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.
