Drum Making Circle
*requires 7 or more participants
Taking commitments for 2024…contact me to get on the list.
This offering begins with hunting. The birthing of your drum begins with death…as all life does in the Shamanic and evolutionary way. I share with you some of my hunting pictures because without that…this offering would not exist. I simply refuse to create drums and rattles from hides that I have no connection with. I simply refuse to create rattle and drums without having worked the hides myself…this is how we get the storied ancestry of the animals’ essence. This is non-negotiable. The magic and medicine that I voice for each animal is above and beyond just making a drum…it creates a cauldron of becoming for the human who makes their sacred sound with me. Enjoy the visual journey below that takes you from hunting to birthing.
Drums activate power, amplify energy, and quakingly banish evil energies. Drums deepen roots for greater expansion. They instantly awaken the hollow bone in us so we can stand solid, centered, and capable to alchemize whatever is in front of us. I use mine all the time. I use mine for space clearing, circle casting, energy healing, journey beats, and deep inquiry into a thing. I go to my drums when I need fierce and focused guidance, clarity, and healing. I go to my drum so it can be the healing energy for my clients.
Making and using a drum will heal you…alchemize you…cleanse you…and give you something to hold on to as you begin again with more wholeness. Making a drum births a threshold for you to cross yourself over and get to the other side of you that has been calling you home.
The essences for this drum making circle are:
Maiden magic (cow elk)
Sadness without story IS a healing alchemy (muley buck)
Teaching ancestry (cow elk)
Every essence is a choice. As the flesh the hide, an essence is gathered. Within the de-hairing a story is shared. The essence gathered, the story contained, this is what I do as I work the hides. Every essence is the ancestor for the rattle you will birth and add your own essence to. You will hear the stories of them all, and feel their presence as they stand as guides and guardians for this experience. Your declarations will connect you to the one you are meant to work with. *see video at the bottom of this page for an excerpt from a storied ancestry
This is where I stand out. It’s not just making a drum with me. It’s an experience in which you will be changed…surprised…deepened…awakened…and rewilded into the wholeness that is innate within you. Because, when you cut through skin…you cut through the barriers and enter a remembery of ancient sensing. I don’t just give you circles to put together, I ask you to rise by digging deep and cutting through that skin. How could it NOT change you? How can you do anything and not be changed by it? I think the question that really matter is…will you change with the change? Will you DO what it takes to BE-come who you are so you can BE-have in what you DO? You can sure as shit give it a go with me here.
What you get:
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Hide for drum head
Hide for drum lacing
Fur or buckskin for beater head
Sticks for beaters
Tools on hand
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To begin and end with…you will be giving a deep fleshing and cauldronizing of this experience. It’s like intentions on steroids.
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Stories from the fleshing bean…multi-media presentations that annouce the essence, powers, and medicines from the spirit of our wild ones. As well as me sharing the messages, visions, merges, and channelled voice of each animal as I work their hide.
*see video at the bottom of this page for an excerpt from a storied ancestry
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Guiding you through the making that births every physical and spiritual element of your drum. This happens in person during the weekend and a follow up video conference for final touches.
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Learn the basics of care and magic. Will be available after video conference.
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In the beginning and throughout…I bring my free-range magic, medicine, alchemy and humaning. This includes but isn’t limited to: ceremonial space, shamanic journey or healing prompts, shadow mirrors, oracle card pulling, emothional support, magical moments, and clarifying empowerment.
Exchange for this experience…
I am craving and creating more matrix-less living. I am offering all to join me in writing checks again or sending our exchanges directly to each other. There is an energy about this I’m asking us all to step into. It calls us all to slow down and be present for the yes we are saying. It calls us to an ol’ school way of person to person. Therefore, I’m stating that my preferred way of receiving exchanges these days is by check.
If you are a no-check kind of person, you can provide exchange with Venmo. Find me in Venmo with @nissahoward. Make sure you provide a current email address with the exchange. At which time, I will add you to the commitment list for this event. If this event does not fill, your exchange will be returned to you.
Need to knows…
Price does not include travel, lodging, or food.
We potluck style for this event. I’ll provide a pot of something nourishing and amazing, but then we all bring what we love to eat and share it.
Spokane Washington is the closest mainstream airport. Coeur d’ Alene has a smaller airport.
No refunds for any reason. You may gift your spot.
birthing a threshold…
My drum making circle has a beautiful tradition of changing lives. Things change when one crosses a threshold of overcoming challenge…and realize there is another way to see, feel, know, and be. Birthing a drum in my free-range ways, you are given the path to birth a threshold too. On the other side of where you feel stuck is more trust in. yourself, trust in Life & Great Mystery, and trust leads to receive worthiness.
I’m here. The spirits of the deer and elk are here. Join this circle and hear what wisdom they have shared. Come be guided on a path of guiding yourself home to rewilded wholeness.
Are you ready for my drum making circle?
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See you soon,
Nissa
Don’t want to make your own? I can make birth one on your behalf in the same ways I would teach you to make one. You will receive a additional audios or videos that will be made as I make your drum. A waitlist is now open.
Savor this excerpt from a storied ancestry.