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Tag: medicinal drumming circle

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Rhythm and healing: Latina therapist helps drum away the blues

by El Tecolote Staff August 12, 2016November 9, 2016

[su_label type=”info”]COLUMN: COMMUNITY IN FOCUS [/su_label] Inside a dimly lit room of the Hospitality House on Turk Street at Leavenworth in the Tenderloin, five of us sit in a circle as Celia Sampayo Perez lights a candle, before setting a smudge stick ablaze. It’s my first medicinal drumming circle, and I become immersed in the […]

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