An Introduction to The Tambourine Path™ in the Layne Redmond Tradition: a Beginner Workshop
With Barbara Gail, a Senior Teacher of the Layne Redmond Legacy
*$55 Early Bird by Midnight, September 8**
*$65 Regular Price**
*$75 At the Door (if seats are available)
*Limited to 30 women.
**NOTE: A few days before the workshop, all pre-paid registrants will receive an email from Barbara Gail (sent to the address used during registration) with important reminders, updated information, and a PDF to print or download. Please look for it, and check your spam!
As you pass through the front gate and stroll the grounds of Center Street Retreat, your body exhales and your senses take in the beauty and serenity of the sanctuary.
Then come inside, enter The Magic Room, and join a circle of women for spiritual renewal.
The Tambourine Path™ with Barbara Gail is a contemporary-ancestral way of Women’s Ritual Drumming, steeped in the Layne Redmond Tradition.
The focus is on illuminating the HERSTORY of The Ancient Women Drummers; experiencing the deeper sensibilities, wisdom and medicine of rhythm; and cultivating a feeling of connection to the 5ive Elements (Earth, Air, Fire, Water, and Ether), while learning how to play the basic strokes and rhythms of the Tambourine — the Frame Drum that Sparkles with Jingles!
Frame drums and tambourines were predominantly played by women throughout the Ancient Mediterranean World, in processions for both ceremony and celebration.
Drumming, dancing and singing were among the primary skills of Temple Priestesses, spiritual leaders who used these Ritual Arts to harness the elements, rouse and unify community consciousness, and attain spiritual awareness for healing, divination, transformation and activation.
This was beautifully described in Layne Redmond’s seminal and transformational book, “When the Drummers Were Women: a Spiritual History of Rhythm“, which has been translated into several languages.
Layne also noted that as contemporary women, we’re discovering and intuitively utilizing the Ritual Arts for connection and inspiration, as we seek deeper meaning in our lives. With these sacred tools, we soften into our feminine essence, return to our woman soul, and birth an expanded sense of ourselves both individually and collectively.
Barbara was a protégé of the Late Great Layne Redmond for 20 years.
“I absorbed all your shared knowledge like a sponge. It was particularly amazing to discover what stepping / pulsing while playing the tambourine can do to your body and soul. I never felt so connected with the universe. Many thanks!” ~ Marjolein – Music Teacher and Frame Drum Student; The Netherlands
September 22nd marks the Autumnal Equinox, when the length of our days and nights are equal, and light and dark are in balance.
It’s a perfect time for us to learn how to play the Tambourine, as each of the 5ive strokes of the drum relate to one of the 5ive Elements of our world, giving us an energetic opportunity to explore how it feels to be in an elemental balance of Earth, Air, Fire, Water, and Ether.
The day culminates in a simple ritual, where we’ll invoke, align with, connect to, and express ourselves through the 5ive Elements and the Drum.
This beginner-friendly tambourine workshop is part seminar, part experiential learning, part sacred circle…
Part reclamation of the drum in relation to the feminine arts of Women, Rhythm, & Ritual™…
Part remembrance of our roots, The Ancient Ones, the women drummers who came before us, as they now live through us…
And part dedication to the memory, tradition and legacy of #LayneRedmondLegacy and #LaynesLegacyLives.
This is DrumRise! The Art of Women’s Drumming!™
TOGETHER WE’LL:
❀ Create Sacred Space in SongChant
❀ Invoke The Ancient Ones
❀ Synchronize the mind-body complex in a walking and breathing Chakra Clearing Meditation (can also be done seated for those who prefer)
❀ Re-imagine ourselves in an InnerVision DrumJourney
❀ Embody entrainment through stepping, chanting and clapping rhythms
❀ View and learn about some of the photographs of ancient artifacts representing women with frame drums, from the Layne Redmond Collection
❀ Learn to play the magical Tambourine Drum, discovering basic techniques to make your drum sing
❀ Play beginner-friendly rhythms that are ideal for processions
❀ Experience a ceremony calling in The Elements while playing our Tambourines, in a Ritual of Rhythm and SongChant
❀ Step into your feminine lineage as a Daughter of an Ancient Pulse, of the time When the Drummers Were Women!
Barbara Gail welcomes you! She’s been reclaiming The Drum, The Song, and The Dance, for over 3 decades. Alchemizing the ancient wisdom of these practices, she facilitates transformational experiences that inspire and awaken us to remember who we are, individually and collectively.
❧ No previous musical, singing, or drumming experience is needed!
❧ All women and teen girls are invited.
❧ Tambourines are provided and will be available for purchase, or bring one of yours. (Must have a head and a double-row of jingles!)
❧ Copies of “When the Drummers Were Women: a Spiritual History of Rhythm” by Layne Redmond, will also be available.
WHAT TO BRING:
1 – A journal or notepad, and something to write with.
2 – Your no-spill water bottle (only water in The Magic Room).
3 – If you have a special rattle you’d like to bring, please do.
4 – A double-row jingled and headed tambourine if you have one (many will be provided and available for purchase).
5 – Write this now in your journal (and bring it with you) the first names of: your mother, all of your grandmothers, all of your great-grandmothers, and going back as far as you can. (If your relationship to any of these women is/was traumatic, feel free to substitute their name(s) with another woman who significantly impacted your life in a more positive way.)
6 – One item for the alter that represents for you EITHER: Earth, Air, Fire, Water, or Ether.
WHAT TO WEAR:
1 – Dress comfortably and in layers if you tend towards being chilled or hot. We’ll be mostly indoors, and go outdoors for a short while.
2 – Ceremonial Attire and Goddess Garb are welcome if you’re inspired, and is totally optional. (Come as you are!)
3 – Be prepared to remove your shoes before entering The Magic Room, which is carpeted.
4 – We’ll be going outside and walking the garden paths during the ritual (weather permitting), so sensible shoes (that might get a little wet if it rained) are suggested.
5 – A light rain jacket may be a good idea, if going outside is drizzly and drippy, but not pouring…
ARRIVAL:
The doors to The Magic Room will open no earlier than 1:45pm. Plan to arrive BEFORE that then, giving you ample time to park, walk from the parking area, check-in with registration, use the rest room, etc..
When The Magic Room opens, you’re invited to choose your spot and settle into the circle.
SEATING:
Chairs, cushions and back jacks are available. Feel free to bring your own.
AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE:
1 – Copies of Layne Redmond’s transformational and internationally acclaimed book, “When the Drummers Were Women: a Spiritual History of Rhythm”.
2 – Various tambourines (jingled frame drums) appropriate for Layne Redmond style playing.
3 – One new 16″ Remo Renaissance-headed Frame Drum.
MY HUSBAND, JEFF:
My wonderful beloved husband, Jeff Hanna, is a man of service, and will be assisting me before and after our scheduled time, with set-up, tear-down, and with sales. Many of you already know him.
So yes, there’ll be a man on the premises!
However, he won’t be with us during the workshop. (Unless I run into technical difficulties with my sound system and I need his assistance…)
DINE WITH US!
Let’s gather at a local restaurant afterwards! Email Barbara for your reservation (if you reserve, please commit to following through, thank you!): BGPrograms@BarbaraGail.com.
QUESTIONS?
About the program:
For inquiries about The Tambourine Path™ Workshop, Barbara Gail welcomes your call, at 941-223-0180.
About the venue:
For questions about Center Street Retreat, email Imane at love@centerstreet.community.
SPEND THE NIGHT WITH US!
With your affordable and clean room, enjoy the hot tub, swimming pool, outside showers, outdoor hangout areas, and serene setting, with access to a lovely group kitchen. To inquire, email Imane at love@centerstreet.community.
A LITTLE MORE ABOUT THE TAMBOURINE:
❀ The Tambourine is a jingled frame drum and magical instrument, steeped in the feminine lineage of ritual and reverie.
❀ Thousands of ancient artifacts portray Goddesses, Priestesses and Everyday Women playing frame drums and tambourines in processions, in the temples and in the streets, in ceremonies and in celebrations.
❀ In those times, women harnessed the power of trance-inducing rhythm with drumming, singing and dancing, sacred tools for obtaining meditative states of awareness, cultivating divination, promoting purification and healing, and rousing group consciousness.
❀ Often ecstatic and oracular, and sought by Kings and Queens, their skills were offerings of service during festivals, agricultural practices, and rites of passage.
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