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Thomas Wiegandt has developed a wide range of workshops and services over his career - building upon knowledge gained over a lifetime. These workshops and services have been offered across Ireland and can be hired for individuals, groups or businesses upon request.

Below you will also find information about Thomas' performances (both solo and with various groups) which may also be available for hire.

If interested, please inquire at ballydrums@gmail.com

 

Workshops

You can individually arrange sessions or workshops for yourself or a group for a time that suits you.

The workshops are facilitated by Thomas Wiegandt and are suitable for people of all backgrounds and ages.

Workshops can take place either here in Ballydehob or in a venue of your choice.

Please inquire for detailed information and prices.

African Drumming

Workshop for total beginners as well as drummers with some experience. Playing technique of Djembe Drums and other percussions, West-African rhythms, ritual drumming and having fun playing as a group. Thomas is an experienced and patient teacher. Drums will be provided.

African Drumming (Advanced)

Learn to play African and contemporary rhythms for percussion ensembles on Djembe and other drums, bass drums and small percussions as well as playing solos and variations. Drums will be provided.

Team Building through Drumming

Drumming is frequently used today as a musical tool for team building. We will learn to improve social skills to co-operate in a creative and supportive way by being playful. This workshop is recommend for organisations, institutions and companies, where people are working in a team situation. Drums will be provided.

Spirit Drum - Drum Spirit

We will explore the spiritual aspect of drumming by getting in touch with our soul. We will learn to play rhythms for ritual and meditation from different traditions world-wide and will also explore our personal rhythms within our souls. This workshop is suitable for total beginners as well as for drummers with some experience. Drums will be provided.

Playing with Time - a Drumming Meditation

Take your time to discover and feel the magic of slow and healing rhythms within you as well as to learn ritual drumming from different traditions. Listen to your heartbeat and breath. Become one with your drum, playing meditative rhythms. Relax and enjoy!

Trance and Ritual Drumming

Truly beyond words, to be experienced! We will play rhythms from different spiritual traditions, suitable for total beginners and drummers on the spiritual path. Drums will be provided.

Shamanic Journey

Shamanism is the oldest belief system on earth practiced by tribal people who live(d) in harmony with nature. In this workshop we will use drumming, chanting, movement and safe trance-techniques to communicate with the spirit-world and the invisible forces to bring about positive change, healing and well-being. Drums will be provided.

Tibetan Singing Bowls and Sound Healing

The ancient Tibetan Singing Bowls produce soft sounds and powerful vibrations, which we will use for meditation, healing and sound massage to restore our inner harmony and to improve our general well-being.

Let your voice be heard ! - a Voice and Percussion Workshop

This workshop is for people who want to connect with their own voices. In a safe space we will explore the full potential of our voices in a gentle and playful way. We will also use a large variety of percussion instruments from around the world to discover our own inner music. This workshop is suitable for people who might have never liked their voice up to now, as well as musicians, therapists and of course anybody else, who wants to expand the range of the voice.

Making Music - even if you never did before!

Playful workshop with lots of instruments from around the world and lots of surprising sounds! Learn about how to create music and how to use this skill for composing. Musician or total beginner, you will enjoy this! Also recommended for therapists and teachers, who work with music. Musical instruments will be provided.

Music Improvisation + Composition

Playful workshop with lots of instruments from around the world and lots of surprising sounds! Learn about how to create music and how to use this skill for composing. Musician or total beginner, you will enjoy this! Also recommended for therapists and teachers, who work with music. Musical instruments will be provided.

Wood Carving

Learn about different kinds of wood such as bog oak, yew, driftwood a.o. and how to use carving tools. Learn also to develop composition concepts and to realize them in a creative and playful way in a relaxed atmosphere.
Materials and tools can be provided or brought. Groups and individuals of all ages and backgrounds welcome. Detailed information: please inquire!

Sculpture + Jewelry Making

Learn about different natural and man-made materials and how to work them into sculptures or jewelry as well as various techniques, composition and design. The workshops are informative, educational and fun.
Materials and tools can be provided or brought. Groups and individuals of all ages and backgrounds welcome. Detailed information: please inquire!
More information: drums-ireland.com.

Sessions

Sound Healing Sessions and Music Therapy

Sound Healing is an ancient way of healing used by many different traditions world wide to let healing sounds enter the body to bring about positive change. Thomas Wiegandt uses various musical instruments and his voice to produce healing sounds.
He works mainly with Tibetan Singing Bowls, which produce soft and sustained sound like a bell or a gong, with a broad spectrum of overtones. These bowls have been specially forged from seven different metals and have been used in Tibet since centuries for meditation and healing.
The Tibetans knew that certain sounds resonate in different parts of the body and that these sounds relax, restore the harmony and heal in a holistic way.

During a Sound Healing session Tibetan Singing Bowls are placed on different parts of the body so that the healing vibrations can enter the body. This sound massage can be used for a general relaxation or to work on specific problems.
Thomas Wiegandt also might use shamanic healing practices and/or counselling techniques during a session if appropriate.
Thomas Wiegandt has been working with Sound Healing since 1990, after having developed the sensitivity to feel the vibrations of different sounds resonating in a person's body.

More information: http://www.rte.ie/tv/theafternoonshow/story/1025936.html
A session lasts between one or two hours and costs Euro 30 per hour(concessions available).
Please phone for appointments.
Sales of Singing Bowls: please inquire

Healing Drum Sessions

"Drumming is the heartbeat of God" (African proverb)

Drumming can improve or heal a lot of conditions where other methods might not have been very successful. Drumming works with the life force itself in a profound way on all levels, physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually.
The drum has been used for healing purposes world-wide for thousands of years in tribal societies with their shamanic traditions to communicate with the spirit world. The drum is also being used as a tool for social integration and to restore harmony. According to West-African wisdom teachings, emotional disturbance manifest as an irregular rhythm and is a bad vibration that blocks the vital physical processes. As regular even rhythms are regarded as a sign of health, these rhythms can heal by touching the patient or client in an immediate and powerful way, removing blockages and releasing tension.
Drumming is also a preventive remedy and helps to become more conscious and balanced.

A session lasts between one or two hours and costs Euro 30 per hour(concessions available).
Please phone for appointments.
Groups: please inquire
Sales of African Drums and other musical instruments: please inquire or log onto: www.drums-ireland.com

Shamanic Journey Sessions

Shamanism is the oldest belief system on Earth practiced by people who had to live in tune with nature to survive.
The shaman, being priest, healer, advisor in personal and social matters, artist and musician all in one, made contact with the spirit world or the otherworld to communicate with the forces thought responsible for the different aspects of life and the well-being of all.

In a session we will first explore and clarify the personal shamanic aspects and needs of the client. We then will use chanting, drumming and movement to embark on our shamanic journey. We also will learn to use safe trance techniques for transformation and healing.
On our journey we will learn to communicate with different beings like our ancestors, mother Earth, angels, spirits, totem animals and plants as well as various forms of energy. Through this communication we will resolve issues and personal karma that we never or only very little had dealt with so far. As a result most people will naturally get more centered and balanced.

A session lasts between one or two hours and costs Euro 30 per hour(concessions available).
Please phone for appointments.
Groups: please inquire.

Life Guidance Sessions

After identifying the problem the client(s) will be encouraged to explore the feelings and needs around the issue in a safe and comfortable way. Together we will choose a suitable approach of either counselling, body work or an other appropriate technique.

Thomas Wiegandt is an attentive and patient listener. He firmly believes that our thinking cannot change our feelings, but becoming aware of our feelings can change our thinking and that by getting in touch with our feelings our situation will improve considerably.
Strict confidentiality is guaranteed.

Issues dealt with include:

A session lasts between one or two hours and costs Euro 30 per hour(concessions available).
Please phone for appointments.
Groups: please inquire.

Music Lessons

 

African Drumming

Learn how to play exciting dance grooves as well as relaxing meditative rhythms on African Djembe drums. Everybody can do it, it is a lot of fun and truly relaxing!

Thomas Wiegandt is an experienced and patient teacher.

Please phone for appointments.
Individual sessions: Euro 20 per hour (some concessions available). Small groups: please inquire.
Drumming workshops and performances for schools, festivals, companies and private groups are educational and entertaining. Please inquire.
Sales of African drums: please inquire

Music Improvisation

Everybody can play music! Music is a natural expression of feelings with our voice or on a musical instrument. A lot of different musical instruments from all over the world will be provided to enable us to explore and rediscover our own dormant musical potential.

Thomas Wiegandt is a multi-instrumentalist and an experienced and patient teacher.

Please phone for appointments.
Individual sessions: Euro 20 per hour (some concessions available). Small groups: please inquire.
Music workshops and performances for schools, festivals and private groups are educational and entertaining. Please inquire.
Sales of African drums and other musical instruments: please inquire

Guitar (African style, Reggae, Funk, Blues)

Details: please inquire

Performances

Celtic Stone Monument Tours

A guided tour to prehistoric & ancient Celtic sites with a lot of detailed information.

Not far from the Drumming Centre West Cork, hidden in the beautiful landscape, are many almost forgotten prehistoric and ancient Celtic sites.

On an approx. 2-and-a-half hour guided tour you will visit some of these pre-christian monuments: a magic stone circle, tall standing stones, a mysterious cairn (tumulus), and see one of the many ring forts and some rare bronze age rock art.

Dates

Please phone 028-37323 or email me if possible 2 to 4 weeks before the tour to arrange a day and time with me if you would like to book.

Costs

€25 per person (group of 4 people or more)
€27 per person (group of 3 people)
€40 per person (2 people)
€80 per person (single person)
Children up to 15 years pay half price

Please pay cash in Euros on the day, I have no credit card facilities.
 

Details

The tour is by car to get near to the monuments and then on foot, it is suitable for kids, educational and fun. Walking boots or Wellingtons (rubber boots) are recommended.
The tour starts from the Drumming Centre West Cork, Ballybane, Ballydehob, West-Cork (which is 70 miles or 100 km west of Cork City)
If there are more than 4 people, it would be best, if you came with a car, so we can fit everybody in and drive in 2 or more cars.
Please phone 028-37323 or email me if possible 2 to 4 weeks before the tour to arrange a day and time with me if you would like to book.

Languages

Ich spreche deutsch.
Je parle un peu de francaise.
Parlo Italiano - pocissimo!!

Bus connections from Cork City

Please open the attachment with the bus schedule below.
Best option:
Bus 237
Cork departure: 11.10
Ballydehob arrival: 13.20
Ballydehob departure: 18.05
Cork arrival: 20.10
Other times are possible too.
I can pick you up at the Ballydehob bus stop. Additional charge of €10
My mobile phone on the day is 086-4075897,
please email your mobile phone number just in case of delays or changes.

Transport to other places

I also can provide a transport service and drive you to other places or do other tours, please ask for a quote.

Please note that information and prices might be subject to change at any time.

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