Drumming the Soul Awake
Drumming the Soul Awake, led by Jaime, is regularly held at First Universalist Church on Friday nights. Start times 7pm, end time roughly 9:30. Dates might change. He offers this website for updated schedule information, and a blog. And says this about the experience:
"I am now in my 12th year of offering Drumming the Soul Awake, to offer an opportunity to do the mostly joyful, sometimes difficult work of becoming open so that we may learn the songs of the stars, the trees, the sea and the underground gems. So that we can go beyond reading the poem, and become the poem.
Coming to drumming regularly is, I believe, a nourishing, useful, beautiful way to "do the work." The way we do drumming, the intention is absolutely for fun, community, and ribald wahoo. But also, if you want, it's also a pathway to becoming the poem. I arranged the schedule so that you can plan ahead and make this work important to your daily life, if you want that. Of course dropping in and out at whim, pleasure and convenience is wahoo-ish as well."
"Only human beings have come to a point where they no longer know why they exist. They don't use their brains and they have forgotten the secret knowledge of their bodies, their senses, or their dreams. They don't use the knowledge the spirit has put into every one of them; they are not even aware of this, and so they stumble along blindly on the road to nowhere - a paved highway which they themselves bulldoze and make smooth so that they can get faster to the big empty hole which they'll find at the end, waiting to swallow them up. It's a quick, comfortable superhighway, but I know where it leads to. I've seen it. I've been there in my vision and it makes me shudder to think about it." -- Lame Deer, Lakota Holy Man of the mid 20th century