Music Therapy/Wellness

With a venerable history as a healing art, it’s no surprise that scientists are now finding measurable positive immune system changes following one-hour drumming sessions. With The Healing Drum Kit, internationally acclaimed music therapist Christine Stevens shows you how to use the art of drumming to ignite your creativity, release tension and anxiety, exercise the body, and communicate with a power beyond words. The Healing Drum Kit includes:

“I have personally experienced Christine’s work. It’s inspirational and healing.” —Bernie Siegel, M.D.

“I highly recommend this work to my colleagues in the health and wellness fields and to anyone who just wants to feel good and have fun.” —Jeffrey Ritterman, M.D., Director of Cardiology, Kaiser Permanente

“The Healing Drum Kit is the new roadmap, complete with all the essential ingredients for a lifetime of rhythmic joy. A major work filled with love which gives the enthusiast an inside track to the secret and mysterious world of the rhythmic arts. A must have for beginners and professionals alike.” —Mickey Hart

$54.95 USD

• A quality 10" REMO™ frame drum
• 24 Rhythm Cards featuring World Rhythms from Africa to Japan; Life Rhythms for whole-body healing; and Spirit Rhythms that liberate creative energy
• 2 CDs of music for solo play or “drum circle jams”
• Spiral-bound study guide with scientific evidence on drumming for wellness, drum blessings from various traditions, playing tips, resources for starting a drum circle, and more...

  $54.95 USD

  

Connects people through rhythm, laughter, and awareness - Coy Theobolt True North Training and Consulting

Body Beat is an innovative card deck for educational, recreational, and corporate groups. The 36 sound cards can be used to make six different games for anywhere from 4 to 70 people. There are SURPRISE cards that will get your group loosened up, like the "Go Wild" cards. There are also some SERIOUS cards that will give the rebels a responsible role, like the "Beat Keeper" cards.

Body Beat does not require any musical experience. In fact, there are no notes or time signatures to read. The five simple body percussion sounds make different rhythms that sound GREAT together and inspire your group to groove.

Each card uses five body percussion sounds:

• Snap (your fingers)

• Clap (your hands)

• Whap (your belly)

• Lap (tap your lap)

• Tap (your feet.)

$19.95     $19.95

Inspire your group to groove!

Vision

UpBeat Drum Circles was founded on the principle that music should be valued not only as a mode of entertainment, but as an active methodology for achieving change in individuals, teams and communities. We use drums because they are the most accessible instrument. Everyone can drum. Our programs are aimed at creating a musically accessible culture, where musical expression is seen as a tool for personal transformation and development. (see Creating a Musically Accessible Culture).

Purpose

We believe that today’s world has a need for innovative programs to help us respect differences, work together at our highest potential, and create health and balance in our personal lives. We have researched the recipe for possible change and discovered that a successful program combines the following key elements…

• Experiential learning.
• Expression.
• Communication.
• Fun.
• Stress-reduction
• Metaphors for Change
• Reflection
• Challenge

The drum circle adds a key ingredient, creating an experience in collaborative creativity that is as old as the first tribes that sat in circles while drumming and chanting to achieve a higher state of community and individual expression. Our mission is to weave together ancient wisdom and practice of music making with the modern knowledge of human development.

Part of the UpBeat Philosophy is that everyone is musical!

www.ubdrumcircles.com

Drums somehow overcome all the things that stop people from making music.
We may turn away, but the primal beat just keeps on calling."

- Christine Stevens, Fort Collins Forum
 

Much More Information at:

www.ubdrumcircles.com

A Recreational Music-Making Program

HealthRHYTHMS is a new division within Remo Inc. that develops and provides materials, programs, training and the latest research supporting the use of drumming as an effective means for promoting and maintaining health and well-being.

Alongside Traditional Medicine

Our efforts are intended to serve as the impetus for hospitals, clinics, rehabilitation centers, senior centers, nursing homes and insurers to integrate group drumming as a valuable intervention within traditional medicine. These organizations have an exceptional opportunity to offer a unique activity that combines proven health-promoting strategies including self-expression, group support, nurturing, exercise, stress reduction and of course, music making.

Biological Benefits of Drumming

HealthRHYTHMS is on the forefront of establishing a solid foundation for proving the biological benefits of drumming. Neurologist Barry Bittman, M.D. and his renowned research team discovered that a specific group drumming approach significantly increased the disease fighting activity of circulating white blood cells (Natural Killer cells) that seek out and destroy cancer cells and virally-infected cells. Along with conventional medical strategies, Dr. Bittman includes group drumming in all of his disease-based programs at the Mind-Body Wellness Center.

"It's time to stop thinking of the drum as just a musical instrument. Start thinking of it as a unifying tool for every family, a wellness tool for every retiree, and an educational tool for every classroom."

Remo Belli
Founder & CEO
Remo Inc.

For much more information on this wonderful program visit:

http://www.remo.com/portal/pages/health_rhythms/index.html

Remo Inc.
28101 Industry Drive
Valencia, CA 91355
Tel: 661-294-5600