"Rhythm is the Mother Tongue." I wish I'd said that first, but I didn't. Gabrielle Roth did. Or maybe she didn't, but when I came across the quote it was attributed to her and since I don't have any info that would dispute that, I say you go, Gaby. I loved the quote but didn't have any idea who Gabrielle Roth is. So I googled her. She's the originator of something called the 5Rhythms Meditation Movement practice. I won't go into detail about what that is here, but check out her website. If nothing else grabs you about the meditation thing, the music is hypnotic. And rhythmical...and full of drums. Which brings us back to drumming which is where I left everyone.
I'm back from Utah having now been trained as a HealthRHYTHMS drum facilitator. People who know me would say that although I'm open to new experiences, I'm not the type to jump on the bus of just any old thing simply because it's new or cutting edge or might make the rest of my family question my sanity...again. And I'm more often than not circumspect in my reaction to something, perhaps fearing my capability of going off the deep end. I was expecting to find group empowerment drumming mildly amusing and somewhat helpful in giving me an outlet for my own musical cravings. I was not expecting it to be almost life changing...and it was. Life changing in the sense of igniting a passion for new direction in my work. Life changing in the sense of finding a key to a level playing field. Life changing in the sense of opening up a closed place in my heart. Okay, that sounds a little too touchy feely even for me but suffice it to say that I've got new energy around what I think is important in life - creating communities of practice (CoP). In CoP's, people come together to share their concern and/or passion for what they do - and they learn to do it better by sharing knowledge, resources, experience, tools and stories. Maybe we can create a human CoP, where we learn to live together in more productive ways simply as people. Just a thought.
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