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Benefits of mindfulness
Benefits of mindfulness
Benefits of mindfulness
The benefits of mindfulness meditation and the attitudes it cultivates are vast and the science behind it is ever-growing. Mindfulness not only positively impacts attention, it can help improve cognition, emotions, physiology and even behavior. Mindfulness meditation produces practical benefits that can be applied to your family, social groups, and work relationships.
Benefits of drumming
Benefits of mindfulness
Benefits of mindfulness
Drumming can provide a unique terrain for individuals to experience themselves within a group dynamic. It promotes listening, respect, awareness of interdependence, and perspective on the tools mindfulness, controlled breathing, and guided visualization provide. Our unique approach to group drumming is a vehicle for insights that can be used in everyday life.
Benefits of controlled breathing
Benefits of controlled breathing
Benefits of controlled breathing
Pranayama Is a yogic system of controlled breathing designed to improve concentration, creativity, cognition, relaxation, and increased control of mental function. Through controlled breathing one can improve capacity of the lungs, which can increase oxygen into the bloodstream for optimal muscle and brain function. Our system of controlled breathing applied to drumming in groups promotes team building and a direct awareness of the life-force generated by breath.
Benefits of guided visualizations
Benefits of controlled breathing
Benefits of controlled breathing
Guided visualizations can provide the bridge for the conscious mind to become familiar with new neural pathways that promote desired future results and more beneficial relationships to the stories that our brain replays.. It's a way to re-wire the the subconscious mind through the imagination so that the conscious mind has an alternate path to travel on. Drumming and music can directly assist in this process by inducing trance states where communication with unconscious states of mind are optimal.
Facilitators
Shannon O'Brien
Shannon O'Brien
Shannon O'Brien
Shannon O'Brien is a certified mindfulness meditation teacher, yogi, composer, and multi-instrumentalist. He has written and performed for dance, theater, African ensembles, rock bands, and orchestral ensembles across the country. Shannon created Meditative Drumming Workshops to help bridge principles of "mindfulness meditation" into pr
Shannon O'Brien is a certified mindfulness meditation teacher, yogi, composer, and multi-instrumentalist. He has written and performed for dance, theater, African ensembles, rock bands, and orchestral ensembles across the country. Shannon created Meditative Drumming Workshops to help bridge principles of "mindfulness meditation" into practical examples that could be applied and understood within a group context.
Leah Bowden
Shannon O'Brien
Shannon O'Brien
Leah Bowden is a percussionist and music scholar from California. She has performed, toured or recorded with red fish blue fish, William Winant Percussion Group, Bang on A Can All Stars, International Contemporary Ensemble, Kid Millions, Anthony Davis, Steven Schick, Nicole Mitchell, Secret Drum Band, Baby Bushka, among others. She is the
Leah Bowden is a percussionist and music scholar from California. She has performed, toured or recorded with red fish blue fish, William Winant Percussion Group, Bang on A Can All Stars, International Contemporary Ensemble, Kid Millions, Anthony Davis, Steven Schick, Nicole Mitchell, Secret Drum Band, Baby Bushka, among others. She is the author of Max Roach and M’Boom: Diasporic Soundings in American Percussion Music (UC San Diego, 2018). Ms. Bowden is also an occasional contributor to Tom Tom Magazine. She is Acting Director of The Warren Smith Archives project (Harlem, New York). Leah and her husband Philip own a small farm and music studio in Conway, MA.
Talia Morrison
Talia Morrison
Talia Morrison
Talia Morrison is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (MA, LMFT, 2014), currently practicing as a Program Manager for the Specialized Wraparound Program at Fred Finch Youth & Family Services in San Diego, California.
Ben Noyes
Talia Morrison
Talia Morrison
Ben Noyes is a professional musician, composer, and cellist. He performs solo concerts and with ensembles around the country. Ben actively practices multiple modalities of breath work and meditation. He resides in Portland, ME with his daughter where he maintains a private teaching studio.