2010 Drum Classes/Workshops

When: Every Tuesday & Thursday
7:00pm-9:00pm
Starts 25th May - July 1, 2010
Where: 1461 Venables St, Vancouver BC (East of Clark Dr)

Last one before summer The price will be the usual amazing deal: 6 weeks calculated at $15 @ week Session Price = $90, For access to both the Tues & Thurs nights, 7-9pm Come to either or both classes. Price is $100 for the session if you use a drum.

I am cooking up a new journey for this 6 weeks. We will learn rhythms and technique with a strong focus on the healing energies of the music. Each class will go more in depth into the one body of music that we play....exploring its dimensions, subtleties, and effects. This will also be a vehicle for continuously improving our technical ability and understanding.

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I may offer some summer drum circles at Venables studio this summer. TBA.

Please email me navaro@tribal-bliss.com or call me (778) 239-8444 to pre-register.

Past Drum Classes/Workshops

LIVE DRUMMING BY THE DIVA DRUM 6TH FEB 2010

DANCE FACILITATED BY JACKY ESSOMBE

Saturday, February 6th, 2009 – 9:30 am to 5:30 pm

Unity Church, 5840 Oak Street

(Open to ALL women – no previous experience necessary)

With a SPECIAL GUEST PERFORMANCE by KURAI MUBAIWA

And LIVE DRUMMING by the DIVA DRUM

**Only a few days left to enjoy the early registration discount!!!**

Cost at the door: $149 per person ($129 per person for a group of 3 or more)

'Rhythm Power' Drum Classes

Rhythms & Chants drawn from West & Southern Africa, Brazil, & more.

Uplift, Inspire, Connect, Re-Wire With Drumming

Tuesdays :
March 30, Apr 6, 13, 20, 27, May 4, 11,18

Thursdays :
Apr 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, May 6, 13, 20

Both classes are at the beautiful yoga studio at 1461 Venables, just E of Clark

Choose Tues or Thurs night, or interchange them.
Choose your night, Use one night for make-ups Or take 2 classes a week if you want!!

The price is $120 for the 8 week session. Add $15 if you use a drum {Some drop-in possible}
(Session price gives access to 16 classes) An amazing deal!!

The amount is payable at the beginning of the session,
Pay in full, or half up front / half as a postdated chq for Feb, if you need.

This session we will focus on 4 pieces from the following styles:
Latin Rumba, Japanese Taiko, Glen Velez Healing Rhythms, & Nigerian Orixa music. Each class will close with Zimbabwean Mbira Rhythm & Song. Goals of the class are to Increase Rhythm Skills & Listening skills; Experience the Healing Energies in the Music; Connect and Enjoy Community.

Mixed levels are encouraged in these classes. All levels will be challenged and inspired to grow at an enjoyable pace.

We are now building toward a performance (optional) at Little Woo's Healing Garden at Commercial Drive Car Free Day Festival in June 2010.

Please pre-register with me by email or phone. navaro@tribal-bliss.com

DRUM CLASSES with Navaro Franco
When: Every Tuesday
7:00pm-9:00pm
Starts Nov 17 - Dec 22
Where: 1461 Venables St, Vancouver BC (East of Clark Dr)

DRUMMING WITH NAVARO East Side Classes Tuesdays, 7-9pm Nov 17 - Dec 22
6- week session $90, add $10 if you use a drum. Classes at 1461 Venables at Clark Beginners as well as intermediate drummers are welcome. This class is designed to integrate mixed levels. The session price can be paid in two installments for those who need: Half at the beginning and half in a postdated chq. for the following month. Some drop-in is possible but it is preferred that you sign up for the whole session. You can make-up missed classes on Thursday nights with me at my Coal Harbour classes. Info below. The Nov/Dec class is usually smaller and more intimate. We will not work toward a performance, but some sort of rhythm journey and potluck at the last class, that we can invite friends to to dance or enjoy the healing energy of the music.

Please note: Both Classes can do make-ups at the other class for those who sign up for the full session

Come join us at 1461 Venables St, just East of Clark Drive. SIGN UP NOW! Pre-Register with Navaro, please. Email: navaro@tribal-bliss.com Tel: (778) 239-8444 Email or Call to reserve your spot and get directions.

Take a look at my Drum Class in this beautiful studio - join our wonderful drumming community - come learn with us!

"Drumming opens the spirit.Playing traditional rhythms from different cultures awakens our own memories of times when we & our ancestors lived in a more whole, tribal, earth, and cosmos connected way.

In my drum classes we will learn technical skills as well as journey into the realm of the sacred and celebratory, with traditional African & Tribal as well as non-traditional rhythm & song."

~Navaro

& 4 Lovely Prayerformance Dancers: Spirit (Christine),Water (Steph),Fire (Zarah),Air (Ivy), Earth (Navaro)(left to right)

The ancestors are alive now in the land. They are alive in us. They left no monuments, here, but they are not erased.....We can hear their voices in the wind and water, in the soil and trees, in the voices of the animals....in our own bodies and spirits. When we slow down and come into resonance with the longer, deeper rhythms of Earth, we have access to all knowledge, all memory, all Knowing. Gaia's (Earth's) body is strengthened by our physical joy, and by our awareness of her as a living, conscious being. Her strength is our strength. Her health is our children's legacy.

Earth Prayers Ecstatic Dance Journey Sept 2007

This work is inspired by Tribal earth based traditions of rhythm, chant, dance, and ceremony, as well as by many other healing ecstatic dance practices…with the specific focus of honoring the Earth and ourselves as One With Earth. This month we dance at Equinox, the time of The Great Balance.

Our ancestors expected to be instructed by the Earth and the natural world. When we slow down and come into resonance with the longer, deeper rhythms of Earth, we have access to all knowledge, all memory, all knowing. We will dance to deepen into body consciousness and resonate into these spaces. We will dance to awaken our bodies and honour earth, sending our joy and prayers to living Gaia. We will dance intentionally to break out of limiting trance and open into harmony with the beauty, power, and grace of our true Natures.

~ To be Fully Embodied is Sacred ~

"It is always my goal in classes to create connection to spirit, body & soul.....earth & cosmos.....each other as community......to the rhythm that is inherent in us all....so that as we experience that, we own that, and we are that..." ~Navaro

Call or email Navaro to facilitate events in Corporate, Community, Festival, and Retreat Center settings: Workshops, Performances, School Shows, Dance Events & Private Instruction in:
~ African Hand Drumming & Chants
~ Mbira (the 22-key African Thumb Piano)
~ Healing Movement / Ecstatic Dance, and Tribal Dance.

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CONTACT INFORMATION

Email : navaro@tribal-bliss.com
Address : Vancouver Canada
Cell: (778) 239-8444