Shamanic Journey Drumming CD

Shamanic drumming can offer a relatively easy induction into altered states. The technique which has been used so extensively by indigenous people going back to Neolithic times, uses a single, repetitive rhythm played at a tempo of some three to four beats per second. The constant striking of the drum produces a repetitive and monotonous beat pattern. The various frequencies of the drum interact with our own resonant frequencies.

Its gentle calming resonance promotes relaxation and the release of endorphins into the body. This can help to release blocked emotional patterns, synchronize the left and right hemispheres of the brain, and stimulate alpha and theta brain wave cycles.

Physiologically, our response to the alpha state is often a deep physical relaxation which comes over us and we experience a dreamy, daydream-like state of being. The theta brain wave is experienced as the deep dreaming state. These deep states of relaxation are the doorway to enter the land of imagination and non ordinary reality which is the terrain of exploration while doing journeywork.

This drumming CD offers continuous drumming with the call back on a separate track that you can use for extended styles of journeywork and guided visualizations.