Drum For Joy ~ African Drumming in Ireland
with Jaqui MacMillan
September 17 – 19 Weekend Intensive
September 17 – 24 Weeklong Workshop
$100 early bird discount if weeklong paid in full by July 7.
Drum For Joy!
Come for an intensive weekend or join us for the fun filled full week.
“If you can say it, you can play it” … These are the famous
words of Jaqui’s first drum teacher, Babatunde Olatunji, and also the foundation for all of her drum classes. The Drum For Joy in Ireland program will include classes where you will learn the language of the drum, basic technique and how to make your drum sing. Jaqui presents the drum songs in a way that make it fun and easy to learn. You will learn many rhythms, breaks, solo techniques and vocal parts throughout the program. We will also be exploring improvisation with with drums and percussion instruments, found sounds and working with the rhythms of nature in the beautiful environment around us. We will celebrate the coming of autumn, go to local pubs to hear Irish music and create spontaneous music magic together! No musical experience necessary/ all levels are welcome. There are a limited number of drums by request … please bring a drum if you can.
Green Path Medicine ~ A Shamanic Practitioner’s Course
Traditional Healing Techniques of the Andes and Amazon
with Ipupiara Makunaiman, Jenny Clay Toscano and Eve Bruce
September 3 – 10, 2010
We are living in times of great change, times that have been foretold by indigenous peoples for millennia.
It has been said that this will be a time when red, yellow, black and white people will come together again, as they were in the beginning of time, each bringing their unique medicine gift to the coming New Earth of harmony and peace.
Green Path Medicine was created by Ipupiara Makunaiman, an indigenous shaman from the Brazilian Amazon, Jenny Clay Toscano, an indigenous shaman from the Peruvian Andes, and Eve Bruce, a white woman devoted to bringing back the Earth based medicines. Our vision is to use Green Medicine – in healing and in teaching indigenous healing methods so that you can walk this path and heal others. We have been teaching shamanism together for over a dozen years, and our intent is to facilitate each person’s deepening connection to spirit and to Mother Earth, helping you find that inner indigenous person devoted to walking softly on Mother Earth with honor, connecting with all our relations, and walking the Green Path to find your own unique “medicine” or gift that will help the greening of our planet.
Join us in the hills of southwest Ireland for a week of teachings, ceremony, healings and connecting with the elements. Find your root in this richly alive land. Journey to your ancestral guides, and find your medicine, your song to the Earth. Learn techniques for healing from South American tribes of the high Andes and Deep Amazon. These powerful healing techniques can be the bridge over which your spirit can walk to find your unique shamanic practice which you can take with you into the world to heal self and other.
