ENTER DARKNESS, RETURN TO LIGHT!
Schedule
Sat Dec 21 2024 at 07:30 pm to 10:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
400 Center St., Altamonte Springs, FL, United States, Florida 32701 | Altamonte Springs, FL
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Enter Darkness, Return to Light! A Winter Solstice Ceremony ✨🕯️✨Join Barbara Gail -- The Drum, The Song, The Dance -- for an intentional, engaging, and participatory journey, as we cross the Winter Solstice threshold.
Memorable and meaningful, we’ll honor the season creatively, in an interactive ceremony and celebration, with candlelight, rhythm, movement, and song.
✨ Marking the end of an annual cycle and the birth of another, Winter Solstice is the longest night. The Earth is bathed in more darkness than she is in Light. By nature this welcomes stillness and pause for reflection, bestowing time for re-envisioning.
✨ Our evening of SongChant, Rhythm-making, and Circle Dance, will be a ritual journey that guides you through the completion of one cycle, and into the beginning of the next, when the light will grow again with the gradual lengthening of days.
✨ Similar to planting seeds where they dream underground, together we’ll descend into and embrace the darkness. In song we’ll conjure our personal and collective trust to surrender to whatever lies ahead on our path.
✨ With this much-needed refresh, we’re delivered into the next cycle with renewed and luminous inspiration, and emerge bringing forth the glowing, growing light, joining hearts and hands in a Circle and Celebration of Life!
🕯️ This evening’s creative expression of Winter Solstice is a transformational experience that shifts our perception out of the mundane, and into the dream.
🕯️ Let’s bless and release the past, weeding out the old and that which no longer serves.
🕯️ Let’s gift ourselves the present, preparing fresh ground for a garden of new intentions.
🕯️ Let’s plant new seeds, envisioning a future where we can “Trust in the light of love, the pulse of the universe!” (song by Ina).
Our ritual may include and is not limited to:
❧ Silent and Guided InnerVision DrumJourney
❧ SongChant
❧ Circle Dance
❧ Facilitated Rhythm-making
*** There’s no need for any previous experience or confidence in music, singing, drumming, or dancing!
🕯️ Welcoming all men, women, interested teens, and willing youth. 🕯️
$25 Early Bird
$35 after December 16
$45 door
***An email will be sent to registrants, with what to know and what to bring.
Wonderful and affordable overnight accommodations available.
“It was wonderful in so many ways… You were inspirational, ethereal and dramatic — with a sense of rhythm, pace, texture, timing, inflection, enunciation, word-coloring and interpretation. You were meditative, thoughtful and thought provoking. Competent, considerate and compassionate in your awareness of others. You conveyed a sense of tranquility to your listeners and observers. Your personal pulse was on everything. It was a captivating, memorable program and I was happy to be a part of it. Thank you!”
~ Sandra, Winter Solstice 2015 participant
❤︎ BARBARA GAIL is a Rhythmist, Multi-percussionist, Hand-drummer's Teacher's Teacher, and International Mentor. She's a Dancer and SongChant Singer, and a dynamically passionate Alchemist in the Teaching, Performing and Ritual Arts.
❤︎ Her teachings are based in the Ancient Future Wisdom of The Earth.
❤︎ Barbara's been sharing the joys of rhythm and movement, hand-drumming and dance, in her award-winning programs for over 30 years, and has facilitated hundreds of groups and thousands of people, of all ages, abilities and challenges, in over 400 venues, and in 13 states.
❤︎ As a visionary she created "Moonrise: Daughters of an Ancient Pulse", "DrumRise! The Art of Women's Drumming", "Women, Rhythm, & Ritual", and "The Tambourine Path".
❤︎ With her husband and partner in life and work, Jeff Hanna, she's co-owner of The Rhythm Inlet and The Ukulele Place music retail stores, and The Space teaching studios (which all morphed in January 2022).
❤︎ "The Philosophy of Creative Arts as Experiential Education for Personal and Social Transformation" is how she titled her life's work for her B.A. Ed. with a minor in Dance at Hampshire College, nearly 40 years ago.
❤︎ Barbara is a senior teacher in the worldwide Layne Redmond Legacy, and was recently awarded by her colleagues with the "Drum Ma Award", originally given to Layne by Ubaka Hill.
❤︎ She was a protégée of Layne Redmond (1952-2013), who authored the renown seminal book, "When the Drummers Were Women: a Spiritual History of Rhythm". At Layne's posthumous induction into the Percussive Arts Society's International Hall of Fame (Indianapolis, 2021), Barbara taught "A Tambourine Workshop in The Layne Redmond Tradition". Sponsored by The Remo Drum Company, the workshop was attended by a maxed-out crowd of 130 people, with 30 people listening in the hallway.
❤︎ Internationally, Barbara serves as a source of inspiration, resource information and support, in the exotic lands of Zoom, Facebook, and YouTube.
❤︎ She and Jeff live at their Circle of Seven Oaks Sanctuary, in Nokomis, Florida, in the US.
☀️ Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/barbara.gail1
☀️ YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@BarbaraGail_drum_song_dance
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Where is it happening?
400 Center St., Altamonte Springs, FL, United States, Florida 32701Event Location & Nearby Stays:
