Drum
Online
1:1 Drum Healing Sessions
These personal drumming sessions can be used however serves you best, sound healing, drum journey/meditation, drum tutoring, voice activation, sacred soul channelling, and drumming for life transitions. I can drum for you, or if you have a drum, we can drum together.
Sessions are typically between 60 and 90 minutes, cost $140 and include a personalised channelled recording.
Book a discovery call to discuss how a 1:1 drum session could support you.
Drum - Southern Hemisphere
Do you hear the beat of your heart? And beneath that... on the rich earth? Do you feel the rhythm? This is yin energy. The deep, dark, rich energy of the feminine. She's calling you to slow down, to send down roots, to come to stillness. To yield to your inner sacred rhythmic presence.
Before drums were taken from the hands of women, we gathered to unite our voices and drum in ritual ceremony to the seasons, the harvest, the long dark, and the return of the light. We drummed during childbirth and through death, in joy, grief, rage and passion. We drummed around the fire, in the rivers and oceans, with the wind blowing back our hair, and our bare feet on the rich earth.
Beginning on the Winter Solstice, June 21st 2026, you'll begin your inward journey to rememberHering your birthright as drum keeper, rhythm keeper, and singer of truths in a community of women travelling the same road. Together we'll journey through the rhythms of the seasons, opening, receiving, transmitting, and integrating.
On the Winter Solstice 2027, we'll complete one full turn of the wheel, and you will be initiated into your craft. Very well prepared as sacred rhythm keeper wherever and however you choose to offer your songs of presence.
Kate
I had walked all the way into a dead end. My nose was against the wall. I couldn't go on. I couldn't go back. I felt trapped, lost and helpless. Dawn held the vision of the joy and freedom on the other side of the wall, and stood beside me as I dismantled it brick by brick. Her faith in me never wavered, and now, I'm thriving. I'm writing the music, singing the songs, releasing the album. Life is beautiful. I am beauitful.
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A year long immersive into sacred rhythm and songs of presence. Even if you've never held a drum before, you can play. We begin with the basics and deepen our practice through the seasons, connecting your own sacred rhythm with the spirit of the drum for wisdom, healing and sacred leadership.
A year is a big commitment...
Yes. It is. That's the point. Have you noticed how yang everything has become? Everyone wants something fast. Learn more, be more, expand, hold more, speak more, share more, create more, take another workshop, another retreat, another modality, another practice... chase, chase, chase.
It's masculine energy. Active, go, go, go.
If you think you can become a Reiki Master in a weekend or become Shaman by taking a 2 week online pre-recorded course, be my guest, this isn't for you.
This is yin energy. You will descend into the arms of the grandmother's. They will whisper you their wisdom and guide you in right time. They'll ask you to get to know yourSelf in new ways, ways that demand your time, honour and commitment.
We will meet twice a month, live, for 90 minutes of teaching, practicing and sharing. In between, you will commit to drumming for 5 mins every day, trying the practices I send you, and journalling about your experience. There'll be a private Facebook group for the community to stay in touch, support and encourage each other.
That's 24 live classes, all recorded for you to keep.
Of course, the yin energy understands you may not always be able to attend. That's okay. Do what you can. We'll be waiting for you when you're ready to return.
This isn't a technical class, more a personal immersion and opportunity to practice trusting yourSelf to sing, drum and move your body as embodied spiritual practice in apprenticeship to becoming a sacred rhythm keeper in your own right.
I'll also support you in connecting with the raw power of your true voice and awakening tones and sounds to alchemise and dissolve individual, ancestral and collective trauma, transforming them into medicine for your soul.
Drumming, singing and dancing aren't special talents only a few are born with. They are innate ancient behaviours we all possess. When they're activated by rememberHering, they awaken powerful legacies of possibility.
Willow
‘It wasn’t until I started working with Dawn, that I learned how this search for external validation and acceptance, had disconnected me from myself. Dawn expertly guided me on a deep journey into myself, and provided me with a safe space where I could explore and uncover the woman I am underneath decades of false beliefs.’
Drumming and Singing for Embodiment and Brain and Nervous System Health
When did you last notice your heartbeat? When did you last notice the hum of energy between your feet and the earth? When did you last tune in to the pulse of life? Have you ever done that? Can you do it now?
If you aren’t inhabiting your body, all the way to your feet, then how can you stand on your own two feet? The answer is, you can’t.
Being disembodied makes it hard to make decisions, trust yourself, feel secure in your choices, and have confidence in your capability.
Being dysregulated increases stress and anxiety, limits creativity and connection, wrecks your resilience, and your ability to show up, be present and stand firm.
Without a solid foundation, deep roots, and a firm footing it’s impossible to develop a trusting relationship with yourself.
Drumming and singing anchor us in our bodies. Sound rhythm and vibration reverberate through our bones, muscle fibres, brain tissue and cellular structure. Our bodies are complex musical instruments tuned to resonate with each other and our environment through entrainment.
Drumming and singing facilitate structural and functional changes in our brain, foster neuroplasticity and reshape neural networks. They increase and deepen emotional resonance, regulate our nervous system and activate sensory-motor processing. Drumming in particular, strengthens the connection between both hemispheres of the brain.
Our ancestors knew what we've forgotten. They didn't engage in these profound practices merely for entertainment. Drum and voice were used in ritual, ceremony, prayer, and to access altered states of consciousness enabling us to journey to ancestral and divine realms to retrieve information.
Rach
Growing up in a white religious family in South Africa, I was told the drums I could hear in the distance at night were evil. To me, that meant that the yearning in my body to dance to the rhythm made me evil too. Coming to this practice helped me clear religious and generational trauma. Using my voice to sing in circle with other women re-established my confidence in mySelf and empowered me to leave my broken marriage, job and disordered relationship with food.
Join Me
Your investment for A Year With the Drum is $949 NZ. You can secure your place with a $250 non-refundable deposit.
If you'd like to know more, or you have questions I haven't answered here, book a discovery call with me. I'd love to meet you.
The first 20 people to sign up receive a free personal and private 90 min sound healing session with me.
If you need time to pay please get in touch. We can arrange terms.
