LIBERATE
Drum yourself free
Drum Free Experience™ liberates your untapped creativity, curiosity and confidence. We all enter encumbered with life, but we all leave Drummed Free!
TRANSCEND
Transport yourself into deep, uncharted levels of personal discovery, expression, and excellence.
RELEASE
Release pent-up tension, worry, anger, sadness, fear.
RESOLVE
Resolve disputes and disharmonies in yourself, in your groups, and in your world.
BELONG
Bond deeply with your relatives-in-rhythm, with the five primordial elements, and — perhaps in a whole new way — bond deeply with yourself.
At first, I didn't know how to play the drum. Then I discovered the drum was playing me!
BELIEVING
Meet the real hero of your life: YOU
Use Drum Free Experience™ to uncover difficulties, confronting challenges and breaking through barriers you didn't even know existed.
Tap into the power of community drumming with Drum Free Experience™ and become your own hero:
- Transport yourself into deep, uncharted levels of personal discovery, expression, and excellence
- Modulate your frequency vibration towards positivity
- Resolve disharmony or disputes in people groups
- Release pent-up tension, worry, sadness or fear
- Connect rhythmically, deeply and purposefully with rhythm relatives worldwide
- Practice drum meditation: calm, coordinated creativity amidst conflicting currents of chaos
The Five Elemental Energies of Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water encompass all the myriad phenomena of nature. It is a paradigm that applies equally to humans.
TRUST
Listen to sages, scientists and self
Drum Free Experience™ is infused and guided by ancient Chinese Five Element Theory. By drumming each of the five element rhythms in sequence, we travel on a timeless journey of discovery that is guaranteed to transport and transform us forever. Science now confirms what ancient sages have long known: Nature works. Let it work on you.
BE EARTH
Through the drum, ground yourself.
Through the patient, powerful Earth
Rhythm, reconnect to the solidness that
is the earth.
Feel in your hands earth's dependability
and devotion.
Be present. Be Earth.
ENCOUNTER METAL
Within the slow, plodding Metal Rhythm,
feel what constrains you.
Notice it's grip, observe your
limitations on the drum and in your
life. One will call for your
attention.
Don't run. Chase it down!
IMAGINE WATER
Seeded with the image of freedom from your constraint, step into the cool undulations of the Water Rhythm. Swimming there, under the Water Rhythm's tow, your imagination gently nurtures the freedom seed into a luscious, vivid possibility dancing in your mind's eye.
EXPRESS WOOD
The thriving, industrious Wood Rhythm now releases nature upon the vivified image of freedom planted firmly in our imagination. As always, nature creates, grows, thrives the image into it's fullest expression — and we revel in the mystery of what unfolds.
RELEASE FIRE
The speedy and intense Fire Rhythm has us focus our intention on the rewards of the journey -- the succulent fruits of transformation and those impacted. Then Fire climactically leads us on a high-speed thrill ride where newfound possibilities are passionately released into existence. We and the world are transformed.
Drum Free Experience™ is a guided journey of drumming in which everyone is heard, self-expressed, creative and intentional about transforming their lives from constrained to drummed free!
ORIGINS
Our story
Drum Free Experience™ was conceived-of and articulated by lifelong drummer Moses L. Smith, who was called to drumming as a child. Moses has devoted his life to discerning the intricacies between traditional drumming practices, ancient wisdom teachings, the immutable laws of nature, farming, and the healthy well-being and elevation of people, communities and nations throughout history.
The culmination of Moses' lifelong study is encapsulated in the profoundly simple directives of Drum Free Experience™. Almost child-like, the "play" prescribed taps into the deep primal realities that bring about the changes we experience in nature — effortlessly.
Drum Free Experience™ distills wisdom from a variety of sources, including:
- Traditional Chinese Five Element Theory
- The I Ching, Classic on Change
- The Tao Te Ching, Classic on the Tao (the Way)
- Aikido, The Martial Art of Peace
- ...Countless hand drumming traditions and respected teachers
Through Drum Free Experience™, individuals now have the chance to form their drumming circles, practice playing, and embark on a journey of transformation. This profound experience fosters liberation and sets the stage for altered, intentional ways of existence.