Gail Jackson (she/they)

CreativeRhythms owner and Founder Gail Jackson, is performing artist, engaging facilitator and presenter with a passion for sound (focus on gongs), drumming, and mindfulness. Her mission is to bring these different modalities to her community or wherever in the world she’s called to bring well being to the communities she servers. Gail facilitates monthly sound Immersions, interactive rhythm based events. Gail is a Certified  Mindfulness Teacher through Engaged Mindfulness Institute, Certified in Sound Healing and Therapy, a Village Music Circles Global Trainer, a REMO-Endorsed Drum Circle Facilitator, trained HealthRhythms Facilitator, Rhythm2Recovery Facilitator and Music is Medicine Facilitator. She is a professional member of the International Mindfulness Teachers Association and the Drum Circles Facilitators Guild.  She is also a Peer Grief Educator. A Certified Grief Educator is committed to providing the highest level of grief support through education, experience, and insights into the often unacknowledged rocky terrain of grief.  Gail is also a two time awardee of the Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Award for 2017 Project Award and 2021 Fellowship Award to explore and study sound. Through her mindfulness meditation teachings,  she offers classes from beginners to advanced practitioners. In the fall of 2022 Gail released four CDs that are currently available on Bandcamp. Gail  is also one of forty luminaries in the movie “We All Just Need to Gong.” The movie is about the scientifically proven healing power of the Gong. This movie premiered in November of 2022.