“Those who dance are seen as crazy by those who do not hear the drums…..”

Thursday Evening Drumming Class–7pm-8:15 in the Round House : Sharpen your skills and enjoy the rhythms!! Micah Harding is teaching this weekly Drum Class Therese and Tere join along to liven things up. Cost is $15 per class or $40 for a full month of classes (paid in advance).

DRUM’n'DANCE–Every now and then Therese and Micah call together their drumming buddies for an evening of lively rhythms and dancing in the Great Room! If you don’t see one on the calendar and want to come–let us know! Sometimes it is prompts from our community that activate us to make this happen!

The “MOTHER DRUM”

The other kind of drumming that happens here comes to us from the native peoples of this North American continent. This kind of drumming has a group of us standing around a “Mother Drum” (sometimes called a “pow wow drum”) drumming, singing, praying, playing. The Mother Drum that lives at Sacred Groves is “Tree Heart,” is a beautifully crafted massive drum made of white cedar and elk hide.

Below is a photo and description of what happened with the Mother Drum at the Drum-Dance-Sing workshop Simone LaDrumma and Therese co-facilitated in 2009:

“On Sunday morning ten of us gathered around the drum and proceeded to pound out the heartbeat while Therese, my co-facilitator and owner of Sacred Groves, led us in chants to the Mother Earth. We took turns lying under the drum, feeling its power.   That is me, under the drum. I could feel the earth beating beneath my body. Soon I couldn’t tell what was the drum, what was the earth, and what was my heart. It was all One.
In Joyful Rhythm–Simone