How is Body Percussion a way of communicating with others?

Body percussion may be performed on its own or as an accompaniment to music and/or dance. Examples of countries' folk traditions that incorporate body percussion include Indonesian saman, Ethiopian armpit music, palmas in flamenco, and the hambone from the United States. Body percussion is a subset of "body music".

Through the creative and joyfilled activity body percussion with the generating of claps, stomps, clicks and sounding in motion, a deepend feeling of presence, connection and belonging emerges among the participants.