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Drums Alive - Kids Beat is a total brain and body workout that is catching on throughout the nation. 16 members of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Mahnomen and Naytahwaush are practicing to perform at the Communities Collaborative Brain Development Conference at the Shooting Star Casino on August 10th at 10:30 a.m. Here is a sneak peek into what it is all about.

How do you take an idea and pound it into a young person’s brain?

According to mental health experts, you give them some drumsticks and let them do it themselves.

Educators, health experts and child advocates are teaming up for the 11th annual Communities Collaborative Brain Development Conference in Mahnomen — the largest conference of its kind in the Midwest.

Their goal is to provide cutting edge ideas designed to help bring out the very best in a child — starting with their brains.

This year, the White Earth Child Care Program, along with several other regional agencies that make up the collaboration, are highlighting a new technique called Drums Alive – Kids Beat.

Drums Alive is a new fitness program, where participants get an exercise ball and drum sticks to beat it with.

Drummers pound along to music, incorporating movement as they count out the number of beats, rests and anticipate what’s next in the song.

The movement has been gaining popularity since its creator, Carrie Ekins, debuted Drums Alive in Germany six years ago.

And while more adults have been using it for stress reduction and exercise, many say Drums Alive – Kids Beat has positive effects on children’s brain development as well.

That’s why 16 students from the Boys and Girls Clubs of Mahnomen and Naytahwaush have been pounding out some rehearsals for their upcoming performance at the opening ceremony of the Brain Development Conference on Aug. 9.

Ranging in age from 6 to 15, the students are some of the first in the region to learn Drums Alive – Kids Beat.

“I like it,” said 13-year old Destiny Zornes of Mahnomen, as fellow drummer, Shenia Vasswood adds, “Yeah, it’s a lot of fun.”

But while Destiny, Shenia and the other kids in the group know they are “having fun,” what they don’t know is that their brains are changing one beat at a time.

“Drumming has been shown to produce changes in the central nervous system,” said White Earth Community Health Educator LaRaye Anderson, who also works with diabetes programs on the reservation. “It influences electric activity in the sensory motor regions of the brain and physiological changes in the whole body.

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