The Healing Power of Drum and Percussion Music (African Drums) Presented by Heritage OP

Healing drum traditions of Africa ("Africa" here includes the Diaspora). Drum music in African traditions has always been a form of alternative medicine, perhaps the oldest form of alternative medicine, long predating the concept of “doctors as separate from the fabric of everyday life and activity”. Drumming in the African tradition has within it rhythmic concepts that sync directly with the body's electrical system, nervous system, and psyche and help to balance and rejuvenate these systems while speaking directly to the organs and energy centers of the body. Drumming at its most basic analysis is heartbeat and pulse strengthening music, but at a closer look much more is revealed, and it may be the most advanced medicinal system known to humankind. Countless rhythms in African traditions have been used for centuries for their known healing effect. - Kevin Nathaniel, Heritage OP.