“It is often said that the first sound we hear in the womb is our mother's heartbeat. Actually, the first sound to vibrate our newly developed hearing apparatus is the pulse of our mother's blood through her veins and arteries. We vibrate to that primordial rhythm even before we have ears to hear."

(Layne Redmond, When The Drummers Were Women: A Spiritual History of Rhythm.)

This relationship with rhythm and the drum began in the womb. Each cell of our body has been created with this pulse, this rhythm of sound, this beat of the drum.

The drum is a universal instrument, not owned by any culture. Played for thousands of years across all continents; by Celts in Europe, Native Americans in the USA, and all through Africa, South and Central America, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. Each of us has the ancestral memory of long ago playing the drum. This cross-cultural instrument and Shamanic tool is the call of the heartbeat, the wild self, and the song of Mother Earth.

It's the sound of coming home.

Join Helen from Earthstar Magic and Nicki from Sacred Rhythms Wellbeing for this one-and-a-half-day workshop where you will birth your own Medicine Drum in sacred ceremony under the Scorpio New Moon at Beltane here in the Southern Hemisphere.

This is the time when the veils between us and the fairy realm are the thinnest. The peak of Spring and the gateway to Summer - what a delicious time to gather and craft a drum!

Details:

DATES: 1pm on Saturday 2nd November to 5pm Sunday 3rd November

✨ LOCATION: Mount Egerton Recreation Reserve. 30 mins from Ballarat, 90 mins from Melbourne, 1 hour from Geelong.

✨ ACCOMMODATION: All accommodation is camping - please BYO camping gear (reach out if you are in need of anything!).

✨FACILITIES: Cosy communal indoor space with wood heater and comfy lounge style seating. Full kitchen, toilets and a shower if needed. Situated on the edge of local bushland for nature walks.

Arrive at 1pm on Saturday 18th May with an hour to set up camp and settle into the space before the workshop begins at 2pm.

We will be gathering at the beautiful Mount Egerton Recreation Reserve, nestled at the edge of the forest on Wadawurrung Country. This location has plenty of room for camping and nature connection, plus a large indoor area heated with a wood stove and a communal kitchen, toilets & a shower.

We will be working with your birth imprint in this workshop - the story of how you came to be in this world and how that shows up in creative process, and in your relationship to 'other'.

Birthing your own drum is a deep experience. By approaching the process with awareness and intention you will not only craft yourself a personalised shamanic tool, you will also have a shamanic experience, connecting with the animal of the hide you are using, the wood of the frame and observing the way you show up during the creative process.

This workshop includes everything you will need to birth your own Medicine Drum:

✨ Kangaroo Hide & Willow drum hoop

✨ Teaching around the origins of the Shamanic Drum and the lineage of this work

✨ All instructions, templates and tools required to create your medicine drum

✨ Camping Accommodation (Please BYO camping gear)

✨ Ceremony and ritual

✨ Shamanic Drum Journey to connect with the animal of your hide and the wood of your hoop

✨ Delicious and nourishing lunch is provided for Sunday

✨Naturopathically formulated herbal teas & yummy snacks

Sacred exchange for this workshop is $555 with a deposit of $250 required at the time of booking. I have created a Humanitix link but welcome bank transfer as a payment method to save on fees.

More information on what to bring will be provided one you have booked your place.

Please reach out with any questions to earthstar_magic@outlook.com

Or send me a direct message.

Payment via bank deposit is welcomed, to save booking fees on other platforms.

With love & gratitude,

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