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For a registration form for the TaKeTiNa Workshop, click here (.pdf format)

To read an article on my personal experiences with TaKeTiNa, click here (Word document)

I am pleased to announce the return of the TaKeTiNa Rhythm Process to Atlanta this fall, Friday September 17th through Sunday September 19th, 2010. I have attended four TaKeTiNa weekends since 2004, and they have all been powerful experiences personally as well as musically and rhythmically. I have shared some of the process with many of the students in my drumming classes to enhance the learning of polyrhythms, and the Living Mandala of Rhythm was also inspired by TaKeTiNa.

This event is co-produced by myself and Amy Jackson and Colleen Caffrey of Rhythm Synergy in Atlanta, about whom you can learn more at www.drummingatlanta.com Amy and Colleen, along with another Atlantan, have just returned from the first resident training for the three-year TaKeTiNa teacher certification process, deepening the foundations for the TKTN energy field in the southeastern U.S.

From the perspective of an outside observer, a TaKeTiNa workshop looks like a group of 50-60 people standing in one large circle, with the two leaders in the center guiding the group into stepping, chanting and clapping rhythm patterns. After a time the chant turns into a call-and-response singing. Occasionally someone falls out of rhythm, spontaneously leaving the pattern and moving individually inside the circle, or even lying quietly on the floor, only to rejoin the movement later. Eventually the entire group lies down as the movement and sound fades, for reflection or meditation. There is a time of sharing within the group, and then the process begins again with new patterns.

For the participant, however, much more is taking place on inner dimensions. The opportunity for new, communal learning through a group energy field is created by the experience of rhythmic movement and chant. The body, brain and nervous system are brought to a place of profound relaxation and balance, and the neuromuscular system is rewired for greater health and perception. Archetypal rhythms from nature and the body inspire creativity and new ways of being. No less than one's lifelong patterns of learning are up for review. Unconscious patterns that limit growth can be processed and dissolved. For musicians and especially drummers, it is a powerful way to develop a deeper understanding of multiple simultaneous rhythms.

Here is a description of this year's workshop theme from Reinhard Flatischler, the creator of the TaKeTiNa Rhythm Process:

TaKeTiNa – Learning for Life
Rhythm, Space and Timelessness – a Journey into Deceleration

It seems that in recent years, the world has only been going faster and faster. In fact, many events of daily life have accelerated greatly. Only several decades ago, a letter needed days or weeks to proffer its information. Today, innumerable e-mails are constantly waiting to be answered immediately; cell phones and computer networks enable decisions to be made in a matter of minutes.

The result is that much more frequently than earlier, people experience two conditions that not only endanger their health, but can reduce their creativity and quality of life as well: stress and boredom. Despite the fact that these are on opposite ends of the spectrum, both come from one and the same source: the “distortion” of linear time. Stress means having too little time; boredom means that time is going too slowly. Both conditions prevent something that is essential for human development: experiencing space. When one is bored, the space that develops is involuntarily filled with “something”. When one experiences stress, there seems to be no space at all.

TaKeTiNa can help solve this dilemma because it uses rhythm to help participants experience timelessness. In timelessness, there is neither stress nor boredom. In timelessness, a space opens up that is both empty and simultaneously full of life, both still and full of movement. Human beings experience this
state as an inner home. At the same time, this process acts as a type of “deceleration” – a pause that eases the daily hustle and bustle. Decisions emerge at the right time – a “reset” occurs at a deeper level. This allows faster action and increased reaction time. This is a course that invites you to decelerate in order to remain serene with the tempo of your life.

Workshop Location:

TaKeTiNa-Atlanta will again take place at the Clarkston Community Center, on the eastern edge of Atlanta. This is an amazing international center where, among many other groups, the Drummers of Burundi rehearse and the Atlanta Contra Dance Society meets weekly. To see more about CCC and to see the beautiful auditorium in which the workshop will take place, visit http://www.clarkstoncommunitycenter.org

A typical daily schedule for the workshop is from 10:30am until 6pm, with a 90 minute lunch break. The Sunday segment usually finishes a bit earlier. To learn more about the TaKeTiNa rhythm process and their worldwide trainings and research, visit www.taketina.com

Lodging:

Discounted lodging will be offered for participants at local hotels. Details will be posted at kumandi.com and drummingatlanta.com as available.

Registration Information:
A $150 deposit is required to reserve your space.
All payments are non-refundable after August 15th. $50 processing fee for any cancellations.
Meals and lodging are not included.

Fees:

Early Registration through May 15th: $325 with deposit, or $300 if paid in full with registration.
Regular Registration through September 15th: $375 with deposit or $350 if paid in full with registration.
Registration At Door: $395

Make checks payable to:
Kumandi Drums
PO Box 003
Decatur, GA 30031-003

or use Paypal and send funds to chuck@kumandi.com

A brochure with registration form, directions, and all other information will be mailed to you once we receive your deposit.

peace,

Chuck Cogliandro
Brennan Healing Science Practitioner
Kumandi Drums & Healing
PO Box 003
Decatur, GA 30031-0003
404-577-6842 (vm)
email: chuck@kumandi.com
web: www.kumandi.com

Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heroes of all time have gone before us. The labyrinth is thoroughly known. We have only to follow the thread of the hero path, and where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god. And where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves. Where we had thought to travel outward, we will come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone, we will be with all the world. -Joseph Campbell, scholar, author and mythologist (1904-1987)