07/11/2025
The space is all ready to welcome eager participants into our Drum Birthing tomorrow.
Birthing a Shamanic Hand Drum is a sacred rite of passage.
There is much preparation that goes into it - just as with any birth - time, energy, and heart are poured into the process. Every step is intentful, a prayer, a weaving of spirit and substance.
Through the drum, we connect to the heartbeat of life itself, the primal rhythm that holds us all, and in doing so, we connect more deeply to our own heartbeat.
The frame becomes the bones of the drum, forming its structure and stability. It teaches us how to trust our own strength and how to hold ourselves with intimacy, resilience, and integrity.
Around this frame, the skin is stretched. The skin is the voice of the drum - the living spirit of the animal who offered itself now sings through vibration. It represents the sacred membrane between worlds, the threshold we cross when we journey. Like the skin of the Earth and our own human body, it carries memory, presence, and life-force.
Together, the frame and the skin embody the union of strength and sensitivity, the balance of holding and yielding, the divine union of feminine and masculine, and the dance of life itself. When we beat the drum, it is not only sound that arises but a reminder of the great interconnectedness of all things.
“I drum, therefore I am.”
To drum is to feel our belonging in the great web of life, to recognise that we are each a vibration in this vast and living tapestry.
In birthing a drum, we are also birthing a new way of listening - to ourselves, to Spirit, and to the pulse of creation moving through us.
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