Description
Online 3-class session: Second Saturdays
starting 💖 FEBRUARY 14, 2026 💖
Feb 14 – Mar 14 – Apr 11 | 11:00-11:45 AM ET
Awaken sacred rhythms within, return to being in rhythm, and step forward in your life with grace. Kindle your creative spirit to revive your Inner Knowing while also invoking blessings of protection, courage, liberation and peace. Explore practical, magical rhythms and millennia-old traditions dating back to when women were sacred timekeepers.
We welcome beginners/newcomers to the frame drumming path, introducing the Herstory (the use of percussion instruments primarily played by women in ancient cultures), the basic strokes, and a couple of simple rhythms that are easy and fun to play equipping you with the basics to create your own rhythmic chant practice.
Beginners-Intermediate welcome. Rhythms vary from class-to-class with various tempos explored within each lesson adaptable to frame drum, systrum, Egyptian tambourine known as riqq and/or finger cymbals ~ as inspired by Glen Velez‘s Handance method and the pedagogy of frame drummer, teacher, and drum historian Layne Redmond.
Interested but have potential conflict/s on the class dates? Sessions are recorded and made available to participants for ten days following class date.
About Tahya: An ACE-certified instructor and ranked among the leading authorities on North African and West Asia drumming and dance traditions, Tahya is an award-winning performer and member of the elite Lehigh Valley College Dance Alliance. A vibrant performer with over 40 years of teaching and performance experience both nationally and internationally, Tahya makes learning easy!
Now more than ever, living in a chaotic, fast-paced technologically-centered landscape, classes with Tahya give *YOU* the opportunity to renew a heightened sense of self and elevated consciousness in a relaxed, welcoming atmosphere. We need to remember the sacred tradition of women gathering and drumming together in community ceremony and mutual networks of support, freeing ourselves from any barriers, boundaries and blocks to our divine feminine expression and sending out rhythmic vibrations for great peace and harmony in our communities, with ripple effects around the world. READ MORE
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