Global Rhythm Sangha 2026
Cultural Drumming One Year Course Online. Monthly Master Teachers. ALL Levels Welcome!
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Description:
With over 30 yrs experience teaching drumming for healing and wellness, Christine Stevens, MSW, MT-BC has created a Global Rhythm Sangha featuring world-class teachers and rhythms for maintaining a juicy drumming practice to bring joy, happiness & creativity into your life. Now in its 6th year, this course provides CEUs for music therapist, CEUs for sound healing practitioners, and great songs, chants and rhythms for drum circle facilitators and drummers.
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 31 – Christine Stevens – Welcome Drum Circle & Hand Drum Basics
February 14 – Ju Linares - Samba Reggae from Brazil (Carnival!)
March 14 – Fredy PumaQuispe Singona - Andean Folkloric Drumming - LIVE from Peru
April 11 – Roberto Gutierrez - Rumba Guaguanco Latin Rhythm
May 9 – Sule Greg Wilson - West African Djembe Drumming
June 13 - Carolyn Brandy - Mozambique Afro-Cuban Rhythm
July 11 – Windwalker Dorn - Native American Shamanic Drumming
August 14 – Frank Lazzaro - Ecstatic Rhythms from Egypt
September 12 – Kristina Sophia – Nubian Rhythms from Aswan for Peace
October 10 – John de Kadt - Devotional Drumming from India
November 14 - Christine Stevens – Rhythm Review of All Teachers
December 12 - Christine Stevens – Meditative Drumming for Holiday Stress
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 is on faculty with The Shift NEtwork, offering online courses; Awaken Your Rhythm and Native Flute for Sound Healing.She is also a certified radiance sutra meditation teacher and ethnobotanist.
Watch a video on drumming the 4 elements – https://youtu.be/b6UOFw5jNyk