TamboRhythms: Wellness Through Rhythm
Community, Educational, Corporate,
and Health & Wellness Events
Rate: $275/hr
Drums and Hand Percussion instruments provided for up to 50 people.
Seating is NOT provided.
*HealthRhythms for more than 20 people will take more than an hour.
TamboRhythms is a company dedicated to well-being through rhythmic expression using drums and hand percussion. The company promotes recreational music-
making (RMM) regardless of age, ability, and previous musical experience. From celebrations to team building and stress relief, TamboRhythms strives for personal
life enhancement. The company is owned by Jorge Ochoa. He is an Occupational Therapist, drummer/percussionist, drum circle facilitator, and trained HealthRHYTHMS® Facilitator.
Programs offered include:
HealthRHYTHMS® Group
Empowerment Drumming,TamboFUNction Drumming and , community events, and programs tailored for specific needs.
HealthRHYTHMS® is a research-based life
enhancement tool. It is a group drumming RMM protocol based upon published studies by a research team led by Barry Bittman, M.D., a neurologist. Studies have shown a boost to the immune system, improved
mood states, reduced stress and burnout, reduced employee turnover, reduced student drop-out rates, and inspiring creativity and bonding in seniors.
HealthRHYTHMS® may be used to create a health promoting environment, empower people to move beyond their perceived limits, bring to surface what is difficult to express in words alone, draw people
together, and enhance communication and morale. Potential applications for HealthRHYTHMS® include:
conflict resolution, stress management, improving morale, team building, support groups, employee wellness initiatives, patient groups, schools and
universities, senior citizens groups, etc.
According to a study published in Medical Science Monitor (Bittman, 2005), RMM has the potential to turn off some of the DNA switches turned on by stress.
Destructive Powers of Stress: Cognitive Impairment, Cardiovascular Illnesses, Diabetes, Obesity, Drug Abuse, Depression, Chronic Pain
Source and more info at remo.com/health
TamboFUNction Drumming is a program for typically developing children from pre-
kindergarten to first grade and for older
individuals with various disabilities.
Examples of functional skills addressed
include:
Following directions/listening skills
- Taking turns
- Number/color/ basic shape
identification
- Focus/attention
- Self-control/impulse control
- Creative self-expression
- Leadership
- Confidence/self-esteem
- Social skills
- Communication reinforcement
- Sensory-motor skills
- Right/left directionality
- Prepositional/positional concepts
- Pre-writing/pre-reading skills
- Syllables
TamboFUNction is adapted from
The Rhythmic Arts Project
