The drum is a very important instrument in shamanism that allows us to carry out the “shamanic journey” and connect with a heightened state of consciousness. The relationship between the instrument and the person is very important to know how to listen to your deepest part.

Practiced in diverse cultures around the planet,  from Mongolia, Samis, Celts to all the Shamanic lineages along  South America.  Muiscas, Amazon Tribes, Shipibos, Mapuches, etc.

This drum method is strikingly similar to the world over. Shamanic drumming uses a repetitive rhythm that begins slowly and then gradually builds in intensity to a tempo of three to seven beats per second. The ascending tempo will induce light to deep trance states, and facilitate the shamanic techniques of journeying, shapeshifting, and divination.

The person may progress through a series of trance states until they reach the level that is necessary for healing to occur.

When ready to exit the trance state, the person simply slows the tempo of drumming, drawing consciousness back to normal. Shamanic drumming continues to offer today what it has offered for thousands of years: namely, a simple and effective technique of ecstasy.

MAKING THE DRUM

As each one of us, each drum is unique and unrepeatable. Unlike an instrument not made by yourself, each constructive stage adds value to the creative process. As a result, you will get your own shamanic drum.

Putting the purpose and intention in the construction process, using the elements of the earth and thanking nature for its generosity, makes us connect with the instrument, with its sound and vibration. Each drum is unique and unrepeatable, as well as each one of us.

To carry out the shamanic drum construction workshop I provide you with all the necessary materials and tools, you will be supported and guided in each of the steps. Using the knowledge on how to treat leather, the various forms of tensioning, and decoration, the entire construction process gives added value to this creative process, which does not have an instrument not made by yourself.

SHAMANIC CIRCLES

A shamanic drumming circle is a place for shamanic practitioners or people interested  to get together for learning, healing, and the direct revelation of spiritual guidance.

It is essentially a modern adaptation to an ancient form of cultural expression attributed to indigenous shamanic peoples. People have gathered in circles since the beginning of humankind for a very good reason.

The circle is a container for building community and celebrating life. A drumming circle provides an opportunity to connect with your own spirit at a deeper level, and also to connect with a group of other like-minded people. I

In a society in which traditional family and community-based systems of support have become increasingly fragmented, drumming circles provide a sense of connectedness with others and interpersonal support.

Research reviews indicate that drumming enhances recovery through inducing relaxation and enhancing theta-wave production and brain-wave synchronization. Drumming produces pleasurable experiences, enhanced awareness of preconscious dynamics, the release of emotional trauma, and reintegration of self. Drumming alleviates self-centeredness, isolation, and alienation, creating a sense of connectedness with self and others. Drumming provides a secular approach to accessing a higher power and applying spiritual perspectives.

Drumming circles have applications as complementary addiction therapy, particularly for repeated relapse and when other counseling modalities have failed. (Am J Public Health. 2003;93:647-651)

Michael Drake, a nationally recognized author, rhythms, and shamanist, in his June 12, 2017 article “Ancient Healing Approach: Drum Therapy Therapeutic Effects of Drumming” cites eleven benefits attributed to drumming. The following is an excerpt from his article:

BENEFITS

Drumming Reduces Tension, Anxiety, and Stress

Drumming induces deep relaxation, lowers blood pressure, and reduces stress.  A recent study found that a program of group drumming helped reduce stress and employee turnover in the long-term care industry and might help other high-stress occupations as well.

Drumming Helps Control Chronic Pain

Researchers suggest that drumming serves as a distraction from pain and grief…promoting the production of endorphins and endogenous opiates, the body’s own morphine-like painkillers, and can thereby help in the control of pain.

Drumming Boosts the Immune System

Led by renowned cancer expert Barry Bittman, MD, [a] study demonstrates that group drumming actually increases cancer-killing cells, which help the body combat cancer as well as other viruses, including AIDS. According to Dr. Bittman, “Group drumming tunes our biology, orchestrates our immunity, and enables healing to begin.”

Drumming Produces Deeper Self-Awareness by Inducing Synchronous Brain Activity

Research has demonstrated that the physical transmission of rhythmic energy to the brain synchronizes the two cerebral hemispheres. When the logical left hemisphere and the intuitive right hemisphere begin to pulsate in harmony, the inner guidance of intuitive knowing can then flow unimpeded into conscious awareness. The ability to access unconscious information through symbols and imagery facilitates psychological integration and a reintegration of self.

Drumming also synchronizes the frontal and lower areas of the brain, integrating nonverbal information from lower brain structures into the frontal cortex, producing “feelings of insight, understanding, integration, certainty, conviction, and truth, which surpass ordinary understandings and tend to persist long after the experience, often providing foundational insights for religious and cultural traditions.”

Drumming Accesses the Entire Brain

The reason rhythm is such a powerful tool is that it permeates the entire brain. Vision, for example, is in one part of the brain, speech another, but drumming accesses the whole brain. The sound of drumming generates dynamic neuronal connections in all parts of the brain even where there is significant damage or impairment such as in attention deficit disorder (ADD). …

Drumming Induces Natural Altered States of Consciousness

Rhythmic drumming induces altered states, which have a wide range of therapeutic applications.

A recent study by Barry Quinn, Ph.D. demonstrates that even a brief drumming session can double alpha brain wave activity, dramatically reducing stress. The brain changes from Beta waves (focused concentration and activity) to Alpha waves (calm and relaxed), producing feelings of euphoria and well-being. Alpha activity is associated with meditation, shamanic trance, and integrative modes of consciousness…

Drumming creates a Sense of Connectedness with Self and Others

… drumming circles provide a sense of connectedness with others and interpersonal support. A drum circle provides an opportunity to connect with your own spirit at a deeper level, and also to connect with a group of other like-minded people

Drumming Provides a Secular Approach to Accessing a Higher Power

Shamanic drumming directly supports the introduction of spiritual factors found significant in the healing process. Drumming and Shamanic activities produce a sense of connectedness and community, integrating body, mind, and spirit. According to a recent study, “Shamanic activities bring people efficiently and directly into immediate encounters with spiritual forces, focusing the client on the whole body and integrating healing at physical and spiritual levels…

Drumming Releases Negative Feelings, Blockages, and Emotional Trauma

Drumming can help people express and address emotional issues. Unexpressed feelings and emotions can form energy blockages. The physical stimulation of drumming removes blockages and produces emotional release. Sound vibrations resonate through every cell in the body, stimulating the release of negative cellular memories. “Drumming emphasizes self-expression, teaches how to rebuild emotional health, and addresses issues of violence and conflict through expression and integration of emotions,” says Music educator Ed Mikenas. Drumming can also address the needs of addicted populations by helping them learn to deal with their emotions in a therapeutic way without the use of drugs.

Drumming Places One in the Present Moment

Drumming helps alleviate stress that is created from hanging on to the past or worrying about the future. When one plays a drum, one is placed squarely in the here and now. One of the paradoxes of rhythm is that it has both the capacity to move your awareness out of your body into realms beyond time and space and to ground you firmly in the present moment.

Drumming Provides a Medium for Individual Self-Realization

…Group drumming complements traditional talk therapy methods. It provides a means of exploring and developing the inner self. It serves as a vehicle for personal transformation, consciousness expansion, and community building. The primitive drumming circle is emerging as a significant therapeutic tool in the modern technological age.

My DRUM MAKING WORKSHOPS  Following the Indigenous Colombian Muisca Tradition are on  different locations such as Cork, Westport and Dublin.

Birthing your drum and being part of a process of creating and bringing into life your very own drum can be a very powerful & fulfilling process that is totally unique to you.
It make you contact with the ancestral wisdom, to seek strength and inspiration in our hearts and to give birth in our reality an instrument of power, companion and a teacher, deep medicine, capable of touching the soul.

Bringing a drum to life is like the birth of a magnificent force in our reality. The drum is a vibrant entity, in which they inhabit the spirit of the tree with which the hoop was made, the spirit of the animal that gave its leather to the patch, and the spirit of the one who made it.
During the process of weaving, you enter a deep connection of breath of life with this instrument that is about to be born, it is a creative and gestation process where all the attention, patience and temperance is required.

When you are born, each beat of the drum that you will sound will be expanding that personal medicine that you have discovered while you are tempting it and you will be expanding your voice and light to the world.

Each drum is unique, just like us. The more we get in tune with him, the more revelations will be shown to us

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