| Name and Country |
Has playing the didgeridoo changed your life? |
If playing the didgeridoo has changed your life, please share how it has done so: |
| Adam from Australia |
Totally |
It feels like it has connected me to a tribal earthy part of myself. |
| Anonymous from Switzerland |
Somewhat |
Some how I feel more connected to nature and a bit connected to aboriginal people. |
| Andrew from USA |
Somewhat |
I like how its sound relaxes me and I love the deep sounds it creates. |
| Andy Locky from Canada |
Somewhat |
The didgeridoo has changed my life because it allows me to become more relaxed and learning to play this instrument brings a sense of accomplishment and a connection to the earth. |
| Angel from USA |
Significantly |
I am fascinated with an instrument that shares qualities with my own voice so I give it respect. |
| Anonymous |
Somewhat |
I'm just discovering |
| Anthony from USA |
Somewhat |
I heard a didj being played at a native american festival and was in awe of it's sound. |
| Anonymous from Finland |
Somewhat |
It makes me more relaxed when I've played. |
| Anonymous from Netherlands |
Somewhat |
I'm playing less on my other instruments. |
| Anonymous |
Significantly |
More relaxed |
| Betty from USA |
Significantly |
I do not have one to play but if I did I would assume it would be a very spiritual thing you alone can experience |
| Bill from United Kingdom |
Somewhat |
Building a connection with an ancient culture. |
| Carol from USA |
Significantly |
It has opened my life to a musical side of my I would have otherwise never explored. |
| Carolyn from Canada |
Somewhat |
Playing helps me to feel more centered more grounded and in touch once again with my artistic side. |
| Chris Bittner from USA |
Somewhat |
Has played a part in directing my music group to becoming a healing group. |
| Chris Humphrey from USA |
Significantly |
The didj takes me to meditative and spiritual places that I had not been able to get to. I wasn't even aware that I wanted to go to these places until I started playing didj. |
| Christian Robert from France |
Significantly |
Before I only knew about didges. Now I can play. I can also circular breathe which I had wanted to do for a long time. I still feel frustrated because I am a basic player. |
| Chuck from USA |
Somewhat |
Access to more of what is here around me open up the senses some. |
| Cindi Clinton from USA |
Somewhat |
I just started but so far I like how I feel using more breath. I also like how invigorated my face feels afterwards. It lasts a long time! |
| Anonymous from Canada |
Somewhat |
Increased breath control more to come! |
| Claudia from Romania |
Somewhat |
I feel different when I listen the didj |
| Clay from USA |
Totally |
It keeps me from submitting to unnecessary thought and creates a simple way of thinking which creates a more enjoyable reality. |
| Collin Malleck from USA |
Totally |
It is the first instrument I ever really wanted to play. I like the fact that no two Didgeridoos are alike and that there is no set way in which you have to play it. Like with a guitar you have a limited number of notes and cords that you can play but the sounds you can make with a Didj are limitless. |
| Anonymous |
Significantly |
Learning to circular breath is teaching your body to trust your mind and then to adapt to do so unconsciously. It has given me confidence to follow other dreams with the same patience and discipline. |
| Dale from USA |
Somewhat |
It's added another way to connect with nature and friends |
| Dale from USA |
Somewhat |
It has given me a new interest to pursue in retirement (forced on me due to health concerns). The resonance helps pull me out of depression. Researching has been lots of fun. I started playing in the hopes that mastery of the breath techniques would help me combat sleep apnea. |
| Daniel Glancy from New Zealand |
Significantly |
I find it very deep spiritual uplifting & a lot of fun |
| Dave Estes from USA |
Significantly |
Playing didj makes me realize that I have been dishonoring myself about what I truly want to do with my existence. healing with sound/vibration/music is it |
| Dave Snyder from USA |
Somewhat |
Have emphysema (COPD) bad enough to require oxygen; affect my going out and moving around; hoping for didj to exercise and strengthen lungs...in such bad shape I'm not sure what I would be like without didjing in my life...assume much much worse....took 40 years of cigarette smoking to get into this fix; maybe more that a few weeks to clear it up.... |
| David from USA |
Totally |
Keeps me in touch with nature playing the didge in a forest or a cave |
| David Mackinnon from USA |
Significantly |
It has opened my eyes to more and more ways on how to make music. You can play the didj with a well-known song and give that song a new and different sound to the song even though it's familiar to everyone ears. |
| David from Canada |
Totally |
Introduced me to incredible people.... helped form new connections....brought me more deeply into my own breath my sense of worth and well being. Every light in my life is balanced by the depth of the didj. That most primal source of life in the body residing somewhere in the belly/solar plexus the place where top meets bottom spirit meets physical world is so much more powerful alive and connected than it ever used to be! |
| Anonymous from USA |
Somewhat |
It's a neat instrument. I gave it to my husband when he was suffering a severe bout of depression. It gave him a new interest which helped a little in his recovery. |
| Anonymous from Canada |
Somewhat |
I was really bummed before it arrived and it cheered me up. I haven't had it very long so I'm sure it'll help do all of the above in good time. |
| Donna Waterman from USA |
Somewhat |
I feel blessed to have the didj and hope to express my soul through it. |
| Douglas from USA |
Significantly |
No one in my house talks to me any more because I am the chosen one who has the didj. |
| Drew from Australia |
Somewhat |
It gives me a great hobby to concentrate my time on. |
| Anonymous from USA |
Totally |
I play an instrument that is one of the oldest instruments in existence and it relaxes me and I feel like I do something that not everybody does but could if they would just open their eyes and see the beauty in this instrument |
| Eleanor Hjemmet from USA |
Somewhat |
I feel part of a larger community of individuals who appreciate this instrument and also find that it gives me an opportunity to broaden my personal instincts for teaching about primitive lifestyles and choices. |
| Enrique Martinez Balarezo from Peru |
Totally |
De sentirme hijo de la naturaleza y que los animales consteten mis llamados |
| Eric from Belgium |
Significantly |
The circular breathing and the vibrations make me feel relaxed and I can feel energy or warm and soft sensations as if I was exploring my own body from the inside. I'm addicted to this sensations. (it's hard for me to explain those sensations in english I hope you understand it) |
| Forest from USA |
Significantly |
It has opened up a whole new world of sound that I did not even know existed! |
| Francis from USA |
Significantly |
I find it a very relaxing escape from day to day stresses. |
| Gabe from Canada |
Significantly |
I find I have definitely calmed down and that I take the time to appreciate the everyday occurrences of life. |
| Giuseppe from Italy |
Significantly |
Now I am more relaxed and I have more self-control. Now I also know that a natural instrument it's better then a technological one! |
| Anonymous from United Kingdom |
Somewhat |
Learning to allow time out of the rat race |
| Hal Stepanich from USA |
Significantly |
It's given me a mellowness to deal and handle stressfulness and an inner connection with being thankful for small things in life |
| Anonymous |
Totally |
This is one of the few items on my "Bucket List" to learn to do. |
| Anonymous from United Kingdom |
Somewhat |
It has brought me peace |
| Iain from United Kingdom |
Totally |
Through the didge I have met such a diverse bunch of wonderful genuine friendly and warm people - something which is becoming rarer these days. Have made new friends and have seen life differently in so many ways. It has also meant I have finally accomplished a good degree of success in playing an instrument! Has also opened my eyes to a whole new variety of musical styles not necessarily just didge based either. |
| Anonymous from Hungary |
Somewhat |
I have one more creative way to express myself and I have a new field to get experiences and improve. |
| James Miller from USA |
Totally |
Puts me in a trance-like meditative state which eases all my tensions and worries and I come out feeling I have just let go of all my worries. musical rebirth would be a term to use. |
| Jan from USA |
Somewhat |
I find it easy to meditate to. |
| Jason Hilliard from USA |
Somewhat |
It's opened me up to new ideas. |
| Anonymous |
Somewhat |
Helped me to relax allowed me to find an instrument that I never get bored of |
| Jeannie from USA |
Significantly |
I am more relaxed and patient than I ever thought I could be and I have developed a greater appreciation for music of all kinds. Also I have become passionate about all things Australian and especially preserving Aboriginal artifacts and culture. |
| Jeff from Australia |
Somewhat |
It has helped me to relax improved my lungs (Asthma) and given me more confidence (playing in front of people) |
| Jeremy from USA |
Somewhat |
Its helped improve my lung capacity a little bit. |
| Jesus Antonio from Mexico |
Significantly |
So soul need try that wonderful instrument I mean is a part of my life thinking and a extra body part need |
| Jezz from United Kingdom |
Somewhat |
Added some fun:o) |
| Jim Robinson from USA |
Somewhat |
For the last 15 years I have played drums and all other instruments have been a mystery to me. I now have a new way to express myself. Also I find myself feeling great at the end of a long drone I need to explore this more before I can give a good answer. |
| Jimmy Mahuron from USA |
Somewhat |
It helps strengthen my lungs and helps vital capacity. |
| Anonymous |
Somewhat |
Understanding people of australia |
| John Armstrong from USA |
Significantly |
It has opened up a whole new crew of acquaintances. |
| John Byram from USA |
Significantly |
I feel that the didgeridoo has changed my life in that I have learned how to control my breathing and have learned to reach a deeper meditation when I play. I feel that it has unlocked a new creative outlet for myself and my didj playing. |
| John Carroll from USA |
Somewhat |
Have met some interesting people through my trying to better learn to play the Didj. Have become more knowledgeable about aboriginal issues. |
| John Heusler from USA |
Significantly |
I play in a band with the main instrument being an antique typewriter as a percussion instrument. Playing in front of an audience has given me great pride for using an instrument that few actually know about. |
| Anonymous |
Significantly |
Opened my eyes to a completely new culture and way of life. |
| Jonny Monument from United Kingdom |
Somewhat |
I have been a musician since I was 7 (singer trombone and piano) but I studied classical romantic baroque etc. I am a jazz pianist now and then suddenly... here's the didj! It takes the trombone technique and opens it up in an amazing way. I think it's only because music has been my life for so long that discovering a new side to it really opens a new book. It's inspiring. |
| Anonymous from Ireland |
Significantly |
More women |
| Anonymous |
Totally |
The didgeridoo is to my way of thinking a beautiful and worldly instrument. Its sound is enjoyable by all peoples -- and it is so strange to many peoples that its sound can help them to expand their perspectives. |
| Judy Echols from USA |
Significantly |
I love playing and I have met so many great people though playing. |
| Julia Lee from USA |
Significantly |
It has opened a world of healing for me and others a way of sharing the wonderful world of music and wonder of this beautiful culture |
| Julia Passamonti from USA |
Significantly |
By playing it I am healing from a chronic cough that I have had for years. It also keeps me consciously connected to Dreamtime. |
| Julie Bothmer-yost from USA |
Somewhat |
It's a very basic instrument to me I feel it can reach my soul more easily than a more complex instrument when I play it. |
| Anonymous |
Significantly |
It was the first instrument I played it really got me in touch with my musical side it also opened me up to more cultures and that lead to a more spiritual journey to enlightenment through the vibration of the universe |
| Kev English from United Kingdom |
Totally |
It is a whole way of relaxing and enjoyment as it seems to me to be a multi cultural instrument that is enjoyed by all. To sit under a tree in the sun on a summers evening playing as the sun slowly goes down is my idea of heaven. |
| Kevin Cote from Canada |
Somewhat |
It has allowed me to feel like a musician in music circles of people |
| Anonymous |
Significantly |
It has helped me to relax at will. |
| Kim from USA |
Somewhat |
I have learned to do circular breathing. |
| Kim-adrian Rasmussen from Norway |
Totally |
In norway there is not so many people that can play the didge so I can do something that others can't and I am proud of it. |
| Anonymous from USA |
Totally |
For me the didgeridoo is a soul connection. It goes beyond words to a deep profound life altering connection. I have for my email signature a quote I found through a link on your website that puts my feelings into words... —Aboriginal quote about the Didgeridoo— It is coming from the Heart It is coming from the Land It is a Soul Instrument You Feel It It is the Sound of Mother Earth Quote from: www.aboriginalart.com.au/didgeridoo/music.html |
| Anonymous from France |
Significantly |
When I feel bad or stressed I can escape from my life playing didj. I can feel good vibrations I go to the forest or just in my flat and I can imagine me being in australia! |
| Marcus Comét from Sweden |
Significantly |
It makes me reflect less on shallow-worries and brings me at ease when facing obstacles in life:) |
| Mark Niglas from Canada |
Somewhat |
After coming very close to burning out from the stress of medical school I had to make some life changes and rearrange my priorities. After deciding to leave myself with more "me" time I have taken up several things to help ground me emotionally. Having always been intrigued by the sound of the didgeridoo making one from local wood (rather poorly I might add) and learning to play it calmed me down in a way I never thought possible. |
| Anonymous |
Somewhat |
It is the only musical instrument I can play. |
| Anonymous |
Somewhat |
It makes fun. I've met some interesting people. |
| Matt from USA |
Significantly |
Its just changed it tremendously. I don't know how many pages it would take to answer this. I would have to sit play the didj then write then play the didj more then write. It would take way to much time than I have right now even though I don't concern myself with matters of time. |
| Matthew Lepage from USA |
Totally |
Playing the didj changes a life because to examine change is to entertain evolution; all change is evolution. also overcoming the challenge of circular breathing and from there experiencing and extrapolating the spirit inherent to the rhythmic meditational character has been an implicit propriety |
| Michel Cabardos from Canada |
Somewhat |
I feel more unique and more me. People here always think me a bit strange and this reinforces it but in a nice way. |
| Anonymous from Us Minor Outlying Islands |
Totally |
It has broadened my horizons musically and been an excellent addition to multiple drum circles. |
| Anonymous |
Somewhat |
Lowered stress level |
| Neil Wakeling from United Kingdom |
Significantly |
In my work as a sound healer my awareness of the impact of sound on the mind-body-spirit has changed and developed enormously. My own sensitivity to energy has developed through my sound-work. |
| Ossi from Finland |
Somewhat |
It certainly has challenged some notions I've held about music. In time as I advance with my playing I'd expect that it'll have more profound and personal effects as well. |
| Patrick from USA |
Somewhat |
I share it with others. |
| Paul Rogers from Germany |
Somewhat |
Opened an new horizon of international music. |
| Peg from USA |
Significantly |
It makes me grounded when I feel nothing else will |
| Peggylynn from USA |
Significantly |
It sends me to a better place a place of contentment peace and joy it soothes my soul and heart |
| Pep from Spain |
Somewhat |
As much as possible I can reserve an hour to play and be quiet. I'm sure that if I didn't play the Didgeridoo it will impossible. |
| Anonymous |
Significantly |
An amazing sense of unity. |
| Anonymous from New Zealand |
Somewhat |
It has inspired me to learn more about vibrational energy |
| Randall from USA |
Somewhat |
It has fascination some of my colleagues and has lead to a few commissions requiring performances on the didgeridoo. |
| Rian Mcgonigal from USA |
Significantly |
Went through cancer and used didge to build lungs back up. Taught cancer patients to play at 2 famous cancer treatment centers. Teach sound therapy/didge main instrument. Wrote 2 pieces for Guitar String Orchestra and Didgeridoo (see website www.goldenlotusacademy.com to hear first) I'm a classical guitarist and use didge to teach students the power of one note then apply that power to every note in a song. |
| Rita Miller from Canada |
Somewhat |
I know it will if I get the chance. I know this but I do not know how I know |
| Rob Carter from Canada |
Somewhat |
Cool experience |
| Rob from USA |
Totally |
It makes me take time to relax and increase my lung strength |
| Robbin from USA |
Significantly |
I have met soooo many wonderful people |
| Robert from USA |
Totally |
I was a smoker. I could not circular breathe until I quit smoking for two weeks. Playing didj was much more fun than smoking a cigarette so every time I craved one I played didj instead and have never touched another cigarette. 9 years! |
| Anonymous |
Somewhat |
Added to my >relative< uniqueness compared to my peers. |
| Ross from Australia |
Totally |
I am a yank before moving to immigrating to Australia I had played to didj on the one I made out of pvc pipe and I knew I liked it but after moving here picking up a decent didj and becoming more familiar with it I have found a whole new outlet for my creative energy and to beat that this newly found passion has significantly reduced my stress level and anxiety. |
| Anonymous from United Kingdom |
Somewhat |
It helps me relax after a hard day's work. Nothing like getting home having a smoke play didj for awhile and just de-stress... love it |
| Russell Chappell from USA |
Somewhat |
It has given me a different perspective on unique instruments and their sounds |
| Russell Toohey from Australia |
Significantly |
I am captivated by the unique sound (there is no other instrument in the world that produces a instantly recognisable but unique sound like this) I play mainly to relax and it transports me to a place of peace. |
| Ryan from Australia |
Totally |
Reconnection mainly. to the earth or whatever it is that I am connected to. also as I mentioned it helps with insomnia. and I had no desire to play any instrument until I heard the yidaki now I want to play every instrument:) |
| Anonymous |
Somewhat |
It relax me |
| Anonymous from USA |
Significantly |
It has brought me peace of mind. |
| Anonymous from USA |
Somewhat |
I hope it will continue to do so I have only been exposed to the didj for the past year or so. |
| Anonymous |
Somewhat |
Now I've got another passion and passions are all in our life. |
| Anonymous |
Significantly |
It has expanded the prana within which allows energy to move more freely throughout the body. for that I am eternally grateful. |
| Shaun from United Kingdom |
Significantly |
I needed something to excite me and to give me more than humdrum ordinary life style. |
| Anonymous from USA |
Somewhat |
This is only my second day but I am already making progress and looking forward to learning to make a steady consistent tone and then learning circular breathing. Even my beginner-level attempts I find very pleasing. There is something about when you get it just right and make a clear pleasing tone and are able to hold it right there. |
| Stacey Mcgaughey from New Zealand |
Somewhat |
Provides another opportunity to be present in a moment that connects with something greater that the self |
| Steav W from USA |
Somewhat |
It gives me a musical outlet that is very personal and meditative. I do classical music professionally and it is nice to ease into an instrument that I will never master but which has so many subtle dimensions. |
| Steve Bolton from USA |
Totally |
Opened me up to the people around me and opportunities. Things that I hope I carry with me the rest of my life and build upon. |
| Steven Harnie from Reunion Island |
Somewhat |
Can't really explain |
| Anonymous from United Kingdom |
Significantly |
More in tune with nature and myself. |
| Susan Alles from USA |
Significantly |
Unnerving experience/total peace |
| Sylvain from French Polynesia |
Significantly |
It is an extension of me I try to communicate and copy the sounds of birds or animals that I hear. I like cats very much |
| Taira from Canada |
Significantly |
It has taught me that all things take time and the more time we take the more understanding we have |
| Tanner Saylor from USA |
Totally |
It has opened me to a new instrument that I love and has given me the perfect relaxation tool. |
| Terry Freeman from USA |
Somewhat |
I've only been playing for 2 months but it's already made me more aware of sounds and rhythms around me and also has helped me to be more relaxed as I have a high-stress job. |
| Terry from USA |
Significantly |
It has opened up new doors in meditation and creativity |
| Tiago from Portugal |
Significantly |
First it got me out of a major depression. Then it proceeded to bring hope clarity meaning self-confidence and a whole bunch of things into my life. Then it carried on curing most of my social difficulties (it actually brought me my first girlfriend). Now it's on the process of curing my problems with money. And it hasn't stopped:) |
| Anonymous |
Somewhat |
It gives me more rest |
| Anonymous |
Totally |
It definitely helps meet people I'm surprised how many people have never heard of it and it has made me feel better over all |
| Anonymous |
Somewhat |
I am still a beginner time will tell |
| Trevor from Canada |
Significantly |
Mostly the previous story I gave. The deep reverberating sound is comparative to meditative chanting to me... It feels like Mother Nature absorbs my body's guttural vibration and plays it back to me in the echo from the mountains. |
| Anonymous |
Significantly |
Better connection with earth |
| Anonymous from USA |
Somewhat |
More relaxed |
| Anonymous |
Somewhat |
More often I will relax with a musical jam session instead of a tv session! much better |
| Wesley from Canada |
Somewhat |
Reminds me that there are small gentle things going on in reality that can be experienced by people if you really pay attention. |
| William from USA |
Significantly |
It will exponentially increase fun at regattas. |
| Willibrord Arts from Netherlands |
Somewhat |
Its just I can take the didge and play a bit when I'm have working hard |
| Zach from USA |
Somewhat |
It's given me a really fun and interesting hobby. |
