13/11/2025
The massive space at the Mount Without slowly fills, an intriguing mix of faces - some bright with anticipation, others a wee bit tired.
As Brillo of NowTime and I set up our array of instruments, I find myself wondering, as I always do, what has called each person here tonight. What sorrows or questions are they carrying? What wisdom might arise to meet them?
This wondering has become a kind of pre-journey ritual for me over the years. A remembrance of why I was first drawn to this work - my own longing for connection, for understanding, for a way through the pain I carried. I never imagined it would lead me here, holding space for others to discover their own healing through drums. But the drum has a way of guiding us to places we never knew we needed to go.
It never ceases to amaze me, the power of these rhythms to cut through our modern mental chatter and drop us into a deeper current. To reconnect us, literally and metaphorically, with the pulse of life itself.
Over the next hour, as the soundscape builds and evolves, I watch the subtle expression playing across people's faces and bodies. Moments of knowing or safety, eruptions of joy or release, flashes of insight chased by wonder.
At the end, as we slowly circle back to the room, I'm struck as always by the changes in the air. Lighter somehow, like a mass exhalation has cleared out some old stagnancy. Faces brighter, exchanges a little easier, more earnest. A sense of having touched something raw and real, remembered something essential. Together.
This is the magic that keeps us returning to the drum, to the practice of holding space.
And I know, as people filter out into the night that the real integration is just beginning.
That they'll carry this experience with them, a touchstone in the days ahead.
🥁 The Primordial Drum - Psychedelic Drum Journeying
📅 7pm, 24 November
📍 The Mount Without
More info and tickets: https://fb.me/e/3yBNfwjd0
