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Island Muse

Aug 31, 2019
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Island Muse

This is a section of a new original composition that the muse gifted me while on Crete this summer + my 20 years of practice... The entire composition has since been coming in successive waves of rhythms and there’s all kinds of interlocking patterns and syncopations for a group of drummers to play...I can hear it in the ethers. I can’t wait to teach it to some other drummers & hear the full composition in real life....Come lean to play the Sacred Drum. Sign up here I #Trance

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Mythopoetic Identities

Aug 31, 2019
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Mythopoetic Identities

"A healthy, mature culture is what we get when a majority of our people (over a certain age) have discovered their individual mythopoetic identities and are performing those identities (through culturally-relevant delivery systems) for the benefit of their more-than-human community. Mature cultures, in other words, emerge from the mystery-blossoming lives of soul-initiated people. And because soul is our most authentic and deepest human nature, we could just as well say that

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Th Muse of Crete

Aug 30, 2019
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Th Muse of Crete

The glimmering Aegean Sea and rugged wild nature of the Greek island of Crete are still pulsing through my veins after having spent three weeks immersed in the rhythms of the island lifestyle there this summer. I went on a personal pilgrimage to visit some sacred sites, to continue my research of the ancient Sacred Drummers and Bee Priestesses of Greece and the Mediterranean and to film content for my soon(ish) to be released Sacred Drumming Online Academy. The island of Cret

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Life Rhythms

Aug 29, 2019
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Life Rhythms

Sacred Drumming helps us to attune ourselves to nature’s cycles & rhythms tidal rhythms 🌊 lunar rhythms 🌙 circadian rhythms 🌕 diurnal rhythms ☀️ seasonal rhythms🍁 Biological rhythms 💋 Heartbeat rhythms ❤️ Earth rhythms 🌎 and more... Our modern culture has mostly lost a connection to these natural rhythms, and we are seeing an epidemic of arrhythmic people that oftentimes feel out of sync and step with their larger environment and atmosphere. Sacred Drumming is a

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The Temple Before the Temple

Aug 22, 2019
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The Temple Before the Temple

The sanctuary of Athena Pronaia at Delphi. “The temple before the temple”. It is believed this spot was the original site of an oracular cult dedicated to the worship of Gaia/Gaea the primal Mother Earth Goddess. What a concept - Mother Earth Goddess - It’s the closest many of us will ever come to religion. I Many indigenous cultures see and feel Earth as an animate being and he is honored and venerated as such. Interesting this word ‘venerate’ it has its roots etymologically

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Primordial Grandmother

Aug 14, 2019
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Primordial Grandmother

We are two molecules away from seawater - our primordial Grandmother. Our breath and emotions are like the tides ~ rolling in and out, cresting and crashing, sometimes tempestuous and other time lapping gently at the shoreline of our heats. Do you think we can truly feel anything if we don’t open up to feel everything? “Everbody has a little bit of the sun and moon in them. Everybody has a little bit of man, woman, and animal in there. Darks and lights in them. Everyone is pa

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The Bee Priestess of Minoan Crete

Mythic Landscapes

Aug 9, 2019
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Mythic Landscapes

It’s a landscape of mythic dimensions rich with layers of story and sediment of jewelry, gem, votive, pottery, stone, and bone. Some believe there was a matriline that flourished here in the Minoan times. Women walked these paths bare-breasted and poured libations from overflowing vessels ~ honey, olive oil, milk, and wine. The myths and symbols left behind by countless generations of storytellers tell tales of the women, priestesses, and Goddesses of these wild lands. Artemi

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The Sacred Drum and the Grain Sieve

Aug 6, 2019
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The Sacred Drum and the Grain Sieve

Many believe the origins of the frame drum originate in the grain sieve. When humans first settled down into agricultural settlements and began cultivating grains, women were traditionally the artisans of rhythmically winnowing the grain. Of course, women were also bleeding in rhythm with each other and the cycles of the moon. There is such deep herstory of women being together in rhythm. In looking at cultures that still employ the ancient technologies of grain winnowing, we

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Symbols and Synchronicities

Aug 3, 2019
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Symbols and Synchronicities

A few days back, I wrote a bit about the use of symbols and signs as personal markers and signposts on the path of life. Here is a real-life example of what I mean. The photo on the left was taken while I was in Athens over a week ago. Most of those who’ve been to Athens will tell you the urban planning and streets are laid out very labyrinthian. Like a maze. I was walking down the street and happened upon this building and decided to take a picture because I liked the use o

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