✨RATTLE MAKING CLASS✨
Winter Solstice
December 21, 2024. 12-4pm
Grass Valley CA @psychedeli.gv
Class Fee $100 sliding scale available.
Venmo: @sparklespositron
Do you have a rattle? If so how do you play & work with it? I’m curious what this tool has shown you? I’d love to hear your experiences below. The first rattles I remember holding were my Papas Maracas from Mexico. I would play with them every time we went to my grandparents house. Another memory that surfaces is hearing my Auntie Carmen and Sharon talk about their Arapaho tradition of making rattles from umbilical chords.
I love Remembering the origins, the seeds that were planted long ago & how they are sprouting in my life today. The rattle seems like a gateway into the jam of life! It’s often the first toy/instrument a baby is handed to entertain & calm themselves. Having hosted many jams Ive noticed people intimidated by some of the more sophisticated instruments. You can always put a shaker in their hand & suddenly they’re jamming.
Ive yet to unlock the journey of using the rattle. My work so far has been rooted in processing the animals I find & turning their material remains into offerings. Honoring their lives & instigating an evolving conversation surrounding, our own impermanence, how we practice reverence for the life death cycle & honor the living. I journeyed through a new experience with my drum this past week. I’d been holding a lot as we tend to do. I picked up my drum & started drumming. Once I surrendered to not carrying the weight of am I “performing well” I found my rhythm, my flow. In that space I found release, tears began to fall. When my drumming ended I could hear my heart beat inside my body in a way I’d never heard before. For a moment I didn’t know what it was, then realized it was me! Something is happening the audible & subtle vibrations we are creating are changing something.
I don’t have all the stories of why & how we drum or shake our rattles but this experience is inviting me to discover all the whys directly. I’m curios what journey they are inviting us on. What layers we might unlock, what clarity & healing we may receive?✨💖✨