Global Rhythm Sangha 2025: 1 Year Online Course
One Year Online Cultural Drumming Program for joy, celebration and healing
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Description:
With over 25 yrs experience teaching drumming for healing and wellness, Christine Stevens, MSW, MT-BC has created a global rhythm sangha featuring world-class teachers and practices for maintaining a juicy drumming practice to bring joy, happiness & creativity into your life.
Features of the course:
Sangha is a Sanskrit word for a community of practitioners in a shared tradition. Within the sacred lineage of drumming, we want to create a worldwide community of support, sharing, and teaching to continue our rhythmic path – in service to global awakening.
Using zoom.us, we will hold monthly teachings followed by breakout rooms to get to know other people in the Sangha. We will also offer open practicum times monthly where students can gather and meet each other, to practice the world rhythms.
The course features world rhythms from drum masters, detailed hand-outs, the private Facebook group – optional, and all video and audio recordings with permanent access and download capability.
Continuing Education Credits for Music Therapists – There are no pre-requisites to receive CEUs from this course, apart from being a music therapist. Global Rhythm Sangha is approved by the Certification Board for Music Therapists (CBMT) for 21.0 continuing music therapy education credits. UpBeat Drum Circles, P-208, maintains responsibility for program quality and adherence to CBMT policies and criteria.
DATES: Two Sessions per Month *Always Recorded for Your Access*
Teaching Sessions – 2nd Saturday of Month @ 12pm Pacific Time USA
Practice Sessions – 4th Saturday of Month @12pm Pacific Time USA
Master Teachers for 2025:
January – Christine Stevens – Welcome Drum Circle & Hand Drum Basics, Jan 25
February – Jamie Papish – Ayub Trance Rhythm from the Middle East, Feb 8
March – Naghmeh Farahmand - Frame Drum Rhythms from Iran, March 8
April – Walking Crow – Sacred Drum Medicine of Native Americans, April 12
May – Krista Holland – Drumming the Chakras on the Sacred Frame Drum, May 10
June – Richard Noel - Island Beats from Trinidad and Tobego, June 14
July – Kasiva Mutua (TED Fellow) - Rhythms from East Africa, July 12
August – Lisette Santiago – Afro-Cuban Ceremonial Rhythms on Bata Drums, August 9
September – Dramane Kone – Siwaya Healing Rhythm from Burkina Faso, Sept 13
October– Fantuzzi – Dancing Grooves of Joy from Puerto Rico, Oct 11
November - Christine Stevens – Review of All Rhythms & Final Integration, Nov 8
December - Christine Stevens - Drumming in the Light - Winter Solstice Ceremony, Dec 20
Your Instructor
Christine Stevens, MA, MSW is an author, speaker and music therapist. She is the author of Music Medicine, The Healing Drum Learning Program and The Art and Heart of Drum Circles. The founder of UpBeat Drum Circles, she has appeared on NBC, PBS, KTLA, and is a featured speaker in the DVD Discover the Gift. She has trained facilitators from more than twenty-five countries in REMO HealthRHYTHMS, drum circle facilitation, and Music Medicine. Christine has worked with Fortune 500 companies, survivors of Katrina, students at Ground Zero and she led the first drum circle training in a war-zone in northern Iraq for peace-making.
Christine led two popular online courses; Awaken Your Rhythm and Awaken your Healing Rhythm for The Shift Network. Over 1,000 people from more than 40 countries have taken her courses as her work on shadow drumming, healing rhythms, and rhythm mantra continues to spread worldwide. She is also a certified radiance sutra meditation teacher.
Watch a video on drumming the 4 elements – https://youtu.be/b6UOFw5jNyk