BG at WMS with her Djembe
Barbara Gail held weekly Drum Circles at Warm Mineral Springs, 2011-2013, photo by Lisa Wilkinson

Weekly Djembe Class Series with Barbara Gail, in-person Nokomis, Fall, 2024
Offering 3 Classes, 3 Levels: Beginner, Beyond Beginner (Level 2), and Intermediate (Level 3).

I’m traveling internationally during the autumn months (one is retreat training with spiritual renewal, the other is for Jeff’s surgery), so each series will be abbreviated, and our weekly meetings will be nonconsecutive (maybe even somewhat piecemeal)… So look closely at the dates below, mark your calendars and let’s drum! I look forward to having you in the circle.

In these unprecedented times, more than ever we may be feeling a deep yearning for meaning and connection in our lives. Within the healing, unifying power of the beat, may we tap into its rhythmic blessings, and together move toward greater peace, joy, love, & hope. Drumming helps to alchemize the intensity and density of individual and collective energies, into a lighter, higher vibration. So let’s keep drumming!
~ Barbara Gail

❤️ 〰️🎶〰️ ❤️ 〰️🎶〰️ ❤️ 〰️🎶〰️  ❤️ 〰️🎶〰️

❦ In Barbara Gail’s Djembe Classes, you’ll:

🪘 Enjoy developing your abilities playing the popular W. African djembe drum, including techniques that make your drum sing, polyrhythm and polymeter patterns, and making it all seamlessly come together with others in the ensemble.

🪘 Experience the power of the pulse — entrainment — the key ingredient behind SUCCESSFULLY playing rhythmic music in community, where all voices have a place in the circle, connected.

🪘 Feel the joys of group unity in the beat, the harmonizing effects of interlocking rhythm patterns, and your relation to the whole.

🪘 Discover how organized group drumming calms the nervous system, clears the mind, energizes the body and inspires the spirit.

🪘 Barbara’s masterful teaching incorporates various learning styles, supporting you in effortlessly building your rhythmic, drumming and musical skills.

🪘 Bring your own djembe, ashiko or bougarbou if you have one.

🪘 A limited number of drums are available for in-class use at no extra fee, for those who don’t have one. Reserve during your registration payment process using the comment field.

🪘 Classes held at a private home in Nokomis. Address and other important details will be emailed to registrants in late September.

🪘 All classes are limited to 15 students, and require pre-paid registration using the safe and secure links provided.

Questions? Call Barbara

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Barbara Gail on The Tambourine Path, 2020

Women, Rhythm, & Ritual: The Tambourine Path™ for Beginners 
With Barbara Gail, a Senior Teacher of the Layne Redmond Legacy

At the beautiful Center Street Retreat
400 Center Street
Altamonte Springs, FL 32701 (Orlando area)

📆 Sunday, September 22nd, 2-5:30pm  

REGISTRATION IS OPEN, BUY YOUR TIX HERE!
*$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!

Click here to view beautiful photos and descriptions on my landing page.

✨🌸⚪️ 🌸 ✨

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!

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Barbara Gail with Frame Drum, Oceanside, San Diego, California
Barbara Gail with Frame Drum, Oceanside, San Diego, California, at The Southern Sierra Goddess Gathering

Women, Rhythm & Ritual: July Full Moon Drum Temple

At the beautiful Center Street Retreat
in Altamonte Springs (Orlando)

📆 Saturday, July 20th, 3-6pm-ish  

✨✨✨ REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! ✨✨✨

Use this link to visit visit the registration page and buy your tix.
Early Bird ends July 6th!

As you pass through the front gate and enter the grounds of Center Street Retreat, your body exhales and your senses take in the beauty and peace of the sanctuary.

Then, come join a circle of women for spiritual renewal in a shared ritual experience. Together we’ll journey through a thoughtfully-crafted sequence of ceremonies and celebrations that weave Circle Songs, Rhythm and Drumming, and cultivate healing and joy.

Throughout the Ancient Mediterranean World, drumming and singing were among the primary skills of Temple Priestesses, who used them to harness the elements, rouse and unify community consciousness, and attain spiritual awareness for healing, divination, transformation and activation.

Contemporary women are rediscovering and intuitively utilizing the Ritual Arts, as we seek connection, inspiration and deeper meaning in our lives. Touching into the sacred, we’re invited to release what no longer serves, soften into our feminine essence, return to our woman soul, and give birth to an expanded sense of ourselves.

The cycles of the Moon are perfect mirrors for our own processes of ebb and flow, and offer us a natural pause for compassionate reflection, creative expression, and re-envisioning.

The sacred space awaits. Won’t you join us?

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BG at WMS with her Djembe
Barbara Gail held weekly Drum Circles at Warm Mineral Springs, 2011-2013, photo by Lisa Wilkinson

BEYOND the Beyond Beginner Djembe Drumming: Level 2+
Meet the challenges of new material, and have fun playing oldies but goodies!

📆 4 Wednesdays: June 5, 12, 19, 26; 6-7:30pm

Held at a private home in Nokomis, and have limited seating.

If you’ve taken my Beginner Djembe Level 2 Series in the past, or feel you’ve had the equivalent experience, and you’re ready for the next level of learning djembe ensemble drumming… Then this class is for you!

🪘⭕️🪘

❂ Now that you’ve strengthened your foundation, let’s deepen your relationship to The Drum and Pulse, continue refining your hand technique, and meet the challenges of enhanced Level 2 material, playing DrumSongs that enrich both your learning, and your fun.

❂ And you’ll enjoy reuniting with your fellow drummers, possibly making some new friends, too!

❂ As usual, we’ll keep reviewing and refreshing those DrumSongs learned previously!

❂ Here’s where your lessons begin to click, your learning curve hits a comfort zone, and your drumming is expertly brought to a whole new level of music — and drumming confidence.

❂ Welcoming all graduates of Barbara’s Beginner Djembe Level 2 Weekly Series, from her previous and current classes.

❂ Also welcoming those of you drummers who feel you’ve had an equivalent ensemble experience with your djembe. Please call me first to discuss your previous experience, at 941-223-0180.

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Barbara Gail Loves Her Djembe Students!

Beginner Djembe Drumming: Level 2
More fun experiencing the benefits of organized group rhythm!

📆 8 Wednesdays: April 3 ~ May 22; 6-7:30pm

** ALSO BEING OFFERED ON

📆 8 Thursdays: April 4 ~ May 23; 6-7:30pm

Both will be held at a private home in Nokomis, and have limited seating.

If you’ve taken my Beginner Djembe Series in the past, or feel you’ve had the equivalent experience, and you’re ready for the next level of learning djembe ensemble drumming… Then this class is for you!

 

🪘⭕️🪘

❂ Now that you have your foundation, let’s deepen your relationship to The Drum and Pulse, refine your hand technique, and meet the challenges of Beginner Level 2 material, playing DrumSongs that enrich both your learning, and your fun.

❂ And you’ll enjoy reuniting with your fellow drummers, possibly making some new friends, too!

❂ Here’s where your lessons begin to click, your learning curve hits a comfort zone, and your drumming is expertly brought to a whole new level of music — and drumming confidence.

❂ Welcoming all graduates of Barbara’s Beginner Djembe Weekly Series, from her previous and current classes.

❂ Also welcoming those of you drummers who feel you’ve had an equivalent ensemble experience with your djembe.

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BG's Red Tambourine
BG's Red Tambourine

The Tambourine Path for Beginners, Part 2
Women’s Ritual Drumming in The Layne Redmond Tradition

6 Sundays: March 17 – April 28 (no March 31)
Happening LIVE worldwide on zoom, with recordings.

2-2PM EDT (note the times have changed in the US!)
9-11am PST
4-6pm GMT
Please use a time zone converter to bee sure!

 

🌸⚪️🌸  The Tambourine Path: Women’s Ritual Drumming is a contemporary ancestral way of drumming in the Layne Redmond Tradition, connecting to the 4 elements, The Ancient Ones, and the deeper sensibilities of rhythm, while learning to play the tambourine, the frame drum that sparkles with jingles!

These drums were once predominantly played by women throughout the ancient world, in positions of spiritual leadership in their communities, as described in Layne Redmond’s book, When the Drummers Were Women: a Spiritual History of Rhythm.

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BG djembe on the beach
Barbara Gail Drumming the Beat at the 12-12-12 Beach Ceremony

Beginner Djembe Hand-Drumming
Have fun experiencing the benefits of organized group rhythm!

8 Wednesdays: February 7 – March 27; 7-8:30pm
Held at a private home in Nokomis.

PLEASE NOTE! The other djembe class sold out within 48 hours. Please register today! 

LIMITED SEATING!!! Registration closes when class is filled.

(Beyond Beginner Class Series will follow, beginning April 3)

🪘⭕️🪘

❂ Enjoy learning to play the popular W. African djembe drum, including hand techniques that make your drum sing, beginner-friendly polyrhythms, and making it all seamlessly come together with others in the ensemble.

❂ Experience the power of the pulse — entrainment — the key ingredient behind SUCCESSFULLY playing rhythmic music in community, where all voices have a place in the circle

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BG and her Djembe
BG & her Djembe, Performing at Wellness Fest 2009

Beginner Djembe Hand-Drumming
Have fun experiencing the benefits of organized group rhythm!

8 Thursdays: February 8 – March 28; 6-7:30pm
Held at a private home in Nokomis.

***SOLD OUT! EMAIL ME TO GET ON THE WAITING LIST AND TO BE ALERTED AHEAD OF TIME WHEN I OFFER THE NEXT ONE!

LIMITED SEATING!!! Registration closes when class is filled.

(Beyond Beginner Class Series will follow, beginning April 4)

🪘⭕️🪘

❂ Enjoy learning to play the popular W. African djembe drum, including hand techniques that make your drum sing, beginner-friendly polyrhythms, and making it all seamlessly come together with others in the ensemble.

❂ Experience the power of the pulse — entrainment — the key ingredient behind SUCCESSFULLY playing rhythmic music in community, where all voices have a place in the circle

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Magical Tambourine Temple
The Magical Tambourine Temple

The Tambourine Path for Beginners:
Women’s Ritual Drumming in The Layne Redmond Tradition

6 Sundays: February 4 – March 10; 12-1:30pm
Happening LIVE worldwide on zoom, with recordings.
Held at a private home in Nokomis.


OFFERING A FEW LIMITED SEATS FOR LOCALS, IN-PERSON!

(A Beyond Beginner Class Series will follow, beginning March 17)

 

🌸⚪️🌸 ABOUT THE CLASS:

❀ A beginner tambourine drum class that fuses sacred circle, seminar presentation and experiential learning on the frame drum that sparkles with jingles!

❀ Discover hand techniques that make your drum sing, playing beginner-friendly rhythms that are ideal for processions.

❀ Connect to the 4 elements while playing your tambourine, with ceremonial intention and festive celebration.

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The Tambourine Path in Celebration! Workshop on February 19, 2022

REPLAY AVAILABLE FOR SALE!

The Tambourine Path in Celebration!
Recording of the 2.19.22 Tambourine Workshop on zoom.
A beginner friendly, Layne Redmond style tambourine workshop, everyone welcome.
With Barbara Gail & Jeff Hanna, The Rhythm Inlet Dynamic Duo!

I absorbed all your shared knowledge like a sponge. It was particularly amazing to discover what stepping / pulsing while playing can do to your body and soul. I never felt so connected with the universe. Many thanks to the two of you! ~ Marjolein, Netherlands

I’m so grateful for you Barbara! Just completed the workshop! Love it! I need to be mindful of the feet. Otherwise the song is great practice! ~ Joey, Singapore

If you’re new to this drum, then first I recommend The Tambourine Path video series. It’s 90 minutes of my free, basic & thorough tambourine instruction!

After you’ve completed those FREE videos, then I’d love for you to purchase this video workshop!

On February 19, 2022, I led a tambourine workshop, assisted by Jeff Hanna, my husband & partner in life, work, & everything under The Rhythm Inlet sun! ☀️

This replay of the workshop is suitable for beginners & beyond beginners, & is available for sliding scale $20-$50. (Consult with your heart, your soul, your wallet, & consider the value of this program. 💚)

In this 1-hour, 45 minute Workshop, you’ll: 
  Learn or refresh the tambourine’s strokes, relating them to the elements…

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Beginner Djembe
Beginner Djembe Playshop, 2016

Women’s Djembe Drumming & World Percussion Playshop! A Circle for Beginners
Have fun experiencing the benefits of organized group rhythm!

In-person, Nokomis, FL
Saturday, December 16, 2023; 1-4pm

 

🪘⭕️🪘 ABOUT THE PLAYSHOP:

❂ Learn all the basics — and more — of playing the popular W. African djembe drum, including hand techniques that make your drum sing, playing beginner-friendly rhythms, and making it all seamlessly come together as an ensemble.

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Pelham, NH
Women's Tambourine Workshop, Pelham, NH, 2022

The Tambourine Path: A Women’s Ritual Drumming & Beginner Tambourine Workshop
Connect to the 4 elements and a circle of women in rhythm, learning to play an instrument that was prolifically played by women in the ancient world.

In-person, Nokomis, FL
Sunday, December 17, 2023; 1-5pm*
*PLUS an optional (and weather permitting) Winter Solstice sunset tambourine procession on Daughter-of-the-Moon Beach (ending at around 6pm)

 

🌸⚪️🌸 ABOUT THE WORKSHOP:

❀ Our beginner tambourine drum workshop is part seminar, part experiential learning, part sacred circle… Part reclamation of the drum in relation to the feminine arts of rhythm and ritual… 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. #LaynesLegacyLives.

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The Tambourine Path in St. Pete, 2022
The Tambourine Path in St. Pete, 2022

Women, Rhythm & Ritual: The Tambourine Path, in Sarasota, FL
Sunday, March 26, 2023; 2-5:30pm

SORRY, SOLD OUT!

An in-person, beginner tambourine drum workshop, welcoming all women, with Barbara Gail of The Tambourine Path.

Held in the beautiful and sacred space of Meditation, Sound, Mindfulness, 7208 S Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, FL 34231.

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ABOUT THE WORKSHOP:

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BG With Her Tambourine in Elsa Field's Online Master Class
BG with her tambourine, presenting a Master Class in Elsa Field's Online Training, March, 2022.

Women, Rhythm & Ritual: The Tambourine Path Online 
5 Weekly Fridays, March-April, 2023; Live Group 90-minute Sessions on zoom, with Barbara Gail

For beginner-ish ritual tambourine magic-makers, and followers of The Tambourine Path… Sister, if you hear the call, I invite you to join me, along with women around the country and around the world… Who, like you, feel (or would perhaps like to feel)…

🌸⚪️🌸 The magic of playing the jingled frame drum…

🌸⚪️🌸 Centered and connected when in a sacred circle of women…

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Women, Rhythm & Ritual: The Tambourine Path, in Harrisburg, PA, May 2022

SingFest!
An all-women’s weekend of Singing, Dancing, Drumming, & Writing, in St. Petersburg, Florida!
Friday, January 27 ~ Sunday, January 29, 2023

Please visit The SingFest website FMI.

Sing & Drum in the Sun! Gather with joyful spirit-sisters, singing & drumming from our hearts, as we celebrate the Sacred Feminine. We’ll sing, drum, dance, write, & experience a variety of workshops, concerts, & ceremonies.

The tambourine is a powerful, trance-inducing instrument, steeped in a rich herstory as a drum of Ancient Priestesses in the temples & in the streets, in ceremony & celebration. Barbara Gail’s current work, The Tambourine Path, is inspired directly from envisioning this concept.

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Women, Rhythm & Ritual: a Beginner Tambourine Workshop, Mid-Atlantic Tour, May, 2022, Afton, TN

The Tambourine Path’s Florida & New Hampshire Summer Workshops! 2022
Women, Rhythm & Ritual: a Beginner Tambourine Drum Workshop,
in the Layne Redmond Tradition

 St. Pete: SATURDAY, May 28; 2-5pm 
Held at 6340 Central Ave, St Petersburg, FL 33707
Visit the Facebook Event Page for St. Pete, FL here

 Floral City, FL: SUNDAY, JUNE 26; 2-5pm 
Lion’s Club, 8370 E Orange Ave, Floral City, FL 34436 
Visit the Facebook Event Page for Floral City, FL workshop, here

❦ Altamonte Springs, FL: Saturday, July 23; 2-5pm
HEAL., E Cadillac Dr, Suite 105, Altamonte Springs, FL 32714
Visit the Facebook Event Page for Altamonte Springs, FL workshop here

❦ Raymond, NH: Saturday, August 20; 2-5pm
Inspired Yoga and Health, 126 Route 27, unit A1, Raymond, NH 03077
Visit the Facebook Event Page for Raymond, NH workshop here

❦ Pelham, NH: Sunday, August 21; 3-6pm
Moon River Wellness Center, 17 Windham Road Pelham, NH 03076
Visit the Facebook Event Page for Pelham, NH workshop here

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BG With Her Tambourine in Elsa Field's Online Master Class
BG with her tambourine, presenting a Master Class in Elsa Field's Online Training, March, 2022.

East Coast Workshop Tour! May, 2022
Women, Rhythm & Ritual: a Beginner Tambourine Drum Workshop,
in the Layne Redmond Tradition

 Afton (Greeneville), TN: THURSDAY, May 12; 6:30-9pm ONE SEAT LEFT! 
Held in a private home in Afton. Exact address will be emailed to you.
Visit the Facebook Event Page for THURSDAY Afton (Greeneville), TN, here

   Afton (Greeneville), TN: FRIDAY, May 13; 6:30-9pm SOLD OUT! 
        Held in a private home in Afton. Exact address will be emailed to you.
Visit the Facebook Event Page for FRIDAY Afton (Greeneville), TN, here

  ❦ Harrisburg, PA area: Thursday, May 19; 6:30-9pm SOLD OUT!
        Held at Amethyst Retreat, 44 Buffalo Creek Road, Duncannon, PA 17020
Vist the Facebook Event Page for Amethyst Retreat in PA, here

  Winchester, VA: Tuesday, May 24; 6:30-9pm
        Held at The Lord’s Chapel, 1244 Greenwood Rd, Winchester, VA 22602
Vist the Facebook Event Page for Winchester, VA, here

 

Was wonderful! Such a feminine drum. I loved the circle of women in rhythm.
~ Lynn, Maine

 

The tambourine is much more than what we see and hear in popular music, simply striking to make the cymbals sizzle. This jingled frame drum is actually a powerful, trance-inducing instrument, steeped in a rich, spiritual women’s herstory for use in ceremonial procession, and in unifying a community in celebration. From cool jingle rolls to mesmerizing rhythms, there’s so much sound from one small drum! A contemporary twist on an ancient women’s tradition, this beginner drum class is infused with deep feminine connection, beauty, and meditative, healing drum magic.

 

I had no idea how much fun it is to play the tambourine until
your sacred instruction and ceremony today!!!
~Lynn, New Mexico, online workshop

 

OUR 2-and-a-half-hour WORKSHOP MAY INCLUDE:

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Barbara & Jeff reviewing a delivery of tambourines!

The Tambourine Path in Celebration! A LIVE Workshop on zoom
A beginner friendly, Layne Redmond style tambourine workshop, welcoming everyone.
With Barbara Gail & Jeff Hanna, The Rhythm Inlet Dynamic Duo!

Saturday, February 19th, 4-6ish pm EST 
Quickly & easily convert to your time zone here!

Feel free to visit the Facebook Event Page.

If you’re new to this drum, I recommend The Tambourine Path video series. It’s my 90 minutes of free, basic & thorough tambourine instruction!

Join me LIVE & online, accompanied by Jeff Hanna, my husband & partner in life, work, & everything under The Rhythm Inlet sun! ☀️ We’re both specialists in creating in-person drum workshops, where the pinnacle experience is when multiple parts are played by the participants. This is “Polyrhythm”, more than one rhythm being played simultaneously within a group, & most importantly, in synch. So fun! 🌟🙌🏽🌟

For us, drumming in a polyrhythmic ensemble is living in the land of drum magic. After learning all the rhythms, the feeling of connection inherent in the ensemble experience — being part of a whole while all rhythms are played together — is positively climactic! Yes, even raw beginners can do this!

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Welcome to The Tambourine Path Temple, 2022!

Women, Rhythm & Ritual: The Tambourine Path in Ceremony
LIVE on zoom, all women welcome.
Saturday, February 5th, 3-6ish pm EST 

Feel free to visit the Facebook Event Page

A sacred tool steeped in a rich herstory, the tambourine is a member of the frame drum family. Throughout the Ancient Mediterranean World, these powerful, trance-inducing instruments were played primarily by women for healing & divination, ecstatic rites & festivities filled with drum, dance & song, inspiring their communities in ritual & reverie.

Join me from my Temple of The Tambourine Path, for my first online ceremony of 2022. Our women-only & interactive virtual circle, infused with sisterhood & sacred space, blends tambourine lessons with experiential ritual in the tradition of Layne Redmond.

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Barbara Gail on The Tambourine Path, 2020

SingFest 2022!
An all-women’s weekend of Singing, Dancing & Drumming, in Southwest Florida
Friday, January 21 ~ Sunday, January 23

In-person, 3-day gathering cancelled, BUT WILL BE VIRTUAL! Saturday, January 22, 12-5pm Workshops; 7-9pm Concert! Visit SingFest website FMI.

Sing & Drum in the Sun! Gather with joyful spirit-sisters, singing & drumming from our hearts, as we celebrate the Sacred Feminine. We’ll sing, drum, dance & experience a variety of workshops, concerts, & ceremonies.

Barbara Gail will be teaching this 90 minute workshop:

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

The tambourine is a powerful, trance-inducing instrument, steeped in a rich herstory as a drum of Ancient Priestesses…

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Winter Solstice, Lido Beach, 2015

Enter Darkness, Return to Light!
An Online Winter Solstice Ceremonial Circle on The Tambourine Path 🌸⚪️🌸
with Barbara Gail


Saturday, December 18, 2021, 4pm, Eastern Time
Please use an online time conversion calculator, for your location.

🌸⚪️🌸 Women, Rhythm & Ritual 🌸⚪️🌸

❧ Join Barbara Gail along The Tambourine Path for a memorable & meaningful “virtual circle” of candlelight, ceremony & celebration.

❧ Marking the completion of an annual cycle, Winter Solstice offers pause for reflection, a shift in how we perceive our past, present, & future. The ups & downs, adventures in loves & losses, are all twirls on life’s dance floor. Sometimes rough, sometimes smooth, “…Life is a dance, a dance around the wheel, a song around the wheel…”, sings Leah Wolfsong.

❧ Though rooted to our personal stories, our future does NOT have to be defined by them! Connect to The Earth & Stars, & The Pulse of all Life. Bless & release the past, to weed…

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Barbara Gail & Her Layne Redmond Signature Riq, Winter Solstice, 2016

In-person Tambourine Workshop & Women’s Tambourine Processional
with Barbara Gail, in the Layne Redmond Tradition
Thursday, November 11, 2021; Workshop: 4pm; Processional: 10pm
The Percussive Arts Society’s International Convention, Indianapolis, IN

The day & place of Layne Redmond’s Induction into The Hall of Fame!

I’m thrilled & deeply honored to share with you that I’ll be teaching this workshop during the 4-day Percussive Arts Society’s International Convention (PASIC), in Indianapolis, Indiana. This is the largest annual percussive arts convention in the world!

On this auspicious date, that very evening, my teacher & friend, Layne Redmond (1952-2013), will be posthumously inducted into the Hall of Fame in a special ceremony at this convention. 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!

It will be my privilege to represent Layne & all the Daughters of this Ancient Pulse — women frame drummers of today, of yesterday, & of tomorrow.

🌸⚪️🌸 Description…

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Moonrise performing in The Maine Arts Festival, August, 2000

Women, Rhythm & Ritual:
an Online Ceremonial Circle, Along “The Tambourine Path”

Saturday, October 30, 2021; 5pm, EDT.
(Please use an online time conversion calculator, for your location.)

Held Live & Online, for women on The Path of the Tambourine 🌸⚪️🌸

Visit the Facebook Event Page

🌸⚪️🌸 What it is…

An online (zoom) tambourine ritual for the students & followers of Barbara Gail’s free beginner tambourine lessons called “The Tambourine Path“, available on her YouTube channel, which you can check out here: BG’s Frame Drum & Tambourine YouTube Videos

This beginner-friendly event will be held LIVE, & there is no charge. Optional donations will be accepted. Because of its ceremonial nature, there will be NO REPLAY.

🌸⚪️🌸 Imagine…

A sacred space that emerges & grows through InnerVision Drum Journey, SongChant, & Sacred Invocation.

An honoring of the women in our ‘circle’, The Ancestors, The Daughters of an Ancient Pulse, & Layne Redmond, for her inspiring gifts, contributions, & legacy.

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Miss Barbara with a Rainbow Ukulele

Kids Free Online Ukulele Class! With Ms Barbara & her Niece, 9-year-old Sophie
5 Saturdays: July 11, 2020 ~ August 8, 2020; 1-1:45pm(ish)

Sophie & Ms Barbara are co-creating this class, so they decided to also co-create a video to tell you all about it! Please watch our video here.

Barbara Gail (who co-owns The Ukulele Place with her husband, Jeff Hanna), & her 3rd-grade niece, Sophie, invite all children going into 2nd, 3rd, & 4th grades, to join them for 5-weeks of online, group learning & music-making fun.

Their upcoming class will be held ‘live’ on zoom, & offered for free & by donation.

Sophie & her Aunt Barbara live hundreds of miles apart, but are now closer than ever thanks to the Covid-19 lockdown of 2020, & the gift of FaceTime. While taking Jeff’s Beginner Ukulele Class together on zoom in May & June,

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BG Leading Summer Solstice 2017, with Healers Robin Tanzzi, JoEllyn Bavosa, & Cat Randall

Women, Rhythm, & Ritual: Goddess of the Summer Solstice
Friday, June 19, 2020; 7pm

Due to COVID-19, I decided to create a video for your healing & inspiring Summer Solstice / Solar Eclipse Ceremony. In this video, I explain what you’ll need for your home sanctuary ceremony, & gently guide you through it. I hope it serves you, namaste. View your Summer Solstice Ceremony video here.

Join Barbara & friends for our annual event, welcoming women, girls, & babes-in-arms, in ceremony & celebration of the mid-point of the year.

For women seeking connection in a group experience inspired by seasonal cycles, Barbara Gail weaves a unique, meditative, thoughtfully-crafted, sacred space. With an intention for inner healing, clearing, centering, InSight, InSpiration, & to activate our highest vibration, our container is a shared journey infused with an alchemy of Rhythm, Sound, Movement, the Elements, & the Feminine Soul.

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Yoga Friends with Miss Barbara at Earth Task Crew Camp, 2015

Yoga Friends for Kids: a Workshop for 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training
June 6, 2020; Thrive Yoga, Bradenton

THIS EVENT WAS CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19

The Message is in the Movement, the Magic is in the Music!

In this 4.5 hour workshop, Barbara Gail will share tips & techniques, & talk about the challenges & joys of teaching yoga to children, to Thrive Yoga’s 200-YTT students. Barbara’s background as a specialist in leading groups young children’s music & movement classes will bring a unique skillset these students.

Children enjoy happy, healthy fun in Barbara’s Yoga Friends classes. They’re music-based, child-centered, sometimes silly, often energetic, & include creative movement, songs, & magic flying yoga-mat journeys. After most classes, children can take home their fun props, that inspires at-home yoga-play with friends & family.

Barbara’s children’s yoga classes deliver all the benefits of yoga in the way children learn best — through experiential play. And our catalyst is music. Children love & respond naturally to music, & the human brain, as well as mind-body memory, are so deeply supported by catchy tunes & the familiarity of lyrics.

Yoga Friends assists children’s physical, emotional, social, & mental development. Yoga’s coordination, flexibility, strength, focus, & balance, are all evident, as children learn

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BG at The Southern Sierra Goddess Gathering, Oceanside San Diego, January, 2019

Goddess Weekend Retreat
Friday, March 27 6 pm ~ Sunday, March 29, 2020; 3pm
East of Sarasota, private home retreat

THIS EVENT WAS CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19

Ladies! This retreat in Sarasota, Florida looks amazing, & I’ll be there!

Weather-wise it’s a fantastic time of year to be here. And astrologically it’s the perfect time to choose YOU! Heal, breathe, create, commune, connect, move, stretch, drum, learn, evolve, all this among women & in a beautiful, natural setting. This Spring, I encourage you to choose YOU! Mercury will be coming out of its retrograde cycle in Pisces, having reviewed & ironed out some of our inner healing & spiritual work. And Saturn will be changing signs after three years in Capricorn, now moving into Aquarius! A perfect time to re-structure & re-calibrate higher mind, supreme intentions, reconnect to your muse for inspiration, & align with your soul purpose, so that you can create manifestation! Your body, heart, spirit & soul will thank you!

Join us in the following activities that will Renew, Refresh, Restore! Together, we’ll discover

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Spring Stirs, Spring Awakens, Spring Cleanses, Spring Greens

Spring Equinox Ceremony: Dreams & Intentions, Sprouting Seeds, Taking Root
Hosted by Barbara Gail & Jo Mooy
Friday, March 20, 2020
Rising Tide International, 5102 Swift Rd., Sarasota

THIS EVENT WAS CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19, so I made a video for your Spring Equinox Ceremony instead! Enjoy, & namaste. Blessed Spring! Watch the video here.

Men, women, & well-behaved children are all welcome!

Ahhh, the Equinox, night & day in equal balance. We get 2 of them, one Vernal (Spring), the other Autumnal (Fall).

The Spring Equinox is a time of renewal, rebirth, planting & seeding. The Goddess Oestre is the Germanic name for the Goddess of Spring which signaled the planting season in ancient calendars. Her name, Oestre, survived into the modern Christian holiday, as Easter.

On March 20th Barbara Gail leads the meditation circle for the Spring Equinox Ceremony. She’s an experienced ceremonialist with a deep respect for the changing cycles. She brings nuances to the ceremony that enliven the gather.

For her Spring Equinox 2020 community ceremony & celebration, Barbara Gail sprinkles a touch of playfulness, humor & levity, while facilitating a sacred space of mindful practices that speak to the themes of this cardinal season.

She encourages us to wear the pastel colors of green, blue, yellow, & pink (one, some, or all the colors), & bring

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BG, only minutes before her women's frame drum workshop in San Diego, 2020

The Gaia Revolution: Lake Bryan Forest Women’s Retreat
Friday, March 13, 2020; 12pm ~ Tuesday, March 17, 2020; 12pm
Ocala National Forest
3199 NE Highway 315, Ocala, Florida 34488
Hosted by The Gaia Revolution

Ladies! This retreat in Ocala, Florida looks amazing, & I’ll be there!

Weather-wise it’s a fantastic time of year to be here. And astrologically it’s the perfect time to choose YOU! Heal, breathe, create, commune, connect, move, stretch, drum, learn, evolve, all this among women & in a beautiful, natural setting.

I’ll be teaching, performing, presenting, & facilitating on 4 occasions. There’s a lineup of other outstanding, hand-selected instructors & facilitators, & I know it’ll be a phenomenal & transformational retreat for me, & all who are in attendance.

Rhythm. Pulse. Entrainment. A World of Drums. Playful. Sacred. Ritual. Journey. Temple. The Elements. The Ancient Ones. The Frame Drum. Herstory. When the Drummers Were Women. Boom Boom Cha!

These words describe The Magic of the Blessed Beat! I’ll be weaving all of this Rhythmic Wisdom throughout our weekend, welcoming raw beginners, drumming enthusiasts, & experienced drummers alike.

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Drum Circle at Camp Kidding Around Yoga, 2018

Make a Joyful Noise! A Multi-generational Drum Circle Celebration Circle for Purim
Chabad of Sarasota Synagogue
Wednesday, March 4, 2020; 5pm

A lively presentation & hands-on evening in community rhythm-making!

Barbara Gail, B.A. Education, weaves her extensive background to skillfully create a tailor-made experience that delivers health & happiness to body, mind, & soul. Edu-taining & participatory, with techniques you can use to play her large collection of world percussion instruments, provided. With no musical experience necessary, this program is appropriate for the whole family, inspiring newcomers to rhythm, the once-were musicians, & the musically active, to collectively be childlike & make a joyful noise!

The HeartBeat is our common ground, we all carry an inner knowing of The Universal Language of Rhythm.

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BG and her Djembe
BG & her Djembe, Performing at Wellness Fest 2009

Beginner W. African Djembe: Weekly Hand-drumming Classes this Spring!
at The Ukulele Place at The Rhythm Inlet, Nokomis
8 Wednesdays: February 26 ~ April 15, 2020; 7-8:30pm

Learn to play the most popular hand-drum, with the owner of The Rhythm Inlet!

With a focus on teaching proper hand technique & interlocking rhythm patterns, she masterfully & sequentially brings you to finding your place in the beat, & your class to playing as a multi-rhythmic ensemble.

Perfect for raw beginners, drum circle enthusiasts, musicians seeking rhythmic training, & folks with some exposure to drumming who want instruction with a solid foundation.

Welcome adults, motivated teens, & youth ages 10 & up with instructor permission. No musical experience needed. Group rhythmic entrainment is relaxing & energizing, & a positive experience for all!

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BG teaching frame drumming in 2019 at SSGG4. Image used for 2020's SSGG5.

Barbara Gail Returns to The 5th Annual Southern Sierra Goddess Gathering
Friday thru Sunday, January 10 ~ 12, 2020
Fallbrook, California

Goddesses! Join me & this amazing tribe, at our 5th annual retreat!

I’ll be facilitating a frame drum temple experience on Saturday, within a full & inspired schedule of workshops, ceremonies & activations. This is the up-level event that I look forward to each year, a tribe of evolving souls. This is the gathering where I go to continue becoming a better version of myself.

Consciously curated for the healing & empowerment of womxn, those who identify as womxn, men & those who identify as men, & non-binary folks — those of us who hear the call as they seek Goddess integration in their lives. Our annual retreat features various presenters & vendors offering experiential presentations, myriad activities, & products, tools & services that aim to heal, inspire, & alchemize all that you hold within your highest self.

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