In this episode, I interview Hollie Hope. Hollie is a mother, grandmother and an integrative healing arts practitioner, intuitive oracle and master of sacred sound. She has been supporting the community for the last 17 years through releasing traumas and distortions we hold with ourselves and teaching others how to open and activate their spiritual gifts and embracing their own feminine sensual embodiment.
Through techniques cultivated through healing her own lifetime of trauma and abuse she offers wisdom how to incorporate sacred sound when healing the mind, the physical body and the emotional body to assist in activating the most potent parts of our own uniqueness and our own master healer within ourselves.
In this episode, we explore Hollie’s journey into drumming as a sacred healing practice and its scientifically-backed benefits for stress relief, empowerment, emotional release, and trauma recovery, especially among women.
Highlights include:
- Hollie’s journey into drumming after being invited to join a Native American drum circle. Despite initial hesitation, she experienced an emotional and physical connection to drumming.
- How drumming became a self-healing tool for Hollie during a difficult time, helping her manage emotions and find stability. She evolved from personal use to teaching and making drums for others.
- How drumming ceremonies facilitate healing, self-connection and emotional release for women by reopening dormant or stagnant parts.
- Stories of using drum ceremonies to help two women release negative emotions/experiences and regain control and empowerment.
- Research on drumming’s benefits for trauma therapy by allowing expression of emotions and trauma release.
- How drumming can release trauma stored in the body’s cells.
- How drumming can induce relaxing alpha brain waves to counter excessive stress-induced beta waves in modern life.
- How drumming aids meditation, stress relief, emotional regulation, and self-expression by connecting the body and mind.
- Hollie’s new book, The Sacred Healing Drum
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