Name and Country |
What is the longest you have played didj continuously using circular breathing (without any break in the sound at all)? |
Please share your experience of playing didj continuously for long periods of time? |
| Adrian from Australia |
25-30 min |
I use it a lot in meditation and for relaxing or for jamming occasionally |
| Adrien from France |
50-60 min |
I felt more and more relaxed going deeper into myself making more and more song at the same time by being more concentrated and playing more subtly I was able to play different melody at a time it was a kind of meditation I could feel the inside of the didj vibrating and myself as one. |
| Anonymous from United Kingdom |
15-20 min |
Elating |
| Anonymous from East Timor |
30-40 min |
It's actually quite unique... at first I noticed the small conflict between my body's breathing circle and the didj's circular breathing circle... and then of course my abdomen call for attention... but soon it all just fades away. the vibration spreads from my skull to my shoulders and goes on to the rest of my body. the rhythm and the sounds gently pull my thoughts into order and most things seem quite easier to look at... it's very fulfilling. |
| Andy from Canada |
5-10 min |
Very relaxing but it also starts to meld with the sounds that surround you. |
| Angie Pierce from USA |
30-40 min |
All I can say is your senses become blurred you can't feel that you are sitting but you are supported you're not floating but you're surrounded by air all around your whole being goes numb and feels more intently all at the same time. |
| Benoit Bégin from Canada |
2-5 min |
Really relaxing and good centralisation of the attention. An awesome experience! |
| Bradley from USA |
2-5 min |
I have difficulty producing a stable pleasant tone for long periods. |
| Brett Houser from USA |
1 hour + |
Very spiritual |
| Brian from USA |
30-40 min |
It's a great way to lose yourself. You start playing and the outside world sort of slips away. |
| Cesar Mayoral Figueroa from Mexico |
Up to 2 min |
I felt a little dizzy at first but then it helps me in singing by controlling breath |
| Chace Bedford from USA |
10-15 min |
The whole room vibrates like you're on hard drugs. |
| Anonymous from Australia |
1 hour + |
I do it for around two hours continuously when I go busking |
| Chris Thorn from United Kingdom |
3 hours + |
A charity event. I played 6 hour's continuously. I felt the last 3 hour's were the easiest almost going into a trance like state |
| Chuck from USA |
10-15 min |
Meditation state... loved the feeling of moving sounds around and keeping a nice pulsing rhythm |
| Cody from USA |
5-10 min |
The longest I have played is about 9 minutes and it was amazing! It strongly resembled deep meditation which usually takes me much longer to achieve without the didge. |
| Anonymous |
Can play but not circular |
Same sensation after playing that I get from playing my Shakuhachi (japanese bamboo flutes) |
| Cynthia Tierra from USA |
Up to 2 min |
It is mind altering and relaxing. |
| Anonymous |
15-20 min |
Allowed my surrounding to melt away |
| Anonymous |
5-10 min |
Loss of feeling in the lips can cause bruising around the mouth |
| Anonymous from USA |
20-25 min |
It's a great workout therapeutic and enlightening. A great sense of accomplishment. My nose usually itches during and afterwards if I haven't been practicing. |
| Anonymous |
5-10 min |
Got into a meditative groove and kept going. |
| Anonymous from United Kingdom |
Up to 2 min |
I'm still working at it. I can do well with my F didge but the big C didge is a challenge. |
| Dave from United Kingdom |
5-10 min |
Being an asthmatic I try to play for long periods to train my lungs |
| David from USA |
10-15 min |
This solstice will be the first attempt at playing for more than 20 min continuous. |
| David from USA |
10-15 min |
Creative and meditative. Even short periods of play produce new and creative thought processes for me. I use a didj to facilitate my writing process interrupting my writing with didj playing when I'm blocked. |
| Anonymous |
Up to 2 min |
Have not mastered circular breathing |
| David Yates from Canada |
Up to 2 min |
I took my first lesson yesterday and I'm already enchanted. Within a day I have been able to circular breathe for about a minute and each time I try it I'm able to keep going for a little longer. I really look forward to the chance to delve further into what seems to be a very magical experience! |
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1 hour + |
It would be best described as a physical and mental pleasure. A great workout just like going to a gym. |
| Dean Archer from United Kingdom |
5-10 min |
Nice relaxing |
| Anonymous from France |
15-20 min |
Great meditation |
| Donald Cassel from Us Minor Outlying Islands |
10-15 min |
I feel good! |
| Douglas from USA |
15-20 min |
I get a fat lip:) |
| Edilson Calheiros from Brazil |
1 hour + |
I've learned circular breathing without any teacher because in my country very hard to find people who jogan didgeridoo old with great patience and training was like a dream acordei the other day doing perfectly circular breathing... To weep with emotion. |
| Elliot from United Kingdom |
5-10 min |
First let me clarify the above about my didj I have one I think that it could be termite hollowed and it does have hand painted art work on it but I have no idea or proof of its provenance and doubt its authenticity. It also is very hard to play and does not sound good at all! The 5 - 10 minute session I had was using my brother in laws didj (who was the person who first introduced me to didj's) and I am not sure how I did it I can just about circular breathe but but not more then maybe 3 or 4 cycles (not having a proper didj means I only get to practice when I see my brother in law) but this time it all seemed to come together and I got into a fantastic rhythm and whilst I was playing it felt fantastic I was completely zoned it was fantastic and I can't wait to get the chance again when I am next at his |
| Emilian Skrzynecki from Poland |
10-15 min |
1. Equal comfortable rhythm of breath. 2. Switching between "lung air" to "cheek"air in the half of exhaust phase of breath. 3. Mucosa of nasal cavity should be free of swell otherwise one cannot inhale air thru nose what is essential for circular breathing; (example: hay fever). 4. If it is possible - I practice playing in total darkness - after ~30 minutes of playing a new ideas for a rhythm intonation sound - are coming itself - full improvisation with perfect feeling of sounds produced. It is incredible experience!!! I have got problem with catarrh - mites (house dust) allergy and an excess of salivation - after ~15 minutes of continuous playing I must stop and swallow saliva - and go on for the next ~15 minutes. I dislike to "spit" into my didge... During swell of my nose mucous I can practice various sounds only but when the swelling goes away - the true playing with full loud and deep sounds-playing is beginning!!! Of course with circular breathing. |
| Eric from Canada |
Can play but not circular |
Playing the Didj for long periods of time takes me into a meditative state similar to chanting. The vibrations have a calming and euphoric effect on my body and mind. |
| Garrett from USA |
Up to 2 min |
It feels great but is really hard to keep up |
| Gary from USA |
2-5 min |
Would like to develop the facial muscle endurance to find out. This is most important for circular breathing. |
| Gerard from Netherlands |
15-20 min |
The pressure on the lips and the vibrations make my lips numb after some time and makes me loose control over the sound |
| Gina Tines from USA |
5-10 min |
I am just getting started b ut I have had pervious experiences with extended periods of breath work. even in the past few days the times when I keep the circular breathing going on the didj I feel amazing. I feel shifts in reality a deep resonance that alters consciousness and aids in tapping into archaic/current collective unconscious. |
| Anonymous |
Can play but not circular |
Stayed with friends from the Tjapukai dance theatre they tried to teach me ( I was in the military US. with one of them) |
| Gordon from Australia |
10-15 min |
I am just learning but have already started to Circular breath. |
| Gordon White from USA |
50-60 min |
For me it a transcendent experience which enables me to harmonize my own inner vibration with the vibrational energy of the universe. |
| Greg from USA |
40-50 min |
It's hypnotic and very soothing. Afterwards I feel very good kind of mildly euphoric |
| Gregory from Canada |
2-5 min |
Tried to control sleep apnea.. some positive results. sound quality is poor on my bamboo digs. |
| Anonymous from Canada |
Can play but not circular |
My husband has chronic sever pain. He plays didj and has found it very helpful for reducing his pain level. |
| Anonymous from Czech Republic |
50-60 min |
It is great for your mind. You are free from around world and feel the vibrations in whole body. |
| Javier Miguel from Spain |
15-20 min |
It is like regular breathing exercise. Once you get warm and ready nothing can stop you. It is absolutely great!!! |
| Jim Barrett from Sweden |
3 hours + |
I lived in Amsterdam as a street musician for all of 1998. To survive I played didgeridoo for up to 5 hours a day. This was the beginning of my love for the didgeridoo. I still play for 3 or 4 hours at a time when I can (mostly in the summer as I do not like playing inside buildings). After playing for about 1 hour I begin to feel extremely good. The rhythms of the didge become my rhythms. I feel like I am floating. |
| Jim from USA |
5-10 min |
I was just ad libbing and in a groove that I didn't want to stop |
| Johan Thaens from Belgium |
10-15 min |
Best way of meditating giving (loosing) yourself completely to the universe |
| John Robinson from USA |
15-20 min |
I kind of went into a trance. |
| Jonathan from Canada |
Up to 2 min |
I find it very relaxing. The sound can be felt as well as heard. However I could not get the hang of circular breathing (yet). I just need more practice. |
| Joshua from USA |
10-15 min |
Its like u get in a trance and just become one with the instrument almost spiritual |
| Karl from Australia |
2-5 min |
I made my own practice didj a few years ago and haven't yet had to chance to get an authentic one of my own. Lots of knock-offs being sold around here to the tourists. I find it a peaceful almost spiritual experience which allows me to empty my mind and contemplate what a traditional didj artist and player might think about when they play theirs under the stars near a campfire etc. |
| Keano Martinez from USA |
Can play but not circular |
I like the tones of the didgeridoo it relaxes me. I just wish I could do circular breathing! I'm still practicing but I'm not to happy with my current didgeridoo if you can even call it a didgeridoo!!! I made it myself out of pvc pipe |
| Keith from USA |
10-15 min |
Playing it while Circular breathing is very different than playing it while breathing periodically. It is more trance chant and less varied in each sound moment. |
| Lars from Sweden |
2-5 min |
It gives me a sense of well being and a waxed moustache that Hercule Poirot would be proud of. |
| Anonymous |
2-5 min |
Loved it |
| Laura Larson from USA |
20-25 min |
When I learned to circular breath I happened to be at a sound healing tepee workshop and I played for over 3 hours till my lips were to swollen. I have only felt that good from just breathing only a few times in my life but none compared to that. |
| Lee from United Kingdom |
10-15 min |
Shweet |
| Malcolm Pascoe from Australia |
5-10 min |
The didge is a spiritual instrument and as such produces in me an euphoric experience my breathing can become strained and this adds to a sort of out of it feeling. I often ask for guidance from the Great Spirit and in turn receive intuitive instruction of the sounds I produce. |
| Mark Bowyer from United Kingdom |
Can play but not circular |
I suffer from chronic pain syndrome (also known as ME) and find that the vibrations of a low drone help to relax my joints which can tense up due to the intense and continued pain. |
| Anonymous from United Kingdom |
2-5 min |
Good vibe! |
| Mark from Australia |
2-5 min |
Still learning |
| Mark Swain from USA |
2-5 min |
I do native American Spiritual ceremonies and I always use my didge as part of the ceremony. I am also a healer and use the didge to enhance meditative states. |
| Anonymous |
5-10 min |
Good for concentration and to let thoughts go. |
| Mike Harges from USA |
Up to 2 min |
I can't seem to get circular breathing going for more than a couple of cycles. But I blow my didjes often and for long period I find the "buzz" on my lips addictive and I try to blow at least 3-4 times a week. |
| Nikku from Greenland |
20-25 min |
I am very wondering a didge for my life |
| Paul Murray from Ireland |
40-50 min |
It has the ability to completely detach one's mind from all the every day hassle and noise. I find that my mind becomes completely sedate and calm |
| Paul from Canada |
2-5 min |
Healthful |
| Peter from USA |
20-25 min |
I go into trance and reverie and my mind gets very quiet |
| Peter from New Zealand |
10-15 min |
Great for breathe awareness & concentration (meditation) |
| Peter Johnsson from Sweden |
20-25 min |
Well if 25 minutes is a "long" time I don't know...but for me it is the longest I've managed to do it. The thing that I reflects most was/is that my perspiration really gets going when I do it for more then about 10 minutes and that I if only touched it gets in a meditative state of mind! |
| Reynaldo Brutton Cieza from Peru |
40-50 min |
Total relaxation non feeling of face hole body intense vibration deep manage of breathing visualization of coloured forms on motion. |
| Robert from Australia |
Up to 2 min |
Great I love the sound I have MS so hopefully it has some healing for me |
| Robert from Japan |
1 hour + |
It washes away my stresses and fills me with peace. I was lucky enough to perform in front of an audience of around 800 last year here in Japan as part of my taiko concert (Japanese drums). The audience was very appreciative. I was very pleased to have been able to share this extraordinary instrument with them and will play again next year to similar numbers. |
| Robert Pettit from USA |
10-15 min |
I like to get to a whisper playing very softly is a challenge. Didge shop concert class instruments are best for this. |
| Anonymous from USA |
Can play but not circular |
It is lots of fun |
| Roxann from USA |
Up to 2 min |
Sometimes I get dizzy |
| Anonymous |
2-5 min |
Completely relaxing |
| Anonymous from USA |
30-40 min |
Relaxing |
| Sasa from Croatia/Hrvatska |
30-40 min |
It's sort of a meditation. It pulls you in and you feel the vibration and let go of everything else. It's like you can feel the rhythm of nature and in those moments spontaneously know that your troubles are silly:) |
| Anonymous |
Can play but not circular |
Well I am in the process of mastering the circular bit worked out I love the resonance & the vibration my didj makes love to get better at it. |
| Simon Clutterbuck from Canada |
2-5 min |
It clears my sinuses well. It improves my breathing and relaxes me. It alters my state of consciousness. |
| Anonymous from United Kingdom |
30-40 min |
I find continuous didge playing facilitates production of imagery along the lines of that describes by Michael Harner in his book the Way of the Shaman. |
| Steve Meek from USA |
10-15 min |
I go through different periods at first its kinda concentrating on what's going on or wrong with the sound then I get into a rhythm and stretch my lungs and about after 3 to 5 min I go into kind of a trance and after that.... |
| Anonymous |
25-30 min |
Meditative trance |
| Thomas from Australia |
5-10 min |
I am new to the didge and only have a very basic circular breathing technique and make mistakes and I have to correct myself by stopping. My main player in in B flat and I find it very meditating. |
| Tiago Francisquinho from Portugal |
30-40 min |
I Play didge every day of my life I also make songs that I play if I am sad or happy. And for some reason I am something else when I am playing it..i am not human:) |
| Anonymous |
40-50 min |
Trance like journeying |
| Victor from Netherlands |
Can play but not circular |
Calming impressive sound |
| Warner Recabaren from USA |
1 hour + |
Hypnotic weaving through the notes. |
| Anonymous |
5-10 min |
I played the flute for many years so I thought it would be easy but its not. I suppose id have better luck had I been a trumpet player. I remember being really excited to get that first transition of breaths. Really great feeling. |
| Anonymous from Netherlands |
15-20 min |
When you catch the breathing technique it's simple to maintain it |
