Community Drum Class

About the Instructor: Jill has been drumming & teaching for 20 years. She always says that she shows up in the world more confident, joyful, and less anxious and stressed when she’s drumming. The art has changed her life and she’s seen it change others.

Jill Catherine loves to move. She has been teaching and performing dance across the US since 2009, is a certified barre and pilates instructor with a daily yoga practice for more than two decades. She co-founded/directed a dance and drum center and non-profit organization in Syracuse, NY for 10 years, and had her own studio on the North Shore of Oahu before moving to White Salmon, WA.

A college athlete, Jill hails from Syracuse, New York. She immersed herself in cultural dance and drum arts in 2002 and studied with master teachers at the renowned Djoniba Dance & Drum Center in New York City. She has trained and performed in New York, Santa Cruz, San Francisco, and Seattle, as well as abroad in Cuba, India, Kenya, and the Ivory Coast, West Africa. Since 2014, Jill has performed as a dance and drum soloist at national conferences, universities, and events.

Jill centers her artistry on empowerment, personal peacemaking, and the understanding of our body as an instrument to be of purpose and service to the world. Her style of movement is a unique blend of the traditions she has studied coupled with her authentic expression.

She is the author of the book, “A New Body Consciousness” and performed the TEDx Talk “Courage To Do What Calls You.”