In November I randomly had the concept to deliver folks collectively via a drumming circle. My husband thought I used to be nuts, however I am at all times filled with nutty concepts and fortunately he tends to comply with my lead. I’m not a drummer. Nor are the overwhelming majority of our mates. However I do at all times like to strive new experiences and thought a drumming circle may very well be enjoyable. Boy was I proper!
What’s a drumming circle? It is a neighborhood of individuals flowing collectively to magically create a rhythm. Since none of us are consultants, now we have an teacher facilitating the group who begins us off with some beats after which all of us soar in when the timing feels excellent and contribute no matter energetically comes out of our fingers. It could sound slightly hippy-dippy. I am comfortable with you calling it what you want, simply know that after we’re in our zone, and everybody’s eyes are closed whereas our our bodies sway to the sounds we create collectively, there’s actually no phrase to explain it however magic.
Every month our circle evolves. There’s at all times a handful of regulars and there are at all times newbies. There’s additionally at all times a waitlist as a result of area is proscribed. I by no means anticipated that there could be such a powerful response.
I am going to let you know extra about why I consider that these are so profitable.
Our month-to-month circles have fashioned a powerful sense of neighborhood. Though my husband and I personally invite our mates and know all of the attendees, our mates do not all know one another and so they have the chance to musically mingle with new folks each month.
We not solely make music and new mates, we additionally make month-to-month recollections collectively. A lot of that significant memory-making is my life mission.
These month-to-month jams unite an eclectic group of human beings that won’t usually attain out to 1 one other. The ages vary from folks of their twenties to their sixties. We have now a former airforce pilot, a health teacher, physicians and scientists in numerous fields, entrepreneurs, attorneys, college professors, an administrative assistant, and even an incredible man that has actually been in each Burning Man-like occasion all through the world. There isn’t any barrier or hierarchy to deal with when everybody’s function is to affix forces with a typical function in thoughts.
There’s something about figuring out that you’re about to embark on a musical journey that units a tone of gratitude. All of us start the night with a way of belonging, love, and appreciation for each other that you do not typically obtain at a dinner desk.
Introducing others to new experiences is without doubt one of the best items you may supply your mates. I’m amazed to see grownups who’re open sufficient to be weak and choose up new melodic devices, with names which can be not possible to recollect (it is fairly scary enjoying an instrument that you do not know the best way to play or pronounce!). By some means, when everybody lets their guard down, the cadence serendipitously comes collectively.
Satirically, despite the fact that most of us have no drumming expertise, we turn into so in tune with each other that the tempo we create is completely harmonious, euphoric actually. I at all times finish our periods feeling excessive.
There’s a future for our circle. My aim is to encourage individuals to start excited about buying their very own drums, tambourines, or maracas in order that when the climate will get hotter, and the times are longer, all of us head to the sand and drum the solar to sleep. I envision others who come throughout us being impressed and becoming a member of our rhythmic group. I see this drumming circle increasing right into a wider neighborhood. Extra pleasure. Extra love.
Please keep in mind, when you will have some loopy, random thought that you’re really enthusiastic about – go for it! All it took was me looking for an teacher who can present devices and set up the occasion. Individuals are thirsty for brand new alternatives. The hassle it takes to arrange a brand new expertise for others is minimal, but the return is monumental.
See you on the sand!