Artist: unknown In honor of the Irish priestess and patron saint of Honeybees and Sacred Wells 🐝 St. Abigail who's Gaelic name is Gobnait, and who in England is known as St. Deborah ~ meaning honeybee. She is venerated for her honoring and care taking of the honeybees and the healing of her people with her honeyed medicines that banished plagues and other strange illnesses. Today February 11th is traditionally celebrated as her flowering and Feast Day! 🌸 With the heralding

I'm looking forward to sharing the fascinating and mysterious connection between the sacred drum and the "bee priestesses" of antiquity. Join me for this FREE webinar 🐝⚪️🐝⚪️🐝⚪️🐝⚪️🐝⚪️🐝⚪️🐝⚪️🐝⚪️🐝 THE BEE PRIESTESS & THE SACRED DRUM WEBINAR BEGINS: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20th 1 PM PACIFIC if you're interested in learning more...You can sign up through the link. #BeeGoddess #BeePriestess #SacredDrumming #SacredDrum #SacredDrummingAcademy #WhentheDrummersWereWomen

Photo credit: Jaya Deva We are all still integrating the mystery and magic and of this initiatory journey to Athens, Greece and Crete. It was a powerful rite of passage and pilgrimage to the ancient temples, beaches, and vibrant landscapes of the island of Crete and mainland Greece. Two groups of 25 women heard the call to join us to learn to play the Sacred Drum - a ceremonial instrument of women from the Middle East, the Mediterranean, Old Europe, and beyond. The frame dru

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

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

On my journey to Crete and Greece, where I was filming content for the Sacred Drumming Academy online program, I scoured the museums in search of images of the women with the frame drum. I found some new and a few familiar photos of the women frame drummers - The Melissae of Ancient Greece. I hope to live to see the day that a museum does a major retrospective on the frame drummers of the ancient world. There are undoubtedly countless more images cloistered away in the museu