Medicine Drum & Restorative Yoga

Medicine Drum I sometimes use my beautiful medicine drum during restorative Yoga practice, drumming a simple heartbeat at the heart centre, either on the front or back of the body. Using the medicine drum at the heart centre can assist the opening of our heart, it pulls our awareness away from our thinking mind and into our feeling heart, our home of deep connection and consciousness. Drum healing relies on the natural law of resonance to restore the vibrational integrity of the body, Many shamanic cultures use a healing heartbeat rhythm pulsed at around sixty beats per minute, which is the average heart rate of a person at rest, so you see, it makes perfect sense to use the wisdom of the drum during a restorative Yoga session.

“We vibrate to that primordial rhythm even before we have ears to hear…We vibrate to the rhythms of our mother´s blood before she herself is born.And this pulse is the thread of blood that runs all the way back through the grandmothers to the first mother.” Layne Redmond