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Walk this Earth in a Sacred Manner . Inside all of us is a deep and fundamental yearning to belong, this longing and search has introduced me to the life of a Sacred Drummer. More importantly an opportunity to get to know through one of its founders, an ancestor called Nicholas Black Elk who gave us his vision of the Flowering Tree in his book Black Elk Speaks. He was a Native American back in the 1800‘s, for me the study of this c...

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THE MIST By Steven Ash Buffalo Spirit Man In my vision I saw these beings all moving through a mist the path was white the mist was light and trees were standing on either side The first no matter what they did moving sat or stood  they disturbed the mist  that passed through the wood Others were standing and weaving too and fro but they did not disturb the mist the mist as white as snow Every spring nature com...

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Sacred Drumming is a healing modality rooted within the living traditions of the Lakota people, as shared by Black Elk an Oglala Lakota medicine man. Love of The Earth is central to all Shamanic practises. ‘’In conclusion, our survival is dependent on the realisation that Mother Earth is a truly holy being, that all things in this world are holy and must not be violated, and that we must share and be generous with one another -but you ...

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I remember the thrill of excitement as I approached the yurt at Kingfisher Cottage, it was a setting I had longed for and set the beginning to such a profound transformation of my life. A Woodland walk took me past some logs piled up as I saw a man pushing a wheel barrow.  Initially I thought he was some Woodland Wizard, it was Steven the teacher.  The welcome for me was the most oddest I have ever experienced as it was...

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6 Health Reasons to Start Drumming This article is based on a blog by Dr Northrop, I have selected out six of the ten benefits that she has identified, and put them together with some practical observations of how you can visualise the positive attributes of drumming for healing.   Sound healing with the drum is based upon the hidden rhythm of the heart being brought out of the inner cavity of the chest, out into the worl...

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Historically and practically there is a direct link between each of the five senses and the sacred directions of the medicine wheel. I have been exploring these connections in my daily meditations using my drum and found them to be very powerful. In a somewhat poetic form I have written down the method I am using which is based upon an ancient meditation system from India, blended with medicine wheel teachings from a variety of world cultures. ...

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There is a sacred drum beating in our hearts, its soft rhythm spreading blood, food and Qi life force through our bodies. Up to the top of the head and down to the soles of the feet this steady beat drums into the Mother Earth as a gentle returning gift from us to her. So little do we remember who we are and how powerful we can become. With shoes off, bare foot, gently walking on the Mother we can draw the Energy of the Sky Father down through...

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Five in the evening and its still light, the season is turning into spring. You can feel it in the trees with their buds beginning to shine hazy pink with violet tips. Give the house a good spring clean, wash the floors, eject all that you don’t need from you that represents your body and soul as your home. When you have finished cleaning, smudge and open the windows, let this fresh spring air from the north east cleanse the rooms and hallw...

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We are approaching winter solstice at the speed of light, the moon is quarter and building by the moment, sparkling in silver shards as she chases her lover the sun over the southern sky. It will be full moon on that longest night just over a week away, her dance will be ours to follow, we can dance into the spring on quicksilver steps knowing that we have chosen well in how we celebrate our lives within the cycles of the year. Winter is so go...

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Ceremony is an essential part of our Sacred Drumming practice. The ceremonial ritual brings each person in the circle into alignment with their higher Self with a capital "S”. Each individual is coming from their own world and needs to enter a space of non judgement and surrender, self importance, ego and judgement are left in the past, are left outside the circle. In ceremony we are all equal, and in Sacred Drumming, like the drum form we ar...

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In many traditions an honouring song is shared between people. It brings us all together, we can share with each other respect and even if we are in new company, a strong feeling is generated of giving and receiving from the heart. An honouring song has to be simple and immediately singable so that we all can take part, it has to have a purpose and universal meaning.  We use an ancient honouring song that surfaced during the first module ...

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Drum is a wonderful instrument for sending focused healing to others. It keeps you in time with the Now, keeping you in focus. It’s the combination of your body moving, the visual gentle repetition and the sound of the heart beat, plus a humming resonance within the drum that changes, weaves and carries that something, that energy of love that is within you and me. The heart beat on drum brings it forth, it brings the hearts love out in a foc...

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Simon Heather at the College of Sound Healing asked for some personal quotes of why singing is important to each of us. Wow, thats a big one for me as I expect it is for you. There are so many quotes from great singers, writers and philosophers, and it is so easy to crib a quote, feel good because you have done something, written it down for others to see. But who reads it? I’m the one who writes this and probably I will be the one to read it...

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This practice is essential and fundamental to our behaviour as humans, the fact that it has been kept alive by the first nation people of the Americas is their gift to us. Therefore its worth giving thanks to them and their ancestors for handling the ignorance laid upon them with so much grace and humility. I listened to a prayer tonight on a TED Talks given by Matika Wilbur a Native American photographer: ...

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The medicine wheel has been used in many cultures, in many forms, for thousands of years. From the layout of enclosures, mounds and stone circles. As well as Tibetan Thangka (Tanka). Celtic Cross, and even the layout of Cathedrals and Churches. The Sacred directions have been called upon for the needs of mankind throughout time, across the ages. For health of the individual and community, for abundance in harvest and husbandry. For contact...

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If you have a problem you ask for help. Who do you ask when you pop out a vertebrae in your back, you are on the phone to the osteopath like a shot. How about a tooth ache? In the car and off to the dentist we go. When we are sure of what we are getting, there are proven results, and we have been amply conditioned by authority figures, there is no problem in asking for help. Traditionally in the Native American societies if you have a prob...

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