TaKeTiNa (founded by Reinhard Flatischler) and Rhythm Meditations, led by Village Heartbeat founder Zorina Wolf, are an informal and enjoyable way to learn the basic concepts of finding rhythm in the body. These sessions are open to the public.

Each week we discover another aspect of how to allow the body to become a rhythmic instrument.
As the group configures differently each week the “rhythm meditations” are not planned lessons but emerge organically from the collective itself. Sliding scale for each session is $10-25. For more information: vhb@villageheartbeat.com

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TaKeTiNa is a group process that allows anyone to access his or her body’s innate rhythmic knowledge. Instead of being taught random rhythm patterns, participants are guided into the experience of rhythm archetypes—the underlying structure of all forms of music conveyed in a natural, organic manner.

Through TaKeTiNa, the student gains direct access to the rhythmic worlds of Africa, Asia, and Latin America which, in turn, leads to increased competence and creativity in the related rhythms of classical music, jazz, and hip hop.

Experience has shown that profound rhythmic orientation can be achieved more easily by using the body itself as the main instrument. In this way, TaKeTiNa participants can encounter rhythm directly and intensely. Through vocalization, clapping, and stepping, they are guided into three separate rhythmic layers.

Learning rhythm and music with the TaKeTiNa process always means learning about life, too. Everything that hinders our life is reflected during the process as “rhythmic disability” and can be transformed by the rhythmic evolution that unfolds in TaKeTiNa. The mind becomes silent and one’s core being is allowed to surface.

  with Zorina Wolf & Deborah Masterson

  December 3, 4, 5, 2010

  In this sophisticated world it is challenging to take the time to be a beginner.    

  Defensively, we hide behind our masks, feeling deeply insecure about what we don't know, and often not even knowing we don't know.

  What is this workshop all about? TaKeTiNa is a rhythmic group process for anyone   interested in the transformation of his or her defenses. This rhythmically based practice can open us to the depths of awareness and non-linear consciousness that we find in meditation, yoga, or ecstatic dance, and the same conundrum: we cannot force ourselves into surrender. The circle becomes a reflection of how we act in life: pushing, pulling, or giving up and not trying at all. In a rhythm circle we are given a possibility to see how we struggle and the opportunity to let go. We can rediscover a brilliant, natural intelligence that we all possess and the grace to open to it.

  Peacefully nestled within a 434 acre park surrounded by water and wooded hiking  trails, Madrona's beautiful studio is located a scenic drive from Seattle in the "City of Dreams," Port Townsend, WA.
On Campus Package includes: workshop tuition plus your own single occupancy guestroom (twin bed) for 2 nights, organic meals for Friday morning through Sunday lunch, linens, bedding, pillows.