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Nakaia Wellness Center Explores Healing Power of Drumming

On May 6th, from 4:30-7:30pm at the Nakaia Wellness Center (www.nakaia.com) in Stow, Ohio, a drumming and dancing event will take place, complete with pot-luck break and plenty of energetic fun! The drumming begins at 5pm, pot-luck at 6pm, and drumming mixed with dancing will continue after dinner. For more info, contact Brandi Timberlake at brandi@nakaia.com.

The Wellness Center, 3984 Kent Road (#330-686-2979), is a perfect place to experience the healing power of drums and drumming. It offers a range of healing-arts activities (Reiki, Hypnotherapy, energy balancing), classes (bellydancing, yoga, drumming), groups ("Empowering Women", "Community Healing"), and workshops ("Beginning Meditation", "Smoking Cessation").

The Center offers "Path of the Drum" workshops, whose goals include stress-reduction, an increase in immune defenses, powerful experiences of connection with a group, opportunities to creatively self express, a fun way to relax, and release and rejuvenation of mind, body, and spirit.

According to their website:

Sound has been used effectively by many of the world's spiritual traditions to alter consciousness or heal the body. Mantras, prayers, and chants all generate a pattern of energy that calms the mind and rebalances the body. Studies show that repetitive sound transforms the alpha and beta wave patterns in the brain into theta waves that facilitate relaxation and creativity.

Recent studies suggest that therapeutic drumming increases immune system function, controls pain, relieves stress, and has been successful in treating serious conditions such as substance abuse, alcoholism, AIDS, adrenal failure, high blood pressure and cancer. Research also suggests that therapeutic drumming is also effective for treating emotional challenges such as depression, anger, and anxiety.

Sound has also been used as an effective tool for opening the body's various energy meridians and chakras. Much of the power of sound lies in its rhythm or cyclical beat because the physical body seems to be sensitive to cyclical rhythms . The sound of one rhythm may invoke feelings of euphoria; the sound of another may provoke fear. By altering rhythms or beats, sound can effectively create or alter emotions.

Trance drumming creates a vibrational energy field that brings the mind, body, emotions, and psyche of an individual or group into harmony. It brings the self into harmony with all living things, and enhances awareness and well being.

Alex Wedmedyk is a facilitator of self-healing and spiritual growth workshops, using the power of rhythm. He is a Master Drummaker, Drummer, Workshop Facilitator, and Craftsman, who relates to a wide range of human experience. He connects with compassion and deep understanding to the struggles and challenges of everyday life with a proactive, simple, solution-oriented methodology.

He integrates the powerful methods of shamanism, with ecstatic trance rhythms as well as rhythms for fun-fulfillment. In this "Rhythmical Attunement" process, Alex uses sound therapy (Cymatics) to help people shed old patterns of ill health, dissatisfaction and dysfunction and realign their energy patterns to create a new healthy more complete self. "Our inner strengths and outer powers are directly related to how well we move through our lives in rhythm."

The workshops happen every Tuesday from 7:15 to 8:30 p.m. Cost: $15 for 1 class or $40 for the month. Contact Alex at alex@nakaia.com.


 

 

 

 

 

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