Reflecting on the life and legacy of my teacher, friend, and mentor Layne Redmond today on her Birthday. I scattered some of Layne's ashes to the wind and soil at this sacred oracular site of Delphi in Greece in 2017 while co-leading two groups of 25 women each on a Field School. What a magical, mysterious, and sometimes difficult journey it was and I believe Layne's life was too. Layne wove teachings of the oracles and seers, the bee priestesses, and muses of the ancient w

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

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

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

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

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