Healing Drums with Def Leppards Rock star drummer Rick Allen

Good Day to all Braveheart women today! Is everyone getting excited for RISE!

I know I am and its going to be so much fun !

I have been blessed to attend a few really powerful and healing drum circles over the last couple of years. By far the most powerful one was outside in the Colorado mountains watching the moon rise over the mountain and after an amazing release. The rain began to drizzle over us and give purity and confirmation that we were in the right place at the right time.

Our own braveheart woman, Intuitive girl, Ms. Joan Marie Whelen was the speaker who had just done an emotional exercise about the power of forgiveness at Dr.Sugars Retreat for couples this past July. You may have read some of the blogs about this event.... This is where Dr. Lana Ford flew in with her drum along with Joan Marie and wow….wow..WOW... it was a powerful weekend for all in attendance.

Ok - here is a little trivia...I don't know how many of you know this... but Dr. Sugar is an awesome drummer. Put her behind a drum set and you will see a whole different side of her. She ROCKS... so anyways it was only fitting that she incorporate the healing of a drum circle at one of her retreats... and I am here to say... it was powerful stuff.

SO as I look forward to attending RISE and I am beginning to wonder what Thursday nights grand drumming is going to be like and I can't help but get excited!

So….My husband is reading Sundays paper and comes across a full page in the Arts & Leisure section of our local paper and says to me “Babe here is a great blog for Lana”!

How many of you rocked out or jammed to Def Leppard….Well I am an 80’s girl and back in the day I thought I was a rock star ….Well Rick Allen, the drummer for rock band Def Leppard and his wife Lauren Monroe started and founded the Raven Drum Foundation with hopes of helping veterans and their family’s.

Rick lost his arm in an auto accident in 1984 and it was his drumming that helped him recover. Rick does not use a prosthetic. He had to make a decision to continue what he loved or give up. He said. “I started to experience drumming in a different way”

Rick learned an African drum prayer----an ancient prayer. “That connected me to drumming in a new way” It is this ancient and healing drumming that Allen shares with soldiers participating in the Raven Drum Foundations Resiliency program that also provides guided imagery, breathing, and sharing.

Ricks wife Lauren Monroe began practicing and teaching energy healing 13 years ago….I say we find her and have her become a braveheart women!!!! Their story is about 9 more pages but I will end here!

Drumming is becoming more and more visible and drum circles are becoming more and more recognized for their powerful role in healing.
Remember as with so many things... IT IS what you do with it THAT MATTERS!
Have a drumming GOOD day.
I look forward to DRUMMING with you at RISE!
With Hope, Courage & Divinity,
Lisa