a bridge to spiritual awakening and evolution.
By the end of the hour, you’re bound to notice a shift in your mood and energy through the shared power of rhythm. Expect to reconnect with your sense of play and creativity while contributing to a global rhythm prayer that unites the collective.
