Summer blessings, everyone!
Here are a few invitations for Chants & Drums events in the Sea-to-Sky Corridor in August. Please feel free to forward to your friends & contacts. You may also visit our website for frequent updates at http://www.chantsanddrums.com/. Please RSVP for all events by E-mail or by phone with MJ.
Chants & Drums will soon be travelling to Quebec and England to share the gifts of Meditative Concerts and Drumming workshops. Please note that Mj will be away from Aug. 24th to September 17th, so for those who want to book private sessions, you may call to set an appointment before this date.
Dean & Mj are preparing a CD recording at the moment & the website will be updated shortly - we are keeping busy, growing with the Chants & Drums vision and blessed with abundance of creativity. Loooooove it!
We wish you a wonderful summer, filled with laughter and deep joy.
Mj & Dean
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Marie Josée Vermette ("MJ") 1-604-848-9543
Chants & Drums Productions
http://www.chantsanddrums.com / mj@chantsanddrums.com
Sound Massage, Bodymind, Taoist Acupressure & Energy Therapy Practitioner
Chants & Drums Sound Healing Concerts & Workshops / Creative Singing and Drumming Workshops
Listen to MJ on Youtube:
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***Individual sessions are also available, at the cost of $65 for 60 min. or $85 for 90 min.
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You are invited to join MJ, outside where the Mamquam and Squamish Rivers meet, for an
"Awakening Chants" Morning Meditations (participative)
Friday, August 5, 12 & 19 at 9:00 a.m. We will meet at 1059, Edgewater Cr. and walk together
Cost: BY DONATION
MJ will guide you to relax into simple, soothing, sacred, intuitive chants, connected with the Elements.This unique, profound experience will fill you with joy and harmony, feeling energized.
- Fill your lungs with lots of fresh air
- Free your mind of daily worries
- Feel your heart pulse to the rhythm of Nature
- Let your Soul express its integrity
- Sing!
Absolutely NO singing experience needed
Please arrive 5 minutes before, as we will be leaving 1059, Edgewater Cr. at 9:00 a.m. sharp (8 - 10 min. walk). Don't miss us!!!
RSVP with MJ by phone or e-mail: 604-848-9543 or mj(at)chantsanddrums.com
Min. 3 participants.
Creative Drumming Workshops for Teens & Adults
Dates: Wednesday August 10th & 17th, 2011
Time: 7:30 – 9:00 pm
Location: 1059 Edgewater Cr., Squamish, BC
Cost: $20 drop-in (please register 24 in advance at the latest) / $ 30 for the 2 workshops when paid before august 8th
RSVP with MJ at 604-848-9543 or by E-Mail: mj(at)chantsanddrums.com
Min. 5 participants
Here is a chance for your Soul to manifest itself through ludic percussion workshops. We will play African Djembe drums, as well as a variety of other drums and hand percussions.
Traditionally, hand drumming has been used in many cultures, to help create a conduit to the Divine. Group drumming allows us to experience worship with our bodies as well as our minds, and provides us with demonstrated biological and pscyho-social benefits. While facilitating Creative Drumming sessions, MJ's unique approach uses the drums as communication and personal expression tools She is passionate about empowering individuals by guiding them to open up to their highest good.
In a warm, friendly and non-judgemental atmosphere, you will be enabled to:
- Relax and let go of your internal dialogue & eliminate mental tensions
- Contact your inner rhythms
- Be encouraged to express yourself with creative impulse
- Acknowledge your possibilities and your limits, and be lead to transcend them
- Share, listen, dare
- Have fun!
By simple and colourfulexercises that respect your pace, you will:
Explore different warm-up exercises
- Be guided with visualisation exercises
- Explore multiple ways of creating your own patterns and rhythms
- Participate in spontaneous solo, duo, trio and group improvisations
- Create collective rhythmic songs
- Be given technical advice and practice tools when required
Thursday, August 11th, 2011 - 7:30 p.m.
Location: OM Yoga Studio - 38833, Garibaldi Ave. (Dentville, Squamish)
Cost: Sliding scale contribution $10 - $20
Here is an opportunity to learn self-healing tools to create relaxation, releasing of tensions and recharging of positive energies. You will be experiencing sound resonance of voice and drums, along with singing bowls, chimes, rain sticks and other instruments played with conscious intent to raise your vibrations. Bring your singing bowls, drums & rattles if you have them - you will be participating!
RSVP needed 24 h in advance at the latest with MJ at 604-848-9543 or by E-mail: mj(at)chantsanddrums.com.
Be well and happy!