Drumming Workshops

For as long as our hearts have been beating, the  Drum has been calling All Beings to Alignment. To a Greater Love of our  Connection to Ourselves and Our Earth. Our hands caress the skin of the drum, our connection to the animal kingdom. The wood of the Drum Funneling the Ancient sound Resonating through the Black Hole of Life Connecting Us to the Roots of Our Brothers and Sisters the Trees. We Are Grateful! We must continue to Reconnect!  LOVE LIFE…. DRUM!!!   Will you decide? To drum or not to Drum? Join Us on a Journey to Yourself and Your Life’s Purposes!!  Learn to: Find and Pick out a Drum, Various Healing Drum Rituals and Create and Play Personal and Group Rhythms You  can Share with Your  Friends and Family…

DRUM Workshops:
1 .  Drum Circle for Life                             
2.   Beginning Basic Drumming                              
3.   Stress Relief Drumming                             
4.   Drumming and Self Massage 
5.   Meditation and Drumming                             
6.   Nutrition and Drumming        
7.   Relationships and Drumming                              
8.   Drumming and Social Change                              
9.   Storytelling/Poetry and Drumming (Special guest storytellers/poets)                   
10. Percussion 101 (Bell, Clave, Shekere)
11. Healing Drumming for Women
12. Drumming for Youth Empowerment!
13. Yoga and Drumming
14. Gardening and Drumming...

These 2 and a half hour long  work/shops or play/sessions are meant to Free Our Minds and Bodies to Open Up Opportunities to Optimum Health and Spiritual Connection and Transformation. When the Student is Ready the Teachers and Tools Will Appear. Each Time We Come Together We Will Also Share Nutritious Vegan Delights from Cleansing and Revitalizing Sorrel Sunshine Drink and Fresh Juices and Teas to Home/Handmade Veggie Burgers, Soups, Salads, Grains, Greens, Beans and Mouth-Watering Desserts. (4 Course Meal)

There also will always Be Olmeca Arts Creations and Cultural Artifacts on Display and Sale for your Adornment, Gift-Giving and Home Decorating Pleasures….

CLICK HERE FOR DRUMMING VIDEOS FROM AROUND THE WORLD! (Click on words...Rhythm, Magic, Sisters, Womb, Ashe' Unite!(Always updating!!) ENJOY!!!!!
PictureANCESTRAL DRUMMER FOR THE FAMILY DNA GATHERING
                       FAMILY DNA ANNOUNCEMENT    

EVENT CONTRIBUTORS
 
Ceremony Coordinator
 
               Lateefah Muhammad, Harris Family Member,  
              Tuskegee, Alabama  
DNA Tester  
                Kylan Ramal Dalton, Harris Family Member, 
           Opelika, Alabama  
   Program Participant  
 Dorothy Mabson Woody, Harris Family Member,       Auburn, Alabama
                                                 


Olmeca Rich
Drumming since 1983 in various Percussion Ensembles, Jazz & R & B groups, Khemetic Funk bands, Theater Productions, Dance & Drum Classes, Parades, Protests & With Storytellers from New York to Boston to Atlanta to Selma, Olmeca Rich (Lori Washington), whose maternal roots are in Lowndesboro, Alabama, has also drummed with Giwayen Mata in Atlanta, (website on  “LINK" tab at olmecaarts.com) for 10 years from 1996 to 2006. Olmeca plays Conga, Djembe, Ashiko, Djun Djun, Sangba, Kenkeni, Shekere', Clave, Bell & various other percussion instruments.  She presently resides in Selma, Alabama. She has taught classes at Music Festivals, Pre-K, Middle School, Saturday Enrichment Programs & She will BE Coming to a City Near YOU SOON!!! CALL, EMAIL, DM, FB MESSENGER HER FOR DRUM CIRCLES & WORKSHOPS! 
“ALL Life is RHYTHM....Let us RE-JOY-CE in
THE MAGIC of SOUND POWER!!” - Olmeca ​