Rhythm & Resilience

Inmate Program

Rhythm and Resilience was created from the inspiration and financial support of Tussi Kluge to combine two healing modalities, mindfulness based stress reduction and drumming, into a program designed to improve the well being of participants.

The pilot program began at the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail in the spring of 2009. MBSR instructor Tussi Kluge in collaboration with professional drummer and UVA music professor Robert Jospé began leading classes and forming the curriculum with breathing techniques, body scan, drumming skills, rhythmic vocabulary, call and response, stretching and movement. The classes facilitate greater concentration and focus, and also seek to enhance self-esteem, self-awareness and creative expression through individual and group participation in an environment conducive to self and group empowerment.

Visit the program website at:
http://beyond-bars.com/programs/rhythm-resiliency-class/

Community Program

Rhythm and Resiliance Community Program showing participants gathered together playing hand drums

Rhythm and Resilience Community Program

R&R is offered once a month as a free community program for all ages. Rhythm & Resilience–In the Moment–through Drums and Breath. Developing skills for coping with stress and improving your quality of life through hand drumming, breathing and stretching with Robert Jospé, Tussi Kluge and others.

Here are some of my favorite quotes from Jon Kabat Zinn.
“Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.”
“When awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them.”
“It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.”
“Your awareness is a very big space within which to reside.”
“Perhaps the most ‘spiritual’ thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.” — Jon Kabat-Zinn (Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday
Life)