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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.

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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.)

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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.)

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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.

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JOIN THE FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE:
https://fb.me/e/C7HNly3b

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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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Thank you, and I look forward to seeing you in the circle!

WHAT WE’LL DO:
❀ Our global virtual circle of women will gather in rhythm and ritual along The Tambourine Path, weekly on zoom. ❀ Simple SongChants invoke sacred space. ❀ Entrainment through the embodied rhythmic practices of stepping while reciting and clapping rhythms (can also be done seated), aligns us with our inner and external rhythms. ❀ Tambourine technique warm-ups that polish our playing skills. ❀ Learn, review and enjoy rhythm patterns that gradually develop our skills of playing while seated or in procession. ❀ Our weekly sessions are geared toward beginners, but not raw beginners (beginner-ish). ❀ Please see Pre-requisites, below.

DATES & TIME:
5 Fridays Online: March 17 ~ April 14, 2023; 1:00-2:30pm EDT*
(EDT is Eastern Daylight Time, for the US and Canada, which includes New York City)

* Please note! On March 12, the Eastern US Time Zone jumps one hour forward, from EST to EDT! So if you convert your time zone now, please do so again after March 12, to be sure of your possible local time adjustment.

Time zone converter:
https://dateful.com/time-zone-converter

REPLAYS:
Thanks to several of you who’ve reached out that you’re interested in these sessions, but have scheduling conflicts and are unable to join us LIVE!

In response, I’ve decided that we will have replays (for everyone), but not for an indefinite amount of time.

If unable to attend LIVE, I’d love for you to work with the material in your own time, but during the same weeks as us.

Because we’ll have a private FB group, only for members of the class, where we can connect, share, support, in the ways we do in our weekly gatherings. This will be especially important, as my intention is not for me to be a talking head on the screen, but to be creating community for, and WITH you.

So being there LIVE is important, for those who are able.

COST:
Your investment is $125.00

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/cpcpOVOs

(Prefer payment by check? That can be arranged.)

Zoom link and other important info will be sent via follow-up emails directly from me, after registration payment has been received.

JOIN THE FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE:
https://fb.me/e/Hq7ooElo

SCHOLARSHIP:
Financial hardship at this time? I understand! I’m prepared to offer a partial or perhaps even full scholarship to a woman who… ❀ Hears a deep calling to our virtual circle, on a Soul level… ❀ Sees herself as a mentee along The Tambourine Path, and can articulate how or why this class would make a difference in her life… ❀ Can see herself alchemizing this work in her own way, with what she brings to the world to enrich her community… ❀ And who can sit with me in a brief video chat about all that. ❀ Your name will be held in confidence.

DONATIONS TOWARDS THE SCHOLARSHIP FUND:
😊🙏🏽✨💖 For those of you interested and able, your contribution will support a woman who would love to join us, to make a difference in her own life and to enrich her community, but is without the financial means at this time… Your donations can be made using this safe and secure Square link: https://square.link/u/qZKAyaUY

Your name will will be held in confidence. DEEP GRATITUDE for your generosity. 🕯🙏🏽🕯

(If you prefer donating by check, that can also be arranged.)

🌸⚪️🌸 PRE-REQUISITES:

1: Firstly, you’ll need the correct type of tambourine! I have 2 videos you can check out for info and Amazon links:
“My Top 3 Beginner Tambourines for Layne Redmond Style Playing” https://youtu.be/n-TA29qsWps
and “How to Buy a Frame Drum: Choosing your Layne Redmond Style Tambourine” https://youtu.be/-7T11nps4TQ

2: You’ll need to have a basic understanding of how to hold and play the strokes of the instrument. Our weekly sessions are geared toward beginners, but not totally raw beginners. (Beginner-ish.) In other words, while it’s not an intro level class, it IS for the relative newbie who’s had an intro experience.

So at a minimum, you’ll definitely need to have worked with my “Tambourine Path for Beginners” series on YouTube. These are bite-sized, free videos, ranging from 4 to 20 minutes long, organized in a sequential video playlist. I suggest starting with the first, “The Call of the Ancient Frame Drum: Introducing The Tambourine Path”, continuing through the 2 videos on “How to Play Jingle Rolls” (which are so cool!). As each video ends, simply click on the following one in the end card or on the playlist.

Suggested: even if you’ve watched them before, please take the time to review those before our first gathering, to solidify your basic skills.

Access my Frame Drum & Tambourine Video Playlist here:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOXcC7gJDeJJDF9SbU2jmQTkjQhAkUhk7

3: Do you have in-person or online experience with me? If you do, that’s even better! Because you know these sessions are for you! (In fact several of you asked for them!)

And if you’ve not experienced my work before, that’s okay, too!

Either way, I love that you’re interested in continuing with me along The Tambourine Path, and I look forward to meeting you there.

After practicing rhythmic entrainment with our voices, feet, and hands, we’ll learn to play two of the strokes on the tambourine, the jingled frame drum that sings in processions. The remainder of our time will be spent practicing how to walk together ‘in time’ while simultaneously playing a basic tambourine rhythm, in procession.

Then tonight, we’ll perform our beautiful rhythmic procession, as we lead the SingFest23 organizers and workshop facilitators into the sanctuary. We’ll keep the beat going during one or two songs while on stage with them, and later, our 2nd procession will lead everyone from the sanctuary to the lovely candle lit, outdoor labyrinth, for whatever activities the organizers have in store for us all!

If thinking about the Drumming Priestesses of Ancient Times and Layne Redmond’s troupe The Mob of Angels inspire you… And if the image of an all-womyn jingled drum ceremonial and celebratory procession at SingFest23 lights you up… And then imagining YOU’RE IN THAT DRUM PROCESSION excites you even more, then please join us at this Friday afternoon, pre-gathering workshop, and we’ll co-create some magic!

No prior drumming or processional experience are needed! Tambourine drums will be provided, available for purchase, or BYO headed, double-row tambourine. Copies of Layne Redmond’s book will also be available for sale.

🌸⚪️🌸 The Tambourine Path: an Introduction in the Layne Redmond Tradition  🌸⚪️🌸

Throughout the Ancient Mediterranean World, Goddesses were portrayed with frame drums, and sacred drumming was a skill of Priestesses who used the power of rhythm to rouse community consciousness and attain spiritual awareness for healing and divination. The tambourine, a jingled frame drum, is a magical, trance-inducing instrument, steeped in this rich herstory, and was played in the temples and in the streets, in ritual and in reverie.

Learn about the herstory the Goddess and Priestess Frame Drummers of the Ancient Mediterranean World. Entrain to the pulse through embodied rhythm practice. Learn how to hold the tambourine and play its 5 strokes, as well as how they each relate to the elements of our world. Playing basic rhythms, we’ll co-create an elemental invocation using our tambourines.

(Optional) You’re welcome to bring one item that represents either earth, air, fire or water, which will be placed on the alter during the ritual later in the workshop.

No prior drumming experience is needed! Tambourine drums will be provided, available for purchase, or BYO headed, double-row tambourine. Copies of Layne Redmond’s book will also be available for sale.

A dynamic alchemist since 1993 in the art of leading group rhythm & movement, hand-drumming & dance, Barbara Gail was a longtime student of Layne Redmond, author of When the Drummers Were Women: a Spiritual History of Rhythm.

FMI about the weekend’s guest facilitators, workshops, activities, what’s included, location, lodging options, etc., please visit the SingFest 2023 website.

❦ Performance / presentation on the herstory of the frame drum, sharing ancient artifact images and symbology from Layne Redmond’s When the Drummers Were Women collection.
❦ Opening and closing circles.
❦ SongChants and Invocations that immediately create sacred space.
❦ Embodying rhythm by stepping, clapping and reciting rhythm patterns (can also be done seated for those who prefer).
❦ Experiencing a guided Rhythmic Wisdom Meditation and In-Powering InnerVision DrumJourney (can also be done seated for those who prefer).
❦ Learning how to hold the tambourine drum.
❦ Learning how to play its basic strokes and their relationship to the elements earth, air, fire and water.
❦ Participation in a processional drum ritual, connecting you to the elements while you’re drumming.

All women welcome!
Appropriate for the raw beginner! No music or drumming experience needed!
Your group size may be limited, so please register early.

 

I love Barbara’s teaching style… the detailed, explicit explanation that is easily and readily understandable… how you break it down into components, and then put it back together again. Your instruction is unique in this technique. Speaking as a teacher myself, Barbara is top drawer! She is the rhythm guru!
~ Sandra, on Barbara’s YouTube video series, The Tambourine Path.

 

NEED A DRUM?
Tambourines will be provided for your use at no additional charge, and will be available for purchase. Copies of Layne Redmond’s book, When the Drummers Were Women: a Spiritual History of Rhythm, will also be for sale. Barbara’s husband and partner in life and work, Jeff, will be on hand before and after the workshop, with knowledgeable assistance for purchases.

COVID NOTES…
Masks are required, doors or windows might be slightly opened for ventilation where possible, and we will physically distance as best we can in the space.

COST:
Payment is non-refundable, unless we cancel the workshop, or if your payment was received after the workshop sold out. A waiting list will be created to fill cancelled seats.

St Pete:
Early Bird discounted price of $50 is good through May 22. Full price is $60.

Floral City:
Early Bird discounted price of $45 is good through June 16. Full price is $55 through June 25. Anytime ON THE DAY OF THE WORKSHOP price: $60.

Altamonte Springs:
Early Bird discounted price of $50 is good through July 13. Full price is $60 through July 22. Anytime ON THE DAY OF THE WORKSHOP price: $65.

 

I really love the tambourine! It felt so natural as if I’ve played it before!
Thank you, Barbara, for another enlightening experience.
~ Lana, Florida

 

HOW TO REGISTER:

** IMPORTANT REGISTRATION INFO **
1 – To register, please use the safe and shareable link that is unique to your workshop date and venue.
2 – PLEASE CAREFULLY INCLUDE NAME, PHONE NUMBER AND EMAIL
3 – After payment, your receipt will be sent to the EMAIL ADDRESS YOU CAREFULLY PROVIDED during your payment process.
4 – Follow-up email communications from Barbara Gail, or an organizer, with all the need-to-know details about your event, such as what to bring, plus a link to a video you’ll need to watch before the workshop, will also be sent to THAT SAME EMAIL ADDRESS. Please check your spam and promotions folders!
5 – PLEASE ALSO CAREFULLY ENTER YOUR PHONE NUMBER during the payment process, in case we need to call you.

To register for St. Pete: Contact Sumayah Lea directly or by email Taliamoonbotanica@gmail.com. *Venmo @taliamoon (preferred). *Cash or Credit accepted.

To register for Floral City, FL:  Payment link here.

To register for Altamonte Springs, FL:  Payment link here.

 

I absorbed all your shared knowledge like a sponge. It was particularly amazing
to discover what stepping/pulsing while playing the drum,
can do to your body and soul. I never felt so connected with the universe. 
Many thanks! So happy that you make Layne’s legacy visible for us.”
~ Marjolein, The Netherlands, online workshop

 

ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR:
Barbara Gail is the creator and founder of  The Rhythm Inlet, Women, Rhythm & Ritual, Moonrise: Daughters of an Ancient Pulse, DrumRise! The Art of Women’s Drumming, and The Tambourine Path. A well-versed, seasoned instructor and teacher’s teacher, her various hand-drumming classes and events have been infused for nearly 30 years, with the teachings of her longtime tambourine and frame drum mentor and friend, the late Layne Redmond.

Layne authored the highly acclaimed, seminal book, When the Drummers Were Women: a Spiritual History of Rhythm, now translated into several languages. Layne documented the herstory of women who drummed, danced and sang, in the temples and in the streets, in ceremonies and celebrations, thousands of years ago, throughout the Ancient Mediterranean World. These women harnessed rhythm, sound and movement to rouse community consciousness and attain spiritual awareness for healing and divination. The face of women’s spiritual drumming has been, and continues to be transformed, internationally, thanks to Layne.

Barbara represented Layne Redmond and her Legacy at the Indianapolis Convention Center in November, 2021, where Layne was posthumously inducted into the Hall of Fame at the Percussive Arts Society’s International Convention (PASIC), the largest percussion organization and 4-day convention of its kind in the world. Invited by PASIC, Barbara taught the workshop, The Tambourine in the Layne Redmond Tradition to a record-breaking crowd, maxing-out the room’s limit of 130 participants, with 20 or more listening outside in the hallway. She also led the women’s tambourine group procession after the induction ceremony.

 

Your seminar last Sunday proved a very special day and a wonderful gathering.
Your talent, creativity and obvious enthusiasm for what you do
was a pleasure to experience. I truly hope we will have more
opportunities to gather and share in your knowledge (and joy of rhythm)!!
~ Sarah, Maine

 

Since 1993 Barbara has been a multi-faceted specialist in the teaching arts, alchemizing her award-winning and dynamically creative rhythm and movement, hand-drumming and dance programs, for people of all ages, abilities, and challenges. Thousands of people and diverse populations have experienced her high quality, memorable, spirited and empowering programs, in various educational, recreational, and therapeutic settings.

She’s appeared throughout Maine, around Southwest Florida, and in NH, NY, TN, PA, Boulder, San Diego, Indianapolis, and Baltimore, and in over 375 venues, including conferences, retreats, agencies, organizations, schools, libraries, churches, synagogues, festivals, camps, community centers, dance and yoga studios, professional organizations, assisted living and memory care facilities, private homes and parties, and more.

As the creator and director of Moonrise: Daughters of an Ancient Pulse, and DrumRise! The Art of Women’s Drumming, Barbara’s led various groups of women in ceremonial and celebratory tambourine, frame drum, and djembe drumming, for seasonal ceremonies, processions, performances, worship services, and other events.

 

This was amazing. Brought the higher purpose of drumming alive.
Barbara is a wonderful teacher. Thank you to my new spiritual sisters
and to Barbara for holding sacred space in this beautiful circle.
I would do it again in a heartbeat. <3
~ Joan, Florida

 

Barbara and her husband, Jeff Hanna, owned and operated The Rhythm Inlet World Drum and Percussion retail store and teaching studio in Maine from 1996-2005, and in southwest Florida (with the addition of the ukulele) from 2005 until closing its doors in January, 2022.

Barbara holds a B.A. in Education titled The Arts as Experiential Education for Personal and Social Transformation (Hampshire College, 1986), where she also minored in dance.

Women, Rhythm and Ritual describes Barbara’s transformational ceremonies and workshops through the drum, the song, the dance. Accelerating a worldwide movement, The Tambourine Path is a mission-driven, seed-planting, traveling Master Class, that caters to the creation of beginner and beyond beginner women’s regional processional tambourine troupes, with follow-up guidance and support. The Tambourine Path also offers basic tambourine technique lessons on Barbara’s YouTube channel, where she also shares other inspired creations.

Barbara feels honored, blessed and grateful to have online students, followers and colleagues around the country and around the world, whom she is delighted to call her friends.

 

I’m honored, grateful and blessed to have online colleagues,
students and followers, around the country and around the world,
who I’m delighted to call friends.
~ Barbara Gail

 

Enjoy Barbara’s video, Has the Ancient Frame Drum Been Calling to You?

Experience Barbara’s teaching in this video

Visit her website

Friend her on Facebook

Thanks again for the wonderful workshop and lesson on our
drumming heritage. Once in a while we meet people who we have a definite
connection through spirit. I felt this with you. You are a very special teacher.
~ Anne, Maine

 

HAVE QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS?
Or just simply need to check in with your hostess or instructor?
Please call Barbara at 941-223-0180, or email her at BGPrograms@BarbaraGail.com

❦ Performance / presentation on the herstory of the frame drum, with ancient artifact images from Layne Redmond’s “When the Drummers Were Women” collection.
❦ Opening and closing circles.
❦ SongChants and Invocations to create sacred space.
❦ Experiencing an In-Powering InnerVision DrumJourney, through a guided rhythmic meditation.
❦ Embodying rhythm patterns by stepping, clapping and reciting rhythms (can also be done seated for those who prefer).
❦ Learning how to hold the tambourine drum.
❦ Learning how to play its basic strokes and their relationship to earth, air, fire and water.
❦ Participation in a drum ritual, connecting you to these 4 elements while playing your drum.
❦ Learn some beginner tambourine rhythm patterns.
❦ All culminating in group multi-rhythm drumming on our tambourines!

All women welcome.
Appropriate for the raw beginner. No music or drumming experience needed.
Group size in Afton and Harrisburg are both limited to 12.
Group size limit in Winchester is TBD.

 

I love Barbara’s teaching style… the detailed, explicit explanation that is easily and readily understandable… how you break it down into components, and then put it back together again. Your instruction is unique in this technique. Speaking as a teacher myself, Barbara is top drawer! She is the rhythm guru!
~ Sandra, on Barbara’s YouTube video series, The Tambourine Path.

 

NEED A DRUM?
Tambourines will be provided for your use at no additional charge, and will be available for purchase. Copies of Layne Redmond’s book, When the Drummers Were Women: a Spiritual History of Rhythm, will also be for sale. Barbara’s husband and partner in life and work, Jeff, will be on hand before and after the workshop, with knowledgeable assistance for purchases.

COVID NOTES…
Until further notice, masks will be required, doors or windows will be open for ventilation, and we will physically distance as best we can in the space.

COST:
Payment is non-refundable, unless we cancel the workshop, or if your payment was received after the workshop sold out. A waiting list will be created to fill cancelled seats.

Greeneville:
Full price is $50. Early Bird discounted price of $40 is good through May 3.

Harrisburg:
Full price is $50. Early Bird discounted price of $40 is good through May 9.

Winchester:
Full price is $50. Early Bird discounted price of $40 is good through May 14.

 

I really love the tambourine! It felt so natural as if I’ve played it before!
Thank you, Barbara, for another enlightening experience.
~ Lana, Florida

 

HOW TO REGISTER:

To register for THURSDAY Greeneville (Afton), TN: ONE SEAT LEFT!  Please use this safe and shareable link. Your payment receipt will be sent to the EMAIL ADDRESS YOU CAREFULLY PROVIDED during your purchase. The workshop location address will also be sent to that same email address! PLEASE ALSO CAREFULLY ENTER YOUR PHONE NUMBER in case we need to call you. Follow-up email communications from Barbara Gail, or your hostess, with all your need-to-know details about your event, such as what to bring, plus any informational updates, will also be sent to THAT SAME EMAIL ADDRESS. Please check your spam and promotions folders!

To register for FRIDAY Greeneville (Afton), TN: SOLD OUT! Taking names for waiting list only.  Please use this safe and shareable link. Your payment receipt will be sent to the EMAIL ADDRESS YOU CAREFULLY PROVIDED during your purchase. The workshop location address will also be sent to that same email address! PLEASE ALSO CAREFULLY ENTER YOUR PHONE NUMBER in case we need to call you. Follow-up email communications from Barbara Gail, or your hostess, with all your need-to-know details about your event, such as what to bring, plus any informational updates, will also be sent to THAT SAME EMAIL ADDRESS. Please check your spam and promotions folders!

To register for Harrisburg, PA: SOLD OUT! Taking names for waiting list only. Please contact the organizer Lori Sweet, at (717) 756-0120 or  lorisweetstudios@gmail.com . PLEASE CAREFULLY PROVIDE YOUR BEST EMAIL AND PHONE NUMBER. Follow-up email communications from Barbara Gail, with all the need-to-know details about the event, such as what to bring, plus any informational updates, will also be sent to THAT SAME EMAIL ADDRESS, OR WE’LL CALL YOU. Please check your spam and promotions email folders!

To register for Winchester, VA: Please use this safe and shareable link. Your payment receipt will be sent to the EMAIL ADDRESS YOU CAREFULLY PROVIDED during your purchase. The workshop location address will also be sent to that same email address! PLEASE ALSO CAREFULLY ENTER YOUR PHONE NUMBER in case we need to call you. Follow-up email communications from Barbara Gail, or your hostess, with all your need-to-know details about your event, such as what to bring, plus any informational updates, will also be sent to THAT SAME EMAIL ADDRESS. Please check your spam and promotions folders!

 

I absorbed all your shared knowledge like a sponge. It was particularly amazing
to discover what stepping/pulsing while playing the drum,
can do to your body and soul. I never felt so connected with the universe. 
Many thanks! So happy that you make Layne’s legacy visible for us.”
~ Marjolein, The Netherlands, online workshop

 

ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR:
Barbara Gail is the creator of  The Rhythm Inlet, and resides in southwest Florida. A well-versed, seasoned instructor and teacher’s teacher, her various hand-drumming classes and events are infused with the teachings of her longtime tambourine and frame drum mentor and friend, the late Layne Redmond.

Layne authored the highly acclaimed, seminal book, When the Drummers Were Women: a Spiritual History of Rhythm, now translated into several languages. Layne documented the herstory of women who drummed, danced and sang, in the temples and in the streets, in ceremonies and celebrations, thousands of years ago, throughout the Ancient Mediterranean World. These women harnessed rhythm, sound and movement to rouse community consciousness and attain spiritual awareness for healing and divination. Thanks to Layne shining a light into this lost — yet not forgotten — corner of the human experience, the face of women’s spiritual drumming has been, and continues to be transformed, internationally.

Barbara represented Layne Redmond and her Legacy at the Indianapolis Convention Center in November, 2021, where Layne was posthumously inducted into the Percussive Arts Society’s Hall of Fame during their International Convention (PASIC), the largest percussion organization and 4-day convention of its kind in the world. Invited by PASIC, Barbara taught the workshop, The Tambourine in the Layne Redmond Tradition to a record-breaking crowd, maxing-out the room’s limit of 130 participants, with 20 or more listening outside. She also led the women’s tambourine group procession after the induction ceremony.

 

Your seminar last Sunday proved a very special day and a wonderful gathering.
Your talent, creativity and obvious enthusiasm for what you do
was a pleasure to experience. I truly hope we will have more
opportunities to gather and share in your knowledge (and joy of rhythm)!!
~ Sarah, Maine

 

Since 1993 Barbara has been a multi-faceted specialist in the teaching arts, alchemizing her award-winning and dynamically creative rhythm and movement, hand-drumming and dance programs, for people of all ages, abilities, and challenges. Thousands of people and diverse populations have experienced her high quality, memorable, spirited and empowering programs, in various educational, recreational, and therapeutic settings.

She’s appeared throughout Maine, around Southwest Florida, and in NH, NY, Boulder, San Diego, Indianapolis, and Baltimore, in over 375 venues, including conferences, retreats, agencies, organizations, schools, libraries, churches, synagogues, festivals, camps, community centers, dance and yoga studios, professional organizations, assisted living and memory care facilities, private homes and parties, and more.

As the creator and director of Moonrise: Daughters of an Ancient Pulse, and DrumRise! The Art of Women’s Drumming, Barbara’s led various groups of women in ceremonial and celebratory tambourine, frame drum, and djembe drumming, for seasonal ceremonies, processions, performances, worship services, and other events.

 

This was amazing. Brought the higher purpose of drumming alive.
Barbara is a wonderful teacher. Thank you to my new spiritual sisters
and to Barbara for holding sacred space in this beautiful circle.
I would do it again in a heartbeat. <3
~ Joan, Florida

 

Barbara and her husband, Jeff Hanna, owned and operated The Rhythm Inlet world drum and percussion retail store and teaching studio, in Maine from 1996-2005, and in southwest Florida since 2005, until closing its doors in January, 2022.

Barbara holds a B.A. in Education, titled The Arts as Experiential Education for Personal and Social Transformation (Hampshire College, 1986), where she also minored in dance.

Women, Rhythm and Ritual describes Barbara’s transformational ceremonies and workshops through the drum, the song, the dance. The Tambourine Path caters to beginner and beyond beginner women’s processional tambourine creation, guidance and support, which she hopes to catalyze as a worldwide movement. The Tambourine Path offers basic tambourine technique lessons on her YouTube channel, where she also shares other inspired creations.

 

I’m honored, grateful and blessed to have online colleagues,
students and followers, around the country and around the world,
who I’m delighted to call friends.
~ Barbara Gail

 

Enjoy her video, Has the Ancient Frame Drum Been Calling to You?

Experience Barbara’s teaching in this video

Visit her website

Friend her on Facebook

Thanks again for the wonderful workshop and lesson on our
drumming heritage. Once in a while we meet people who we have a definite
connection through spirit. I felt this with you. You are a very special teacher.
~ Anne, Maine

 

HAVE QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS?
Or just simply need to check in with your hostess or instructor?
Please call Barbara at 941-223-0180, or email her at BGPrograms@BarbaraGail.com

❦  Refine your hand techniques while they’re thoroughly explained & demonstrated.
❦  Experience aligning with the pulse.
❦  Engage with rhythms as stepping & clapping patterns to embody the rhythms you’re learning, enhancing the physical coordination of drumming & activating your body’s innate rhythmic wisdom. (Can also be done while sitting, for those who prefer.)
❦  Learn several rhythms using vocal repetition, simple visual charts, writing them down so you can remember them, & of course, by drumming!
❦  With 2 of us on screen, sometimes you’ll have fun playing along with 2 drummers: one who’s playing with you & supporting you in your rhythm, & one who’s playing a different rhythm. That’s the joy of polyrhythm!
❦  Practice the art of falling out of rhythm & falling back into rhythm, with ease & grace. This is the practice of drumming & of LIFE.

Payment & Receiving the Replay Link (READ CAREFULLY):
❦  Your monetary donation in the amount of your choice is non-refundable & non-transferable. We apologize for any inconvenience.
❦  Your link to the zoom replay will be sent to the email address you’ll carefully provide when you make your donation. 
❦  SAVE YOUR RECEIPT AND EMAIL!
❦  Please use this safe & shareable link provided by Square, to make your donation of any amount.

Disclosure:
❦ Please keep in mind, this was a LIVE zoom workshop,with 18 attendees. It contains some typical zoom moments, like when someone pops on screen to ask a question, or for some other reason. And the challenges Jeff & I had to both be on camera with good lighting & audio to appear & sound clearly.
❦ Life with zoom! Can’t live with it, can’t live without it… LOL it’s still a well-crafted workshop, chock full of everything we would’ve done if we were all in the room drumming together! 😅🙏🏽

What to Bring:
❦  Paper & pencil for note-taking & writing down your rhythms. (No hand-outs are provided.)
❦  A headed tambourine with a double-row of jingles. If you don’t have a tambourine or aren’t sure if the one you have is the correct type, please check-out the links down below.

About the experience of Polyrhythm on zoom: 
❦  For us, drumming in a polyrhythmic ensemble (when more than one rhythm is being played in the group at once), is living in the land of drum magic. After learning all the rhythms, the feeling of connection inherent with interlocking rhythms in the drumming ensemble experience, is positively climactic! Yes, even raw beginners can do this!

❦  And for that, you need at least 3 people: you playing your rhythm, someone playing the same rhythm with you (support), & someone playing an accompanying rhythm (polyrhythm). You also need to have a sense of the basic pulse, & how to align with it. This is the thread that connects all our parts together.

❦  With both of us on screen, each playing a different rhythm, we can support your experience of a polyrhythmic ensemble! Depending on your skill level, you can stay on your rhythm, change between parts while playing, or even play your own spontaneous solo rhythm, all while being accompanied by the 2 of us!

❦  We’ve all been experiencing what I call “alone-together”, drumming on zoom & other platforms, for nearly 2 years. Like you, we yearn for the group drumming musicality & energy! As we await the world re-opening safely, working toward traveling nationally & internationally to teach & share with groups again, perhaps this is the next best way. 🙏🏽

Drumming helps to alchemize the intensity & density of individual & collective energies, into a lighter, higher vibration. So let’s continue drumming, preparing ourselves for our bright future of drumming in-person, in-circle together!
~ Barbara Gail

About Your Instructors:

A dynamic alchemist since 1993 in the art of leading group rhythm & movement, hand-drumming & dance, Barbara Gail was a longtime student of Layne Redmond, author of  When the Drummers Were Women: a Spiritual History of Rhythm. She recently taught a tambourine workshop in the Tradition of Layne Redmond, at the Percussive Arts Society’s International Convention in Indianapolis, Indiana, where Layne was being posthumously inducted into their Hall of Fame. Barbara is honored to be among the outstanding women who today continue to carry forward the magical torch of Layne’s Living Legacy, each in their own beautiful way.

Former owner & operator of The Rhythm Inlet & The Ukulele Place music store & teaching studio, Jeff Hanna is a knowledgeable specialist in all things Ukuleles, Hand-drums & World Percussion. He’s been professionally playing, teaching, composing, directing, performing, retailing, servicing & repairing drums & percussion (1996-2016, except for Brasilian drums & percussion, he still plays those!), & ukuleles (2012-present). He’s the founder of The Batuca-lele Movement, a community musical celebration combining Brasilian drums with ukulele strums. A longtime friend & follower of Layne Redmond, he & his wife, Barbara Gail traveled to Egypt with her in 2001, & to Brasil with her both in 2005 & 2008.

Thank you, we look forward to being in rhythm with you! 😊🙏🏼💖✨

 

Need a tambourine? Here are 2 that we can easily recommend:

❦  The Layne Redmond Lotus Tambourine Drum has had a consistently fluctuating price on Amazon. I’ve been tracking it for over a year (it’s gone up & down between $134.00 to $242.00 US). Most distributors (including the wholesale distributor for our business, The Rhythm Inlet), have experienced repeated backorders with the manufacturer, Remo, due to global delays in production & shipping industries in general, & an increased interest in this drum specifically. So if you’re not opposed to Amazon, keep checking their price, which changes sometimes daily & weekly. Here’s their link for Remo’s Layne Redmond Signature Lotus Tambourine which has a fixed 10″ Renaissance head, a double-row of 5 pairs of German silver jingles, & a teal green stained “Venwood” (wood veneer) frame.

❦ The most affordable & only decent, economically priced tambourine drum for the beginner student (imho) is the Remo TA-5210. It’s price on Amazon is around $25.00. You may even find it in your local music store. Remo’s TA-5210 tambourine has a fixed 10″ Fiberskyn 3 head, a double-row of 8 pairs of chrome-plated steel jingles, & an Acousticon frame that comes in 3 colors:
Here’s a link: Red frame
Here’s a link: Black frame
Here’s a link: White frame

And for that, you need at least 3 people: you playing your rhythm, someone playing the same rhythm with you (support), & someone playing an accompanying rhythm (polyrhythm). You also need to have a sense of the basic pulse, & how to align with it. This is the thread that connects all our parts together.

With both of us on screen, each playing a different rhythm, we can support your experience of a poly-rhythmic ensemble! Depending on your skill level, you can stay on your rhythm, change between parts while playing, or even play your own spontaneous solo rhythm, all while being accompanied by the 2 of us!

We’ve all been playing what I call “alone-together”, on zoom & other platforms, for nearly 2 years. Like you, we yearn for the group drumming energy! As we await the world re-opening safely, working toward traveling nationally & internationally to teach & share with groups again, perhaps this is the next best way. 🙏🏽

Drumming helps to alchemize the intensity & density of individual & collective energies, into a lighter, higher vibration. So let’s continue drumming, preparing ourselves for our bright future of drumming in-person, in-circle together! ~ Barbara Gail

In this workshop you’ll: 
❦  Learn or refresh the tambourine’s strokes, relating them to the elements.
❦  Refine your hand techniques while they’re thoroughly explained & demonstrated.
❦  Experience aligning with the pulse.
❦  Engage with rhythms as stepping & clapping patterns to embody the rhythms you’re learning, enhancing the physical coordination of drumming & activating your body’s innate rhythmic wisdom. (Can also be done while sitting, for those who prefer.)
❦  Learn several rhythms using vocal repetition, simple visual charts, writing them down so you can remember them, & of course, by drumming!
❦  Have fun drumming along with another drummer who’s playing a different part, while feeling supported in your rhythm.
❦  Practice the art of falling out of rhythm & falling back into rhythm, with ease & grace. This is the practice of drumming & of LIFE.

Notes:
❦  Please have your cameras turned on while in the zoom room.
❦  Your registration is a monetary donation amount of your choice, & is non-refundable & non-transferable. We apologize for any inconvenience.
❦  Your zoom link will be included in your payment receipt, sent to the email address you’ll carefully provide when you make your donation.
❦  Please use this safe & shareable link provided by Square (link is expired), to make your donation of any amount.
❦  Replays will be available for an additional monetary donation, in the amount of your choice.

What to Bring:
❦  A headed tambourine with a double-row of jingles. If you don’t have a tambourine or aren’t sure if the one you have is the correct type, please check-out the links down below.
❦  Paper & pencil for note-taking & writing down your rhythms. (No hand-outs are provided.)

About Your Instructors:

A dynamic alchemist since 1993 in the art of leading group rhythm & movement, hand-drumming & dance, Barbara Gail was a longtime student of Layne Redmond, author of  When the Drummers Were Women: a Spiritual History of Rhythm. She recently taught a tambourine workshop in the Tradition of Layne Redmond, at the Percussive Arts Society’s International Convention in Indianapolis, Indiana, where Layne was being posthumously inducted into their Hall of Fame. Barbara is honored to be among the outstanding women who today continue to carry forward the magical torch of Layne’s Living Legacy, each in their own beautiful way.

Former owner & operator of The Rhythm Inlet & The Ukulele Place music store & teaching studio, Jeff Hanna is a knowledgeable specialist in all things Ukuleles, Hand-drums & World Percussion. He’s been professionally playing, teaching, composing, directing, performing, retailing, servicing & repairing drums & percussion (1996-2016, except for Brasilian drums & percussion, he still plays those!), & ukuleles (2012-present). He’s the founder of The Batuca-lele Movement, a community musical celebration combining Brasilian drums with ukulele strums. A longtime friend & follower of Layne Redmond, he & his wife, Barbara Gail traveled to Egypt with her in 2001, & to Brasil with her both in 2005 & 2008.

Thank you, we look forward to being in rhythm with you! 😊🙏🏼💖✨

Need a tambourine? Here are 2 that we can easily recommend:

❦  The Layne Redmond Lotus Tambourine Drum has had a consistently fluctuating price on Amazon. I’ve been tracking it for over a year (it’s gone up & down between $134.00 to $242.00 US). Most distributors (including the wholesale distributor for our business, The Rhythm Inlet), have experienced repeated backorders with the manufacturer, Remo, due to global delays in production & shipping industries in general, & an increased interest in this drum specifically. So if you’re not opposed to Amazon, keep checking their price, which changes sometimes daily & weekly. Here’s their link for Remo’s Layne Redmond Signature Lotus Tambourine which has a fixed 10″ Renaissance head, a double-row of 5 pairs of German silver jingles, & a teal green stained “Venwood” (wood veneer) frame.

❦ The most affordable & only decent, economically priced tambourine drum for the beginner student (imho) is the Remo TA-5210. It’s price on Amazon is around $25.00. You may even find it in your local music store. Remo’s TA-5210 tambourine has a fixed 10″ Fiberskyn 3 head, a double-row of 8 pairs of chrome-plated steel jingles, & an Acousticon frame that comes in 3 colors:
Here’s a link: Red frame
Here’s a link: Black frame
Here’s a link: White frame

In our Circle of Sacred Space, together we’ll:
❦  Recite Invocations
❦  Learn & sing SongChants
❦ Blend into our ceremonial reflections & intentions, the energies of the Frame Drumming Mother Goddess Cybele, with the recent Aquarius New Moon & Lunar New Year, & Venus’s re-entry as Morning Star
❦ Embark on a walking & breathing meditative journey (originally created by Layne Redmond) uniting us with The Pulse of the Earth & Stars (can be done seated for those who prefer)
❦ Learn stepping & clapping patterns that activate Your Body’s Innate Rhythmic Wisdom, assisting your abilities to coordinate drumming & walking in procession (can also be done seated for those who prefer)
❦ And of course, we’ll DRUM!
❦ Learn the tambourine’s strokes & some basic rhythms, invoking & connecting with the elements through the sounds of your drum
❦ There’ll be plenty of time to meet one another, connect, share, & for Q&A
❦ … & more, as I continue to navigate my own intuitive & creative process leading up to February 5th…

This LIVE ONLY gathering on zoom (no replays available) welcomes all women, no matter your playing ability. Very beginner friendly! “Camera on” will be required for all participants. Your registration is a monetary donation amount of your choice (non-refundable & non-transferable). Your zoom link will be included in your payment receipt, sent to the email address you’ll carefully provide when you make your donation here (link expired), using this safe & shareable link provided by Square. Thank you! 😊🙏🏼💖✨

Just prior to February 5th, a list of What to Bring will be sent to that same email address you provided upon payment. Please look for that.

Need a tambourine? Here are 2 that I can easily recommend:

❦ The Layne Redmond Lotus Tambourine Drum has had a consistently fluctuating price on Amazon. I’ve been tracking it for over a year (up & down & up again, between $134.00 to $242.00 US). Most distributors (including the wholesale distributor for our business, The Rhythm Inlet), have had backorders with the manufacturer, Remo, due to global delays in production & shipping industries in general, & an increased interest in this drum specifically. So if you’re not averse to Amazon, keep checking its price, which changes sometimes daily & weekly. Link: Remo’s Layne Redmond Signature Lotus Tambourine has a fixed 10″ Renaissance head, double-row 5 pairs of German silver jingles, & teal green stained “Venwood” (wood veneer) frame.

❦ The most affordable & only decent quality economy tambourine drum for the beginner student (IMHO) is the Remo TA-5210. Its price on Amazon is around $25.00. Easier to also get in your local music store than the Lotus. Remo’s TA-5210 tambourine has a fixed 10″ Fiberskyn 3 head, double-row 8 pairs of chrome-plated steel jingles, with an Acousticon frame that comes in 3 colors:
Link: Red frame
Link: Black frame
Link: White frame

Drumming helps to alchemize the intensity & density of individual & collective energies, into a lighter, higher vibration. So let’s continue drumming, preparing ourselves for our bright future of drumming in circle together, in the temples & in the streets, spreading the seeds of tambourine processions everywhere, globally encircling & crowning Mother Earth! Envision it! See it! Feel it! Hear it! Breathe it! Taste it! Live it! Look out world, the Contemporary Drumming Priestesses are here! ~ Barbara Gail

A dynamic alchemist since 1993 in the art of leading group rhythm & movement, hand-drumming & dance, Barbara Gail was a longtime student of Layne Redmond, author of (link:) When the Drummers Were Women: a Spiritual History of Rhythm. She recently taught a tambourine workshop in the Tradition of Layne Redmond, at the Percussive Arts Society’s International Convention, where Layne was being posthumously inducted into their Hall of Fame. Barbara is honored to be among the women who today are carrying this magical torch, bringing the flame of Layne’s Living Legacy forward.

in the temples & in the streets, in ceremony & celebration. Learn its strokes, basic rhythms, & how they invoke the elements. Students will be invited to participate in a tambourine procession from the sanctuary to the labyrinth, in that evening’s candlelit opening ceremony. Drums provided, available for purchase, or BYO headed tambourine. Copies of Layne Redmond’s book will also be available for purchase.

A dynamic alchemist since 1993 in the art of leading group rhythm & movement, hand-drumming & dance, Barbara Gail was a longtime student of Layne Redmond, author of When the Drummers Were Women: a Spiritual History of Rhythm.

Join us on the beautiful campus of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Ft. Myers, Florida, home of the Music & Arts Community Center for SingFest 2022!*

*Due to the ongoing pandemic, all organizers, facilitators, & participants must be willing to show proof of being fully vaccinated & agree to wear masks indoors.

FMI about the weekend’s guest facilitators, workshops, activities, what’s included, location, lodging options, etc., please visit the SingFest 2022 website.

out the old & that which no longer serves; gift ourselves the present, to prepare fresh ground for the garden of new intentions; & envision the future, as we drum, sing & dance with the planting of fresh seeds.

❧ Similar to seeds dreaming underground, together we’ll embrace the darkness as we approach the longest night of the year. An inspired spark of faith follows, as we emerge & bring forth the growing light, joining hearts in a Celebration of Life!

❧ Our ritual may include & is not limited to: Layne Redmond style tambourine instruction & playing, silent & guided InnerVision Drum Journey, SongChant, & intentional movement.

❧ This interactive, beginner-friendly event will be held LIVE. Due to the nature of creating sacred space within the circle, there will be NO REPLAY, & “camera on” will be required for all participants.

Here’s my latest YouTube video, where I’m talking about this ceremony, & my dreams & visions for the future of The Tambourine Path!

🌸⚪️🌸 Registration 🌸⚪️🌸

❧ The exchange for joining is by donation. This will serve as your registration.

❧ Please use this safe & shareable link (link expired), provided by Square, to make your payment. When using this link, you’ll see my photo. Your donation amount is completely up to you. There are no additional charges added to your original amount.

❧ After payment, you’ll see an online confirmation & receive an email receipt from BGK, LLC dba Barbara Gail, with another photo. The zoom information & link will be provided in your receipt.

❧ Please remember, “camera on” will be required for all participants. Thank you!

🌸⚪️🌸 In preparation 🌸⚪️🌸

❧ I’ll briefly review how to hold the drum, & its strokes. Feel free to ask questions during this time. I suggest viewing beforehand my basic tambourine techniques from “The Tambourine Path” lessons on my YouTube Channel. Here’s the playlist.

❧ Allow at least 2 hours for our ceremony, plus more for integration time.

❧ Give yourself some open physical space, to walk around in a circle.

🌸⚪️🌸 What to bring 🌸⚪️🌸

❧ Your headed, double-row jingled, tambourine.

❧ Something to drink.

❧ Paper (or journal) & pencil.

❧ A candle.

❧ A floor pillow or chair (or both) to sit on.

❧ Newly added to this list:
1 – A rattle or shaker if you have one
2 – Be prepared to share the name of a non-human species that’s indigenous to the land where you live (or where you’ll be for our ceremony). It can be a native plant, animal, or mineral. Examples might be a native bird or frog; a tree or flower; a shell or rock. Look it up if you need to! 🙂

❧ While I’ll be using a vocal microphone, tambourines are loud, & yours may mask my voice. If you have speakers for your computer, I suggest perhaps using them.

🌸⚪️🌸 And finally… 🌸⚪️🌸

❧ Questions? Please call me at: 941-223-0180.

❧ I look forward to being able to once again travel to offer programs like this in-person, wherever you are on the planet! Meanwhile, I’m grateful for the technology that helps ME to support YOU on your journey along The Tambourine Path.

❧ Say hello on the Facebook Event Page

❧ Thank you, & see  you soon! Blessed Beats Forever! 😊🙏🏼💖✨

We’ll begin by honoring Layne Redmond for the unique path she paved with the frame drum, & all that emerged from her book, “When the Drummers Were Women: a Spiritual History of Rhythm“.

Just as Layne taught us, the strokes & rhythms of the tambourine will be taught & played using their elemental connections. These rhythms you can keep & play whenever you wish to honor Layne.

As Layne loved to do in her teaching, we’ll be stepping, walking, reciting rhythms, & drumming simultaneously, gaining momentum as ultimately multiple parts are played in the circle at once.

Bring your frame drum or tambourine (some will be provided by Remo), & join the legacy of the Layne Redmond style of playing the tambourine!

All welcome.

🌸⚪️🌸 Bio…

Barbara Gail is a longtime student of Layne Redmond.

She & husband Jeff Hanna, own & operate The Rhythm Inlet world drum & percussion retail store & teaching studio.

Originally based in Maine (now Florida), since 1994 Barbara has led her award-winning, dynamically creative, edu-taining classes, workshops, retreats & programs, specialized in sharing the joys of rhythm and movement, hand-drumming & dance, for all ages, abilities, & challenges, throughout Maine, New England, Florida, & beyond.

She’s the creator of “Moonrise: Daughters of an Ancient Pulse“, leading women’s ceremonial & celebratory tambourine rituals & processions.

Currently Barbara focuses on teaching the Layne Redmond style of ritual drumming & tambourine (“The Tambourine Path“), on her YouTube channel, where she also shares other inspired creations. She’ll lead women’s workshops & retreats nationally & internationally when the world reopens.

She’s active in the Women’s Frame Drumming Facebook Community, dedicated to Layne Redmond. #LaynesLegacyLives.

Visit the PASIC full schedule

❧ Invoking & connecting with the 4 elements of our world through our tambourines.

❧ Playing the 4 basic elemental rhythms, in a virtual ‘procession’.

❧ A meditative ritual that you’re welcome to reproduce, or re-shape in your own way, any time.

❧ Seeing one another, together on screen, in real time!

❧ Time at the end to personally ask me your tambourine playing technique questions, & requests for The Tambourine Path Videos & In-person Workshops & Retreats.

🌸⚪️🌸 Why am I inspired to do this?

❧ For now…
On Thursday, November 11, 2021, Layne Redmond (1952-2013) will be posthumously inducted into the Hall of Fame, in a special ceremony held at the 4-day Percussive Arts Society’s International Convention (PASIC), in Indianapolis, Indiana. This is the largest percussive arts annual convention in the world! And in a field dominated by men, it’s huge that the author of “When the Drummers Were Women: a Spiritual History of Rhythm” — unearthing & documenting the lost but not forgotten herstory of Ancient Priestess Drummers — is being inducted into their Hall of Fame!

On & around this auspicious date of 11-11, sacred drumming will be taking place around the country & around the world, as students, followers, friends & fans energetically connect with one another, & to Layne’s memory & legacy.

Layne Redmond was my teacher & friend. Her work launched the modern women’s ritual frame drum movement, & has transformed many lives, including my own.

I’m thrilled & deeply honored to share with you, that I’ve accepted the invitation to help represent Layne’s Legacy at the convention! On the same day as her Induction Ceremony, I’ll be teaching a Tambourine Workshop in the Layne Redmond Tradition, & leading a Women’s Ceremonial & Celebratory Tambourine Procession. So 11-11-21 will be Layne Redmond Day at PASIC!

❧ For the future…
Our Saturday, October 30th online Women’s Tambourine Ritual is my gift to you, in return for all the blessings I’ve received thanks to Layne & her seminal body of work! Inspired by Layne’s earlier teachings in the ’90’s & during the years I traveled with her to Egypt & Brasil, my drum programs for women are an alchemy of the ever-evolving Workshops & Women’s Ceremonies I’ve facilitated, for over 25 years.

I look forward to being able to do programs like this with you in-person, wherever you are on the planet! In the meantime, I’m grateful for the technology that helps me to support you on your Tambourine Path journey.

🌸⚪️🌸 You’re welcome to re-create this ritual whenever you wish to…

❧ Rebalance your elemental energies, for mind-body-heart-spirit-soul.

❧ Anchor into a meditative drumming practice that can promote a state of present moment, centered, calm.

❧ Align with the memory of & gratitude for Layne.

❧ Claim your place in the long lineage — a procession throughout time, if you will — of Women Drummers that dates back thousands of years, & carries forward far into the future.

❧ It’s also a wonderful way to energetically connect with the #LayneRedmondLegacy Worldwide Tribe on or around 11-11, including those of us who will be at PASIC, & those who’ll be drumming in ceremony that day wherever they are on the planet… Including you…

🌸⚪️🌸 In preparation…

❧ I’ll be briefly refreshing the how-to’s of tambourine playing, but not teaching, so you’ll need to have already learned my basic tambourine techniques from “The Tambourine Path” lessons on my YouTube Channel. Here’s the playlist if you want to dive in now.

❧ Allow about 90 minutes for our time together, & more if you’d like.

❧ Give yourself a little bit of open physical space, to walk around in a circle.

🌸⚪️🌸 And bring with you…

❧ Your tambourine.

❧ Something to drink.

❧ Paper (or journal) & pencil.

❧ 4 objects: one that represents your personal connection to earth, one for air, one for water, & one for fire.

❧ A candle (real flame or battery-powered). This can also serve as your fire representation, if you’d like.

❧ A pillow or chair (or both) to sit on.

❧ While I’ll be using a microphone, tambourines are loud, so if you have speakers for your computer, I suggest using them.

🌸⚪️🌸 For the zoom link, please…

❧ DM me on Facebook.

❧ OR introduce yourself via email: bgprograms@barbaragail.com

🌸⚪️🌸 Yes, it’s FREE…

❧ There is no charge for this event! Donations are optional & welcome.

❧ If you choose to donate, please use this safe link provided by Square (link expired).

❧ You’ll see my photo there.

❧ After payment, you’ll see an online confirmation & receive an email receipt from BGK, LLC dba Barbara Gail.

❧ There are no additional charges added to your original amount.

❧ Thank you, my dear Tambourine Path friends & followers! I look forward to seeing you there! 😊🙏🏼💖

Barbara mentioned she once considered creating a class for children.

Sophie immediately began scouring websites for easy-peasy-but-not-babyish songs for the class (Sophie has the final word on this). Barbara dug into her old files, & they started sending links to each other.

Within minutes Sophie was making a Power Point Slide Show to describe & promote the kids class, without any prompting from Barbara. They continued updating the slide show until they landed on their final ‘giraffe’ (LOL ‘draft’).

Sophie sent Barbara voice-over recordings of herself reading it, & Barbara decided to include all of Sophie’s work in this video, to help spread the word about their class.

Needless to say, this has been a flurry of inspiration & communication for weeks!

Thanks for watching our video! Even if you’re not interested in this class, ya gotta watch. I mean, really, this 9yo kid’s a fun friend to all her know her.

* This being a children’s class, we’re keeping this video ‘Unlisted’. And:
1 – Parental phone registration will be required
2 – There will be no recording of the sessions
3 – Zoom links will be emailed privately

Mark your calendars, & please spread the word by sharing our video with your trusted friends, especially if you have kids or know some, thanks! 😊 ❤️

FMI & to register, please call Barbara at 941-223-0180.

About us:
Barbara Gail, B.A. Education, has been sharing joy through her original, hands-on programs in the music & movement arts, with people of all ages, abilities, & challenges, full-time since 1994. She’s been an edu-taining Artist in Residence in hundreds of venues, for thousands of adults, children, & families.

She’s also presented at conferences & for in-school professional days, where she’s trained countless teachers & counselors new ways to implement these experiential arts into their classrooms & group settings.

Sophie is 9 years of age, & recently completed 3rd grade from home, during the pandemic of 2020. An artistic child by nature, she was awarded ‘Most Artistic’ by her teacher in the last week of school. Her artwork was on display at an internationally reputed museum in her city when she was 7 years old.

And she loves music, too! Her Uncle Jeff & Aunt Barbara gave Sophie her first purple uke, & first purple djembe drum, when she was 3… And with a matching sundress of course LOL.

Sophie & Barbara have been working diligently on this project, almost daily for the past few weeks.

Sophie can’t wait for class to begin, & Barbara’s been waiting for a moment like this, all of Sophie’s life. ❤️

Gathering on the beach before sunset, we enter a flowing ritual of Circle Dance, SongChants, Healing Drum Temple, Offering, Dip-n-Dive, & Re-Emergence. We embrace & embody Yemaya, Mother Goddess of the Sea, seeking her water’s reflection to illuminate the blessings of the past, the beauty of this present moment, & the Re-In-Visioning of our path.

What to Know & Bring (it’s 2.5-hour ritual, please be prepared!)
⬥  DRESS in SOLID WHITE, & PLAN TO GET WET in The Gulf in your clothing! Great excuse to shop your favorite thrift store. Remember to wear something underneath, or dare to bare. 😉
⬥ outdoor showers are there to rinse sand & salt
⬥  small hand-drums & rhythm instruments (some provided)
⬥  lots & lots & LOTS of flowers (more than imaginable!) in an unbreakable bowl or basket that can get wet
⬥  your water bottle, a towel to sit upon & dry off with (& a chair to sit in if you’d also like)
⬥  change of dry clothes (in a plastic bag that will hold your wet clothes afterwards)
⬥  flashlight to help you find your belongings at the end
⬥  optional camera, sunglasses, sunscreen, & special objects symbolic of past, present, future
⬥  love offering of any amount, & in any form, &/or simple exchanges of good juju energy, are accepted in gratitude

“Thank YOU! That was the best ritual I have ever been to! It was well thought out & all flowed together so beautifully. I am so grateful.” ~ Lisa H ~

“Last night was such a beautiful moment in space & time. Barbara Gail once again created such a loving healing space for women for this Summer Solstice. Thank you Barbara for all you have done, all you do, & blessings forward for all you WILL do in the future.” ~ JoEllyn ~

“You are truly in your element leading these sacred ceremonies. Joy & love emanates from you in a way I have never seen before. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.” ~ Tracy ~

“What a beautiful experience! All that fantastic, loving female energy really does heal the heart. Thank you to all 40 or so women who drummed around me with loving, healing thoughts. And thank you my friend for guiding me to places I needed to go! Love you Barbara Gail!” ~ Andi M ~

~ Barbara Gail ~ B.A. Ed., is a dynamic alchemist in the arts of rhythm, sound, & movement who embraces her ancestry as a descendant of Kohains (High Priests) & Rabbis, as a Priestess of The Drum, The Song, The Dance. She’s co-owner of The Rhythm Inlet in Nokomis, & for over 25 years has been facilitating women’s sacred space & leading profound rhythm & movement experiences for all ages, abilities, & challenges. Barbara is certified in both JourneyDance™ & Hatha Yoga, & is a well-seasoned Teacher, Dancer, Drummer, Percussionist, SpiritSinger, & Instructor of Children’s Music, Yoga & Meditation.

Held on the NORTH end of Nokomis Public Beach, near the dunes (where Albee Rd. meets Casey Key)

Here’s last year’s Facebook Event Page for basic details. Once the current event’s page is posted, you’ll be able to RSVP, Share, & to check in on weather & inspirational updates.

FMI: 941-223-0180

If you’ve read all the way to the bottom, making mental &/or writing notes of these details, then your Summer Solstice Ritual has just begun…

yoga postures, deep breathing, mindfulness, & relaxation. What Barbara cultivates in children is a love of yoga, while nurturing in their creativity, cooperation, positivity, clear minds, joyful hearts, an attitude of gratitude, & the practice of respect & kindness toward self & others.

Let’s play, sing, & move ‘n’ groove our way through yoga, blossoming into inspired & peaceful children’s yoga teachers!

Your Instructor:
Barbara Gail, B.A. Education, collected multiple Certifications in Kidding Around Yoga™ since 2002, was a KAY licensee & instructor for 7 years, & is currently teaching under her own brand, Yoga Friends for Kids with Miss Barbara. She’s 200-hour Yoga Certified, JourneyDance™ Module 3 Certified, & is a Natural Choice Award Winner for ‘Higher Calling’, ‘Favorite Children’s Program’, ‘Business of the Year’, & ‘Woman of the Year’.

Along with her partner in life & work, husband Jeff Hanna, Barbara is co-owner of The Rhythm Inlet & The Ukulele Place music store & teaching studio in Nokomis, FL. While owning & operating their store & teaching studio in Maine (The Space at The Rhythm Inlet, 1995-2013), Barbara birthed & fully developed her own, family-style rhythm & movement classes, as well as school artist in residencies, which continued once relocating to Florida.

Her weekly class for parents/grandparents & children aged 9 months to 6 years, The Magic of Drum & Dance for the Young Child: and the Adults Who Love Them! (later renamed Wiggle Wiggle Boom Boom!), & her artist in residency program for elementary school classrooms, summer camps & libraries, A World of Drums: The Magic of Rhythm for Children, both became teacher trainings at teacher’s conferences, drumming for wellness conferences, & in-school trainings for Head Start.

Inspired by their international travels & world drum & percussion store, Barbara & Jeff together created & developed their ‘edu-taining’ school-wide assembly, Drums Heard ‘Round the World, which they performed frequently for library, elementary school, high school, & university audiences, for nearly 15 years.

Most recently, Barbara is the former pre-K thru 1st grade music teacher at Island Village Montessori (Venice, FL) & TerraNichol Academy of the Arts Pre-school (Englewood, FL), where she inspired children weekly in her original, dynamic music & movement programs.

As a skilled hand-drummer, percussionist, dancer, performer, & teacher’s teacher, Barbara has been sharing the joys of rhythm & movement, hand-drumming & dance, with thousands of people of all ages, abilities & challenges, in hundreds of venues, full-time, since 1993. She’s presented classes, workshops, programs & performances throughout New England & Southwest Florida, as well as Baltimore, MD, San Diego, CA, & Boulder, CO.

Yoga Friends for Kids with Miss Barbara is on Facebook!

WHAT THEY’RE SAYING:

“Yoga is the first thing I’ve ever loved!” ~ Julianna, 7-year old

“I learned that we’re givers and not takers.” ~ Jada, 8-year old

“We have a yoga deck at home, and my daughter, since she’s been in your class, has been using it to teach my wife and I yoga at home! You’re doing something great!” ~ Dave, Dad of 4th grader

“I wanna do yoga Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday…” ~ Brooke, 7-year old

“My daughter not only loves your yoga class, but she’s like a totally new kid! Keep doing whatever it is you’re doing!” ~ Anne-Marie, Mom of 1st grader

“She told us yesterday that when she grows up, she wants to own her own yoga studio.” ~ Renee, Mom of 7-year old who was in Miss Barbara’s kids yoga classes for over 2 years. She made this announcement to her family after her first month of Yoga Friends class.

your small hand-sized drums, rattles, percussion, & melodic flutes.

Let’s renew balance, sow seeds of dreams & wishes, raise our voices, join hearts & hands, make a joyful noise, & weave some magic!

Suggested $10 donation to Rising Tide for use of the center. Come early to meet & mingle. Doors open at 6:30 & close at 8 when the ceremony begins.

Barbara Gail, dynamic alchemist in the arts of rhythm, movement, hand-drumming & dance, since 1993. She’s an accomplished hand-drummer, dancer, percussionist, children’s edu-tainer, circle-singer, ceremonialist, & seasoned instructor of group drum & dance classes, workshops, & events.

Well-versed with a BA in Education, she’s a natural leader, teacher’s teacher, & owner of The Rhythm Inlet music store & teaching studio. Her original & dynamic programs provide high quality, memorable, spirited & IN-powering experiences for thousands of people of all ages & populations, in various educational, recreational & therapeutic settings, throughout Maine & Florida, & in NH, NY, CO, CA, & beyond.

A spiritual seeker following the sun, moon & stars, her ceremonies are inspired by the Priestesses of the Ancient Mediterranean World who drummed, danced & sang, as well as her personal ancestry as a descendant of Kohain High Priests & Rabbis.

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Pre-paid registration is required, & a minimum of 12 people are needed.
FMI & to Register call The Rhythm Inlet: 941-966-5800

Weekly Series: $150 in advance, or $165 the day of, cash or check; includes 8-Class Series, & a take-home, play-along 2-CD set.

Wanna check it out first to see if it’s right for you? Register & pay $25 in advance, or $30 the day of, for the first night.*

*If you choose to continue, your balance for the series is due before you leave, & your total tuition will remain the same.
Need a drum? Reserve each week for an in-class drum, or BYO tuned djembe, bougarabou, or ashiko drum.

Your Instructor
Rhythmist Barbara Gail, BA Ed., is co-owner of The Rhythm Inlet & The Ukulele Place in Nokomis. She’s been an alchemist in the arts of rhythm & movement, hand-drumming & dance, since 1993, serving as a Pied Piper & Ambassador of Rhythm, while spreading these joys to people of all ages, abilities & challenges. Her original & “edu-taining” dynamic programs, performances, & presentations have provided over 25 years of high quality, memorable, spirited, profound & empowering experiences to thousands of people of diverse populations, in various educational, recreational, & therapeutic settings, throughout Maine, around New England, & in Southwest Florida, California, Maryland, & Colorado.

A well-versed instructor, natural leader, & teacher’s teacher, her djembe classes & workshops have been filled with pre-teens to eighty-somethings, since 1996.

Though she plays & has taught numerous hand-drums & percussion instruments professionally, the Djembe was her first love.

Barbara’s been on a 4-year, semi-sabbatical to develop several new creative projects, & hasn’t offered djembe classes in 3 years. Due to requests, she’s returning to teach this one-time class!

What they’re saying:

Thanks for being such a wonderful teacher. And as a 31 year vet, I know a great teacher when I meet one! ~ Participant / Retired Teacher

It was fun to drum with women. ~ Participant / Artist

This class helped this rhythmically challenged” person a great deal! As a music teacher, I find myself able to do rhythms & patterns with students that I could not do before! ~ Participant / Music Teacher

I’ve taken several djembe classes & workshops, & you’re the best teacher I’ve had. I really get in it now! ~ Participant / School Teacher

Thank you for another wonderful drumming workshop. I really enjoyed experiencing drumming again in a group. You have lovely energy which I was the grateful recipient of. ~ Participant

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