Tribal Spirit Drumming offers an holistic approach to community music, at its root the use of the drum, chant, and simple ritual specifically as powerful tools for healing, personal growth, and empowerment. Tribal Spirit centers on the creation of space for the ingestion of healthy positive nutrition* with the focus on naturally produced music usually of tribal or spiritual background, and the selection and exploration of pieces of music, simple ritual, and games with these healing concepts in mind.

*nutrition defined as: all things that we receive into our bodies, minds and spirits, such as; food, air, water, light, colour, sound, information, touch.

Tribal Spirit Drumming offers a range of workshops and events open to individuals and communities to work more closely with the drum for a tool for personal development. With weekly classes and day workshops in Limerick, Ennis, Galway, Dublin and Wicklow, regular weekend workshops held in Co. Clare, and special weeklong camps, it has never been easier to participate. Throughout this web site we invite you to explore these varied events as well taking time to get to know all those part of the Tribal Spirit Drumming network. Each workshop, whether facilitated by John Bowker or one of the team, has the tribal spirit ethos at it core; absolute beginners, absolutely welcome, where a safe space is created to enable us to celebrate human potential and creativity and where we can restore our spirits, our connection with ourselves and each other.