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Krista Holland
- Aug 6, 2020
- 1 min
The Legacy of Layne Redmond
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 the Eleusinian Mystery Field School. What a magical and mysterious 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
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Krista Holland
- Apr 15, 2020
- 1 min
Eros and The Sacred Drum
In honor of this day of love, passion and romance I would like to invite you to a special talk I will be giving on Eros & The Sacred Drum. For those that may not be familiar - Eros is the Greek version of the love god Cupid. I never would have imagined that there would be such a strong connection between the Sacred Drum, the gods and goddesses of love, femininity, and sexuality but through my research that is what I have found. As you will see if you join us the images and my
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Krista Holland
- Apr 2, 2020
- 1 min
From an Earthen Cave to the Cyber Web
From this earthen spot on the island of Crete to the cyber webs of modern technology the sacred drum is a simple yet powerful instrument that can remind us of our individual and global connection to universal rhythms.
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This was a completely improvisational Sacred Drumming composition that came to me while on the island of Crete last summer, where I was continuing my research of the sacred drummers, oracles, muses, and bee priestesses of the ancient/modern world.
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Sinc
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Krista Holland
- Feb 12, 2020
- 1 min
The Bee Priestess of the British Isles
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
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Krista Holland
- Jan 26, 2020
- 2 min
We are crafting a new Mythos
“Mythos: a pattern of beliefs expressing often symbolically the characteristics or prevalent attitudes in a group or culture.”
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We are individually and collectively crafting the mythos.
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There's a fresh mythos now germinating from ancient seeds buried and perpetually tended to from long, long ago...
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It's a mythos of a culture that aspires to remember ancient and indigenous wisdom and reminds us to tend to and share the collective commons with deep reverence.
The re-eme
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Krista Holland
- Jan 24, 2020
- 2 min
We Need a New Mythos
"Mythos: a pattern of beliefs often expressing the characteristic or prevalent attitudes symbolically in a group or culture." As you look around the world through the lens of media, your tv, the internet matrix, what do you see? Do the collective patterns of symbols, stories and attitudes inspire your soul?
Sometimes yes? Sometimes no? We are individually and collectively crafting the mythos. For 2,000 + years up to the present day, the dominant voice has been that of the pa
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Krista Holland
- Jan 5, 2020
- 3 min
2020 Into the New Year We Go...
Am I late to the - I wish you all a Happy New Year! 2020 party? Well, if so, it's because I've already decided to slow this year way the f down... I woke up on New Year's Day morning, and the first thing I heard (from inside my mind) was a loud voice saying, "time to get up and YOU BETTER HIT THE GROUND RUNNING!". No kidding.
Hmmm, okay, wow.
Uh, no. How 'bout time for some self-reflection, metacognition, and meditation. And so, instead of getting up and immediately "runnin
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Krista Holland
- Nov 17, 2019
- 1 min
The Bee Priestess and the Sacred Drum
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
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Krista Holland
- Nov 8, 2019
- 1 min
Liron and Peia on Tour
Thank you to @liron_meyuhas for sharing the drum, songs and rhythms with us! Now she’s off on a West Coast tour with @peiabird. Check ‘em! #Drum #FrameDrum #FrameDrumming #FrameDrumAcademy #SacredDrum #SacredDrumming #SacredDrummingAcademy
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Krista Holland
- Nov 7, 2019
- 1 min
World Beat Drumming with Liron Meyuhas
Such an amazing evening of World Beat drumming and singing traditional Jewish songs with Liron arrived from Israel after some 30+ hours of travel and offered us an absolutely amazing workshop just a few hours after arriving! Music is a universal language and creates incredible cross-cultural connections. So grateful to the sacred drum for the way it brings women together and offers such healing and connection. #FrameDrum #FrameDrumming #FrameDrumAcademy #SacredDrum #SacredDru
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Krista Holland
- Sep 3, 2019
- 1 min
Drumming in the Golden Light
Photo credit: Jaya Deva We are all still integrating the mystery and magic and of this initiatory journey to Athens, Greece and Crete. The Eleusinian Mystery Field School 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 - ceremonial instrument of women from the Middle East, the Mediterranean, Old Euro
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Krista Holland
- Aug 31, 2019
- 1 min
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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Krista Holland
- Aug 30, 2019
- 1 min
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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Krista Holland
- Aug 14, 2019
- 1 min
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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Krista Holland
- Aug 6, 2019
- 1 min
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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Krista Holland
- Aug 3, 2019
- 2 min
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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Krista Holland
- Jul 29, 2019
- 1 min
When Will We See A Major Retrospective of "Woman with the Sacred Drum?
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
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Krista Holland
- Jul 29, 2019
- 1 min
Mythopoetic Dreams ~ Come to Life
While some long to meet movie stars, others of us long to meet up with old pithoi jars. I know it’s weird...I would be the first to admit how strange it is. Half the time, I can barely understand it myself, but it’s true - I have looked at this jar untold countless times in books and images. I could chalk it up to a past life, but that would be to cliche. I know the reasons deep down in my heart and soul and gut, but it would be too lengthy to explain in the forum so I will s
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Krista Holland
- Mar 20, 2019
- 1 min
Mythic Drumming in New Mexico
I’ve recently traveled from the lush, wet, muddy, emerald green rolling hills and sacred sites of England to the bone dry, technicolor desert of New Mexico. I’m here on my birthday ~ full moon spring equinox celebrating and preparing to teach Mythic Drumming at Georgia O’ Keefe’s Ghost Ranch in a few days. I feel like I’ve been on an initiatory journey of sorts these last few years, and life has just taken me through yet another gateway.
Some of you know of my unusual child
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