✨Four Days of Rhythmic Bliss

All workshops are beginner friendly and require no prior experience.

Learning and experiencing new things is a key part of the Revival experience. 

We do have a limited number of drums available for you to use during the drumming workshops.

To be assured of having something to play we recommend bringing your own drum if you have one.

Here are some of the experiences on tap for this year!

Wisdom of Rhythm - A beginner friendly immersion into the transformative power of rhythm and drumming.

The Energy of Sound -Meditative Chanting, Sound Healing Techniques. Learn how to activate your body’s hidden healing potential — using research based sound and vibration.

Social Drumming Social connection and joy generation through lighthearted creative collaboration

Jim Donovan M.Ed. is a professional musician, Assistant Professor at Saint Francis University and TEDx speaker. His mission is to share the healing power of music through education and performance.

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Gong Bath -Sound Meditation with Gongs and Bells

Allow yourself to enter a timeless space of listening as  Mike Tamburo orchestrates his way through 40+ overtone rich instruments including Gongs, Bells, Hammered Dulcimer and tuned metal instruments. Listeners have described Mike Tamburo's music as an adventure in listening; sonic bliss; a deep and lasting vibrational rejuvenation for body and soul; a profound aesthetic experience; a journey through the senses and a perceptual rollercoaster. Allow yourself to be still and listen.

PLEASE BRING a yoga mat, blanket, or cushion for your comfort during extended relaxation on the floor.

Mike Tamburo has spent his life serving and exploring the power of music. His concerts and workshops are heart centered, uplifting, sonically multi-dimensional, life affirming experiences that focus on self transformation through conscious listening and breathing.

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Expressive Arts

Finding Creative Balance with Art (New for 2025)
Come play with art supplies and colors as you explore what helps keep you balanced and feeling supported in life. There are no wrong marks! Explore the theme of balance while enjoying watercolors, paint, markers, pens, etc. Artistic ability /experience is not required. All materials provided.

Grounding Through Art and Nature (New for 2025)
Join Meli in calming, centering, and grounding both the mind and the nervous system with gentle movement, mark making, and community. Explore elements of nature that help you feel grounded. Solidify this in your mind and body with mark making and fun art supplies. Come play with the supplies and colors. There are no wrong marks! Artistic ability /experience is not required. All materials provided.

“Meli” Melissa Deaton Cook, LPC, is an “explosion of color” and a licensed professional counselor specializing in trauma, nature, and expressive arts. She incorporates music, movement, and creativity in all aspects of her personal and professional life. Come play in the colors with her! There are no wrong marks! 

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Ecstatic / Somatic Movement Workshops

Embody Resilience 

 A journey of somatic awareness, nervous system regulation, embodied affirmation, death and rebirth, celebration, and joy! As always, there will be music, there will be movement, we will have fun, some of us may cry.

 Contact & Play! A consent based container to explore physical play, partnered & group movement, supportive touch, and connection with ourselves and one another

Tricia Chirumbole is a dancer, facilitator, and explorer of life, who is passionate about creating opportunities for personal and collective growth through movement, dialogue, and group co-creation.

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Put More Play In Your Day!(Creative Music Making)

Like a drum circle, only different. We begin with hand percussion and small drums, playing with melody and harmony as we welcome all instruments, all notes, and all sounds. Expect surprises!

This is first of all a FUN and facilitated experience. The bonus is you will also learn musical games you can bring to your own groups, family events, and drum circles. Any personal instruments are welcome and no musical experience or special skills are needed. There are no wrong notes.

Michael Deaton is a drummer, gong player, music facilitator, and a Global Trainer for Arthur Hull and Village Music Circles. He has been teaching all ages, leading drum circles, and empowering humans through sound, art, and movement for over 20 years..

Community Drum Circles 

Each night at the Renewal is a time to jam, dance and have a great time together. Join us for a rhythmic extravaganza built for everyone!

A limited number of private & group lessons are available for this instructor.

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Yoga for Everyone + Yoga Nidra

Gentle yoga classes to help you to keep smiling.

Maureen has practicing yoga since 1998 and teaching since 2003 (certified through Inner Wellness). She has a unique gift for adapting the practice of yoga to meet any practitioner where they are. With a knowledge of anatomy, key muscles are utilized to deepen the poses helping to create greater flexibility and strength both in the mind and body.

Maureen has been practicing yoga for well over a decade and teaching almost as long. She brings a strong practice of mindfulness into her classes to create a sense of purpose and compassion that are taught with kindness and humor.

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The Great Group Sing

Singing brings us together like nothing else. Bring whatever voice you have to this transformative experience of release and joy.

Living Your Personal Myth—Embracing the Hero’s Journey in Everyday Life

Take the opportunity to “Live into an embodied journey experience of Separation - Initiation - Return. Feel your consciousness shift and expand as you open yourself to the unknown. Discover how an inner aliveness awaits you as we immersion ourselves in the journey process together.

Questing By Exploring 6 Essential Questions

Get an understanding of the basic process of “Questing” - creating a self-propelled journey - by exploring 6 Essential Questions that will take you beyond where you have been. We will explore these together in the workshop, and you will be able to practice them by engaging with others when you return home.

Michael Mervosh, M.Ed. is a licensed psychologist, facilitator and trainer who practices in the US and Europe. He’s the executive director of The Hero’s Journey Foundation and founder of PsychoEnergetics Training Program.

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Food is a highlight of the Revival experience and something we take *very* seriously.

Part of taking impeccable care of ourselves is eating well... and eat well we do.

Our menus and food preparation are meticulously planned by our on-site by chefs and volunteer kitchen crew.

During your meals at the Revival, you can expect a beautiful array of delicious and healthy food that uses fresh, local, high-quality, nutrient dense, non-GMO and in-season ingredients as much as possible.

There will be food to suit most dietary styles: vegetarian, vegan, omnivore and gluten-free. Many of the vegetable and meat ingredients will be grown here on the land by Green Heron Growers, a NOFA-NY certified organic farm operated by Steve & Julie Rockcastle.

Full weekend meal service for patrons will start with Thursday lunch and end with a Sunday brunch. 

For participants only attending for 1 or 2 days, meals may also be purchased ala carte.

We prefer you choose the full weekend meal package for the benefit of community cohesiveness and for ease of planning and preparation by the the kitchen crew.

Please note:
There will be food to suit most dietary styles: vegetarian, vegan and omnivore.
Individuals with special diets and food sensitivities are asked to bring along specific items that you may need.

There is ample refrigeration in our walk-in cooler available for these foods.

🔴 Our kitchen is not allergy safe.

Beverage service will include coffee, tea, and water. You can bring anything else you would like. We will not have refrigeration for your beverages, but we do have ice for purchase onsite.

On your way out of the Revival, you can even stop at the Green Heron Growers store and take some of this great food home with you!

We Grow Much of Our Food Onsite!

Meals at the Great Rhythm Revival are planned months in advance when our vegetables are planted and lovingly grown all summer long. We harvest right before the beginning of the event to ensure the most nutrient dense, tastiest food possible.

Are you looking for personalized, one-on-one attention? Most of our instructors offer a limited number of private consultations and /or lessons. You may connect with the instructor of your choice onsite for availability and pricing for individual & group rates. Payment for these sessions may be done with cash or check and be given directly to the instructor.

If you know you are interested in having a session, schedule it the first day to be assured of getting an appointment.

Each instructor's schedule only allows for only a few private sessions.

Handpan Small Group Class: Experience the handpan! Dani will teach an introduction to this beautiful instrument, including:

How to strike it, create melodies, harmonies, and polyrhythms! Handpans will be available to borrow. Beginners and first-timers warmly welcomed!

• Group offering - 5 participants max 

• Days: Friday & Saturday 5-6 (if they fill, add 2-3)?

• Duration: One hour

• Location: Field between the dining area and Inspiration Tent (weather permitting). Meet near the stage in the dining area.

• Cost: $25

Sign-up Link: https://forms.gle/QrTFFtUKGi36jFFXA

Maureen Lauer-Gatta: Private Yoga Lessons
I am happy to offer private yoga sessions (small group or individual) half hour or hour longs. Half hour might be great for folks who just want to get their stretch on! Individual instruction is the way yoga was originally taught.

Music, Dance, Art & Writing

Private and Group Drumming Lessons

Mike Deaton cowbell and multi-bell techniques and rhythms (bells provided), Middle Eastern frame drumming (drums provided), soloing for the faint of heart, drum circle games, building a drumming community, drumming with intention, drumming with specific populations: classrooms, "at risk" teens, seniors, etc.

Health & Wellness Appointments
Jennifer Guyton

Bodywork, Cellular Expansion and Healing, and Transformational Reiki

Are you stressed, feel ‘stuck’ in a life situation, or simply need to relax? A relaxing energy work session may be able to help to feel relaxed and balanced again.

Cellular Expansion and HealingTM is a form of hands-on energy work that supports the resolution of constrictions and illness at the cellular level. The release of constrictions allows for physical, emotional, and mental healing at the root cause and supports living a life of happiness, aliveness, and overall well-being. Cellular Expansion and Healing can help you to:

* Facilitate balance and health (mental, emotional or physical).

* Create a project, job, or partnership from an expanded state of connection.

* Explore mind/body connection and how it can impact their lives.

* Move from a feeling of being stuck to aligned purpose.

* Augment your daily life with wellness and with energy.

* Accelerate your spiritual development.

Transformational Reiki

Transformational Reiki is a blending of Japanese and Native American Energies. Using the unique vibrations of this pairing, coupled with the vibrations of the drum, the practitioner opens up a gateway for a more palpable, whole body experience for each client during a Reiki session.

The combination of the Spiritual energies of the Eastern tradition, and the earth-centered energies of the West, help to facilitate a connection within clients that makes it possible for their awareness of their oneness with the Universe to expand and to manifest in all aspects of their lives.

JENNIFER GUYTON is a certified Cellular Expansion and HealingTM (CE) practitioner, Usui Tibetan Reiki Master, Transformational Reiki Practitioner, and 200-hour Yoga Teacher. She has studied under many local healers and teachers including Deb Schnitta (CE); Bonnie Hassan (Reiki, Transformational Reiki); and Joanne and Hengel (Yoga).She also holds a Masters of Science in Environmental Science and Management from Duquesne University and currently works as an environmental consultant. 

Curtis Green, LMT, Massage Therapy

GPS Address: 2361 Wait Corners Rd. Panama, NY 14767

2.5 hrs from Pittsburgh
1:45 hrs from Buffalo, NY
2:10 hrs from Cleveland
39 hrs from San Diego, CA (by car..)

If you prefer not to camp, here is a list of local lodging options.

Local Lodging Options

Peek ʻn Peak Resort & Spa, 716-355-4141, 1405 Olde Road, Clymer, NY 14724  www.pknpk.com  15 Miles

Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites, 716-769-7900, I-86 at Exit 4, Findley Lake, NY www.hiexpress.com 12 Miles

Chautauqua Suites 716-269-7829, 215 West Lake Rd, Mayville, NY 14757.  15 miles http://chautauquasuites.com/

Clarion Pointe Jamestown I-86 at Exit 12, Jamestown, NY 14701 https://www.choicehotels.com/en-ca/new-york/jamestown/clarion-hotels/ny403 18 Miles

Hampton Inn, 716-488-7829, I-86 at Exit 12, Jamestown, NY 14701 https://www.hilton.com/en/hotels/jhwnkhx-hampton-suites-jamestown/ 18 Miles

Chautauqua Institution has lovely hotels and guest houses. (Upscale) https://reservations.chq.org/all-properties 15 Miles 

Lots of other local places to stay and things to do can be found at: www.tourchautauqua.com

Ours is a primitive style campground. This means no electric or water hook-ups (except for those with handicap needs) and no reserved camping spaces.

We DO have clean drinking water, and a bathhouse with flush toilets and hot showers. We also have a full camp kitchen facility with outdoor seating protected from the rain. Workshop areas are also protected from rain and wind.

Camping options include:
1. Open field camping where you can park your RV or vehicle and put up your tents all in one spot.
2. Wooded camping where you would have to transport your gear to the
site you select. This can be a very short distance, like 20ʼ or a half mile,
depending on your abilities and desires.
Upon arrival, someone will assist you in getting parked and finding an area suitable for you.

Rules:
• Leave your pets at home.

• Please donʼt bring firewood (we have plenty here and transporting
firewood may allow Emerald Ash Borers to infect our trees).

• Fires can be made at your campsite, but consider sharing one with others first.

• Leave no trace of your visit here. Take home everything you brought or
put it in the recycling containers.

• Field strip cigarettes or put them in our orange butt cans.

• Keep vehicles out of the woods.

• Camping areas are quiet after 11pm.

• Consumption of alcohol by anyone under 21 in prohibited.

• Fishing is allowed, eat all the Bluegill you want, catch and release the
rest.

Pet Boarding Choices:
Puppy Love Daycare 716-581-0122
Countryside Kennels 716-753-3180
Sadie Creek Kennels 814-489-6599
VanEarden's 716-355-6318
Dog Mom's 716-661-3344
KC Kennels 716-665-6264

Due to liability and safety considerations, no one under the age of 18 can be admitted to the Revival, unless accompanied by a parent or other adult who is willing to assume responsibility for them.

Do you enjoy working as part of a team and would like the opportunity to earn your spot at the Great Rhythm Revival? Then our Revival Support Team might be for you.

We offer a very limited number Support Team Positions to qualified participants. These positions are granted on a first come-first serve basis.  

To qualify for the Revival Support Team, you'll need to meet each of the following qualifications:

• Highly service oriented

• Love working with people and on a team

• Flexible and adaptable

• Work well under pressure

• Quick learner

• Mature

• Reliable

• Energetic

• Positive

• Friendly

• Over 18

Support Team service will cover your entry fee for all programming & camping, but not meal costs. Support team meals are discounted.

Interested? 716-708-2521 [email protected]