Martin Klabunde

Martin Klabunde is an initiated Nahual, whose mission is to provide a path of awakening through music and self-less service to others, with over 20 years of teaching, performance, and class and workshop facilitation experience. He has studied the native music of East and West Africa with initiated drum masters, and participated in traditional rites of passage, healing ceremonies and shamanic rituals in both Africa and Mexico.

His passion is how music is used in ceremony and ritual, and in the indigenous education of young people. He is devoted to revealing a path of awakening through music and service to others.

Martin is a Certified Professor for Mamady Keita's Tam Tam Mandengue International School of the Djembe, and an advanced student of a master healer from Mexico, who has taught Martin the ancient rites of Portal Drumming and Healing Ceremonies.

He is also a professional musician and a contributing writer for Earth Odyssey magazine, authoring a monthly column on music and awakening.

He is the director of The Dambe Project, a Tucson-based non-profit organization that specializes in youth mentorship and utilizes West African performance art (www.dambe.org) and the founder of Collective Awakening, an organization committed to providing pathways for spiritual awakening to all peoples.

Martin lives in Tucson, Arizona and travels internationally, studying and creating music, teaching and facilitating classes and workshops, and giving performances.