Release your past and become your future with Shamanic Drum Journey
A Course for Women
With Lorraine Grayston & Dawn Russell
Three Weekends in Spring 2027
February 20th & 21st, March 20th & 21st & April 24th & 25th, 2027
I can hear my heart drum
Beating to the rhythm of the freedom song
If I say yes to the beat in me I can set my spirit free
~ African chant
From Chaos to Coherence
The sound of the beat of the drum is ancient and touches us deep in our bones (our psyche), it is the heart beat of the Earth and can bring us back into health and balance/harmony, not just within ourselves but with the Earth, the Cosmos and all of nature/living things.
It helps us to calm our mind and come to a deep place of peace where we can experience the “extra-ordinary,” we can hear and feel the vibration, the pulse of life.
We offer a space for re-connection with this transcending practice
In contemporary practise the shamanic drum journey helps us to connect with our deeper consciousness (which is often unconscious to us), when we come to this place with our awareness we can effect our deep experiences and patterns (unconscious programming) which can help to restore health to places in us that may be holding wounding or to connect with the deeper wisdom in ourselves, which can offer guidance and encouragement and compassion.
The aim of this course is to teach the contemporary use of the Shamanic drum journey for yourself and for offering it for others (your community).
We will be working with the gift of the drum journey and will work in-depth with the practise of journeying with a hand held drum. The journey drum is often known as the Shaman’s horse, which enables us to ride the resonances of the drum to places deep within our energy being and connection, (not usually accessible to us in our everyday lives), where we are able to communicate with, receive from and affect the energies of our lives.
One foot in this world and one foot in the world of energy
We will experience various practices and learn the deeper understanding and application of them. The Medicine Wheel is our map. The Shamanic Journey, Soul Retrieval, Creating and Holding Space are our tools, your own unique creative expression is the vehicle.
Who is this course for?
This course is for women who are seeking their own healing, development and wellbeing. It also offers experience and understanding of the practises to enable you to offer these healing and enlivening tools to others within your community and personal practise.
Weekend 1.
In this weekend we will explore the world of connection and creation. Creation creates through us ~ we are imbued with many different archetypal energies from the Mandela of our birth astrology chart to the influence our past/pasts has on us (and there are many other maps of the ways in which the archetypes express through us).
The Team: Working within the collective consciousness of the Earth you can to find your spiritual family, especially in the form of animal, mythical and plant allies who help you to connect with your own deep instinctual nature. They will guide and support you in the work with deep compassion and understanding of who you are.
The Shamanic Journey is about exploring and affecting what is happening within your individual energy world and moving beyond the individual into the place where all things are connected. Our ancestors knew that all dis-ease and wellbeing originated in the energy matrix of our being and life, and would “travel” to this source to effect healing, change and our future life. “Travel” in this context means to expand ones awareness into the energy field which contains dis-ease and wellbeing on a mental, emotional, physical and/or spiritual level. In this place we find the patterns and habits that underpin our life. In this place also we are able to commune with the Spirit of our lives, we are after all co- creators of this life walk and so to go to the place of depth where we can hear our own nature and movement. This helps use to stay in the flow of life and to make choices that are beneficial to us. We use a drum (and rattle) to access these places.
Weekend 2.
Soul Retrieval: Using the medium of the Shamanic Journey to re-member ourselves i.e. to re-connect with parts of our life force that we have disconnected from through traumatic experiences which have left us fragmented and disassociated. We do not have to re~experience the Trauma to heal the damaging effect of the trauma. We re~embody/remember our healthy life force that separated from the moment in order to preserve itself.
Re-connecting with this healthy life force can not only bring healing to those places of suffering but enliven us as we become fuller of ourselves, our life force, our vitality, our health. You will learn and experience Soul Retrieval work.
Weekend 3.
Soul Release: A tool to work with when we become entangled with another’s energy through love or hate (and all the feelings in between) and they become entangled with us in a relationship which becomes detrimental to both. This entanglement creates patterns of behaviour.
All weekends. Creating and Holding Space:
When helping another in a healing capacity one of the most important (and simple) yet most difficult things to do, is to create and hold a space in which that person feels held and heard from a place of allowing and compassion. The preparation and holding of the environment and of ourselves is paramount to the creation of a healing space for the benefit of another and ourselves.
The Shamanic Drum Journey or Self Discovery, Healing and Soul Retrieval
Three Weekends in Spring 2027
February 20th & 21st, March 20th & 21st & April 24th & 25th, 2027
Times: Saturday 10am to 5:30pm, Sunday 10am to 5pm, Non-residential
Enquiries & Booking:
Mobile: Lorraine 07713 401956 or Dawn 07808 579564
Email Lorraine & Dawn here.
Fees:
The course cost is £720.
A deposit of £150 to hold your place.
There are some residential places available at Emerson College (additional fee payable), these will need to be booked through Emerson College.
There are also local B&B.