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: |
Aaron Lewis from USA |
Significantly |
It called to me ever since I was kid hearing it in random movies it always aroused curiosity |
Aaron Ritchie from New Zealand |
Totally |
I would have to write a book the didj is much much more than just a musical instrument. |
Adam from Australia |
Significantly |
Brings me closer to my own spirituality. Closer to the earth and its history. I want to be a good vessel for didge healing and just feel so connected when I play. |
Anonymous |
Significantly |
It has made me more aware of what has happened to our native Aboriginals when I first herd the didj played live I loved it and I researched it while researching the instrument I learned about aboriginal culture and how western society has impacted there way of life. Prior to this I had no real understanding of Aboriginals and how severely impacted they were during European settlement and still are to this day. It has opened my eyes up this is very disturbing as an Australian youth I was never made fully aware of the severity the colonization process had on the native Aborigine's. Not only that but I found it fascinating to research there ways of life and how they survived for so long living off the land the Aboriginals deserve a lot of respect I think Australia would be a better place if all Citizens were educated in there culture and history. |
Alexander Kaye from USA |
Significantly |
As a lifelong musician the Didgeridoo has allowed me to gain a deeper understanding of all aspects of musical performance stressing the importance of rhythmic breathing even for instruments not thought of as breathing instruments such as piano and guitar. All music has a spiritual rhythm as well best exemplified by the Didgeridoo. |
Andreas from Germany |
Totally |
Didgeridoo playing one of my life. It brings me to another world far away from European consumer society. |
Andrew from Australia |
Totally |
I recently found out from my father of my Aboriginal heritage. The didj has helped me to understand more about that. |
Anonymous |
Somewhat |
Only been playing a short time (very badly too) |
Anonymous |
Somewhat |
Its a fun interesting instrument I've enjoyed the satisfaction of learning to play. |
Anonymous from United Kingdom |
Somewhat |
Feel more spiritual |
Anonymous from USA |
Somewhat |
Anytime you play an instrument it changes your life. I play several instruments. The didgeridoo gave me more of an appreciation and awareness for the culture and music of the Aboriginal people. |
Antti Kässi from Finland |
Somewhat |
I've been able to concentrate more |
Ariella Trotti from Italy |
Significantly |
I'm more all there in the present. |
Audrey from USA |
Not at all |
Listening to the music has developed in me an awareness of the Aboriginal people who have persevered under the most difficult of circumstances time and time again.. |
Betsy Sauther from USA |
Somewhat |
It makes me feel cool and connects me to the earth. |
Bob from USA |
Significantly |
It has opened up doors of opportunity that otherwise would not have come about. There is a great need for didge players who are not intimidated and expose themselves to others. |
Brent Groover from USA |
Totally |
I can sleep and breathe better. BUT truly just being a daily player and reminding myself that Western society is not the answer. Life CAN AND SHOULD be simpler. It helps me to relax and takes me to a much better place. |
Brian James from United Kingdom |
Somewhat |
It has allowed me to realise that I can learn and enjoy playing an instrument and that nothing is impossible (breathing out while breathing in) |
Anonymous from USA |
Somewhat |
I feel good after I do it. And I think it's helping my apnea some. |
Anonymous |
Significantly |
It helps clear out my lungs and makes them strong which is good because I have Cystic Fibrosis. |
Anonymous |
Somewhat |
It is a totally new sound |
Célio Melek from Brazil |
Significantly |
Mudou minha vida me ensinando praticas de respiraçao que jamais imajinaria que esisticem a meditar atraves do som de um instrumento |
Chris from USA |
Significantly |
I am an instrumentalist and the didgeridoo was the first wind instrument I have played. I got my didgeridoo for really cheap and I would like to step up the quality of my instrument. Mine is ok but it has a tire rubber mouth piece and a not so great tone. After seeing the didges on this website I was amazed at the quality and tone of the didges. |
Claudiu Oros from Romania |
Totally |
Well first of all I don't snore anymore and because I had double pneumonia and asthma when I was little and also was born with under evolved lungs I really had problems breathing properly with the exercise of playing lung capacity has increased I can breathe better. And then I found something to do that relaxes me and I enjoy the sound so much. I was the one in my group that couldn't play any instrument and now I am the one playing the most incredible one. I meditate with it because due to the way you breathe when playing the didge the mind state changes and thoughts calm down.It is very similar to the Holotropic Breath.The vibration going through my body when I play energises me and my family enjoy it so much. |
Anonymous from USA |
Somewhat |
It helps me relax. |
Crid Jack from France |
Significantly |
I used to have asthma I decided to get rid of it and did so. Around that time the didgeridoo just seemed to be more and more around my centres of interest. I notice now that if I cycle several kilometres with my didgeridoo on my back; when I arrive where I feel at ease I am out of breath. But after playing for less than an hour and cycle home my breathing stabilizes much faster and is much much easier. |
Anonymous |
Somewhat |
Calmed me down and made me aware of simple basic music |
Anonymous |
Somewhat |
Relaxing |
Anonymous from Canada |
Not at all |
I just bought my didj yesterday so it has not changed my life yet but very soon!!!! |
David from Australia |
Totally |
It is has been a large factor in my spiritual development and reconnecting to our beautiful mother earth H- eaven O- n M-other E- arth |
David from USA |
Somewhat |
As a drummer I find the didj to be an interesting cross of wind and percussive instrument It has opened new avenues in music and meditation to me. |
Debbie from USA |
Totally |
Its energy and vibration will add to the instruments that I have in my healing room |
Deborah from USA |
Significantly |
I used to have one in Arizona. My 10 year old son loved it. And I loved how it made him enthusiastic for music. |
Diamantina from USA |
Not at all |
I hope to be able to play for my own satisfaction and meditation. I have also read that playing can be therapeutic for sleep apnea which I have mild problems with. |
Dianna from USA |
Somewhat |
I have never been able to play any instrument. It has made me proud to make sounds that are so interesting. |
Dionisio from Spain |
Somewhat |
I don't play. but I will do it. LISTEN music with my family change our relation (for more good) and the Didgeridoo will be my instrument and later I sure my girl NOA. |
Drew from Canada |
Significantly |
Brought the earth mothers sounds into my heart and body |
Eddie from USA |
Totally |
I came home from the conflict a very confused and angry unforgiving person learning the didj has given me a calm place to go when I have sleepless nights and moments of internal frustration. |
Eddie from USA |
Somewhat |
I feel more relaxed when I play it. It opens my mind to more possibilities in the everyday activities I do. |
Eddy from Portugal |
Somewhat |
It relaxes me! |
Edward Maldonado from USA |
Totally |
Slowed me down and allows me to focus on the important things in life. |
Erik Putnam from USA |
Totally |
I had once forgot that I was musically inclined. Then the didj. entered my life and now I am playing more instruments than before. |
Erin from USA |
Somewhat |
Recently asked to perform with a significant symphony orchestra on the didgeridoo |
Evan from USA |
Somewhat |
Before the didge I did not have the courage to get in front of a crowd. Now I can play in front of 2-300 people with no problem. I really love playing the didge! |
Anonymous from Italy |
Significantly |
I'm more reflexive and conscious |
Frank from United Kingdom |
Significantly |
Learning to play the didge has become a late life challenge after visiting Australia this Christmas. I have mastered the circular breathing but rhythm playing is still a mountain to climb. |
Gabriel Flores from USA |
Totally |
When I first heard a didgeridoo I believe I was watching an Outback commercial (oddly enough) but instead of paying attention to the food I just listened to the low drone of the didj playing in the background and fell in love with it. Now I play mine every day. |
Gabriel Florez from USA |
Totally |
When I play the didj I feel connected to the millions of people playing with me and who have played before me. Though I have no connection to the Aboriginal people I feel as though I am learning and sharing their culture with every drone that comes from the didj. The didj has helped me cure my sleep apnea and as well has granted me with overall better and perfect health. It gave me a new lease on a life and the base that I need to further better myself through music and culture. |
Garry from Australia |
Somewhat |
Majority of people don't play so it is a novelty to most. People enjoy hearing you play. |
Gary from USA |
Significantly |
I am 70 years old and it helps me not to worry about life. |
George from Cyprus |
Somewhat |
I started feeling a spiritual awakening from listening to then playing the didj. I went on to learn meditation and meet amazing people. |
Gerry from South Africa |
Somewhat |
It has helped me to relax and break away. |
Graham from New Zealand |
Not at all |
I play several instruments and enjoy them all |
Gregg Nardozza from USA |
Somewhat |
Playing Didgeridoo has opened up avenues for meeting and teaching others that I would have otherwise never met. It has also been a musical education for me. |
Anonymous from Germany |
Significantly |
Got to know a lot of new people found new friends spent less time with useless things (like television) and more time in a workshop building new didges and developing new didge ideas. |
Anonymous from Brazil |
Totally |
Be early for best that I can hear. |
Anonymous from Netherlands |
Somewhat |
It helps me to control my abdomen muscles so I can control my voice better!! |
Anonymous |
Somewhat |
It hasn't - yet. |
Hugh from Canada |
Somewhat |
Every new instrument I learn shifts my perspective of music and art. |
Jack from Antarctica |
Somewhat |
I think that playing the didj allows for the stress and troubles to 'melt off' in a way...it's like a meditation where I can temporarily focus on the playing and the stressful points in life are forgotten until later when they can be dealt with in a different fresher frame of mind. |
Anonymous from South Africa |
Significantly |
I don't get angry and upset that often anymore it truly soothes the mind |
James from USA |
Somewhat |
Through my interest in the instrument I've developed an interest and learned some about how their made Aboriginal culture (land maintenance The Dreamtime walkabouts)...etc... |
James from USA |
Significantly |
Again still yet to have the pleasure |
Jaroslav from Czech Republic |
Significantly |
More relaxed healthier happier |
Anonymous from USA |
Somewhat |
Helps with relaxation |
Anonymous |
Totally |
Send me info |
Anonymous from USA |
Somewhat |
Trained me to breathe better |
Jefferson Svengsouk from USA |
Somewhat |
Exposure to new musical instrument new music new culture |
Jeffrey from USA |
Somewhat |
Not only playing but listening to and appreciating the didge enriches my musical aesthetic sense; and leads to the appreciation of other ethnic musical styles and instruments. |
Anonymous |
Not at all |
It has not changed my life as yet as I have never owned one but I did have a lesson recently while visiting Darwin and loved it. Very relaxing. |
John from USA |
Somewhat |
Not just the playing more so the thought of where it comes from who makes it and the history of the instrument. |
Anonymous |
Significantly |
More sensitive to harmonics and the sounds of other instruments |
Josh from Australia |
Significantly |
Well just learning about aboriginal culture an understanding how much we need the land. |
Anonymous |
Somewhat |
It has given me a new way to relax and give me a new hobby eventually I might get more serious but we will see. |
Kathleen from USA |
Somewhat |
It is part of the whole picture--meditating chanting drumming droning--they are all parts of the same impulse. |
Keith from China (pr) |
Significantly |
It has opened up a whole new area of thinking and theory. |
Kristi Edwards from USA |
Somewhat |
I find that when I sit down to play I become relaxed more in tune with my environment and feel more at peace. |
Lara from Australia |
Totally |
Well I don't play but I know what it does for men - it connects them to the land & themselves |
Larry Choate from USA |
Significantly |
I had always been a fan of basic instruments like the Berimbau. but a friend of mine got a didj (authentic from australia) and I instantly fell in love with it's sound. not having the funds at the time to travel or have internet I purchased a mass-produced didj from a music store. I think its made of bamboo. |
Lars from Denmark |
Significantly |
It has started a process not yet complete - if it ever will - and I actually hope it wont.. |
Leah from USA |
Not at all |
So far it's reduced my money hehe that's all. I just ordered my didgeridoo. I fully believe it WILL change my life that's why I wanted a good one to start with. I want great sound (as well as I can produce it) right up front. That way I will enjoy my time with the didgeridoo. |
Lionel Mouesca from France |
Totally |
First of all the didj taught me how to breath correctly (having been very sick as a child I could only breath with my mouth) it is also a fantastic way to meditate while freeing all sorts of energies it helped me see life in a new light as a flow. |
Anonymous from French Polynesia |
Totally |
I guess I understand the world a little more |
Mark from USA |
Somewhat |
People are interested in the instrument when I bring it out 4and I tell them about it usually making new friends in the process. |
Mathieu from Canada |
Significantly |
The first instrument I ever learned to play was the Didj and playing music has definitely changed my life! |
Matt Dix from Australia |
Somewhat |
It's become part of my entertainment education when performing for children. |
Matthew Neenan from USA |
Somewhat |
It helped me quit smoking |
Max Jackson from USA |
Totally |
Oh boy long story. I started playing a PVC didgeridoo (same one I have for my personal use today) 13 years ago when I was 12 years old. I knew it would be a great thing. I learned by playing with my friend. I brought it to summer camp. I brought it to the park. I continued growing up having fun playing music. 8 years after starting this I went to Burning Man (look it up if its foreign to you) and found that just by playing didgeridoo people were very welcoming and generous to me. It was at burning man during the giant climactic ritual fire that I first was asked to play INTO someone to give them a healing experience. I could not deny them so I did my best knowing I was not some kind of practiced spiritual healer. But before I knew it 8 people were on their knees in a half circle around me all with their arms out in anticipation of experiencing my didgeridoo sound for them personally. I went around and played for each individual and their responses were very intense. Meanwhile 1000's of people are circling an enormous fire next to us! I went home and continued playing for people and healing with a new passion. This is 4 years later now. I have learned much since although I do not frequently do 1 on 1 healing. I'm sure that some day I will be ready again for that. For now I like exploring roads telling stories. I have some wonderful healing stories but I know that I am still in the middle of important personal experiences so I am waiting to go further with healing. THANK YOU for asking and for providing this marvelous resource! I have come to didjshop many times in the past. My best friend bought a didge years ago the same friend that bought a pvc didge the day we both started playing 13 years ago.... if only he was so passionate at playing it. Alas the story continues. |
Mitch from USA |
Somewhat |
Too soon to say. |
Nicholas Clarke from USA |
Somewhat |
Well my family leave the room when I attempt to play Beethoven's ninth on it. Not all the family share my interest in the instrument |
Nick from USA |
Somewhat |
I play some guitar and mandolin but am really not good at either. Learning to play the didj has given me an outlet for my musical creativity that the other instruments cannot. But the relaxation and peacefulness I experience when playing the didj is something I cannot get from anything else - that is how the didj has improved my life. |
Paul Bishop from USA |
Significantly |
It has taught me to relax and definitely learning CB taught me patience. The enhanced meditation has been wonderful and soon the didj and drums will be included in a new liturgy at the Episcopal Church I attend. There will be a service where parishioners walk the labyrinth while drums and Didjes play. |
Anonymous |
Significantly |
It has calmed me down and has made me happier |
Paula from USA |
Somewhat |
Learning to play will be work I intend to do. Since hearing the didj the sounds infuse my mind during meditation and healing sessions and I know the sounds are ancient and part of my psyche. |
Peter from New Zealand |
Significantly |
-a great way to become centred & focused in the now. |
Phil Weiler from USA |
Somewhat |
Playing the didj has helped introduce me to Aboriginal music and art. |
Phoenix from USA |
Somewhat |
I've met a lot of people because of playing. Also it's pretty easy to meet people when playing the didge outside. People will say 'hey what's that?' and I explain and we get to talking. |
Pierre from Canada |
Significantly |
It's a source of meditation |
Randal Wilson from USA |
Somewhat |
I feel that I am allowed the privilege of taking part in a primal tradition that has been around longer than the ability to grow food reliably. It is an under rated and underused instrument. |
Robert Kennedy from USA |
Totally |
Although I love music I never really found an instrument that I liked to play before getting my first didj. |
Roberta Hobson from Canada |
Somewhat |
I do not play just enjoy listening |
Robson Castilho from Brazil |
Totally |
Didgeridoo is a sacred instrument and unlimited every day I learn more with him a while ago I and two friends had a spiritual initiation by the sound of the didgeridoo. were camping in the middle of the jungle when we felt it was time to play didj.. we started playing the sound was different and the same energy that I felt was Divine was the sunken Ancestry aborigene.jogamos feel the force for over two hours ended when the music that came was a vibrational wave of love and understanding of life at that moment where everything was then incorporated esclarecido.em Aboriginal and left the animals jumping like a kangaroo and crawling like lizards. This experience changed my life and I know that with this instrument I will learn even more. because the sound of it is simply the sound of the universe. thanks Robson Castilho |
Roger from USA |
Somewhat |
My friends see me as somewhat of an rebel because this is not a usual instrument that is played in Alabama. |
Roger from USA |
Somewhat |
I have come to appreciate and understand how sound and intent can affect the physical emotional and mental bodies. I am much more careful about what I listen to. |
Romano from Italy |
Somewhat |
Ho sentito suonare il didgeridoo dal vivo e me ne sono innamorato come di una bella donna |
Ronald Ballard from USA |
Somewhat |
Serenity |
Ronny Birk from Norway |
Somewhat |
My breathing are much better. Sleep much more better in the nights. |
Samantha Davis from Australia |
Totally |
It allowed my to release my true voice+began the contact with my soul essence through sound+its song became the echo of my spirit dreaming |
Anonymous from USA |
Totally |
I've always wanted to and now I can because your website taught me how to make it! Now I want to use my didj everywhere I want to help people and I want to save up to buy another! |
Scott from USA |
Somewhat |
I am excited about looking to get a didgeridoo and begin to learn to play. |
Sean Jackson from USA |
Somewhat |
It has shown people quickly that I am open to other cultures and ways of life. |
Shawn from USA |
Somewhat |
It has given me a deeper understanding of musical instruments and a better understanding of a rich culture. I am an appreciator of old cultures they fascinate me. |
Stan from USA |
Significantly |
It's a great way to spend a lot of time in a very creative way without costing you a fortune. The didj also improves your breathing and lung capacity. |
Stephen Martin from USA |
Significantly |
It has broadened my love for world music and the aboriginal culture.. this is a big part of our world as people from all around the globe and I think its important to share beautiful things.. |
Steve from United Kingdom |
Totally |
It has made me more aware of the environment and cultures that are different and equally is rich and full as my own. I now research more into being more sustainable and also look to learn from other cultures as a way of bettering myself. |
Sundeep from USA |
Significantly |
It was what started making me think about issues concerning Aboriginal peoples from all over the world. I also find that almost all children gravitate towards the majestic sound and then it allows me to answer questions that come up. |
Thomas from Germany |
Totally |
My snoring is getting better and better |
Tommi from Finland |
Totally |
As I said spiritual realms have opened. I have the knowledge how it can effect and would love to see how it would effect if played in a group like You told in your newsletter about those meditation events. |
Anonymous |
Totally |
Olive Trees taught me circular breathing. |
Venita Bentley from USA |
Significantly |
It keeps me more relaxed and my breathing is better and I feel better about myself and other people. |
Walker from USA |
Somewhat |
The circular breathing techniques I have learned on the didge are useful for the other wind instruments I play. |
Wayne from Australia |
Somewhat |
Allows me to relax has increased my lung capacity and diaphragm strength therefore increasing higher notes and being able to play stronger yidaki and allowing all those around me to enjoy the sound of the yidaki. |