We are excited to be offering this sacred crafting workshop with Chalice Malcolm from Wildheart Medicine here at The farm Awaroa in the Golden Bay.

The Making of a Sacred Drum
This is a workshop to birth your medicine drum.
In indigenous traditions throughout the world the medicine drum is a sacred tool to support deep healing and cleansing. It supports the journeying process and to create one in this workshop your drum will be uniquely yours. You will receive its specific power and medicine through the process of the workshop. Because of this you will need to have an understanding of your shamanic tools, your power animal and spiritual teacher.
In many ways birthing your drum is similar to birthing a child, it is a sacred aspect of yourself and your healing abilities. It takes focus and deep concentration. I will be working and supporting you deeply in sacred circle and journeying throughout the process It is an incredibly precious workshop, and I am deeply honored to be supporting this journey.
‘Drums are individuals. They can be very special things’ Nicolas Wood
The relationship I have with my drum has built up over time, it has witnessed and participated in many healing journeys with clients and groups and engaged in profound shifting of energy. This relationship is evolving, I recently was drumming for a woman's journey into ancestral healing, I felt so touched at each beat I felt the depth of connection and intimate relationship that has been built between my drum and I.
The hides and rims that make up the drum have be processed and made with sacred intention by myself and my partner Ken here on our Land in the far north.
Once you birth your drum there is a time to wait and honour the skin before you can play it. In this time the drum is fragile and incredibly vulnerable. We ask that you deeply respect this time and all the work you have done. It will take a few days to completely dry then you will be ready to play it. This too is an intimate process, each drum has its own heart, a place when you touch it with your beater something happens, the relationship between you begins to have voice.
You lead me
to your heart
the place I seek
where I touch your vibration
sweet movement
union
electrical stillness
of gateways opening
'Drumming also purifies the people. When the drum is played, no matter how you feel, you will start moving to the energy of the beat and you will be moved. When played consciously in ceremony it will change our electricity, our vibrations and brain states.' Salvatore Gencarelle
Drumming throughout time has been used to connect not only with our rhythm, our heartbeat but also to the universal creative energy

Thank you
Chalice

Drum Beater:
You will need to find a stick for your beater, this will come to you as a gift from nature. You may wish to spend some time meditating on your stick. Then allow yourself some time wander in nature to receive it. It may have already happened, you may already have found one.
Please trust yourself and your own inner guidance.
You may wish to sand, carve your stick!