{"id":1149,"date":"2023-07-21T00:30:13","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T23:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soulreflection.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1149"},"modified":"2023-07-21T00:30:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T23:30:13","slug":"when-the-drummers-were-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/soulreflection.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/1149","title":{"rendered":"When The Drummers Were Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">This book falls in two parts for me. The first is a little disappointment. I found it a bit dry and would have preferred more anecdotal or even mythical stories rather than a catalogue of historical references. Added to that I think the object of highlighting feminine power and spirituality connected to drumming, whilst worthy and valid, felt over inflated when matriarchy was lauded and patriarchy demonised. Off balance, to sum it up.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">However, the richness of the topic itself helps to override my critique and having had my own experience playing a frame drum and, without any context or lead in, found myself transported to my ancestral lineage, there is certainly more power in the energy of drumming than solely the creation of simple music.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">With the renewed call for sound healings, gong baths and the like, added to my own dive into the possibility of sound and vibration being the uber technology that could have been the core power behind previous advanced civilisations, there is unquestionably a theme energetically.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Connecting to our vibrations and nature\u2019s, whether to influence weather, call a swarm of bees, heal wounds or cut rock, reveals an untapped and unresourced power yearning to be released. I feel society is heading back to reclaiming it all and I\u2019m thankful and excited for that.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">And I wouldn\u2019t mind finding my own frame drum along the way\u2026\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">First published on social media on 22nd May 2023<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book falls in two parts for me. The first is a little disappointment. I found it a bit dry and would have preferred more anecdotal or even mythical stories rather than a catalogue of historical references. Added to that I think the object of highlighting feminine power and spirituality connected to drumming, whilst worthy &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/soulreflection.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/1149\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;When The Drummers Were Women&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[422],"tags":[399,436,631,635,632,19,630,633,240,634,629],"class_list":["post-1149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-ancestors","tag-books","tag-drumming","tag-energy","tag-framedrum","tag-healing","tag-layneredmond","tag-sound","tag-spirituality","tag-vibration","tag-whenthedrummerswerewomen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/soulreflection.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/soulreflection.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/soulreflection.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soulreflection.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soulreflection.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/soulreflection.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1151,"href":"http:\/\/soulreflection.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions\/1151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soulreflection.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/soulreflection.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soulreflection.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soulreflection.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}