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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.
Funny Friday: Someone Throw Me a Rope!
This occured when I tossed the dog’s leash out the door and heard a ‘ka-chink’ and a curiosity came over me. I had leashed an angel. Or caught an angel. Or she threw me a rope. I’ll leave the editorials up to you. In any case, its very sweet no matter which way I interpret… oh you ticklish Friday!
Have a great weekend and hang loose with all this fresh changing energy!
Wendy
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.
Do You Want to Meet Your Celestial Parents?
While doing shamanic work with Amethyst Wyldfyre, a local Shaman trained in the Peruvian Tradition (who follows Alberto’s work, author of this book), I was able to contact my true Celestial Parents, the beings who had messages for me. This book walked me through a meditation explaining exactly how to contact these parents. After the meditation, I made a digital drawing of these Celestial Parents. A week after I made this digital drawing, these parents could be seen in a photo of me. It was an incredible confirmation! This book has triggered a new chapter in my spiritual journey.
I learned about two additional chakras, the 8th Chakra and the Soul Chakra. I also learned how our chakras are effected when a soul fracture occurs within a certain chakra, effecting our personalities. I was fascinated by the Chamber of Wounds, the Chamber of Treasure, and the Chamber of Soul Contracts (some contracts not even from my lifetime). This book is a true exploration of our spiritual anatomy, I highly recommend “Soul Retrieval” as a part of one’s spiritual journey on the path to wholeness.
