Excitement in Fire I love learning theories and philosophies. They have helped me understand myself in ways I couldn't before. According to Ayurveda, I have a lot of Fire and Air, but not much Earth or Water. Then one day, in a yoga class, someone told me I actually had a lot of Water. That surprised me. As I reflected on it, it started to make sense. My daily life is deeply influenced by my emotions, which are often associated with the qualities of Water. Apparently, I am a

Why Listening is Water I used to think listening simply meant hearing music correctly. Over the years, I realized that listening begins much earlier than that. Before we can truly listen to music, we have to learn to listen to ourselves. In my 20+ years of career as a hired drummer, most of the performance was given in the situation where I don’t know the setlist, who is going to be playing together that night. And my job was to instinctively read the band leaders signs to fo