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Didgeridoo Lessons
Click here to contact Elise about didgeridoo classes or private lessons.
Private lessons are $40.00/hour (zoom or in person in Berkeley, California)
Practice didgeridoo is provided
Classes are arranged as needed.
Health Benefits of Playing the Didgeridoo
Using the didgeridoo to address various ailments:
- Correcting mouth-breathing
- Clearing or alleviating chronic nose congestion
- Allergy relief
- Alleviating symptoms of TMJ and teeth-grinding
- Clearing the Eustachian tubes
- Elimination of tinnitus
- Correcting bad posture
General Overall Improvement of Health:
Over and over students report that playing the didgeridoo is making them feel better in general. They report that they are breathing better, sleeping better, and feeling more alert during the day and more relaxed overall. Didgeridoo playing can provide you with:
- Stronger lungs and enhanced respiratory system
- Control of a strengthened diaphragm
- Improvement of muscle tone in the mouth and throat
- Increased oxygenation for the entire body
- Increased ability to move into the parasympathetic nervous system (rest and digest) from the sympathetic nervous system (fight or flight)
Using the didgeridoo to relax and de-stress
By now, it may be clear that there are many direct physical benefits to playing the didgeridoo. There are also important benefits for the body, mind and spirit that come primarily from de-stressing:
- Relaxed jaw and face
- Relaxed facial muscles and greater facial expression
- Reduced chronic neck, shoulder, and back pain
- Increased ability to relax at a moment’s notice
- Psychological Benefits of Playing Didgeridoo
- Increased confidence
- Pleasure at entertaining and relaxing others who listen
- Enhancement of meditation practice
- Improved attitude toward life
- Increased psychological resilience
- Reduced ego-identification with enhanced “cosmic consciousness.”
Didgeridoo Testimonials:
Hear from our students who have transformed through improvements in their breathing.
““Elise Peeples is an exceptional teacher. She meets you where you are and has an arsenal of tools to move you forward. Not only am I having fun learning to play the didge, but I feel better, breathe better and love the sound. I have asthma and since learning to play I feel myself breathe deeper. After playing, air seems fresher, I seem to get more of it and feel more awake and alert. It is also a resource for relieving stress. One of the best things I have done in a very long time!”
Phyllis Burt, Audiologist, Petaluma, California
“I learned the didgeridoo because of my diagnosis of Sleep Apnea (OSA) and the wish to alleviate some of the symptoms holistically. By following Elise’s intuitive step by step process of teaching circular breathing, I was able to learn… My sense of smell and feeling of full lung capacity can be reached after a didgeridoo session. That makes me feel open and refreshed.”Every class leaves me feeling refreshed and harmonized; the sound healing truly resonates.”
Michael Bertoni, Santa Cruz.