https://www.adamgust.com/why daily 0.75 2024-08-29 https://www.adamgust.com/brain daily 0.75 2025-07-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a9b60070408e475ea4f7f4/c8ac0ae4-fb6a-4f87-80b7-19ffeb4c17f8/MIND2.001.jpeg BRAIN - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a9b60070408e475ea4f7f4/088d6763-b8cd-4b3b-b284-8610921f01e0/BIO-LINGUAL.png BRAIN - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.adamgust.com/body daily 0.75 2026-02-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a9b60070408e475ea4f7f4/f109c855-ee8d-4c55-a49f-cd2f33b9a816/HEART+LUNG+PIC.jpg BODY - Breath, Heartbeat, & Presence Understanding the groove between breath and heartbeat provides the foundation for our nervous system to perform with resilience and excellence. Thoughtful attention to these bodily rhythms and sensations in real-time offers a valuable resource called presence: body and mind in unison. Our best drumming grows out of our breath and heartbeat being in the groove together. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a9b60070408e475ea4f7f4/9fd0204d-cd22-4484-8cb6-e6e1a225fcba/INTENTION.001.jpg BODY - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a9b60070408e475ea4f7f4/bbd390cc-2dde-4125-96c5-ea63d0db930e/HEALING+DRUM.jpg BODY - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.adamgust.com/rhythm daily 0.75 2025-07-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a9b60070408e475ea4f7f4/1639024383907-64248NABM5A2WLLFYQML/DORK.001.jpeg RHYTHM https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a9b60070408e475ea4f7f4/1639024537791-D0J179KDECJZTR1DT29U/ROCK+STAR.jpg RHYTHM https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a9b60070408e475ea4f7f4/03044120-7eb3-4e80-bd1d-6754d4baf3a5/MARCO+6.jpg RHYTHM https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a9b60070408e475ea4f7f4/86489317-3489-4593-b891-f038e4305008/SUMMERFEST.jpg RHYTHM - Rhythmic Embodiment Rhythmic Embodiment synchronizes both the drummers’ internal rhythms and the audience, increasing the gravity of our resonance with others. connecting us all as rhythmic practitioners. When we engage in this feedback loop, we expand our consciousness into the deepest of all flow states -the groove. This is the power of drumming. My rollercoaster ride through 35 years of drumming gifted me with a voice and a story of resilience that I am ready to share. My dear fellow rhythmic practitioners, let us connect rhythm, body, and mind. Together. https://www.adamgust.com/befriendingyoupractice daily 0.75 2025-07-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a9b60070408e475ea4f7f4/47d06650-4141-4bf0-8151-eac389463a6f/SOMATIC+RUDIMENTS.jpeg BEFRIENDING YOUR PRACTICE - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a9b60070408e475ea4f7f4/582e205c-ac2d-4d48-a165-29a654749850/BODY.001.jpg BEFRIENDING YOUR PRACTICE - Adam’s Six Somatic Rudiments Aligning the movements of our limbs in unison with GRACES requires dedicated practice. I call this approach Somatic Drumming, named for our somatic nervous system. It is a philosophical shift in our attention inward toward the most fundamental building blocks of drumming. Our Five Schematic Rudiments: 1. Right Arm 2. Left Arm 3. Right Leg 4. Left Leg, and THE FIFTH RUDIMENT!!! 5. The Vagus Nerve, a lifeline we all share, the key element of our emotional and rhythmic regulation. If our Somatic Rudiments are consistently in unison with the drums, then our nervous system is in presence. This gives us access to Emotional Rhythmic Regulation, otherwise known as ‘the pocket.’ When we are attuned to our Five Somatic Rudiments, we are ready to be in harmony with music and life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a9b60070408e475ea4f7f4/6aa70acb-239e-443c-aa0f-16f144c7c8f1/BETSY+POLATIN.jpg BEFRIENDING YOUR PRACTICE - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.adamgust.com/appliedembodiment daily 0.75 2025-07-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a9b60070408e475ea4f7f4/49c8020a-e2f3-47d1-8639-d7a8cc7c49c6/peter+levine2.jpeg MY TRAUMA STORY - Dr. Peter Levine Founder of Somatic Experiencing PhDs in both Biology and Psychology Receiving this body-based trauma therapy helped me understand how deeply unresolved tension and past experiences were shaping my playing and my life. That realization was both humbling and transformative. Today, I’m committed to sharing how Somatic Experiencing can profoundly support artistic performance and emotional well-being, helping artists reconnect with their creativity from the inside out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a9b60070408e475ea4f7f4/7ccf566a-651a-4dba-8d2a-88dd29f2d381/SomaticExperiencingLogo_horz_tagline__2_Logo.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a9b60070408e475ea4f7f4/6aa70acb-239e-443c-aa0f-16f144c7c8f1/BETSY+POLATIN.jpg MY TRAUMA STORY - Betsy Polatin My Biggest Hero I am fortunate to have studied with Betsy, witnessing her brilliant pairing of Somatic Experiencing and Alexander Technique in artistic performance embodiment teaching and lecturing at Boston University and around the world. Betsy’s work inspired me to seek out an SE/AT practitioner for my own healing and I am a first-hand witness to its transformative power in art and in life. https://www.adamgust.com/polyvagaltheory daily 0.75 2026-02-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a9b60070408e475ea4f7f4/3f41f4c6-fb40-451e-9d11-057d74d1c5f3/STAR+WARS.001.jpg THE VAGUS NERVE - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a9b60070408e475ea4f7f4/a216e53f-cb1e-4496-b1d6-5689df9f0154/VAGUS+NERVE.jpeg THE VAGUS NERVE - The Vagus Nerve The Vagus Nerve is our key emotional mediator, managing heartbeat, respiration, digestion, immunity, body temperature, and stress responses. It even holds influence over our beliefs, perception, and memory. Polyvagal Theory has uncovered the dynamic functions of the vagus nerve, coordinating the systems of our body like a vehicle’s timing belt. Whatever emotion we are experiencing, the vagus nerve delivers us into these divergent physiological states according to our neuroception (non-conscious threat detection). For thousands of years, this nerve has been a neural watchtower of protection, a servant of cognitive directives, and a barometer of atunement with our bodily organ status. Polyvagal Theory lives to prove that strong bi-directional communication between the brain and the vagus nerve is pivotal to all aspects of our lives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a9b60070408e475ea4f7f4/fcc2fbae-792e-41c0-87ca-0733758f2898/STEPHEN+PORGES.jpeg THE VAGUS NERVE - Neuroception Dr. Stephen Porges first wrote about his invention, Polyvagal Theory, in 1993 and it continues to revolutionize our understanding of how our bodies respond to stress. Our Vagus Nerve performs non-conscious recognitions of safety, danger, or life threat four times per second. This is called Nueroception. Outside of our conscious awareness, this threat reflex is capable of completely hijacking our emotions. Which is why bringing awareness to our physical cues of neuroception is vital for optimal performance and wellbeing. Polyvagal Theory translates the language of our nervous system and continues to grow and inform the robust work of so many interdisciplinary leaders in psychology, therapy, yoga, athletics, the arts, and now, Somatic Drumming. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a9b60070408e475ea4f7f4/6988566b-468e-46dd-b562-0c89e286f893/Polyvagal+Ladder.png THE VAGUS NERVE - The Polyvagal Ladder We have all heard of the fight-or-flight stress response. It is only one position on the Polyvagal ladder. The ladder illustrates our emotional regulation spectrum with dramatic implications depicting how the Vagus Nerve governs our responses to social engagement and threat. Movement up and down the ladder represent changes in our physiological rhythms and sensations: ventral vagal social engagement, sympathetic activated stress response, and dorsal vagal shutdown, the darkest of our emotional states. Being aware of the cues of neuroception allows us to locate the ladder position of our physiological state. We can then execute Polyvagal neural exercises to move toward optimal regulated states which benefit both our performance and our health. 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