SPRING SESSION 2020

Beauty Reflected in Sound

*Notice – We are going online with Zoom Sessions.

Please contact Lavender Grace to get your link and password.

In honor of the home shelter now in place, Intuitive Drum Song will offer extensive scholarships for all in need. Just contact us.

It is time for an all-new Intuitive Drum Song Course for 2020. We have taken time off for a deepening, allowing the growth rings to stretch out, our hearts to continue their beat of life, now we are ready to share.

For any of returning students, I can’t wait to continue our journey together. Please let me know you are coming back. Below you will find all the information you need to register.

All new students will find more descriptions of the Intuitive Drum Song work we do. This course will identify the basic elements of the frame drum and the intuitive nature of voice. The students will actively learn how to listen and play with rhythmic vocabulary and how to attune to heart songs from the inner world.

The objective of this course is to develop the student’s confidence with rhythm, how to play with others, how to listen & how to access one’s own heart song

The Basic Training is on Thursdays 5 pm-6 pm
The course runs for 8 weeks from March 12 – April 30, 2020, the cost is $150 presale / $180 After March 12th. There are Scholarships available, see the registration form for details.

*We will meet online for Zoom Sessions. To get your free Zoom app – go to https://zoom.us/

Course-Syllabus and OverviewDownload

I am your instructor, the facilitator of this experience: Lavender Grace. You can reach me here at 707.357.1419 or on the contact form with any further questions.

NEW THIS YEAR ~ Intensives In the Field:

Intensive Course Description: This course will apply the practice of sonic collaboration with the Plant Devas, the Elementals & the Nature Spirits.

This is a pilot project to develop sonic communication within our local ecology to gain a deeper understanding of sound health. The intention is to give gratitude and gain guidance on how to live in harmony with our natural world.

Here are the times for our meetings. You will need your drum, dress in layers, and bring water and a snack.

Date & Time:
March 21st – 9:00am -12pm – Big River Beach – East River Side

April 18th – 9:00am -12pm – Russian Gulch – Road 409 Trail Head

May 2nd- 9:00 am -12 pm – Mackerricher Beach – 10 Mile Dunes

Resources

If you are a new student, I recommend the list below to help you understand the scope of this work and how it has been inspired.

First: This was instrumental in opening my world to the importance of the Fram Drum in the Ancient world and what an amazing tool it is for us in our modern times.

Second: Jacqueline Freeman was able to completely changed my perspective on the importance of Bees on such a deeper level.

“Song of Increase”
Listening to the Wisdom of Honeybees for Kinder Beekeeping and a Better World
By Jacqueline Freeman copyright 2016. Published by Sounds True, Inc. Boulder CO

Third: Yuval Ron has written a wonderful book full of reflections and stories compiled over the past 30 years from his travels. The Yuval Ron Ensemble tours the world for Peace. You can learn about his work here. yuvalronmusic.com

Four: This selection is written by a very special and dear human, John O’Donohue. He has written many books, this one, in particular, has reached my heart. I especially appreciate how he speaks to the Human in relation to the natural spirit of our inner landscape.

“Eternal Echoes”
Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong
By John O’Donohue copyright 1999
Published by Harper Collins – Reprinted by Perennial 2002
https://www.johnodonohue.com/

Fifth: I bought this book from Silvia Nakkach after attending one of her workshops. This is a great resource full of vocal exercises and a wide-open perspective on what the voice is capable of.

“Free Your Voice”
Awaken to Life Through Singing
By Silvia Nakkach & Valerie Carpenter copyright 2012
Published by Sounds True, Inc. Boulder CO
voxmundiproject.com

Links to Instructors

I also recommend looking into these Instructors and seeing their great work.

Marla Leigh Goldstein is a Grammy-nominated Percussionist, Flautist, Composer, and Educator. ~ marlaleigh.com

Rowan Storm: With more than 25 years of experience with cultures and drumming of the Middle East and the Mediterranean, Rowan is recognized internationally as a performer and educator.~ rowanstorm.com

Miriam Peretz: an internationally celebrated dancer devoted to creating transformational experiences for her students and audiences worldwide. Miriam has devoted her life to empowering and healing women through the art of dance and ritual. ~ miriamdance.com

If you want to join the course – Fill out the registration form here.

Making of Magic

The accelerator is on!

This spilling over of mystic thought, connection and magic funnels through me, distills and concentrates into goodness.

The kind that permeates and sustains.

The type that goes deep to the root so high winds may blow, but nothing is blown down, blown over, blown up, Rooted!

It is like this today.

Here I share………………

Go Fund Me!

Please Click here Gofundme to support my offerings to the first Learning from the Bees conference in the Netherlands. So important to participate in this global apian (bee) consciousness. There are 5 days left and we still have $1,745 to go! Please consider supporting even if your pocket is empty, please send me your encouragement. Your words will fill my heart! We are all in this together and we need any support available, prayers, songs, good food!:) I will return with stories, with knowledge and I really look forward to sharing with you.

This is a sample video with an elemental chant. This is an offering as part of the Learning From the Bees Conference and will be part of the closing ceremony in the Netherlands.
I have also just received the list of International artists who are participating in the art exhibit at the conference. I have been asked to document this and will share this with you all when I have finished.:)

2. Amazing Community of Musicians and Dancers – This is an inspiration from Middle Eastern Music and Dance Camp, Mendocino CA USA . Especially from the words of Omar Faruk Tekbilek. It was his words that likened camp to an off shoot of ancient Alexandria. How all cultures would come together and meet to share and exchange and return home all the richer for it. Thank you all (more than I can count) for your beautiful offerings of amazing music, song, dance and friendship. I am ever so grateful for our time together.🙏♥️🙏

http://https://youtu.be/4ufnNqOmMSQ

3. I will be offering Intuitive Drum Song on Thursday August 23rd. Come soak it up. Let your internal static go and join in the goodness of community frequency, rhythms and connection.

I love you!

Lavender Grace Cinnamon * Sacred Art ~ Sacred Bees

Inside the Hive is This Sunday!

Support is Pouring In! The Mendocino coast community is coming together to celebrate World Bee Day this Sunday May 20th!

The Honey Hive of Mendocino is presenting the first International Bee Day in Mendocino through Music, Dance and Crafts. Our amazing community is showing their wonderful support.

affiliates:

We are extremely grateful to Bee Bold Mendocino for taking us under their wing as an affiliate. This means all donations made to the Honey Hive Mendocino is under the 501c3 Non Profit status of the amazing Noyo Food Forest.

Event Contributions:

All artists participating with “Inside the Hive” are donating their talents and time to make this happen for a free family community event.

Featuring:

Belly Dancing from Trillium Tribe

Sound and Tapestries from Steve Crowningshield

Children’s Crafts from Sal Herrick & Sue Magoo

Poems and Dance from Oasis

Circle Dance from Devora Rossman

Sacred Sound offerings from The Honey Hive Ensemble including new members; Sue Magoo and Paloma Carmon

Generous Raffle Donations from:

The community has been generous, come try your luck in the RAFFLE…..

Dew Drop Wellness

Session with – Gift of Healing Massage and Bioset

Sacred Sound Healing Session with – Nadabrahma

Thanksgiving Coffee

Earrings from Gallery Mendocino

Gift Certificate to Frankies Pizza

Gift Certificate to Piaci Pub and Pizzaria

Gift from Interiors

Massage from Christine Berchen

Gift Certificate to Corners of the Mouth

Gift Certificate to Good Life Cafe

2 Family Day Passes to CV Starr Aquatic Center

Nature Adventure with Sue Magoo

Bee Beads from Rubayat

Gift Certificate from Dirt Cheap

Lucy’s

Gallery Books

Sponsorship from:

Jade Golden

Sheryl Kuhns

Thank you all for your kindness!

Thank you bees for all your generosity!

p.s. Even if you can not make the event, please send your gratitude to the bees on Sunday. The whole world will be in this together. I can assure you the bees will appreciate it:)

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Support World Bee Day with “Inside the Hive”

This year the bees are on a global stage like no time before, with 2 major upcoming events and we are celebrating, come join us!

1. World Bee Day !

In November of 2017, the UN declared – May 20th, 2018 as the first world bee day. We will honor this momentous occasion with a celebration at the Community Center in Mendocino called “Inside the Hive”. It will be a Free Family event to explore our relationship with bees and our ecology, full of music, dance, crafts and raffle. Sunday – May 20th ~ 1pm-3pm ~ Donations – Learn more

2. The 1^st International “Learning from the Bees Conference ~ August 31st-September 2nd, 2018 in the Netherlands.

This event ‘Learning from the Bees’ will be the first of its kind – bringing together natural beekeepers, scientists, nature conservationists, artists and bee-lovers from all over the world. More

The purpose of this post is to ask for your support through raffle prizes or donation for our “Inside the Hive” event. All funds will go to attend the “Learning from the Bees Conference” mentioned above.

While we attend this conference, we can enter the world stage, the global conversation and represent our community as the forward thinkers we are, who know the stakes are high, and the time to act is now, here in Mendocino.

The conference will bring the best cutting edge knowledge, and global awareness to the disappearance of bees and what this means to our world, and ultimately to our home in Mendocino County.

We will be documenting this event, to gather the knowledge and bring it home to produce a platform for Natural Bee keeping in our county.

We will continue to do community outreach, and teach our children how to be stewards of this land. We will bring back the global understanding of our place in ecology, and the way we affect this environment around us, and how the pollinators are intrinsically linked to our survival.

If you are moved to act at this crucial time, please contact me.

Sincerely, Lavender Grace Cinnamon and the Honey Hive of Mendocino

~707-357-1419 ~ lavender@mcn.org

About: Lavender’s interest in bees began when developing the local chapter of Bee Bold Mendocino with the Friends of the Earth’s National Bee Bold campaign. During this time she initiated the City of Fort Bragg in becoming the First Bee City USA in California. She has been a steward of bees for the past 3 years, and has fallen in love with bees and their people.

“Go and tell it to the bees is a tradition from times when people knew that the honeybee is a highly evolved being that embodies qualities of wisdom and love that most of us humans cannot ever hope to emulate.” ApisSophia – Natural Bee Keeping Trust