Jim Greiner

Jim Greiner Quick Facts

Main Areas: Drumming and Percussion Play for corporate team building, conference ice breaking, stress release, mind/body connection, positive energy and celebrating life!
Best Sellers: Instructional DVD: "Community Drumming For Health & Happiness, Instructional DVD: "Play Shekere"
Career Focus: Interactive, rhythm-based inspirational workshops and products
Affiliation: The international Percussive Arts Society: member of the Interactive Drumming Committee and the Health & Wellness Commitee. Endorser/Clinician for Latin Percussion Instruments and Head of LP's Recreational Drumming Program. Endorser/clinician for Sabian Cymbals & Gongs, ProMark Drumsticks, Gibraltar Drum Hardware, Factory Metal Percussion and Audix Microphones.

Jim Greiner is an internationally renowned, award-winning percussionist, educator, community drumming leader and inspirational speaker.

Through his company, Jim Greiner's Hands-On! Drumming® Events (www.handsondrum.com) , he conducts Rhythm Power® interactive drumming programs for corporate teambuilding, conference icebreaking and keynotes, community events and for private groups to: 

*Release stress

*Invigorate minds and bodies

*Enhance focus

*Reinforce teamwork and communication skills

*Create unity while celebrating diversity

*Stimulate creativity, initiative and a "can-do" attitude

*Celebrate Life!  

Jim has been playing percussion since 1970, including two years in Africa where he was profoundly moved by the power of rhythm to align people with common goals and values and uplift their lives on a daily basis.

Jim has been teaching and conducting interactive drumming programs, including community drum circles, since 1980.

"Jim Greiner is one of the pioneers of community drumming and is perfectly poised to spearhead this movement. His work with corporate, community, school and therapeutic groups is acclaimed worldwide." - Drum! Magazine

"Percussionist Jim Greiner invokes the primal power of drumming to lower the participants' stress, to exercise their minds and bodies, and to bind them together into community." - PBS special, "Healing Quest"

"Jim Greiner is an oustanding, versatile and accomplished percussionist, and is recognized as one of America's leading percussion educators." - Latin Percussion Instruments.

Jim's Rhythm Power® (www.handsondrum.com/personalgrowth.html) workshops and inspirational/instructional DVDs and CDs combine rhythm-play, vocalization, movement and stories of his worldwide drumming experiences into fun and profoundly moving experiences that will help you to:

*Ground, center and relax yourself

*Rejuvenate yourself physically, mentally and emotionally

*Connect with your innate rhythmic abilities

*Recognize your own internal and external Life Rhythms

*Use drumming to learn powerful, real-world Life Skills

*Reinforce productive Life Rhythms

*Celebrate the blessing that is Life! 

 

 

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