Experience a different way to stay fit while you meeting  with locals who are also interested in keeping their bodies and spirits toned and balanced! Work out to the rhythmic sounds of West African drumming! Stretch and tone your body with stretch bands, pilates and yoga! Then, kick it up with traditional West African Dance movments accompanied by West African drumming! Do not miss this!

Join us for authentic West African djembe drumming led by Baba Abubakr Kouyate, a master drummer with 40 years of experience. He teaches in African village style. All levels play and learn complex rhythms together on sangba, dunnun-ba, kenkeni, and djembe. Each person learns at his/her own pace. For more information on Abubakr, see his new website: http://www.abubakr.info

The purpose of the group is a monthly gathering to play drums, celebrate the divine beat that the universe speaks through the voices of drums. Drums are as old as the the people who first walked the earth. They were used in many rituals, war, sounding alarm, as well as in prayer and celebration. Scientific research has proven the healing effects of drum rhythms on the mind, body and spirit. Drumming can help us to celebrate the unity of the cycles of the earth, the cosmos and the human body. I …