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~TAKE TIME TO RELAX~
CHANTING, DRUMMING AND
MINDFULNESS MEDITATION
Mitch Gordon
Sacred Drummer, Spiritual Leader
NewCAJE7 Presentation – August 2016
http://drumteache5.wix.com/mitchgordon
[email protected]
https://www.facebook.com/jewishdrummers/
508.615.1654
OVERVIEW
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This presentation is being written well ahead of the actual
presentation at NewCAJE 7. It will be included in the publication of
Tishrei and spirituality materials in mid August.
I have included audio and video links and sheet music when I am
able. If the audio or video links are located on YouTube or individual
audio/video sites, the common use copyright of that/those sites
apply.
Any text not attributed is © Mitch Gordon 2016 and may be used free
of charge in educational settings as long as attribution to me is given.
This is a participatory workshop and as such, not all of the materials
covered are easily translated into a presentation. I will try to provide
my own audio video examples of sections that will be lead in class.
Links to those recordings will be provided to NewCAJE.
All links are public and free sites. Users are encouraged to support
the artists through purchase or donation if comfortable doing so.
DRUMMING – CONNECTING TO HEARTBEAT
Sacred drumming starts as the external
connection to our own individual and collective
heartbeats.
 That ‘lub dub’ sound we hear through a
stethoscope, connects us across beliefs,
religions, war and peace, ups and downs…
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Whether you have a drum or not you can
connect to your own heartbeat.
 Tune in to it…Sit quietly…and hear that divinity
that pulses through you – your own heartbeat…
 Tap gently on your chest – or on a drum that
lub dub sound…lub dub, lub dub, lub dub…
 Notice..just notice what comes to mind…if it is
a distraction…acknowledge it… notice it…and
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Come back to the heart beat…
 Make that your daily practice – find your heart
beat and tune into it…
 Notice while you sit those things that are
distracting…DO NOT JUDGE them…come back
to the heartbeat.
 Try to remember what that feels like to NOT
JUDGE. Then as you go through your day….
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Notice those times when you are stressed or
aggravated or frustrated…and recall that sense
of NON JUDGMENT…and acknowledge how feel
and move forward more peacefully and more
peaceably…more SPIRITUALITY.
We won’t be using slides for this presentation
at NewCAJE – we will be using music and
chants…some I will lead, some will be pre
recorded…
 I have provided many of the links to chants and
songs I like that I think help to bring a spiritual
and calming presence…And I have also
acknowledged the composer, artist and writer
where it is known in the link.
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You have no need to play drums along to the
beats of these songs or chants.
 Just enjoy, listen, sing along or hum
 Or just sit still and let them wash over you.
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I am curious which ones you like and which
ones help you reach some spiritual places…so
please stay in touch with me…
MI CHAMOCHA
https://shiryaakov.bandcamp.com/track/rishik
esh-mi-chamocha
 Music based on a Hindi Chant, compiled and
sung and recoded by Shir Yaakov Feit
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OR ZARUA
https://shiryaakov.bandcamp.com/track/orzarua
 Written and recorded by Shir Yaakov Feit
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SHEMA
https://youtu.be/vzbnTA09jxM?list=PL8JSowG
owblpCSNCsVKrItZm5lj7NiGSu
 Arranged, priduced and recorded by The Kirtan
Rabbi, Andrew Hahn.
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TEHOM
https://holytaya.bandcamp.com/track/tehom
 Holy Taya Shere, co-founder of the Jewish
Kohenet priestess movement…composer,
singer, performer.
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HA RACHAMAN
https://youtu.be/vzbnTA09jxM?list=PL8JSowG
owblpCSNCsVKrItZm5lj7NiGSu
 YofiYah, singer, songwriter, chant leader
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MITCH GORDON BIO
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Mitch Gordon is an educator, musician, mediator, mindfulness meditation leader, and Mussar
practitioner. He received s'micha through Reb Zalman in 2013 as Drummer of the Holy Temple. Mitch
has worked with the Israeli Palestinian Negotiating Peace Partners program at Harvard University at
the Program on Negotiation, taught workshops on Improvisation and Negotiation at Harvard Law
School, and has lead programs for the UN's World Food Programme in Rome, the World Bank and
Fortune 500 companies. He created the Embracing Conflict: Tools for a Healthier Synagogue program
to help synagogues and Jewish organizations deal with transitions and conflict.
http://kavanah.wix.com/gesher
Mitch is also a professional musician and often appears as the drummer or percussionist for leading
Jewish artists on tour in New England such as Jeff Klepper, Ellen Allard, Noah Aronson, Shefa Gold,
Joe Buchanan, Mama Doni, Sue Horowitz (he is on her newest CD), Lisa Levine, the Kirtan Rabbi and
many others. Learn more about his drumming and music at
http://drumteache5.wix.com/mitchgordon
He is adjunct faculty at Hebrew College in Massachusetts teaching Spirituality and Drumming and
recently brought that same course to the Jewish Theological Seminary in NYC. He will be a central
teacher in Hebrew College's Prayer Leader Summer Institute July 18-29. He is a religious school
teacher focusing on Judaica and Torah, and he also teaches Jewish meditation, chant and drumming
throughout the Massachusetts area and leads services Davening from the Drums for Shabbat and
High Holy Days.
STAY IN TOUCH
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Mitch Gordon
[email protected]
508-615-1654
http://kavanah.wixsite.com/gesher
http://drumteache5.wix.com/mitchgordon
Tune into Shirim, Jewish music and more, Sunday nights
8-10pm eastern time at WCUW 91.3 FM Worcester, MA
and streaming live at www.wcuw.org – Mitch Gordon is a
host and the producer.
Feel free to invite me out to your synagogue to lead
davening and worship from the drums…