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Our Drum Circles
What is a Drum Circle?
A Drum circle is where people sit in a circle and create music using djembe drums. The rhythm created by the drum beats becomes the focus of attention leading to the motivation to make music together.
Sydney Drum Circles will be based on small groups of 10-12 people.
My slogan is – Feel your beat.
Music Therapy & Our Drums
Drum Therapy is an ancient method that uses rhythm to promote healing, calmness, and self-expression. From the shamans of Mongolia to the tribes of Africa, therapeutic rhythm techniques have been used for thousands of years to create and maintain physical, emotional, social and spiritual health.
A djembe drum is a fun and simple instrument to learn as an individual, but there is more to gain and experience when a group of people is learning together. Every person in the Drum Circle knows to work and play together as a team. As the group creates music together, everyone feels the sound and vibration of the drum.
Benefits of Drumming
Anyone can play the drum. If you can clap your hands, tap your feet, and count, you can play the drum, and there is no need to be able to read music.
Many benefits are achieved by playing the drum!
- Right- and left-hand coordination.
- Balances the right and left hemispheres of the brain, developing motor skills
- Develops hand and eye coordination
- Anger and frustration release
- Offers constructive direction, which encourages focus and self-discipline
- Encourages creative expression and flow of natural rhythm
- Self-confidence
- Teamwork (playing together as a group)
- Enhances well-being, joy and happiness
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Counselling services by appointment
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$100 / 50 minute session
8 - Week Children's Drum Circle Program
Running during school terms
30-minute weekly after school activity
$140.00
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Benefits
The powerful benefits of Drum Circles are:
- regulates our nervous system through rhythm, which calms the body down, bringing them more into the present moment
- It reduces feelings of stress, anxiety, and depression
- It lowers blood pressure
- It helps control chronic pain
- It burns calories
- It boosts brainpower and increases confidence levels
- It improves coordination
- It improves social life and increases overall feelings of happiness
- Develop self-control, patience, and cooperation
Research
Effects of Drumming on Anxiety, Depression and More!
This 10-week study demonstrates that weekly 60-minute group drumming can reduce depression and anxiety and improve social resilience.
10 Health Reasons to Start Drumming
Drumming can have positive effects on your health and may help with many conditions from stress, fatigue, and anxiety, to hypertension, asthma, chronic pain, arthritis, mental illness, addiction, and even cancer.
The Drum Circle – Defined
A drum circle is not a musical, not a practice session. A drum circle has no pre-agreed beat. It starts erratic and full of confusion then manifests into a rhythm.
Corporate Drum Circles
Sydney Drum Circles provide an empowering interactive experience to help engage and unite your team whilst being mindful and fun. Our dynamic team-building sessions are suitable for all types of events, including staff motivation, breaking the ice, corporate wellness, energising staff, or just having fun!
The benefits of Drumming include:
- A boost in energy
- Releases stored tension
- Builds Community
- Motivates your team
- Improves Social Interaction
- Increases Confidence
- Promotes Creative Expression
- Explores Positive Leadership
What is a Drum Circle?
A Drum Circle is where a group of people come together in a circle to connect, have fun and create rhythms using djembe drums and percussion (provided).
A Drum Circle are not performance-based and does not require any musical experience. It’s just about creating and sharing rhythm as you connect with the other 10-12 people in the circle to make music together.
$250 /1hr session
What is a Drum Circle? by Jim Donovan M.Ed.
Community Drum Circles
Sydney Drum Circles provides community drum circles which are facilitated in-the-moment drumming classes aimed at including all players regardless of their experience or expertise.
It is not a drum class, and so only minimal instruction is required or given. Rhythms are made up in-the-moment by group consensus. There are no wrong beats, just opportunities to connect with the group and with the music.
The Drum Circle Facilitator guides the group to their highest musical level, with a series of rhythmic games and interventions. As the group connects with each other the process of drumming creates the outcome of musical rhythm.
A community Drum Circle enables both the advanced and the beginning drummers to play together. Participants experience tremendous freedom to play what they feel, rather than following a complex set of rules.
A Community Drum Circle is suitable for all sorts of occasions, where the focus is on bringing a group of people together, connecting them as a community, and creating a shared musical experience, and having fun.
After School Children’s Drum Circles
Sydney Drum Circles provides a non-competitive, unique after-school activity program in a fun and supportive atmosphere focusing on inspiring creativity, joyful play, and social interaction.
No musical knowledge or drum experience is required. This 30-minute weekly after-school activity is about being mindful of the creative interactive music-making experience created by the group.
Participating in Sydney Drum Circles’ eight-week program will stimulate multiple parts of a child’s brain whilst helping them develop social skills, manners, communication, self-control, emotional intelligence, self-confidence, attention span and listening skills.
Other powerful benefits include:
- Ability to focus inward as well as outward
- Develop self-awareness and self-esteem
- Mastery of breath and movement
- Ability to stay “on task.”
- Improve listening skills
- Increase Frustration Tolerance
- Channel aggressive/destructive impulses into creative and positive activity.