Drum Making & Day of Death Retreat

Honouring Life, Death & Ancestral Wisdom

Step into a sacred journey of creation, transformation, and remembrance. This retreat invites you to weave your spirit into the heartbeat of a drum, honour the wisdom of death and the ancestors, and reconnect with radical self-care and responsibility for your own wellbeing.

🌿 What’s Included

• Drum Birth / Creation Workshop

  • All materials included.

  • Guided step by step by step process to craft your own shamanic drum.

  • Choose your Kangaroo skin and hoop/frame.

  • Cut, soak, stretch and bring the skin to life.

  • Care and connection with your drum guidelines

• Shamanic Journey

  • Guided meditations and drum journeys to meet the spirit of your drum, awaken your connection with your inner wisdom and ancestral line.

• Day of Death / Ancestors’ Wisdom

  • Create a sacred Ofrenda (altar) to honour the ancestors.

  • Ceremony to integrate death as part of life’s natural cycle.

• Temazcalli Ceremony

  • Sweat lodge ritual to purify body, mind and heart.

  • Get ready to pour the best of you into your medicine drum with the support and guidance of your ancestors.

• 2 Nights Camping

  • Immersed in nature.

  • Time for silence, reflection, and community sharing.

• 3 Medicine songs gatherings

  Follow up sessions to practice and learn medicine songs

🍂 What to Bring

• Your own food (we provide communal space for preparation).

• Camping essentials (tent, sleeping gear, torch).

• Comfortable clothing for ceremonies.

• An open heart and willingness to take responsibility for your wellbeing.

✨ Core Principles

• Radical Self-Care: Nurture your body, mind, and spirit.

• Accountability: Take responsibility for your inner state and actions.

• Energy Awareness: Recognise the impact your presence has on the group.

🌙 This retreat is more than a drum-making- it's a connection to the cycle of birth, death and rebirth.

By honouring death, you reconnect with the ancestors.

By creating your drum, you rebirth the skin and wood into a vessel of prayer.

By walking this path consciously, you align with the rhythm of life itself..

🌿 Meet your guides

Fabiola Barba , born in Mexico City near the ancient ceremonial site of Teotihuacan, is a medicine woman (curandera) and custodian of ancestral ceremonies such as Temazcalli. Drawing on her deep knowledge of plant medicine and spiritual traditions, she creates transformative experiences that help others grow and discover their true potential. Fabiola is also a Hypnosis, NLP and timeline therapist who believes in the power of human connection as a path to healing and shared learning.

Belinda is a transpersonal therapist, shamanic practitioner, wilderness solo guide and drum maker. The heart of her work comes from a deep love for this beautiful earth that we belong to, and centres around reweaving our relationship with earth and spirit, to bring us home to our deepest, natural, wild and true selves and our place of belonging to life. She lives in the sandstone country of Mt White, overlooking the winding Dyarubbin (Hawkesbury) River, where she caretakes and shares the land with its wild inhabitants.

*** Payment in instalments available upon request. Contact Fabiola 0416808792 for more details.