[Cultura Ritmica] [Background] [Services]
Cultura Ritmica offers a unique service: Drumcircles and rhythm dynamics for groups; through a facilitated rhythm agenda of specially designed games and exercises that includes body-movements, chanting and drumming, conditions are created to help people to coherently express themselves through rhythm while at the same time reaching the group’s planned objectives.
Our programs designs are geared to transform a group of people without any previous drumming experience, into an expressive, coherent, participative and flavorful rhythm ensemble within the firs twenty minutes of the event.
Cultura Ritmica brings vitality, focus, intuition, community, creativity, joy, health, trust, spirit and relaxation into your events and groups. This “novel” experience provides immediate and positive results.
In drumcircles, dynamics, games, feeling, speed, patterns and intention are the determinant factors that will establish the direct path to the group’s objectives. Thus our programs are designed for:
- Congresses and conferences
- Expos, fairs, festivals and celebrations
- Spiritual retreats
- Corporate groups
- Companies and business
- School programs
- Art and culture institutions
- Personal development and spiritual groups
- Groups in conflict
- Therapeutic treatments
- Community gatherings
- Music stores
- Programs in penitentiaries and detention centers
- Sports clubs and teams
- Children
- Private parties
A drumcircle as igniting spark for a congress or a conference, “brakes the ice” and creates an environment of camaraderie, communication, participation and trust. In this way the participants disposition, receptivity and deliverance is greatly enhanced.
A drumcircle within an expo, fair or festival is the perfect detonator that will infuse great doses of ambient, makes people to loosen up and relax allowing for peoples participation beyond being a simple spectator. Thus participants become an integral part of the event.
A drumcircle in a spiritual retreat sooths the soul, releases tension, is conductive to introspection and sets the mind more in tune with a universal rhythm. For live percussion creates and island in time where everything else is left behind.
A drumcircle for business and corporate groups will motivate participants to create working teams in a very unique way and will stimulate them into a creative thinking process. It promotes cooperation instead of competition. It channels a more direct communication. It helps to develop listening and expression skills. It defines a common ground within the group.
Drumcircles for companies and businesses are designed to effectively reduce tensions in the workplace. It improves relationships amongst colleagues, creates a sense of family and optimizes the working development of employees.
Drumcircles for students yield the most attractive learning dynamics. It provides for them the best safe space for self-expression and contributes to their personalities good development. It gives them self confidence, a sense of achievement and a sense of belonging. It teaches them the importance of corporal rhythms and awakens in them cultural sensibility.
For people dedicated to any type of artistic discipline, connection with drums and percussive rhythm will expand their perceptions to see their art in a totally new way, thus opening the path to more synchronicity in their expression be it visuals, electronics, body expression, sculpting, dancing, painting, writing.
For personal development and spiritual groups, drumcircles bring liberation and communion, are trance inductive and become a vehicle for a deeper spiritual connection. The longer the rhythm is sustained, the deeper the experience will be. Trance-drumming is the most ancient form of sacred communion.
A drumcircle between two antagonistic groups will establish a common ground and will open the path to a deeper communication. It gives participants a safe space to show their feelings, to show the person behind the mask and it gives them the opportunity to see real faces. It definitely lays out a solid ground to begin solving the deepest conflicts.
For group or couple therapies, drumcircles are an excellent vehicle to release and harness accumulated stress, emotional pain, uncontrolled euphoria, anger and negative emotions. As appropriate and expertly guided drumming promotes well-being, it is an excellent medicine to treat deep depressions, personality disorders and coordination problems.
For community groups, drumcircles provides just that: a sense of unity and community. For drumming eliminates barriers. There is a universality in rhythm that transcends language, race, social class, age, gender.
For music stores, a monthly drumcircle open to the public will make your store more attractive and will definitely increase sales. Thus you will be promoting rhythm culture, expanding drumcircles horizons, distributing drums and percussions and generating collective well-being.
A drumcircle in a detention center helps prisoners to release tension and frustration. It helps them to cope with despair and isolation. Thus it will improve the energy of the environment and will increase the prisoners availability and participation. A drumcircle between guards and prisoner yields the most amazing results as it lands the participants in a space of equality, thus bringing relationships to a more humane scale.
A drumcircle regularly held for a sports club will increase the sense of a team and camaraderie and will lead participants into a faster connection with the rhythm of the sport and the flow of the game. A drumcircle with a hot groove before a competition will put the participants in tune for the game.
For children, the benefits of continuously participating in a drumcircle are endless: It is an excellent aid for their development, increases their attention span, it is a fun training tool for focusing, exercises their coordinating abilities, connects them with their deepest powers.
For private celebrations, drum until you drop. Lets party! Facilitated freedom, improvisation, expression, spontaneity, catharsis… we have the best program.
Cultura Ritmica provides
Consultation: The facilitators of Cultura Rítmica work along with the event organizers and the agenda planners to shape up the drumcircle’s dynamics to match and impulse the objectives of the event. The objectives of a drumcircle are in concordance with the needs or requirements of the group that is being served or to the event’s program. The objectives are achieved through a combination of metaphoric rhythm games, dynamics and exercises specifically designed for that purpose.
Leadership: by creating comfortable conditions for individual and group expression and showcasing their abilities, the facilitators of Cultura Ritmica work up and ambient of collective success and achievement. The facilitators are continuously updating their training to better guide the groups through a focused and marvellous rhythmic journey
Instruments: regardless of group size, gender or age, Cultura Ritmica provides drums, percussions, musical toys and all required material. Cultura Ritmica is constantly updating its working techniques, equipment and didactic tools.
