Both TA trainees/practitioners/clients and shamanic students/practitioners/clients are welcome, as well as those interested purely in having fun with drumming. This is an opportunity to let go and experience our full emotional range without shame or words, to feel the heartbeat of the earth bring us into alignment with our selves and each other and give us access to the primal shamanic ecstatic state which is the oldest form of spirituality on the planet, with evidence in cave paintings going back 30-40,000 years and evidence emerging in recent years through neuroscience that prove why these practices have been working for healing and changing lives for all of that time right up to the present day.

Experiential throughout, we will relate TA theory where appropriate to the work, but primarily learn and integrate through practice or as Berne said, cure first and talk later! As ideas for TA folk, you might want to think about the relevance of this work to Type 3 impasses, injunctions such as Don't Belong, Don't Feel, Don't be You, accessing the creativity and energy of Free Child, how drivers will impact on our freedom to drum…

And in the world of shamanic lore…  you can learn how to drum for your own journeys and those of others, how to hold the energetic beat of a group, bring through your power animals and teachers to give them physical expression in the Middle World, achieve power retrieval and bring your questions on shamanic drum ritual and ceremony…

Wear loose clothing, bring a frame drum such as a Buffalo Drum, a bodhran or similar if you have one and any spares you have too please – we can provide a few spares to loan or buy on the day if not. Teas/coffees etc are available and are included in the price, but bring your lunch or buy from local shops within a five-minute walk.

The presenter:
Ellie is an experienced Shamanic Practitioner and teacher as well as having a Postgraduate Clinical Diploma in TA and being in the final stages of her preparation for CTA. Shamanic drumming is one of her passions and she regularly runs drum circles, workshops, rituals, firewalks, rites of passage and a range of other events across the UK and in Northern Ireland.

Location: the Drumming! event will be held at Berne House, 29 Derby Road, Kegworth DE74 2EN. Kegworth is some ten miles south of Nottingham. Our training centre, Berne House, is on the main A6 through the village, one mile from Junction 24 on the M1. If you would like more detailed directions, or a list of local accommodation, we shall be glad to provide it; please contact the Course Registrar at Berne House.

Times: the event will run from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. on both days, with normal breaks for lunch and refreshments. We provide light refreshments for breaks. Kegworth offers a wide range of restaurants, hotels and pubs for buying lunch.

Accreditation: TA trainees may be able to log some of the time at this event as Non-TA Advanced Training – please consult your supervisor. Qualified practitioners in TA, and professionals in other modalities, should consult the appropriate CPD rules.

Fee for the Drumming! event is £50 for “Berne” members, £55 for non-members; non-returnable booking deposit £20 in both cases. (To become a “Berne” member, please send the annual membership fee of £50 to the Course Registrar at the address below. Alternatively, you may become a member by paying this membership fee on arrival at the workshop, in which case you immediately become eligible for the members’ reduction in the workshop fee). Please make cheques payable to “The Berne Institute”.

Bookings: to book a place on this event, or for further information, please contact: The Course Registrar, The Berne Institute, 29 Derby Road, Kegworth DE74 2EN (tel/fax 01509-673649). Or you can email us here >>. If you book by phone or email, please send on your booking deposit by post to confirm your place.