Eva Greenslade - Earth Path Celebrant, Drum Maker, Shamanic Practitioner

25/11/2025

Drum making group workshop dates:
❄️🕯Gift vouchers available too 🎄✨️

❄️🌞Winter Solstice Drum Making:
Friday 12th December for hide preparation.(day 1 if you wish to prepare your own hide).
Friday 19th Dec for Solstice drum making (day 2, or you can work on hides i have prepared).

🕯 Imbolc Drum. In Broadstairs Kent.
Saturday 24th January one day drum making ceremony.

🔥🌳 Saturday 21st Feb day one, slipping hide.
March date for day 2 tbh.

Make your drum with local hides, you can prepare it yourself for a more connected, deeper experience. Or you can do one day using a hide I have prepared.

Booking needs to be in advance as the hides take time in preparation and I prepare as I go. Per booking.
🎄I offer vouchers too for gifts in drum making! 🎄

24/11/2025

Drums made with amniotic membrane.

These two beautiful drums were made a number of years ago during my drum training. I think most doulas that make drums explore if this is appropriate and possible.

I have guided a few mums in making them too.

I still sit on the fence as to whether it feel right to, but I also feel that what feels the most sacred act to parents is the right way for them.

The amniotic membranes are two strong layers of membrane that support our baby's in utero. The amniotic and chorion, protecting the baby in the amniotic fluids. In folklore in the UK they were lucky to have. Gifted to fishermen would protect them from drowning. For a child to be born with membranes in tact, en caul, is really special. In some cultures this child would be the spiritual person in the community. Plus the child would be protected from drowning.

They are extremely fragile when dry. But do survive encased in something. Fisherman would keep them in pouches as talisman.
For drums I found covering them helped. I stopped offering it due to their fragility and wondered if they were best returning to mother earth. But I still get asked from time to time. Most by doulas for their clients who remembered me doing this.

The placenta, throughout the world is mostly buried. Burial would ensure the baby's soul feels safe, protected, and the child knows their home and feels stable. The midwife or Shamanic healer would bargain the spirits not to take the placenta and disturb the baby's soul if they felt there was risk due to it not being buried quickly enough.

In many places the cord is buried separately in a place to bestow certain qualities on a child. Eg, by a school for high education, by sea for protection and sea, or to sail. By a field for hard working, or in the home for a strong family. You get the meaning.

For the parents making drums from membranes, it is about honouring the membrane for their baby. Making a tiny drum that would be sacred to the child, to honour life giving drum beat of mother earth.

Would you consider a drum from membranes? How have you honoured yours?

31/10/2025

You can now buy ''Mother Blessing Ceremony Guide- Tending the Threshold to Birth'', book in paperback!!!! Woo hoo!!! I have some copies I can send signed too if you prefer a signed copy!!

Beautiful art cover by Suzi Edwards Goose
Layout and design by Lizzy Rogers
Foreword by Cerri Lee
All beautiful people.

I hope you enjoy it ❤️🙏
I hope it supports, empowers, brings trust, grounding, connection to people bringing our future humans into our communities.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mother-Blessing-Ceremony-Guide-Threshold/

Thank you so everyone who has bought a signed copy. Huge gratitude 🙏

31/10/2025

You can now buy ''Mother Blessing Ceremony Guide- Tending the Threshold to Birth'', book in paperback!!!! Woo hoo!!! I have some copies I can send signed too if you prefer a signed copy!!

Beautiful art cover by Suzi Edwards Goose
Layout and design by Lizzy Rogers
Foreword by Cerri Lee
All beautiful people.

I hope you enjoy it

Mother Blessing Ceremony Guide: Tending the Threshold to Birth

31/10/2025

I came across this poem recently in a grimoire. I thought id share.
Im often suggesting to clients to find creative outlets for emotions. Poetry in the early hours was mine.

Perfection of a Pagan Year.
Poem.
Written 2014 as a postnatal mess.

This is a poem i wrote in the night, my new baby awake feeding. I was struggling with my emotions but channeling them into poetry many of the nights, to make sense of the world.
I came second in the bardic chair ceremony at imbolc with it that year. Closest I ever came to winning the bardic chair.

🕯
As winter winds still blow,
as seeds begin to grow.
Your spark ignites, and your soul draws near.
Yet we knew not that you were here.
We found our new life, a secret we held dear.
You grew and thrived with the wheel of the year.
Through the great web of wyrd. Your threads interwine,
with ours, you begin on this earth, into this time.
We bloom with Solstice, Lammas, mists of early autumn,
Harvest arrives, dark nights drsw in, close to Samhain you were born.
A perfect pagan baby, you are within our sight,
life began at imbolc, born in golden autumn light.
🎃🍄🍂

31/10/2025

Samhain Blessings 🎃

29/10/2025

Hi folks, space hire needed!!!
I am looking for a space where I can work on hides for drum workshops. And store the frames (4x6 ish) to dry hides.
Ideally within 20/ 30 min drive from Brighton, as when theyre soaking or drying stretched on a frame, i need to check them daily. It would be mostly just a few days per month only. Or with bigger workshops over a few weeks. My enquiries are really building. I've been doing one workshop a month, occasionally two. With some big groups booked in for next year, including a space for the Drum Apprenticeship course hides.

The kind of space could be, a shed, allotment, garage, container, space on a farm. Ideally not overlooked by people. But with electric and running water. Big enough for a person to stand in, and 2/3 frame of 4×6.

Thank youuuuu ###x ♥️🙏