Wyrding Women's Rhythmic Immersion
Frame Drumming for Beginners and Beyond
with Brandi Mizilca
Come learn the fundamentals of frame drumming with long time professional dancer, drummer, musician, artist, and healing arts practitioner, Brandi Mizilca.
Rhythm is the sacred pulse that animates our bodies, our societies, our planet, and the cosmos beyond.
Drumming is an ancient technology for tapping into that sacred pulse to cultivate harmonious communities, connect with divinity, and calm or catalyze our hearts and minds. Drumming provides structure and support for melodies and excites our bodies to dance. Drumming is the intersection of math and magic and exquisitely lights up both sides of our brains. In these classes, we will immerse ourselves in rhythm in all these ways and more, utilizing our bodies, our voices, and instruments.
This class is for female and female-identifying humans for the sake of exploring the art of playing frame drums, regulating our inner rhythms, and liberating our voices in all the ways we may need to do. You are invited to break centuries of silence by making beautiful,
bold sound with other wyrding women at The Well.
MONDAYS, 12:30pm – 2pm
March 23 – April 27, 2026
Six class series $120/ person. There must be a minimum of ten enrollees for this series to run.
To enroll, please contact Brandi Mizilca at karunacaravan@gmail.com
If you do not own a finger-style frame drum (which is played differently from a frame drum that is played with a mallet, stick, or tipper), please contact Brandi Mizilca at karunacaravan@gmail.com and she will provide one for you to play while at class.
Brandi Mizilca is a lifelong lover and student of music, dance, art, ritual, and immersion in the natural world. Her curious nature has taken her down many paths of learning and her creative impetus is perpetually to weave these passions together. Her professional experiences include being a dancer, musician, Alaskan wilderness guide, commercial organic farmer, gallery-featured painter, published writer, yoga and dance instructor, festival and workshop organizer, graphic artist, videographer, and a licensed massage therapist. In the late 90's, after spending five years in Alaska, she lived and studied at Touchstone Farm, a sacred movement community and flower/herb farm in Massachusetts; and, her liberal arts studies at Vermont College were centered around tracking the cross-cultural evolution of sacred movement practices over thousands of years of human history.
Upon moving to North Carolina in 1999 to live at Earthaven Ecovillage, Brandi Mizilca became an integral part of the world music and dance community of Asheville. She has taught and performed locally and throughout the US in various ensembles as both a dancer and musician, especially in the artistic traditions of the Mediterranean, Middle East, and North Africa. For over twenty years she performed regularly at Jerusalem Garden Cafe in downtown Asheville as both a dancer and musician. She has been performing percussive music from south central Africa with Chikomo Marimba for the past eight years and has been religiously studying frame drum, darbuka, and tambourine with River Guerguerian since the early 2000's, as well as with other instructors. She works in various capacities with the local organization, Asheville Rhythm, whose mission is to foster connection for players of diverse backgrounds and skill levels through drumming, in partnership with expert local and guest instructors. Her goal as a teacher is to joyfully offer keys for understanding music via many lenses so that her students can find their way into the structure of pulse and sound and empower the music within them to find its way out. These classes will explore percussion from both sides of the brain and the use of rhythm as a mechanism of music as well as a technology for expanding consciousness and cultivating connection.
