{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Other Side of Things","title":"The Other Side of Things (E14) Sacred 7 with Andrew Ecker #drumming #healing #shamanichealing ","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3944,"description":"0:00 Welcome to the Show\n00:36 Meet Andrew Ecker\n02:03 Ancestry and Roots\n03:49 Life Assignment and Loss\n04:58 Gritty Healing Work\n06:46 Host Tribute and Sacred Seven\n09:05 Opening Prayer\n13:19 Relational Spirituality Defined\n14:00 From Religion to Red Road\n18:22 Trauma Addiction and Liberation\n27:15 Energy and Emotional Density\n28:56 Drumming in Memory Care\n33:00 Displacement and Manifestation\n35:29 Trauma Informed Sound Medicine\n39:06 Spirituality Over Substances\n39:35 Turning Pain Into Practice\n40:40 Healthcare Pushback And Support\n42:15 Scaling Drum Circle Impact\n43:27 Energy Work With Clinicians\n45:38 Gong Moment Breakthrough\n47:31 Why Research Lags\n50:34 Funding A Drumming Study\n51:35 Connection Replaces Addiction\n53:30 March Retreat Details\n54:35 Congo Square And Inclusion\n57:22 Transformation Story And Invite\n01:00:23 Sacred Seven And Grounding\n01:01:49 Blessing And Closing Prayer\nThe Other Side of Things Podcast\nA Soulversation with Andrew Ecker\nRecovery • Sacred 7 • Drumming Sounds • Rhythm as Medicine • Living a Prayed Life\nIn this deeply personal and powerful conversation, I sit down with healer, recovery guide, and founder of Drumming Sounds, Andrew Ecker.\nAndrew shares his journey through addiction and recovery, revealing the deeper spiritual hunger beneath substance use and the sacred discipline that reshaped his life. We explore sobriety not as abstinence alone, but as initiation — as an ordeal that strips away illusion and invites us into prayer, service, and presence.\nWe also dive into Andrew’s Sacred 7 practice, a relational prayer rooted in the seven directions, and how rhythm and intentional drumming restore connection to ancestors, land, body, and spirit.\nAndrew introduces his ancestry and lived experience with generational incarceration, substance use disorder, and family loss, and describes bringing drumming into memory care, psychiatric units, prisons, and treatment centers as an evidence-based, trauma-informed practice that emphasizes...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/YnH_L-OQgkULW3pyyymcS7QxXjX55uQvw8afFgyc5jA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9mMWI0/YjlmZDdlNTBkYjJh/NGI5NDJjMjc2MWUx/ZWFjZC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}