04/11/2025
Robin makes rattles with animal spirit medicine from the northern hemisphere where she lives.
I asked for her story about how and why she started making drums and rattles and how she uses them. I just love her response.
"Rattle… After much research n many years healing after a spinal cord injury, and being paralyzed from it, I discovered my rhythm was off.
I played saxophone all my years in school, danced, sang and was very musical.
I first made hand drums hoping to recover my rhythm and drumming helped me bring back my hand coordination with much effort as I was a long ways from any sort of rhythm. The cause was unknown to me.
Then I started to use the rattle.
I knew I could rattle for many things that were out of wack, like sleep patterns, heart rhythm, dizziness, walking, talking, hand and eye coordination, all effects of rhythms out of balance.
Our heart beats sync with Mother Earths heart beat and when we are out of rhythm, it’s hard to imagine all these other things that were also out of balance.
Soon after making drums, I discovered that rattles were used to break up "stuck" or negative energy in my space and on the body.
They are used to keep a rhythmic beat during ceremonies and can help focus intentions, send prayers, or call to spirits, help release and move through feelings like anger, sadness, and fear, which I suffered greatly from this sort of injury.
The shaking of them really did break up stuck energy and free up movement and brain space to function on a more even keel.
Having ranched all my life, I was very in touch with the spirit world and drumming n rattling brought me much closer to the spirit world.
Drumming and Rattling came to me by spirit and will continue to be a big part of my life."
Robin's rattles that she makes for me to sell are really special.
Some have found their perfect person.
Like Me........
And some are waiting for the right one to come along.
Please see some of her gorgeous painted rattles in my website. Link in the first comment. Pick the right one for yourself & do yourself a favour.
Either that - or sign into this weekends workshop and you can make your own rattle to your own design with grey kangaroo skin or feral goat skin. Both animals are very successful in our beautiful country, and have excellent medicine properties for clearing and any spiritual work that you want to do.
A lot of Robin's inspiration comes from being on the lakes near where she lives in Minnesota USA. This lake is going to freeze soon. Then they can be driven on. But you can't stay outside long. It gets too cold.
The Bears will soon sleep and the Beavers have already laid down the food they need for winter in the dams they made through their busy Autumn time.
Lightweight sticks, soft luxurious fur, full of medicine these animals need to cope with significant amounts of cold and ice.
These animals survive and thrive through winter. Beaver sticks and fur Robin uses on the rattles she sends over are full of love.
They have somehow completed the medicine I need for the work I do. I love working with animal spirits that know the ice. It helps me to melt my heart and bring me into a clearer space of sacred feminine energy.