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Upcoming drums:
For the latest information about time and location for the drum groups, please visit Jaime's blog at DrummingtheSoulAwake.blogspot.com
To be added to the drumming email list, click here!
For five years Jaime Meyer has been leading
drumming groups at The church is at 34th and Dupont in South Minneapolis—four blocks south of Lake and Hennepin, between Hennepin and Lyndale. The parking lot is on the south side of the building, If you arrive late and the doors are locked, feel free to wander to the Dupont side of the building and knock on the window near the front door. Cost: $15 per drum. But please don’t let money be an obstacle to you attending. If these drum groups call to you, and money is tight, come and don’t pay! The first 90 minutes of each drum is all drumming—delicious, enticing, often rambunctious and wild rhythms, and just as often slow, meditative and deeply mysterious rhythms. Then we take a short break for tea and cookies and conversation with fellow drummers. When we return, Jaime leads the group in a ceremony, or ritual, or experience specific to that month's theme as outlined in the letter to group members about a week before the drum. You are totally free to view everything in the monthly drums in your own way: as simple joyful fun, as interesting theatre, as useful psychological exercises, as soul work, as communing with the spirit world, as prayer to the one God or Goddess or Holy Spirit, as all of the above, or none of the above. There is no right or wrong way to approach this work. All that is asked is that you approach the work with wonder, imagination, and an open mind and heart. For more information, or to reserve a spot, contact Chris Bremer at 952-926-8542 or bremer101@yahoo.com Or e-mail Jaime.
Introduction to DrummingDrumming
is one of the oldest ways humans have entertained themselves and one of the
oldest prayer practices. The drum has a mysterious and simple ability to opens
places in your emotional and spiritual self that modern industrial culture has
coaxed—or slammed—shut for many reasons. Drumming works on everyone, but in
different ways. There is no right or wrong way to drum.
Read some of the past letters to drummers from Jaime or contact Chris Bremer at 952-926-8542 or bremer101@yahoo.com for more information or to inquire about upcoming activities.
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liberate your “indigenous
soul”—that part of you that remembers and yearns for "the original
fragrance of the flowering earth," that part of you that remembers and
yearns for the what the Celts called the "Oran Mor," the great song of
the universe, of which each living thing (from an ant to a supernova) is a note.
Some people say that drumming opens the “wild spaces” in you, or that it
opens the “dreaming eye.” (Okay
I say that—see the poem to the right.) Drumming opens you, simply and
mysteriously. And that is why it is both incredibly fun and incredibly
beautiful. I hope that you will find this to be true, as I have.
There’s a poem that comes to mind that I think has a
lot to do with how you should view the drumming experience. It’s from a German
painter who called himself Wols: