Ta Ke Ti Na, is a unique process which uses the body to experience the potential of rhythm for learning and transformation. TaKeTiNa rhythm journeys guide participants into experiences with fundamental rhythmic patterns, expressed in music around the world. These rhythms are accessed in the body by integrating the voice with simple steps and claps.
No musical background is necessary to benefit from this musical process as participants explore connecting with the rhythms at their own pace.
As individuals are guided into the multi-layered experience, the leader alternates between challenging and supportive rhythms to provide a key experience: An opportunity to fall in and out of the rhythm. As the collective begins to welcome this process, individuals gain insight into inner obstacles which hinder flow and the possibility to move beyond these obstacles. As the rhythmic stability deepens participants can access the stillness within the activity and open to the collective groove.
Applications in Daily Life:
- finding peace and flow with your own pace in life
- increased access to inner space, stillness and grounding
- allowing making “mistakes” to be a learning opportunity
- improving one’s ability to make decisions in complex situations
- greater intuition and creativity
More info can be found at What is Ta Ke Ti Na.
Workshop reflections:
“Dave is skilled at helping participants experience an interweaving of rhythm through body movement and the voice in a most amazing way. As a participant, I feel really seen by Dave and appreciate the space he establishes for the TaKeTiNa journey. Dave’s facilitating skill allows me to witness challenges my body has at times with following different rhythms, and to see how the wisdom of the body adapts and eventually overcomes these challenges. I always feel somehow refreshed and enlivened after the TaKeTiNa experience, as if dormant and forgotten parts of my circuitry have been suddenly welcomed to reawaken and join in my body’s and the group’s rhythmic interplay! And I especially appreciate how Dave encourages each of us to be lighthearted, have fun with the whole TaKeTiNa process.”-Russ, LMT, Body-Centered therapist
“I felt so relaxed and continued to feel relaxed for a long time after spending that time putting my focus in the space you and Jake created. The rhythmic pattern we repeated through chanting, moving, and clapping, reverberated within me and surrounded me like a happy ocean of sound. I find that even now I can access that meditative sensation by remembering the time at the workshop and use it to turn away from stress. Another aspect of the experience that I appreciated was that people were present with varying degrees of music/movement experience. Everyone was able to dig into what you brought to the circle and be fully present in the activity, each challenged differently but all ultimately capable. I teach, and being in the presence of learning, the effort, the question, the problem solving, is very heartwarming and exciting.” -Vicki, Educator
“The TaKeTiNa experience was like playing the kind of music I like to play but using my whole body as the instrument. It stretched my rhythmic limitations and gave me ideas about how to use more complex rhythmic concepts in my compositions. Like all good improvisation experiences, TaKeTiNa provided a safe atmosphere in which to experiment with my limits, knowing that if I should fall off the rhythm pattern, it would be there for me to find again. I don’t dance very much and wondered if I would feel inhibited moving with other people. I didn’t feel at all self-conscious because the focus was on the rhythm, not on me.”-Sid, Educator and Musician