Day 1 of the 15-Day Neuro Drumming Challenge

Welcome to Little Steps Big Gains and the 15-Day Neuro-Drumming Challenge!

Drumming is a fantastic exercise to improve the coordination between the brain and body, core stability and posture.

Of note, this is not drumming lessons. Here, we are using drumming as an exercise, not incorporating lessons.

Drumming can influence the brain through something called "entrainment". Entrainment is where you take two rhythms and synchronize them together. With rhythmic entrainment, we can synchronize our body to an external rhythm (such as tapping our foot to the beat). In this challenge we will tap into neuronal entrainment. Neurons are communication pathways between different parts of the brain. With drumming we can synchronize these neuronal pathways with each other to improve their connections.

When we drum, our entire brain lights up with activity! Specifically, the front of the brain (motor and supplementary mother cortex), which plays a role in planning and executing movements for rhythmic movement, the Basal Ganglia, which plays a role in executing actions required for processing rhythms, and the cerebellum which plays a role in coordination and timing of our movements to synchronize them.

This is also why drumming is so fantastic for neurological conditions!

Within this challenge, you do not need any equipment or any experience! Each session starts and ends with freestyle. Between freestyle, we will learn three different drumming patterns. There is no need to follow along perfectly. There is no way to "fail". This exercise is about the process in the brain, and not perfection in the body.

With each pattern, there will be ways to make it easier and/or harder. Everyone can find that just right challenge for them.

About me- I am an Occupational Therapist, certified functional aging specialist, older adult exercises consultant. I am certified in LSVT BIG, tai-chi and otaga. I like to use these skills to create these free exercise programs.

So, jump in and join along because Little Steps together, we can make some big gains!

-Elizabeth

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