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A Sacred Moment: Making YOUR Own Medicine Drum
Please join me on Saturday, Sept. 26th here at Garden Plum Herbals for a most sacred event.
This Medicine Drum Building Workshops is an opportunity to build your own 15″ shaman drum, a sacred instrument, healing tool as well as beautiful piece of art. In indigenous cultures and shamanic teachings, creating your own tools imbues them with your personal power, your personal medicine. This is extremely powerful.
Participants have expressed their awe and wonder at the creation process. Others have become aware of their resistance, or aware of embedded feelings associated with the animal whose hide they are holding in their bare hands. Grounding, sacred, emotional for some, challenging creatively for others. None the less, each participant goes home with their own drum, perfect in it’s own way.
When finished, the drum can be used at drum circles, private healings, shamanic journeying, connecting with the earth and many other ways. People have used them in Inipi ceremony or sweat lodge, one man was simply drumming in a field and the cows in the adjoining pasture came over to listen. He felt the cows were connecting with their relatives as his drum was cow hide. For him it was a magical experience.
Painting the drum is an individual experience. Some people paint, some leave their drum plain. It is best left to the day of the workshop to feel into what the drum is saying as it is created, or what messages you are getting during the day. Some people come with a rigid plan of what they will paint. It is up to each person how they would like to proceed. A sacred, spiritual experience for those called to be present, with compassion, care and love.
WORKSHOP COST: $225. $50 deposit due upon registration.
Location: Garden Plum Herbals, 290 Quaker St. Weare NH 03281 Google Directions
** Jane will have horse or deer hide available. Drum is 15″ wide and made with a 10 ply maple hoop made here in NH.
About Jane King
Jane has been holding Medicine Drum Building Workshops in surrounding towns of New Hampshire for many years. Well known and cherished, she has established herself as one of the most integrous alternative healers with a generous heart and exceptional healing qualities. Her practice, called Energy Medicine & Hypnosis, is a complimentary alternative health care practice serving all sectors of the community through the use of hands on healing and hypnosis. Jane assists her clients in achieving positive life changes using professional holistic body work techniques including laying on of hands, gentle hypnotic suggestion and guided visualization imagery along with many other Brennan Healing Science skills.
All Is Well! Please Welcome New Artist Laura Koniver, MD
Today we are expecting an unusual 90+ day, the sun is shining, there is a nice breeze. What will the day bring? Will I go into it with fear, with exhaustion, with a positive outlook? By believing the dreary news? What am I expecting? When All is Well, we expect the best. And when we expect the best, that is what we receive.
Laura’s prints remind us All is Well… did you forget? It can be easy to forget living in a chaotic world environment. This wonderful brightly colored print helps to consciously invoke the positive. All IS well. Even the blessings in disguise. Say it to yourself every morning, every evening. This would be beautiful in a doctor’s office or in an entry way to a home where you can invoke positive energy.
A great feng shui print for your earth corner or your mentor corner!
Here is another fantastic blue moon creation of Laura’s, great for your feng shui water corner or for a moon altar.
Welcome Laura, and thank you for bringing your positive light to the garden plum gallery!
Kingfisher: Symbol of Peace, Abundance & Love
Here is one of Susan Seddon Boulet’s mystical paintings of the KingFisher, one of her cards in her deck Animal Spirits Knowledge Cards.
The kingfisher is named for both its dark crest, which suggests royalty, and its skill in hunting fish. Unlike other birds, the female of the species is more colorful than the male.
In Greek mythology, the bird is the reincarnation of Halcyone and her husband Ceyx. Halcyone threw herself into the sea after discovering the drowned body of Ceyx. Her devotion impressed the gods, who then transformed the couple into two kingfishers. In further tribute, the gods also made the seas calm and the weather fair for the seven days both preceding and following the shortest day of the year— the so-called halcyon days. The female bird’s colorful appearance is thought to reflect Halcyone’s unmatched love for her husband. The kingfisher is commonly associated with peace and the promise of good fortune. In the painting, Jupiter, the planet of abundance, appears as a reminder of that promise.
The other 48 cards in this deck as as breathtaking, click here to check out Swan.
I Have a Funny Story to Share
Man or Beast Alive MUST TOUCH THE NECKLACE!
Greetings! Here is a pic of me in the necklace that is involved with my story! Its such a funny story about these wonderful earth dwelling cherubs full of woman power!
I received this package of homemade sculptures from my friend Heiki from California. All of the sculptures were sitting out in a row. A member of the male species walked by once, twice, then NOPE – he is touching the boobies! He could not resist them! Can you blame him? LOOK at them!
I think the little spirals painted in them must have hypnotized him so he could not walk away. I laughed in delight.
Wearing this necklace (I’m wearing Moon Goddess in the photo which has sold..) made me feel like the Goddess Archetype in all of her curves!They just FEEL nice! They feel heavy and grounding, each handmade and has its own sacred symbols. Enjoy reading about them and their folklore, and please join me in welcoming Heiki and her Goddess Sculptures to the Gallery.
New Healing Originals by Michelle Johnson
Browse Michelle Johnson’s gifted original artworks (Just $25 per piece). I had to keep one of these beauties for myself as they speak directly to the ancient feminine. Her unique mixed media style on black paper is remarkable and I think she would agree, it is guided by Spirit. Be sure and check out Eye of Horus, another of my faves. Thank you Michelle!
Please Welcome New Artist Michelle Johnson
I love the way Michelle captures the moon and female energy on the canvas. She experiments with lots of different media and shares the joy she finds in doing so along the way. She is a treasure to be cherished with her wit, wisdom and charm. If you visit her blog, you will see what I mean – She is NOT JUST a Housewife! She is hilarious and fun, and she tells it like it is. An opinionated Wise Woman of many accomplishments!
The Hidden Parts of Our Psyches
So much goes on in our inner world, in our dreamtime. Our conscious mind takes care of us during the day, and in the night while we sleep, and during meditation, our subconscious mind takes care of the deep hidden parts of ourSelves. When was the last time you meditated and really listened to – nothing? Listened to nothing for so long, that finally your inner voice surfaces from within?
Black Eyed Susan helps to uncover those deep parts of ourSelves that we may have buried. This is especially true in people who have experienced trauma and do not wish to think about memories. When we are ready, Black Eyed Susan is ready to assist in a releasing of old memories. Keeping buried memories has negative effects on our current conscious and subconscious minds, and our hearts. It is difficult to have an open heart when holding pain inside.
I really love Mary’s mask sculpture that she created, it captures the essence of Black Eyed Susan:
We don’t want to walk around with parts of our psyche locked away when its depicted this way! And we don’t want to just stick any replacement piece into the part that is missing either. Flower Essences are a very subtle way of healing, they are gentle, patient, and effective. We also recommend using flower essences with a certified flower essence practitioner, counselor, or other wise healer to assist you during this process.
Emotional Healing, New Work from Beth Budesheim
Beth has recently experienced a physical move of her home, as so many of us have, and this painting exudes the energy needed in adjusting to new settings. I love the birds in the center, and the purple wash – magic.
Here is what Beth says about her new work:
“Healing , Medicine Corn, the River… During the birth of a painting, my life experiences weave themselves into the canvas. Though it wasn’t planned from in the beginning, what unfolded in my life became perfect contributions to this healing painting. My friend Ross taught me about opening the river and medicine corn. (about the River- by Ross) My first painting as a resident of Santa Fe, New Mexico.”
Please Welcome Artist Beth Budesheim to Gardenplum.com
Beth: “My creative work is not only a means of self expression but also discovery, sacred journey and wisdom. A painting, for me, is a living, breathing, communicating creation. My hope is for those drawn to my work, to enjoy, experience and benefit in some way not only from the imagery, but the more subtle vibrational information that dances with, informs and nurtures the soul.”
