About Us
We Are "Legend" : Legend Drum Circles (LDC)
Welcome!
Blessed, Peaceful Day to You!
To all current "Drum Circlers", Thank You for contributing your energies, enhancing the joys of Drum Circle Experiences everywhere. To those of you who have not, as yet, experienced a "Circle", we'd like to familiarize you a bit with some of its fundamentals,
as well as its attributes of well-being.
What a Drum Circle is: A gathering of people "playing" together musically, (generally, gathered together in the configuration of a circle). We create a common music, and seek to intentionally contribute and build upon "the good that it feels". Drums are THE primary instrument. Other instruments are often brought to the Circle, as well. Some folks dance. Some folks sing & clap, etc. There is laughter there, and lots of smiles as we summon our peace elations from within, and seek to open and receive a release in the delight of replacing that which stresses. All together, there's a Joy that's reached-for by the community who gathers; and, an energy of encouragement toward the letting go of that which no longer positively serves. Of our many affirming goals, gaining a greater confidence to express our often dormant, nobler inhibitions of the heart, seems to stand out as a united and consistent focus of our circle collectives.
Each circle can feel different depending on the diversity of those gathered; depending upon the possible theme & purpose within the benevolent passions of the group; depending upon The Circle's facilitator & guides ; and...upon the myriad influential energies that each of us consciously, and subconsciously carry as we "participate our play" within the unique environments of each circle gathering .
For those of you who have, indeed, had at least one Drum Circle experience "under your belt", we say, "Congratulations!". Allowing yourself to be engulfed by these rhythms & energies that are potentially able to lift the Spirit, is a tribute to your willingness to experiment with and delve into a simple method to assist your efforts toward more positive expansion within your own personal Life Journey. And, it is "a willingness to do so" that forms the initial step in consciousness; the seed necessary toward realizing its inherent liberating and unifying sense of self awareness, autonomy & community, all at once.
The "Legend of Our Best Selves" is the ever unfolding journey of our personal realities- from deep intrinsic mental visions born to unveil toward our becoming the increasingly clearer manifestations of our most heartfelt desires of "Being-ness". It is the tickling, growing perfection of a familiar Loving Person that we sense within ourselves, (and seek after from within), whose potentials surface more & more from out of our inner depths into our waking realities.
We hold that the positive energy inherent in every Individual's Unique Inner Rhythm (One's Intrinsic Rhythm of Soul) joined to the positive collective energies of a drumming Community of like purpose, can help to pulse a new, ever more joyful, perpetually more realized
Self and Community forward!
Blessings.
peace...b U
(Edited Copyright 2024 Brian Johnson Publishing)
The Drum Circle
All of the stories that we tell ourselves about Life (all of the ways that we’ve defined It), are in a sense addictions. They are set habits of perception, applied to each Life circumstance by our sensory interpretations which are played out over & over again, daily. We are all aware that for both the individual and the collective, perceptions typically change in a natural manor as we evolve to view Life from different standpoints. The most obvious example of this is how one’s thinking changes as one grows much older.
Our perceptions, (or impressions of Life) resonate like habitual rhythms within/upon consciousness. And, although these generally shift and change over time, (as mentioned), dynamic experiences can facilitate great, rapid, long term, (and at times), immediate change.
Drumming can be such a dynamic. The rhythms can resonate within each participant in such a way that perceptions can shift, open and free us...our old, heretofore,
locked-in, undesirable habits...no longer.
The pulse of a drumming circle can be an uniquely infectious experience that places each participant more "in the now". This can affectively introduce transitional portals of other potentials in consciousness, fostering different and brighter perspectives. Being in the now without thoughts of past or future ...playing and/or merely listening to and feeling the rhythms of the moment, one can advance within the present energies of the greater dynamics of more positive intent potentials of the moment (even for just a moment), to lift beyond the boundaries of habitual, familiar and perhaps detrimental emotions & practices of the past that are thought, also, to eventually occupy our futures.
Drums can facilitate a brighter outlook that is generally more open and welcoming of Life- like our favorite parties and the music being played thereat. And as such, drumming can provide an elevated consciousness and atmosphere that, characteristically, vibrates more rapidly, and therefore, more openly, and therefore more freely. The more rapid or elevated the vibration, the more Light becomes evident in, both, personal consciousness & atmospheres as inhibitions lose their hold as a familiar consciousness, and inner freedom becomes a witnessed outer experience.
This is not a matter of mere tempo, but rather, one of energetic openness to JOY- good feelings - experienced as the "light vibrations" of an inner pulse of consciousness that seeks to replace, transmute any sense of paralyzing inner density. This "filament" of Light, (if you will) ironically offers, in its dynamic yet fundamental vibratory delicacy, an inner shift of awareness that has the potential to de-compress a consciousness once held to the denser pressures of limited perspectives; perspectives that have, perhaps, corralled and fed off of old "past-tense" currently un-serving ideas within; a former density of inner experience that had not allowed one's Spirit to progress unstressed and liberated enough to move forward and upward sence, free to seek and experience life more wisely, and at a greater peace. This order to rediscover
Life's ease of being-ness anew.
Applications of Rhythmic Opening
In my "Life Practice", I examine from deeper within each day, my ways of inharmonious thinking & "un-joy-filled" feelings that I come to realize may no longer serve me. I, through this "evaluative" seeking & finding set a new intention and allow those outdated aspects of myself to come forward more consciously up and out before me, and then away from me. Ironically, these "outdated life responses" once released, dissipate with an accompanying sense of JOY that, surprisingly I experience much as an ethereal reward for my efforts; and, the Joy comes with heightened expectations of "something newer" to be ever realized, that I've finally allowed myself to experience as the growth of myself.
Joy, now, feels like a perpetual Treasure of Life Gold (i.e.- an evolving, gratifying self awareness) that I discover to be infinitely more precious than money, or any other desires that must pale in result and value of experience.
What ever "It" was or is that would obstruct this Joy, I Acknowledge It, I Accept It as having been a real historic part of ME. And, now, I come to realize and pour my Love unto and throughout It, in the desire to consume, remove, transmute, dissolve...and replace "IT" by the power of Love that I choose to bestow upon the self of my "hard" actions to become more subtle of Life within the bowels of My Greater & Nobler Intent.
I grow beyond "It" to become more Joy-filled and enveloped within this liberation. And, I find that my previous levels of discord had served well as challenges baiting me to reach for more virtuous and satisfying aspects of Life Purpose. We do, indeed, have the capacity to draw Greater and Nobler Presence from within ourselves, for from where else could such personal transformation come? Inner perfections must be present there, (within us), like Kingdoms of most desirable potentials and possibilities to be evoked. For me, and fore Us All, it is a Greater Love
to be summoned and, hence, experienced and shared as an evolving Beautiful Self.
This personal, evolving habitual process is My Life Time Addiction of purpose. It is the rhythm of My Life that perpetually serves to seek to nourish My Entire Being with the greatest wisdom that previous mistakes of growth have taught.
Joy of Drumming
We drum to meditatively, (both, consciously and sub-consciously), feed and celebrate this process. The Drum (drumming) is recognized by our bodies' endorphins as an assistant in the potentials that bring such “Good Feelings” of Joy to the fore.
(Dr. Robert Lawrence Friedman, "The Healing Power of The Drum")
Perhaps it's surprising that drum resonance can be realized as an impressive tool to assist in this task. Yet, It has been proven that, (generally), there’s a shift that naturally takes place in awareness when one hears and feels a drum’s inviting pulse.
Historically, there’s been a sub-conscious draw and need for people intrinsic to lands throughout the world to gather together and express in Drum Circle fashion. (This propensity still plays out in “so-called” sophisticated cultures today as parties and other social gatherings where we interact, “feast”, listen/play music and dance). It is a phenomena natural to humanity the world over. It is fundamentally tribal and inbred by nature to help invoke, solidify and properly advance all aspects of the individual self & communities in a wise and healthy way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLeRKoHynQQ
For instance, at the end of a day’s experience, indigenous peoples the world over have been joining together to celebrate their connection to Life- to nature and to each other- in this manner. The drumming practices & their affects are inseparable positive aspects of their Life-Cultures. Studies reveal a remarkable level of communal joy & happiness within groups who continue to gather together in this fashion as a tradition, even in the throws of great scarcities and other adversities. These practices continue to foster the Historical, Ancestral Progenitive Energies of purposeful living, regardless of, and especially in the face of adverse circumstance.
https://www.indigenousbc.com/stories/the-drum-heartbeat-of-our-indigenous-cultures/
Such positive connections to family and community can help to provide a better outlook- a perspective of Life that is absent of, or (at the very least) decreases the need for self-abusive addictions and our gravitations toward inordinate isolation and/or destructive communities.
We all, certainly need positive community influence. We all know that a great support foundation centered around such gatherings can thwart the potentials that might detrimentally alter one’s Life experience. As a result, such foundations can sustain, return, or bring one closer to the very happiness & inner satisfaction that can be the tonics of Drum Circle regularity.
Initially, we measure our better life experiences by our sensory responses to natural settings that benefit us via a familiar and genuine natural "sense of care". Our conception within our Mother’s wombs marks our base familiarity with syncopated pulse (heart beat), and therein lies a conscious/sub-conscious bridge of protection and sustenance, and thus, represents an intrinsic vibratory introduction to Life’s feelings & sounds as security. LDC joins the communities of so many others who hold that Drums remain a significant tool and aspect of this benefit as purpose; an instrument of primordial resonance facilitating a fundamentally syncopated, sub-consciously familiar path toward health, protection and life maintenance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tUcHWIU5FY&t=139s
In todays’ world, the bi-polar experiences of us all- that is, the extremes of our perceptions of Life's dualities- find us at various ranges of understanding. These are our cycles, our formats (if you will) for living in our individual worlds, collectively. They represent our sub-conscious go-to comfort zones where circumstances are concerned; where validations of ones perceptions can be found with the many who may be of like mind. And these become our normal ways of Life- our addictions as it were, as learned, reenforced responses- what we cling to, or look for within ourselves and within others that brings comfort to our abilities to cope with daily events. Should we find no satisfaction in these familiar paradigms, we may seek other ways to adapt once a certain discordant feeling is triggered . We may seek other ways of satisfying and/or quelling the fundamental drives & needs, fears and anxieties with hopes that "some-thing" might help to bring us back to "center" and enhance our coping abilities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYG2BrrzY54&t=38s
If we are very far away from center, the drum (in particular), along with other advised activities & clinical therapeutic approaches, can help to re-establish a central pulse (if you will) - a medium of assistance to help return us toward “plumb”.
Drumming, therefore, holds the simple potential to affectively assist participants to return to “a now moment”; to a centered, more balanced space within. Like a favorite song, Drum Circle energies can often absorb and relieve the pulls and the tensions we hold in dealing with duality consciousness - our daily internal & external conflict experiences, often attributed to the stresses & imbalances of perspective. We "grow" our better moments as we seek and allow the potential of rhythms to shed these off-centered stresses, like steady heart beats, helping us to gain greater states of homeostasis and, perhaps, develop a new median consciousness where natural euphoria holds the more dominate, balanced, involuntary, and magnetically attractive space of experience.
Legend Drum Circles is Joyfully compelled to facilitate, and to foster Humanity's intent toward a greater sense of Happiness and personal centered Integrity, all affirmed and supported by the groups of Drum Circle Gatherers who share this intention as an embracing-community-activity; Who seek to expand the inherent Love and Liberty within each of our moments as "self" & community.
peace...b U,
Brian
(Edited Copyright 2024 Brian Johnson Publishing)
GOOD VIBRATIONS
The INTENT:
Freedom, Joy, Empowerment...
these and all other Healing, Virtuous Components of LOVE!
Legend Drum Circles seeks to help to release our personal constrictions by creating a non-judgmental “nest” for free & moral expression and camaraderie. And although we offer facilitations to assist this basic process, it is the rhythm of the drums that do the work, coupled with the energy inherent within the collective intent of all who gather.
All who "play" within the circle eventually become the true, self-realized facilitators of their own freedoms of expression, empowerment, Joy, fun, therapy, healing, and connection with others.
Legend Drum Circles has been hoonored to service Addiction Clinics, Nursing Homes (and their various levels of community), public and private primary and secondary schools, universities, special events, and corporate motivational team building workshops and seminars...
all toward this intent.
Blessings & Good Vibrations,
from
The Legend Drum Circles Family
peace...b U
B LuV,
Brian K. Johnson, Sr.
(Lead Facilitator)