What are you thinking of when you think of camping? At the Healing Drum Retreat you’ll have a choice of staying in the Grange building or camping outside. Where do your thoughts go? burning marshmallows at the campfire dreaming under the stars drumming songs that connects your heart to the others in the group delicious [...]
The Healing Drum Retreat shares in its name one of the many offerings of this weekend event. Drum circles! We have two big drums, some call them pow wow drums, or group drums. These drums hold strong voices, resonant tones. Each drum can carry six drummers, and others can use hand drums if they prefer [...]
We’ve a lot planned for this next Healing Drum Retreat Sept 18-20, 2009. This event, held at the Hope Grange in Winlock, Washington, will include drumming, group intentions, release and restore techniques, clearing the communication between ourselves and others, and more! On Sunday we will finish our beaded feather fans, and learn about the energy [...]
The Healing Drum Retreat, by name, always includes time for drumming circles and songs. Yes, we do a lot of other activities: we practicing the art of release and relax; get hands-on experience with both healing techniques as well as crafting projects; and expand our consciousness with new ideas and visionary thoughts. Where does drumming [...]
One of the many activities we feature at the Healing Drum Retreat is the universal web. This playful activity carries us into a happy space where we can joyfully communicate and share with others. The surprising thing about this simple game-like activity is that we can shift the energy between ourselves and others, or a [...]
Drumming is amazing – you feel the energy resonating from the drum, and feel the synergy as the drumming of many sing together. For our first drumming day we had a small group. The energy though was powerful, and the drums filled the room and livened things up! Since we had just a few for [...]
Listen to your drum? Isn’t that the point, to listen to the drumming? Yes of course, but it’s more than just the sound that emanates as you strike beater to drum. Your drum creates an energy connection. Call it the cosmic consciousness, Great Spirit, or the “all that is”, drumming promotes that trance-like state in [...]