Women, Rhythm & Ritual: The Tambourine Path

A beginner tambourine drum workshop, welcoming all women, with Barbara Gail of The Tambourine Path.

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP: ❀ Part seminar, part experiential learning, part sacred space... Part reclamation of the drum in relation to feminine arts and energies... Part remembrance of our roots, the women drummers who came before us, as they now live through us... And part dedication to the memory, tradition and legacy of Layne Redmond.

❀ Synchronize your mind-body complex with rhythmic walking and breathing in an InnerVision Drum Journey (can also be done seated for those who prefer);

❀ Entrain through an embodied rhythm practice;

❀ Connect to our ancient feminine lineage, to the time of When the Drummers Were Women;

❀ Learn to play the OMazing tambourine drum!

❀ And co-create an invocation of the 4 elements playing our tambourines in a rhythmic procession ritual.

ABOUT THE TAMBOURINE: The tambourine is a jingled frame drum, and a magical, trance-inducing instrument, steeped in the feminine lineage of herstory.

Thousands of ancient artifacts depict Goddesses portrayed with a frame drum, also played by Priestesses and Everyday Women, in the temples and in the streets, in ceremonies and celebrations.

As community spiritual leaders, they harnessed the power of rhythm through drum, song and dance, as sound transmissions and to transmute energy.

Their skills were their offerings in service during festivals, rites of passage, healing rituals, for promoting meditative states of awareness, and for divination and rousing group consciousness.

EARLY BIRD AND REGULAR PRICES: $65 by midnight, March 21 $75 thereafter

Please register using this safe and secure Square link, with options to pay by Credit Card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, or Cash App, using a computer and not your phone: https://square.link/u/xsovjZuM

(If you prefer to pay by check, that can be arranged, so please reach out right away to not lose your place in the circle.)

PLEASE BRING: ❀ Water bottle ❀ Journal ❀ One to 4 items that represent for you either earth, air, fire or water, for our alter. (You can bring one item that represents one element, or one item for each element, or any combination in between.)

DRUMS AND BOOKS: ❀ Tambourine drums are provided, and will be available for sale, or BYO appropriate tambourine (headed, with a double-row of jingles).

❀ Copies of Layne Redmond's book, "When the Drummers Were Women: a Spiritual History of Rhythm" will also be available.

OTHER NOTES: ❀ Please be prepared to remove your shoes at the door.

❀ Dress comfortably. We'll have both chairs and cushy back-supported floor cushions available for seating options.

❀ Limited to 12 participants.

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BARBARA GAIL: Is the founder of "Women, Rhythm & Ritual" and "The Tambourine Path", both inspired by the teachings of Layne Redmond. She's been sharing the joys of many styles of rhythm and movement, hand-drumming and dance, for people of all ages, abilities and challenges, for nearly 30 years, as The Rhythm Inlet. Barbara began working with the Late Great Layne Redmond 30 years ago this month, was one of her protégées, and is dedicated to #LaynesLegacyLives.