Classes & Workshops

❦  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 payment 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.
❦  Note that it is not sent right away, it’s not automatic, I personally send it to you when I’m available to do so.
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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. (Our sound and lighting equipment have since been upgraded.)
❦ 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 (making polyrhythm). You also need to have a sense of the basic Pulse, & how to align with it. The Pulse 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 at least a few years. While online classes offer so much flexibility when it comes to geographical locations and scheduling, it’s impossible to replicate the group drumming musicality & energy, when in an online group drumming program! However, since we’re all unable to be together (YET! is the operative word!), we can be grateful for technology, as 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 leads workshops while mentoring women around the world in the art of women’s tambourine, ritual drumming, and the spiritual herstory of rhythm. She was a long-time protégée of the late great Layne Redmond, master of tambourine and frame drums, and author of  When the Drummers Were Women: a Spiritual History of Rhythm.
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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 Layne in 2001, & to Brasil with her in 2005 & again in 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 years, watching it go up & down between $124.00 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 the 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 ranges from $25.00 to $30.00 US. 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

experience for all!

Please check my Calendar Page to find out when the next Playshop or Weekly Class is!

Wanna learn how to bring this program to your group? Call Barbara at 941-223-0180, she’d be happy to speak with you.

infused with rhythm, ritual, sacred feminine space, sisterhood, beauty, & meditative, healing drum magic. Some of the herstory of the tambourine can also be presented.

Appropriate for inspired teen girls & women of all ages. No musical experience needed.

Can be a combined program. Possibilities include a When the Drummers Were Women slide show performance & presentation, an InnerVision DrumJourney, a Rhythmic Wisdom Walking-Breathing-Pulsing Guided Meditation, SpiralSong SongChants, an InPowering Drum Circle, a Healing Drum Temple, a public procession with workshop participants as Moonrise: Daughters of an Ancient Pulse, a Frame Drum Workshop, & more.

sisterhood, beauty, & meditative, healing drum magic.

Appropriate for inspired teen girls & women of all ages. No musical experience needed.

Can be a combined program. Possibilities include a “When the Drummers Were Women” slide show performance & presentation, a Moonrise Public Procession with workshop participants, a Tambourine Drum Workshop, a Women’s Healing Drum Temple, & more.

First, we’re deeply breathing, oxygenating the body & the brain. Secondly, music has the unique ability to bi-pass the mind & go directly to the heart, where inner transformation can occur.

SpiralSong uses what Barbara Gail calls SongChant, an art form that groups our words into easily learned phrases, setting them to easily learned & repetitive melody. Most SongChants are original songs created by women. SongChant can deliver us into a calm & awakened state, where magic & miracles can manifest!

Singing in this way is nothing new. For 5000 years, yogis have sung their way to bliss in their kirtan experiences. St. Augustine said, “When we sing, we pray twice.” The beauty of SongChant is that no singing or musical experience is needed in order to sing yourself into your YES!

Change your voice, change your thoughts. Change your thoughts, change your mind. Change your mind, change your perspective. Change your perspective, change your outlook. Change your outlook, change your actions. Change your actions, change your life! You’ll discover a new inner theme song & fresh soundtrack for every moment you encounter.

“When you focus only on what works, only on what’s good, only on what you appreciate, only on what you love, only on what you’re grateful for, your life will be an opulent palace!” — Karol Avalon, Producer, Oceans of Gratitude Cruise Retreats

This WomanSong event welcomes women of all ages, & inspired teen girls. It can meet as a regularly scheduled circle, be combined with other events, or booked for a one-time program.

release the fire
melt into earth
surrender to emptiness
be held by the tribe
trust the process…
become your breath
embody your being
connect to your essence…
from perspiration
to inspiration,
lose yourself
to find yourself
in infinite love
& limitless possibilities
~ Barbara Gail, Dance Your Soul Free…

Everything — including us — is energy, always moving in waves, patterns, rhythms. Barbara Gail, alchemist of the arts, blends rhythm, ritual, movement, dance, sound, & music, in deep & transformative ways. A natural teacher & leader, she’s 3rd-Level Certified in JourneyDance™, is 200-Hour Yoga Certified, & is Certified & Licensed in Kidding Around Yoga™.

Earlier in life she shifted focus from university-level dance study & performance, to immerse in the Rhythm Waves dance practice of her teacher, The Late Gabrielle Roth; & Ritual Drumming with the Late Layne Redmond. In 1993 she began facilitating groups to surrender to the beat & dance their souls free, & went on to lead workshops & ongoing weekly Rhythm Wave classes throughout Maine for a over a decade.

Barbara spins memorable, music-&-movement-based vision quests. Fully guided & facilitated, she builds playlists of inspiring recorded music, leading groups in improvisational movement & creative visualization in a deeply supportive, safe & sacred space. This hypnotic container can momentarily transport us into a profound & integrated experience of ourselves. Here is an opportunity to catalyze, release, & restore, & awaken into intuition, creativity, clarity, focus, power, & peace.

The body in motion as a means to refresh & fortify the human soul, can move us toward personal transformation & alignment with our highest & best selves. No dance experience is needed as you simply move your body naturally. You’re not the dancer dancing, you’re the dance dancing itself into existence! And if you don’t, who will?!

Barbara invites you to experience yourself as both conductor & symphony, human & healer, weaver of your own magic & divine elixir.

Motivational speaker, life coach, & best-selling NYT author Gabby Bernstein says, “JourneyDance™ is manifestation on the dance floor!”

“That was THE BEST ONE YET!!! Emotions rolled in like waves. Very healing & reviving of inner spirit, bringing out the layered feelings that one never thinks about. It’s wonderful free movement & a great energy release. What a fantastic ecstatic dance class.”
~ Abbie B

“We were talking about your dance class the other night & thought it would be great to partake in again, are you returning? I’ve been elsewhere to dance… But I have to say it wasn’t anything like what you bring forward. Theirs was just movement. Yours is a sacred soul cleansing… It is perfection!”
~ Brenda C

“I wanted to let you know that your ecstatic dance class at Lata’s studio was spectacular. It was your best class & the emotions & joy it invoked were overwhelming, I cannot wait until the next one! Hurry Back!”
~ Cindy M

“It meant a great deal to me & was an important outlet for expression in a time when I really needed that. You’re an incredible & inspirational teacher, & I feel really blessed for having had an opportunity to be in your dance classes.”
~ Sydney E

“To dance with Barbara is a profound experience.”
~ S.V.