Post by mikilangela on Feb 15, 2006 17:45:06 GMT
Reiki Drumming Healing sessions combine Shamanic Drumming with the symbols of Reiki for a deep physical healing. The client lays, fully-clothed, on the treatment table. The intention is set for the session. As the client focuses on the affirmation, the Reiki Drumming Practitioner intuitively beats the drum over top of their body, chanting, toning, and using the Reiki Symbols. There is a processing period after the Reiki Drumming Session.
During Drum Journeying Sessions, the Reiki Drumming Practitioner facilitates a journey for their client. While circling round the table, the drummer keeps a steady beat while the client focuses on an issue to be healed. The issue is re-visited through imagination, re-invented through intention, healed, and then let go of during their journey. There is a processing period after the journey.
Earth-based healing, such as drumming, has been around for millennia. Sound Healing, in particular, has an immediate effect upon each and every cell of the body. Often, long-standing physical and emotional issues can be released through the beat of the drum. It is relaxing as well as cathartic.
Basic Reiki Drumming
The benefits of Reiki drumming occur in many dimensions and at many levels. The molecular vibration of participants is enhanced, and this vibration is passed on. The immediate effect of the sound waves tends to shake things up a bit, but also pulls the vibration of surrounding objects towards the steady pulse of the drums. Sound energy is powerful, and attaching Reiki energy to the sound waves is even more powerful.
Reiki drumming is best practiced using a drum that creates a low resonant vibration. Most commonly used are round flat drums with strings on the back. These types of drums are called buffalo drums, medicine drums or shamanic drums. One hand holds the drum by the strings, and the other hand holds a mallet and beats the drum. By striking a consistently paced rhythm, a growing sound wave is formed, rippling like waves in a pond. Once the drumbeat is steady enough, the drum will begin to hum continuously, even between the beats.
For all participants, the sound of drumming is very healing. Everyone tends to balance his or her personal vibration, and then to harmoniously join with the group energy. The result is that each person leaves the circle in a more balanced condition, having been enhanced by the group energy, and yet not taking energy from anyone else. While Reiki drumming, a connection is made to the abundant universal energy, the planet is enhanced, and each participant gets a boost.
The most important thing to remember about Reiki drumming, as with any Reiki session, is that energy follows intent. If the intention of the drummer is to create a balanced center emanating healing waves, then it shall be so. The steady rhythm of the drumbeat is self-manifesting, as each beat opens the potential for the next one. In addition, the resonating sound helps smooth, carry and amplify healing energy.
Levels of Reiki Drumming
There are three aspects of Reiki drumming to consider, with each aspect dependent upon the number of participants. In any of these scenarios, the same basic concepts apply. The intention is create a rhythmic pulse of sound, and to channel Reiki energy through the drum, allowing the sound waves to carry and amplify the healing pulse.
The first level involves drumming alone, and learning your own harmonious vibration. Begin with the heartbeat sound (lub-lub, lub-lub) and continue at an even pace. The speed of the beat should be adjusted until it feels right, and until the drum carries a constant humming vibration. When played properly, a drum makes more sound than just the drumbeat. As you drum, relax into a meditative state and find your balance.
The second level involves applied healing through drumming, and learning how to direct healing energy to a recipient. Once the first level has been practiced and absorbed, the healer will easily move into healing mode at the suggestion of the drum. At that point, he/she learns how to send Reiki energy out through the drum, and this can be directed at a recipient, just like any other Reiki session. The recipient is encouraged to relax by the rhythmic sound of the drum, and is also presented with enhanced healing energy to absorb as desired.
Level three involves drumming in a circle of Reiki practitioners, and learning to create a harmonious energy pulse. The initiator (I prefer this term to 'leader', as all in a drum circle are equal) starts with a steady rhythm, and the others join in when they are ready. Soon, the group will be drumming a consistent beat, and though the individual strokes may not be exact, a harmonious sound is created. Most drummers find their energy increased as harmony occurs, and they drum even more enthusiastically. Once group harmony has been achieved, try walking clockwise in a circle as you drum, creating a vortex of sound and energy.
Practice in any of the levels enhances work at all of the levels. One does not graduate and leave knowledge behind, but instead incorporates skills and feelings into future activities. We all carry a drumbeat within, and Reiki drumming allows us to enhance that drumbeat and send it to the world.
During Drum Journeying Sessions, the Reiki Drumming Practitioner facilitates a journey for their client. While circling round the table, the drummer keeps a steady beat while the client focuses on an issue to be healed. The issue is re-visited through imagination, re-invented through intention, healed, and then let go of during their journey. There is a processing period after the journey.
Earth-based healing, such as drumming, has been around for millennia. Sound Healing, in particular, has an immediate effect upon each and every cell of the body. Often, long-standing physical and emotional issues can be released through the beat of the drum. It is relaxing as well as cathartic.
Basic Reiki Drumming
The benefits of Reiki drumming occur in many dimensions and at many levels. The molecular vibration of participants is enhanced, and this vibration is passed on. The immediate effect of the sound waves tends to shake things up a bit, but also pulls the vibration of surrounding objects towards the steady pulse of the drums. Sound energy is powerful, and attaching Reiki energy to the sound waves is even more powerful.
Reiki drumming is best practiced using a drum that creates a low resonant vibration. Most commonly used are round flat drums with strings on the back. These types of drums are called buffalo drums, medicine drums or shamanic drums. One hand holds the drum by the strings, and the other hand holds a mallet and beats the drum. By striking a consistently paced rhythm, a growing sound wave is formed, rippling like waves in a pond. Once the drumbeat is steady enough, the drum will begin to hum continuously, even between the beats.
For all participants, the sound of drumming is very healing. Everyone tends to balance his or her personal vibration, and then to harmoniously join with the group energy. The result is that each person leaves the circle in a more balanced condition, having been enhanced by the group energy, and yet not taking energy from anyone else. While Reiki drumming, a connection is made to the abundant universal energy, the planet is enhanced, and each participant gets a boost.
The most important thing to remember about Reiki drumming, as with any Reiki session, is that energy follows intent. If the intention of the drummer is to create a balanced center emanating healing waves, then it shall be so. The steady rhythm of the drumbeat is self-manifesting, as each beat opens the potential for the next one. In addition, the resonating sound helps smooth, carry and amplify healing energy.
Levels of Reiki Drumming
There are three aspects of Reiki drumming to consider, with each aspect dependent upon the number of participants. In any of these scenarios, the same basic concepts apply. The intention is create a rhythmic pulse of sound, and to channel Reiki energy through the drum, allowing the sound waves to carry and amplify the healing pulse.
The first level involves drumming alone, and learning your own harmonious vibration. Begin with the heartbeat sound (lub-lub, lub-lub) and continue at an even pace. The speed of the beat should be adjusted until it feels right, and until the drum carries a constant humming vibration. When played properly, a drum makes more sound than just the drumbeat. As you drum, relax into a meditative state and find your balance.
The second level involves applied healing through drumming, and learning how to direct healing energy to a recipient. Once the first level has been practiced and absorbed, the healer will easily move into healing mode at the suggestion of the drum. At that point, he/she learns how to send Reiki energy out through the drum, and this can be directed at a recipient, just like any other Reiki session. The recipient is encouraged to relax by the rhythmic sound of the drum, and is also presented with enhanced healing energy to absorb as desired.
Level three involves drumming in a circle of Reiki practitioners, and learning to create a harmonious energy pulse. The initiator (I prefer this term to 'leader', as all in a drum circle are equal) starts with a steady rhythm, and the others join in when they are ready. Soon, the group will be drumming a consistent beat, and though the individual strokes may not be exact, a harmonious sound is created. Most drummers find their energy increased as harmony occurs, and they drum even more enthusiastically. Once group harmony has been achieved, try walking clockwise in a circle as you drum, creating a vortex of sound and energy.
Practice in any of the levels enhances work at all of the levels. One does not graduate and leave knowledge behind, but instead incorporates skills and feelings into future activities. We all carry a drumbeat within, and Reiki drumming allows us to enhance that drumbeat and send it to the world.