Drum Birthing: An embodied alchemical process of birthing your drum and song.
Lead Facilitator Tara Seren has been offering this birthing experience for the past 12 years and it is a finely tuned transformational process.
Other SOM teachers will be woven in providing ceremony, blessing, movement, breathwork. More info: https://www.theschoolofmagick.org/product/may-som-immersion
YOUR drum is calling you!
In this week you will be guided through an embodied alchemical experience of the union of spirit and the body of the drum.
Gather with other magical beings and Birth your own Drum with ethically sourced animal hide during a 7-day retreat to connect with the earth, the animals and the plant medicines of the land.... We sit in the Circle way with others called to the central fire. We will sing, we will untangle our pasts and learn to reweave our presence in time with the heart beats of our earthly and cosmic grandmothers. This is a time to heal intergenerational and other traumas, to renew through the umbilical cord to mother energy. Each day of this 7 day retreat will connect with the elements- Water, Earth, Air and Fire, with ceremonies, foods and practices to reconnect with each element. Connect in to a way of being through purification ceremonies, daily yoga and Qigong.
This is a time to nourish ourselves through the healing aspects of food, communal support, and theta connection with our inner north star guidance to retrieve the rhythm of your unique heart beat through the portal of the hoop drum. The drum is a sacred gift from our blessed earth mother, it is a path of personal power and of re-connection.
Your Retreat includes...
7 days immersion in Paonia, CO!
Cooking and eating to the elements (breakfast and lunch)
Gluten-free, dairy-free accommodations available
Daily Sunrise Kundilini Yoga , Qigong, and Breathwork
Individual body work and readings by appointment
5 Elemental Ceremonies (group)
Trade Blanket Networking to strengthen professional and personal connections!
Self-care and alone time on the land
Sacred ceremony and special ritual gifts
Animal hide, drum, bag & materials
This is a time to SLOW down, feel, deepen in, reflect and connect. The retreat is held in a vortex, surrounded by the energies of the West Elk Mountains ,the sacred waters of the Norfolk Valley, the animals, plants, the Elementals, and the divine essence of Pachamama.
Begin your Journey...
Day 1: Welcome and Purification
We will gather together and then prepare our bodies and materials for our time together,
allowing time for rest, nourishment and to set intentions for this sacred time.
Day 2: Water And Drums
All life begins in water, so we will submerge ourselves and drums in purifying and life giving
water. hoop medicine and working with the portal of water.
Day 3: Earth and animal hide
Birthing your drum a weaving and sacred geometry of bringing the spirit of the hide drum to
meet its alchemical form and co create with this vibrational portal between earth and spirit.
Day 4: wood/wind
Movement and connection to energetics of lightning, spark and the fertile creative, this is
the yang aspect of the Palo, our stick and music maker, out on the land and traveling
through the realms of the psyche and soul healing
Day 5: Ether/Metal
Prepare to bring the medicine of your drum to the fire and retrieve your drum song by
connecting with your tools and a deep delta sound healing evening Ceremony to connect
with the Cosmic Grandmothers
Day 6: Fire
Complete your drum birth by adorning it with the elements and revelations you have
gathered then be refined in the final Fire ceremony.
Day 7: Reflections & Farewell