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Drum making workshop
We know music and sound is one of the most powerful resonant healing modes that all cultures and peoples have linked with for eons. To uplift, to motivate, to calm, to excite, to worship and give thanks! Come and join us in the woods and create your own traditional style Native American drum. Make the drum your own and empower it with your own intention and let yourself go. This workshop includes lunch and refreshments, the raw materials for you to create your own drum and a dream catcher making workshop thrown in too. Embrace the day and enjoy.. Course Prices /Schedule tabs for more details on our next drum making course. We also offer other native american inspired craft workshops such as making rattles and totem shields. Native American Spirituality workshops and talks
Come and discover the spirituality of some of the Native American people. We run half day, full day and weekend workshops and talks, covering the spirituality of various peoples, living with mother earth and father sky, all of our relatives including the 'tall ones' (the trees), the 'brown one' (tobacco), the 'four legged' , 'winged' and 'two legged'. Hear the drum and let it take you to another world. Meditate to the flute. See our course schedule tab for more details or call us if you don't see what you are looking for. Maybe your group would like us to come and do a talk or you would like to be more participative at one of our workshops. We cater for schools also and either travel to your school or organise workshops within our woods, combining native american syllabus enhancement with the great outdoors. See the Schools Programmes tab. Drumming Group
‘The Drum’ people say - you can’t have a Pow Wow without a drum, for it carries the heartbeat of the Indian nation. It is also felt to carry the heartbeat of mother earth, and thus calls the spirits and nations together. It is said that the drum was brought to the Indian people by a woman, and therefore there is a woman spirit that resides inside the drum. Appropriately, it is to be treated with respect and care, appropriate behaviour is expected of anyone coming in contact with the drum. Some believe the drum contains the spirits of the materials used to make the drum (the animals and the trees). The drum is often thought to bring the physical and mental side of a person back in touch with his or her spiritual side. As with many things in the Indian culture, the drum is used to bring balance and rejuvenation through participation in dancing, singing or listening to the heartbeat. We meet once a month from April to September for an evening of drumming and flute playing, come and join us and enjoy the music, let your guides take you on a journey or just mellow out with the friendly atmosphere. We ask for a donation rather than a fee for these evenings, the proceeds of which will be sent to the Nothern Cheyenne and other needs within the Native American community. See the tab Friends of the Rez for more details. See our Course Prices /Schedule tabs for more details. Dream Catcher Workshops
You can come to our woods and enjoy the tranquility of nature for a couple of hours and the therapeutic values of working with your hands, or we can come to you if you have a group of people that would enjoy making a dream catcher (min 10) people. Either way each person will go away with their own personal dream catcher, the story of the dream catcher and a rewarding relaxing experience. Suitable for children and adults alike. If you are looking to book on in a group smaller than 6 please see our course schedule for our open course dates. See our Course Prices /Schedule tabs for more details. What a client says: Dear John, The feedback from the drum and dream catcher workshops you organised for our volunteers has been very positive. People felt it was a good opportunity to break down barriers, get to know on another better, relax, let their hair down and try something new. Please pass on our thanks to all who helped the afternoon be such an enjoyable and memorable experience. Kind regards Glynis Cracknell - Deputy Voluntary Services Co-Ordinator, Isabel Hospice
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