MALENY
1 - Day Rhythm Workshop
Rhythm, Emergence & Becoming One with Flow
With Founder and Master Teacher Nick Townsend and Guest Co-Leader TBA
Saturday 11th of October, 2025
10am - 1pm and 3 - 6pm
Maleny Yoga Shed,
391 Maleny - Montville Rd, Balmoral Ridge, QLD
URC
The Theme
In this workshop we will explore how rhythm and emergence can be used to re-pattern behavioural, emotional, psychological and physical patterns through the power of self-organisation in rhythm (AKA synchronisation).
The Drum Opening
Each morning and afternoon session starts with a 'Drum Opening' by the workshop leaders; a specific type of drumming and singing that is not a performance but door into an altered state, transporting leaders and participants from the normal state into a heightened and relaxed non-linear state of being.
The Induction
After the drum opening, while still sitting participants are led into a brief experience of the 4 core themes surfacing within the URC process:
1. We are all born with innate rhythmic intelligence existing as a seed within our subconscious requiring only the correct stimulus to be awakened.
2. Surrendering to rhythmic 'Chaos'. Falling out of rhythm is the best way to find it again on a deeper level.
3. Simultaneity as a gateway to flow and a new lens through which to perceive life.
4. The 'Rhythmic Voice' as a bridge between inner listening and outer action.
The Rhythm Journey
Shifting into standing and in circle formation, the resonant beat of a Surdo drum sounds, participants are gradually and skillfully led into the simultaneity of stepping one rhythm, clapping another and speaking or singing a third completely different, but related rhythm. In a linear state this would normally be impossible, but through the powerful combination of Simultaneity , Rhythm Archetypes and Chaordic Rhythmic Process this is not only possible but can lead to profound states of flow and inner silence.
The natural world is Rhythm, Chaos, Emergence and Flow -
become one with it!