Women’s Voice and Frame Drum Circle with Ria Soemardjo

$85.00

Women’s Voice and Frame Drum Circle
-led by Ria Soemardjo

Sunday  27 July, 2025
10.00 am to 2.30pm
Carnegie- address on booking
$85 full
$75 concession

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Join us for a Women’s Voice and Frame Drum Circle led by Ria Soemardjo.  Experience an embodied approach to learning foundational rhythmic patterns that underlie ancient musical traditions from around the world.  Learn to integrate voice and simple frame drum patterns as a personal and communal meditation/basic sanity practice.   Bring your own frame drum if you have one (eg a medicine drum) –  Ria will bring a variety of frame drums to try. Sarah will weave in some of the history of the Frame drum and its particular role in women’s spirituality through out the session.  The session will be limited to 10 women so there is ample time for personalised attention as well as group processes to embody the joy of women’s voice and frame drum circle.
A delicious morning tea will be provided.

Ria is a skilled facilitator of the  TaKeTiNa rhythm process – as developed over the last 40 years, by world renowned percussionist & master teacher, Reinhard Flatishler.  A unique voice in the Melbourne world music scene for many years, She draws on many years of immersion in Javanese and Balinese ceremonial music and performs her own music around Australia and Asia.  Ria is passionate about sharing rhythm practices as a tool for health and happiness.  www.riavoice.com 

Sarah has been offering frame drum making workshops since 2016. She has a deep love of the drum, and its pan cultural history  in women’s spirituality and sacred practices.  She is an emerging playwright, Teacher of the Four Seasons Journey and Menopause and Menstrual wisdom educator.
Sunday 27th July
10.00 – 2.30 pm
carnegie- address on booking
$85 full
$70 concession
additional

Offerings

1:1 Sessions

Are you feeling stuck, or going through a challenging transition or time? Sarah offers 1:1 sessions based on the modality of School of Shamanic Womancraft which recognises that you have the answers within. Using shamanic womancraft processes you can bring awareness to the patterns and story of your rites of passage and your woundings – seeing them as opportunities for growth and initiation.

Ritual & Performance

I works in collaboration with women, and gender diverse people to co-create sacred ceremonies and ritual. My ritual work focuses on creating mytho- poetic and embodied stories of rites of passage and deepening our connection to the earth. I also work with artists and the wider community to create shared rituals and performance in honour of the earth, and to support the restoration of ceremony, art & ritual in our lives.

Storytelling & Writing

I am a storyteller, writer and emerging playwright. I believe that stories can change the world. As the writer Barry Lopez said, "Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion."
I run a free Storytelling by the Fire session monthly in Highett. You can read some of my writing here, and sign up to my newsletter for my monthly writing and musings.

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I acknowledge that I live and work on the lands of the Boonwurrung of the Kulin Nation, The people of the Two Bays ( Naarm, and Warn Marrin.) I pay my respects to their elders, their knowledge and care for Country. I acknowledge their drumming, dancing, story telling and ceremony.

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