Before you had words for your pain, there was a rhythm that held it. Long before wellness trends discovered sound healing, our African ancestors built entire languages — and entire healing systems — out of rhythm. The talking drum, the djembe, call-and-response traditions: these were never aesthetic. They were medicine. Now neuroscience is confirming what indigenous healers always knew — that rhythm regulates the nervous system, synchronizes our heartbeats, and calls us back into collective coherence. In this first installment of the Medicine of the Senses series, we return to the drum. Because the drum never forgot. And neither did you.