Welcome to RhythmSoul where rhythm is the soul of life.
~ About Jennifer Nori ~
Jennifer has been studying African rhythm and dance for nearly two decades. She has been bringing her own style of teaching rhythm-through-drumming to middle and high school students as well as adults for nearly a decade. Her college background began in Fine Arts and she holds a degree in Interior Architecture. She is
a Waldorf high school educator of American Indian decent and her teaching profession includes basketry, gourd weaving, coppersmithing, textile design and architectural design & model building. Other interests and passions include the arts, creative planning, writing, the great outdoors, qigong, cooking and of course her two beautiful young adult daughters. "It is with deep appreciation that I offer heartfelt gratitude to my teachers, whom I feel are always by my side when I sit down to lead a group: Zorina Wolff, Baba Olatunji, Masankho Banda, Gordy Ryan, Bruce Langhorne, Don Davidson, Wade Peterson. Thank you for your presence in my life!" with love, Jennifer
Current RhythmSoul Offerings:
~ Rhythm-Through-Drumming Classes ~
Both private and ongoing group classes. A fun and structured way to experience being in rhythm with others. It is part of being human to move in and out of the chaos of our daily lives. A whole body exercise in developing our physical coordination, our connection with self and others and our cognitive capacities. All of this happens as we are falling in and out of rhythm together as we learn the language of the drum, technique, basic rhythmic patterns and songs! Ongoing classes in Mountain View on Monday morning and Tuesday & Thursday evenings. New Wednesday morning classes coming soon in Los Altos Hills!
~ Zungo, A Community Rhythm Ensemble ~
Zungo is comprised of students of the drum and fellow rhythm makers available to you for your listening and performing pleasure.
~ HealthRhythms® ~
Jennifer Nori is a trained HealthRhythms and HealthRhythms Adolescent Protocol Facilitator. HealthRhythms is a research based protocol, for both individual group sessions or a series of group sessions, with the objective of developing connection amongst the groups participants. Groups have the opportunity to experience rhythm through the drum in a new and unthreatening way. The protocol can be sculpted to any group wishing to find a greater depth of connection and communication, from at-risk groups to the corporate sector, and anything in between.
~ SoulCollage® ~
Jennifer Nori is a trained SoulCollage Facilitator. SoulCollage is a fun and intuitive art process, using collage and writing as the main vehicles of inspiration. Regardless of perceived artistic ability, anyone can join in this process. Offered to groups as individual sessions or series of sessions, ages children to adults. SoulCollage participants receive inspirational reflections and insightful observations, as one is navigating through life's questions.
~ Workshop Offerings ~
RhythmSoul is developing workshop offerings to those in search of connection with self and others, through rhythm and the arts. Jennifer Nori is a Waldorf educator and is passionate about sharing her experience in fostering relationship with the three-fold order of willing, feeling and thinking; capacities that we all possess. These capacities, when exercised, can provide profound connection between one's activities in life, one's capacity for relationship with self and others and one's mode of expression.
