The Beat Was Never Broken

🔥 A book for the fidgeters, the dancers, the spell-casters, and the misfits with rhythm in their bones.

IN OPEN DYSLEXIC FONT FOR SMOOTHER READING EXPERIENCE!

The Beat Was Never Broken is part sermon, part spellbook, part revolutionary dancefloor for your nervous system. Written in rhythm and soaked in spirit, this book is a gospel for the restless and a permission slip for every body that’s ever been told to sit still.

Across three fiery sections—Theft of the Beat, Remembering the Body, and Return to Rhythm—NiKO Sekoya dismantles colonial silencing, reclaims neurodivergent movement as sacred ritual, and invites you into a living, twitching, stomping archive of joy, grief, resistance, and return.

What’s inside?

• Why drums were banned (hint: not because they were loud, but because they could organize revolutions)
• How neurodivergent stimming is actually ancient spellwork
• Sensory seeking as spiritual survival
• The history of dancing on stolen stages—and how to make them circles again
• Rituals for reconnecting to your body when the world calls you too much
• A fierce reclamation of JOY as a tactical, holy rebellion

Read this if:

• You’ve ever cried during a bass drop
• You stim like you’re summoning something
• You’ve been praised for surviving but never for moving
• You are secretly a temple, a drum, a storm system in jeans

What does it feel like?
Like a mixtape made by your ancestors and your inner child.
Like church—but make it sweaty, queer, Black, barefoot, and loud.
Like a molotov cocktail of memory and movement—wrapped in velvet and set to a beat.

⚠️ Warning: This book may cause spontaneous movement, inconvenient healing, excessive laughing, spiritual rehydration, ancestral deja vu, and a sudden urge to build a shrine out of your childhood coping mechanisms. Read responsibly.

✨ Your rhythm was never broken. Just waiting.
Let’s move.