I'm Dr Kath Kovac, Director of Mood Boost Drumming.
I have 20+ years’ experience of teaching mindfulness, tai chi, qigong and group drumming. I hold regular community drumming circles, run drum-making retreats, use frame drums for meditation, play the timpani drums in an orchestra, and am learning to play a drumkit.
I love the sense of joy and community that comes naturally when people play drums together. Her business, Mood Boost Drumming, brings group drumming to the workplace and community groups for mindfulness, mental health and team building.
A little bit of my story....
Like many other women, menopause kicked me for six. Picked me up, shook me around like a dog with chew toy, and spat me out on the floor.
It took me a few years to get back up. With the help of friends and family, the practices of meditation and qigong, and some deep inner work, I shed many of the skins I had been carrying around for all of my pre-menopausal life. Slowly and painfully, I peeled off the 'I'm not good enough' skin. The 'nobody will like me' skin. The 'I'm too scared' skin. And I discarded them, one by one.
It's a work in progress, but I am finally discovering the real me. The Kath who was hidden under her skins. The skins of early childhood, primary school, high school, the workplace. The skins of marriage, of motherhood, of fear. I discovered that underneath my skins was a completely different woman. And that's a damn good thing.
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And so I made a decision. ​I decided to make a different use of my professional background in workshop facilitation, training and coaching. ​I set up my new business, Mood Boost Drumming, to run drumming and wellbeing workshops.