Thank you both! 🙏🙏 And yes we are all connected!!! Let’s all drum for peace, alone or in a group with Layne in our thoughts……………. ❤️ Sara Hofstede from the Netherlands
Thank you Barbara and Jeff. Congratulations with your first youtube live. I was fascinated by your Brazilian story about the ox and the global idea of death and resurrection. And thank you for mentioning the GBTO dvd’s on Layne’s legacy website!
Yes my dear, Marjolein, you’re so welcome, thank you for joining us! Great to hear about what fascinated you. The music Layne and Tommy taught us for Bumba Meu Boi, the Brazilian ox resurrection story, was very trance-inducing, 2 against 3 polymeter, and had that foot stepping Layne was demonstrating in her video. Was wild to do that “1-31--“ stepping, while playing either in 2 or 3! Very African, and that’s from an Afro-Brazilian culture. My first djembe teacher, John McDowell, in 1988, explained that it wasn’t just the drumming that incited the dancing, it was the tension of polymeter. Jeff and I ended up becoming polymeter junkies lol in other words totally addicted! So fun! Anyway Layne and Tommy were working on the Trance Union CD, and really diving into that Bumba Meu Boi. Her earliest trip to Brazil was for that very festival, and one of the photos towards the end of her slide show lecture, the one of a crowd in Brazil, with frame drums in the air, she took that photo having climbed way up high onto a music speaker to get that shot! The festival went on for days with alcohol imbibing and drumming! We weren’t there but Shirsten was. Polymeter was once believed to be chaotic music by the anthropology community. Until they finally figured out what was going on and how advanced it really was. I can only imagine how other shamanic cultures used polyrhythms in their rituals. In Salvador, Brazil, the religious drumming of condomblé does. We learned that style while there with Layne, both times. So many stories! So many threads! 🥰🙏🏼✨🌹🐝⚪️⚪️⚪️🔔
Regarding the smallness and connectivity of the world… Curl Jung wrote about and developed this in his idea of the collective unconscious and archetypes, those ubiquitous energy patterns and forms that are recognizable across cultures and across time that are both particular and universal.
Yes! It’s where I heard it from. And exactly why I said “collective unconscious”, we can truly see it at work in these ancient sacred texts and sacred symbolic imagery. Thanks, Lisa for chiming in! Glad you tuned in. 🥰🙏🏼🐝🌹
I thought so! I love to name the names that can be named, connecting our ancestors to ourselves by speaking and naming their lives and work...as you are doing here with Layne. I only got to study with her for one Bee Priestess weekend at Mount Madonna, but it was life changing. Last night I was honored to play a new Cooperman ebony suede tar and a beloved newly reheaded goat skin daf in a Sufi Zikr circle on this auspicious anniversary. Tears of love.. @@BarbaraGail_drum_song_dance
Oh wow, Lisa! (Sorry, RUclips didn’t notify me of your response, glad I “stumbled” upon it just now!) I love that you were with Layne at Mount Madonna for a Bee Priestess Workshop! I remember when she started teaching there, she loved bee-ing there. I bee-lieve she took a yoga training there, too. Oh your Cooperman black suede frame drum must bee heavenly! How bee-you-T-ful that you played at a Zikr on a special day. Okay there are a lot of bees 🐝 in this response lol Blessings to you, and thank you for sharing, I’ve enjoyed our connection. 🥰🙏🏼✨🐝
Hi Barbara and Jeff!! I want to add my 2 pences on the sound "Hrim": from the 13 Moon Mystery school I study, this is the sound associated with the Archetype of the Great Mother ( (Goddess Archetypes of Cybele and Yemaya amongst others...) - colour burgundy. Hrim is a Hindu mantra which is "the manifest aspect of the Goddess" (..I am retyping the info I found). The 13 Moon mystery school speaks of the 13 feminine archetypes of the Divine Feminine. Great Mother being the very first one.
@@BarbaraGail_drum_song_dance Hum... the woman who wrote that book had it printed in 2013. (Ariel Spilsbury) -- maybe she had that info from another source, but my guess is that with this particular lensing (that framework of 13 Divine Feminine Archetypes...), she probably wouldn't be aware of it. I guess more research could be done on the Hindu mantra on their own 😉🎶
Thank you both! 🙏🙏
And yes we are all connected!!!
Let’s all drum for peace, alone or in a group with Layne in our thoughts…………….
❤️ Sara Hofstede from the Netherlands
Thank you so much for joining us, Sara! Yes, sending peace and love through the beats of our drums, and with Layne in our hearts.
Nice to meet you here Sara.
Greetings from a fellow-Dutchie.
@@marjoleinvanammers9571 🫶👋✌️
@@marjoleinvanammers9571 yay! She’s new to my channel and I’ve mentioned you to her! ⭕️⭕️⭕️🔗🔗🔗
Thank you Barbara and Jeff.
Congratulations with your first youtube live.
I was fascinated by your Brazilian story about the ox and the global idea of death and resurrection.
And thank you for mentioning the GBTO dvd’s on Layne’s legacy website!
Yes my dear, Marjolein, you’re so welcome, thank you for joining us!
Great to hear about what fascinated you. The music Layne and Tommy taught us for Bumba Meu Boi, the Brazilian ox resurrection story, was very trance-inducing, 2 against 3 polymeter, and had that foot stepping Layne was demonstrating in her video. Was wild to do that “1-31--“ stepping, while playing either in 2 or 3! Very African, and that’s from an Afro-Brazilian culture.
My first djembe teacher, John McDowell, in 1988, explained that it wasn’t just the drumming that incited the dancing, it was the tension of polymeter.
Jeff and I ended up becoming polymeter junkies lol in other words totally addicted! So fun!
Anyway Layne and Tommy were working on the Trance Union CD, and really diving into that Bumba Meu Boi. Her earliest trip to Brazil was for that very festival, and one of the photos towards the end of her slide show lecture, the one of a crowd in Brazil, with frame drums in the air, she took that photo having climbed way up high onto a music speaker to get that shot!
The festival went on for days with alcohol imbibing and drumming! We weren’t there but Shirsten was.
Polymeter was once believed to be chaotic music by the anthropology community. Until they finally figured out what was going on and how advanced it really was.
I can only imagine how other shamanic cultures used polyrhythms in their rituals. In Salvador, Brazil, the religious drumming of condomblé does. We learned that style while there with Layne, both times.
So many stories! So many threads! 🥰🙏🏼✨🌹🐝⚪️⚪️⚪️🔔
Regarding the smallness and connectivity of the world… Curl Jung wrote about and developed this in his idea of the collective unconscious and archetypes, those ubiquitous energy patterns and forms that are recognizable across cultures and across time that are both particular and universal.
Yes! It’s where I heard it from. And exactly why I said “collective unconscious”, we can truly see it at work in these ancient sacred texts and sacred symbolic imagery. Thanks, Lisa for chiming in! Glad you tuned in. 🥰🙏🏼🐝🌹
I thought so! I love to name the names that can be named, connecting our ancestors to ourselves by speaking and naming their lives and work...as you are doing here with Layne. I only got to study with her for one Bee Priestess weekend at Mount Madonna, but it was life changing. Last night I was honored to play a new Cooperman ebony suede tar and a beloved newly reheaded goat skin daf in a Sufi Zikr circle on this auspicious anniversary. Tears of love.. @@BarbaraGail_drum_song_dance
Oh wow, Lisa! (Sorry, RUclips didn’t notify me of your response, glad I “stumbled” upon it just now!) I love that you were with Layne at Mount Madonna for a Bee Priestess Workshop! I remember when she started teaching there, she loved bee-ing there. I bee-lieve she took a yoga training there, too.
Oh your Cooperman black suede frame drum must bee heavenly! How bee-you-T-ful that you played at a Zikr on a special day.
Okay there are a lot of bees 🐝 in this response lol
Blessings to you, and thank you for sharing, I’ve enjoyed our connection. 🥰🙏🏼✨🐝
Thank you🙏🏼🙏🏼
Thank you for watching, Denise! And for letting us know you were here. The circle is wide and strong! ⭕️❣️⚪️❣️⚪️⭕️
Hi Barbara and Jeff!! I want to add my 2 pences on the sound "Hrim": from the 13 Moon Mystery school I study, this is the sound associated with the Archetype of the Great Mother ( (Goddess Archetypes of Cybele and Yemaya amongst others...) - colour burgundy. Hrim is a Hindu mantra which is "the manifest aspect of the Goddess" (..I am retyping the info I found). The 13 Moon mystery school speaks of the 13 feminine archetypes of the Divine Feminine. Great Mother being the very first one.
Great addition to the info, Lucie, thank you! I wonder if Layne ever knew that… 🥰🙏🏼✨🐝🌀🌸⚪️🌸
@@BarbaraGail_drum_song_dance Hum... the woman who wrote that book had it printed in 2013. (Ariel Spilsbury) -- maybe she had that info from another source, but my guess is that with this particular lensing (that framework of 13 Divine Feminine Archetypes...), she probably wouldn't be aware of it. I guess more research could be done on the Hindu mantra on their own 😉🎶