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Testimonials from Participants
“I feel like I can listen to music and feel the rhythm a lot more after the Muse Workshops. Inner peace is a more reasonable concept now. These workshops helped our group come closer together and to connect on a new level. Cheri is an amazing drummer and the way you feel after a session with her is so new and amazing.”
“I feel like I was able to more fully realize myself as a person, to see some of my strengths and weaknesses. The workshops definitly helped our group to open up to each other in a safe environment. The Muse Experience took music making to a new level. Instead of just drumming and music making, we were able to make it a personal connection for oneself, the group, the world around us and more. It was beautiful.”
“I would absolutely recommend this to any group not only because it’s a blast, but also because it helps the group work together to become one unit. I feel very strongly about how this helped our group to connect.”
"Cheri's ability to effectively and seamlessly facilitate groups while playing music, teaching deeper truths and emanating joyful creative expression is a model to live by. I am amazed at her effortlessness in this natural way of being."
"After spending countless hours of my life listening to live musical performances I am so very grateful to now have the opportunity to learn the djembe from Cheri Shanti and play music. Music is a language deeper and more passionate in many ways than words can be. As a musician, Cheri Shanti is a pure reflection of this balance of technicality and channel of spirit. In addition to being an amazingly talented drummer, she continues to hold transformative events for the community and encourages and supports us to grow as artists and leaders of humanity."
"This workshop has helped me to remember on a deeper level, to be clear in my communication and to be more creative in my expressions. It has affected every piece of my daily life and given me the tools to manifest a higher way of being. Thank you."
"Every time I think it's the best at the muse gatherings I find out it has the high potential to get even better ~ beautiful & fun night Cheri - thanks! Look forward to another one sometime..."
“This kind of experience has been present for me and has been the greater source of healing in my current life. Thank you so much for your commitment to this work. This is definately very special to the planet and human kind.”
“I'm not sure what's open more right now... my mouth or my heart... That was an awesome jam session tonight. I so honor & respect you for following your calling & your dreams for creating this space for the community! It is so powerful/essential/mystical & divine.”
“Direct spiritual music making in the moment like that... With all sorts of instruments/voices/dancing... Wow ~ this is some stellar energy we have cookin!”
Sweet night. Thanks so much for your gift of the Muse. It was great to see you drop into your master drummer energy later in the night with the stick and the djembe -- powerful transmission there."
On The Magic of Community Music
"Thanks for all the community building you do. I think no one else has done as much in Boulder over the last five years for the artsy, musey, alternative, creative types, as you."
"This sense of community is unfolding more and more. I have watched the community come together with such genuine support for each other and ignite the excitement of each of our personal creative process. I allow myself to be amazed at our unity as well as the truth of my souls own personal healing process, and the power of the great spirit moving through me. I am honored to be a co creator of this evolutionary time. I have had the opportunity to experience this directly at Cheri Shanti's Magical Mystical Muse Experience upon several occasions, as well as in Cheri’s performance art with her band the Muse of Turiya. The combination of intentional energies with one another in such deep intimate space creates healing not only on individual levels, but greater global levels as well."
"Being someone that has been an active participant as well as someone that has sat on the sidelines witnessing what occurs, I've seen beautiful things come together within community musical sharing groups that are almost difficult to put into words and is something that almost needs to be felt as a personal experience. What I do know and can say at this point is that it seems that in the moment music making brings out a precious and mysterious quality and essence. I wonder if I might be a mess if I didn't have the music, dancing, drumming outlet available on a consistent basis for myself. And for me just being able to 'get out of my head' has been such a relief & necessary part of keeping my balance & peace in times of stress & responsiblities on so many levels.
There is no need for head thinking here. It is all a free flowing in the moment space. Never quite knowing what to expect and what will show up, there have been times that I have been in awe. I am happy to have my expectations blown apart.
And just when I think it's the best, I've come to see that it can get even better.
I enjoy the in the moment playfulness that happens. Everyone is there, in thier own space but in the space together too. And they are not anywhere else in thier minds, just right there together to create, to play, to express, to be creative and without any effort. This sort of energy seems to transcend all the other stuff, and quite quickly. I so honor and respect this place to see this happening and to be a part of it's experience. It's also cool what I have noticed with the time, it does seem to fly. Just like the saying goes... "time flys when you are having fun." This does seem to be the case.
What I've realized again being in The Magical Mystical Muse, is how amazingly profound the opportunity is when an individual or commmunity is in a space of safety, love, support, creativity, spirituality and nurturance... it allows like a launchpad for sweet things to open up and come forth. It is of innocent, healing & inspirational quality. So very essential, especially in our current times. It is something that I wish I could experience in my everyday life. Once you have felt it, you will know what I mean, and to those that have, I'm sure they would agree.
Being in-sync, in-the moment, in-tune in some unspoken way, is so very powerful.
Cheri Shanti has so graciously helped facilitate this to bring together what is somewhat mystical & magical in nature. I think anyone desiring such an element in their soul would appreciate the time & essence of The Muse. It helps to bring forth some awesome stuff that might otherwise not get tapped into... I think it is connected to our higher & ligher beings.
I would also say that it is as if we are able to break through this thick fog of our daily mundane world and trancend to a higher playing field - so to speak. I feel so many people don't have an outlet that they can safely co-creatively express themselves, that it, very unfortunately, gets bottled up inside and perhaps for a lifetime... Yikes.
I have a dream that one day this stuff will be happening everywhere.
Women's Drum Feedback
"I loved the combination of different rhythms and felt as if I learned a lot in a short period of time! Great comraderie and ease in the group created by Cheri's openness and ability to share!"
"Very supportive environment to take a risk in, even though I've never drummed before, I felt at ease."
"Wonderful experience, thanks for providing the opportunity."
"I love your energy and the atmosphere you create. The experience was very inspiring." Alicia, Boulder
"Just wanted to write and say thank you so much for setting up this whole women's Samba drumming class! It was AWEsome, I really really enjoyed it, and can't wait until the next one. Yay!"
Performance Feedback
"I love your music and mostly its your energy that flows from your music to my ears and heart and out through my light. I enjoyed dancing with you..."
"Your skills as a drummer are many - but your musicality is awesome. Really great - look forward to a lot more!"
“You do magnificent ritual transformational magick. It's good to warm up to You with a kirtan, meditation, or at least a yoga set. Yov work best in a space set up for dancing rather than Theatre seating. Your sound seems best for Transformational Ecstatic Spirit Dance."
"You are a channel of the divine spirit and a soul without end. Expressed for all of us to see. Yes, we want to see and want to feel more of us through you."