Fletcher Beasley, who started the music program at Camp Holton in 1998, grooving with Steven. The drum is utilized as a healing partner. During a workshop at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, Steven taught exercises to synchronize the mind with the body to a single pulse, then synchronizing all the cells to each other. With the help of guided meditations and a group rhythmic drum pulse, Steven took the group from the beta state, which is the everyday active mind state, and slowed it down to the relaxed alpha state. That eventually led to the theta state, which one enters before sleep and which is said to be the most creative state.
Meditation is only one part of it.
There's emotional, physical, and spiritual healing that takes place. What we're doing is moving energy, releasing energy, and finally transforming energy. We're releasing a lot of these negative emotions and we're transforming them into positive emotions. The body is also working. Then there's something called entrainment, which is the synchronization of the rhythm of one body with the rhythm of bodies around it.