This drum birthing is for Dragon Egg Drums . These drums are complicated and it would be beneficial to have already experienced making a medicine drum before. Please read below for more details.
The Year of the Wood Dragon. Would you like to birth your own Dragon Egg Medicine Drum?
Step into the energies of the Dragon
Experience a ceremonial day immersed in the powers of Dragons and Shamanism, where we manifest the physical presence of Dragon Egg drum spirits.
We will come together in ceremony to honor the deer & Dragon to birth ovian shaped drums/egg shape in a shamanic ceremony.
On the Day
The Dragon Egg Drum
In the past year, our shamanic community has been deeply engaged in working with the dragon energies. Due to the new Earth we now inhabit, many individuals have been born with the influence of dragon energy. The dragons serve as intermediaries between different realities, ensuring that the frequencies and vibrations remain at a level that consciousness can handle. As Mother Earth undergoes changes, the dragons have been instrumental in stabilizing these frequencies, allowing humans to evolve and ascend into 5D consciousness. With the arrival of the year of the wood dragon, we seek to embrace and embody these dragon energies. The Dragon egg shaped drum symbolizes rebirth for both ourselves and the Earth. As we play the drum, we can access different frequencies, beats, pitches, and even hear other elements. These drums are truly beautiful and cherished, especially if one chooses to create and birth their own physical representation. The Ovoid Shamanic drums have an egg-like shape, with a wider and narrower end and an equal armed cross laced on the back. Their taller-than-wide design makes them feel lighter, and they produce a diverse range of tones, with deeper tones towards the wider end. Inspired by the traditional oval drums of the Sami people from northern Scandinavia, our drums are crafted in a similar style, featuring lacing on the back like our other drum varieties.
Who is this one day workshop for?
If you have previously created a drum, this workshop is designed specifically for you! The process of crafting egg drums requires a substantial amount of concentration, and it would be advantageous to have a general understanding of how drums are typically made. Crafting drums can become intricate, especially when working with a 16-inch hoop drum containing 16 holes. The dragon drum, on the other hand, will have 32 holes or more and demands patience and focus to successfully bring them into existence. Considering the meticulous nature of this birthing process, there are only four spots available for this workshop.
Whats included ?
1. You may choose a colour of your choice before the day of the workshop. I will soak the skins with the required colour of your request ready for you to birth on the day of the workshop.
2. You may string the back of the drum to your own requirements. We will Start the day with a pencil and paper, working out how to bring your design into the physical. Please have some ideas on how you might like the back to look.
3. We might have to add extra holes to your skin, be prepared to use a hammer. If needed, i can do this for you on the day. The drum will already have 30 holes already cut for you.
4. You may bring crystals to string in the back of your drum.
5. You will need to bring your own stick for your beater. You may go to the local woods and source a stick that has already fallen from trees.
6. Lunch will be provided for the day with jacket potatoes & Salad
7. Refreshments are also available throughout the day .
8. The size of the egg shape drum is the same size as the drum you see me play. it is -
15 inches width at bottom
19 inches in length from bottom to top
2 inches thick
9. The day will go as the below page suggests. The only difference is the shape of the drum & possibly a little longer on time.
Full cost of the workshop including all materials (apart from your stick and crystals)
will be charged at £390
A Deposit £200 is required to secure your place. The rest of payment to be paid before the day of workshop.
Only 4 spaces available
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You will often find shamans, healers, and medicine people all over the world have a beating drum to work with. A drum for medicine, healing, singing, taking class, journeying and much more is an alie to the person beating him or her.
Drums are as individual as the person holding them but has a heartbeat that connects solely to the owner of drum. They are living things; they have a consciousness that works along side the healer to obtain the most powerful healing that can take place.
Commonly also used to take you into a trance altered state of consciousness to allow you to connect to the spirit realms to bring back power, healing, knowledge and more.
The drum is so powerful it can release blocked energies/ entities from a person or lands.
I love all my drums as if they were my own family, they are my family!! and anyone who has ever made a drum with me or had one commissioned feels the same.
How are the skins sourced?
All the drums are made with the skin of a deer. The skins are sourced from an estate up in the north of Scotland. Due to the rapid expansion of deer population, deer unfortunately eat the crops the farmers are growing and are culled yearly for crops to grow. It is sad, I know! We would like to think death does not happen, but it is a part of the birth and death cycle we all go through on earth.
Each deer is thanked for the meat, bones and skins and every part of the deer is used and not wasted.
When i connect to the spirit of the deer, before anything i will always ask permission of the deer if a medicine drum can be made.
the up most respect is given to the deer in the physical and thanks is given for his/her life and again towards the afterlife of the deer.
Getting the drum ready before birthing!
Ceremony 1
I work with the below in sacred ceremony to connect, honor, ask for permission and many other things. its so important to have the most respectful, sacred connection to the below.
This allows for the drums to be birthed in the highest regards.
Sacred Mother moon
Sacred Pachamama
Sacred Fire
Sacred Water
Sacred Air
Ceremony 2
The next morning, still working under the moon phase and now working with father sacred sun.
Still in sacred ceremony, we connect to the nature spirits and plants that are guiding the powers of the drums.
Ceremony 3
This is a ceremony of gratitude and thanks in a sacred space .
The Cutting of the Skins
This part of the process can be incredibly tiring and repetitive so I will either play happy music to bring fun and happiness into the skins and strings.
Or
I listen to a comedian to bring in laughter for the drum.
The skins are now ready to take ceremony with the birthing of your drum.
The Day of Drum Birthing
The day has arrived for the spirit of the drums to be birthed!
Before you arrive, I would have asked you to go into your local woods to find a fallen branch that could work for your drum beater. This needs to me between 12-15inches long (so it can fit compact into your drum back when not in use).
It should be around the thickness of a 10 pence to 50 pence piece.
10am - You will arrive, cuppa tea given and a warm welcome.
10.30am - We open sacred space and ceremony.
11am - We work with the ash hoop preparing the hoop for the skin.
11.45am - I will make a drum for demonstration
12.30pm - Lunch. I prepare jacket potaoes and ask for you all to bring something to share with others to go with your potatoes, sharing our food together is a wonderful way to come together as a birthing of the drum family.
1.30pm - You will choose your skins for your drum and start stringing them. Whilst you are creating your drum, the drum will tell a story of who the drum is and how your life has been up to this point! This is the beginning of connection with your heartbeats coming together as one.
2.30pm - All drums should have been birthed – tea break
3pm - We now journey with the
deer, the spirit of the deer, the ash tree from the hoop and finally, the spirit of your drum.
3.30pm we make the beaters.
4.30ish ceremony is now closed
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If you would like me to commission a connecting heartbeat just for you I would love to work with you. I am able to work with the spirit of the drum to aid a drum that is solely made just for you. This process can take up to 6 weeks to achieve, we would have several conversations before the process happens and taking full advantage of the moon cycle.
It will take 5 full days for your drums to fully dry. Please do not attempt to beat them before or you could loosen the skin and the drum will play dull.
On the fifth day play your drum and allow the two heart beats to connect, you are now one!!
Do not let anyone else play your drum. the drum was solely birthed for you and when others play your drum their energy becomes part of the drum and therefore not energetically fully connected to you anymore. There is a way of sorting this out if an accident happens, but please try to put it somewhere safe so others do not play.
A drum is skin and works the same way as your own skin. It will need an oil on occasions (I generally do mine once a season or if she is feeling ruff). You can use any kind of vegetable oil, coconut oil ect.
Drums are affected my temperature, to hot and they will play high, too cold they will play dull and low.
You can heat your drum up next to a fire, radiator or even a hairdryer.
To keep your drum, it is always preferred to be kept/wrapped in a natural fibre and kept warm.
