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Immerse yourself in the beauty and power of traditional indigenous ceremonial arts, jewelry, clothing, tapestries, rare sound healing instruments, herbal apothecary and wild-handcrafted products. M.E.S.A features local artisans as well as ethically sourced, and fair-traded indigenous arts & gifts.
This is a deep dive into creating healing spaces with the power of drones, overtone-rich instruments and atmospheric soundscapes that transport listeners to another world. Most of the instruments we work with in this module are intuitive and require little to no technical skill, yet have unlimited potential for expression, making this an excellent program for beginners and experts alike.
Prayer Carriers is a call to bring together women from all walks of life to share, to pray, to dream, and to find the healing prayers and actions that guide us all towards a more natural existence.
Dream Seed is a sound healing ensemble created by members of Golden Drum, Sacred Arts Research Foundation, and Didge Project. Shamanic chanting, mantras, overtone singing, Native American songs, indigenous music, didgeridoos, crystal singing bowls, bells, gongs, harmoniums, tuning forks and other overtone-emitting instruments are used to create an environment conducive to deep relaxation and inward investigation.
As we gather under the illuminating light of the Gemini moon, you'll be guided to explore new perspectives and enhance clarity in your life. Experience the vibrations of sound as they harmonize with Reiki energy, promoting relaxation and opening pathways for self-discovery.
Learn traditional uses of the drum and how to work with it in a ceremonial healing context. Then embark on creating your own animal hide drum by hand in a drum making ceremony.
In this workshop we will guide participants on how to use the medicine of their voice through singing, chanting, mantra, icaros, toning, overtone vocalizations, and other vocal techniques, with and without instrumental accompaniment.
Learn to play many different types of healing wind instruments including flutes, jaw harps, om wands, the didgeridoo, and the harmonica. The majority of the wind instruments used in this workshop are of an intuitive nature so no prior music experience is necessary to attend this program.
In this workshop, we will explore the complex and creative expressions of world percussion in accompaniment with drums, group singing, chanting, vocalization, and dance.
This program will give sound healing practitioners the tools needed to understand the depth and consciousness on how to properly and safely hold space, how to guide recipients into a place of equanimity, and sustain personal balance while working with many different people and energies in the role of a healer.
Davi and Yara will help us to channel our inner healing spirit by guiding us to dance with the support of atabaque drumming, and the devotional chants to the Amazonian and African deities, They will share their unique tradition of Brazilian Umbandaime which combines African and European spiritual practices with native Amazonian plant medicines.
This week’s Prayer Carriers class will be led by Kawennontie from the Haudenosaunee (Mohawk) nation, who will share teachings on how the stars, Grandmother Moon, and Mother Earth guide women in understanding womanhood. FreeDom Flowers, owner of Mama Flowers Healing Art Sanctuary, will also join to guide participants in connecting with the Heart of the Earth and the Spirit of the Rose, a symbol of self-trust, self-love, and the divine feminine.
Dive deep into the elemental healing expression of sound. This course will guide participants on how to structure a sound bath in relation the medicine wheel and the four elements: air, fire water, and earth.
Join us as we come together to connect with the powerful energy of the New Moon in Scorpio. We will discuss the astrology of the time, take a moment to set intentions, enter into a sound bath with reiki, and end with an integration circle with a warm drink led by Cassie Luzenski and Adrian DiMatteo.
Come and harmonize with your ancestors, heal old relationships and make peace with the ones that came before us. Our annual Day of the Ancestors ceremony is an opportunity to forget, forgive, and let go. Together we will build a beautiful flower mandala altar celebrating those that came before us, and we will pray with the sacred medicine of cacao and allow the transcendent music of Dream Seed and the Golden Drum community to carry us into our hearts.
Dream Seed is a sound healing ensemble created by members of Golden Drum, Sacred Arts Research Foundation, and Didge Project. Participants are led through guided meditations and sound healing practices designed to harmonize body, mind and spirit.
Prayer Carriers is a call to bring together women from all walks of life to share, to pray, to dream, and to find the healing prayers and actions that guide us all towards a more natural existence.
This introductory course on facilitating sound healing work (private sessions, sound baths, etc.) will cover what sound healing is, why it works, how vibration impacts consciousness, and will discuss ancient uses of the practice up to the present day. Participants will have the opportunity to both receive healing sound and to practice facilitating sound healing sessions. Members of Dream Seed will also share and breakdown their unique approach to using sound in healing contexts. This is an experiential workshop in which students will have the opportunity to play instruments and implement techniques discussed. Friday night will include an extended sound bath by Dream Seed.
This 9-Month, 120-hour in-person and online multi-cultural training course is designed to give participants a hands-on approach to facilitating sound healing sessions and using sound for personal enrichment. By bridging the fields of sacred music, energy work, and healing traditions, participants will strengthen their capacity as sound workers and will walk away with the skills and knowledge to be able to incorporate sound into healing sessions and meditative environments.
Join Mexica elders Yolanda Porcayo and Lupita Lare Tovar on Tuesday, October 8th, to learn about tools to create your own sacred space. As the Day of the Dead approaches, we will learn how to create an altar to remember and honor our families and our ancestors.
Join us as we come together to connect with the powerful energy of the New Moon and Solar Eclipse in Libra. This is a wonderful moment for deep self reflection as we turn towards the energy of Libra for guidance on how to balance the scales of our relationship with ourselves and with others. We will discuss the astrology of the time and the meanings of the solar eclipse, then we will enter a combined Reiki and Sound meditation led by Cassie Luzenski and Adrian DiMatteo.
This is the last chance to participate in a Cacao Ceremony at the Golden Drum with Nana Marina Cruz while she is in New York, don’t miss it!
The Sacred Song School initiates its fall season with chants from the ancestral roots of the amazon. Zezinho Yube Huni Kuin and his daughter Luciana Txira will be sharing traditional songs from the Huni Kuin tradition.
This special prayer ceremony, led by Nana Marina Cruz, aims to unite us as we honor and pray for the protection of the vision, voices, actions, and sacred practices of indigenous leaders and nations worldwide.
Nathan Phillips (Omaha), executive director of the Native Youth Alliance is putting out a call to prayer! Join us to put up a Tipi in Stuyvesant Cove Park (Manhattan) on Thursday morning (Sep 26th) at 8am. Visit anytime between sunrise and sunset. Bring your good energy, come be with us and share this space and time, with a respectful mind, heart and spirit.
This event is SOLD OUT, limited space available at the door, first come first serve. Thank you!
Join Yube Huni Kuin for a hapé ceremony at Golden Drum. In addition to sharing hapé, an ancient medicinal plant blend from the Amazon, Yube will share traditional music and knowledge.
The upcoming full moon in Pisces is a beautiful time to go inwards and reflect on our inner being. To honor this time we will come together in an intentional way to receive the energy of the Pisces moon. Led by Cassie Luzenski and Adrian DiMatteo, we will begin by sharing the astrology of the time, our intentions, and connecting with the waters and vibrations of sound, followed by an integration circle with tea.
Golden Drum is getting a fresh new look! Join us for our unveiling and cacao ceremony with Dream Seed on the 29th to celebrate our newly beautified space. This event will also serve as a fundraiser to support our reopening.
The upcoming full moon in Aquarius is a powerful time, being that it is a super moon and also a blue moon. Join us for a sound and reiki meditation, with tea and lights snacks included. Hope to see you there!
Join Dream Seed for a live information session via Zoom about our upcoming sound healer training course. Meet course instructors Jerry Walsh, AJ Block and Brooke Gillespie and use this opportunity to ask questions and find out more about this training. We will also hear from alumni who have completed the year-long course. We will demonstrate some of the sound healing instruments and techniques that will be explored during the program.
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The Dream Seed Sound Healer Training Program is an immersive multicultural course designed to give people a hands-on approach for facilitating sound healing sessions. Participants will strengthen their capacity as sound workers, walking away with the skills and knowledge to be able to begin to incorporate sound into healing sessions and meditative environments through an interdisciplinary approach, bridging the fields of sound, science, sacred music, energy work, and healing traditions. This program is for people of all levels of experience with sound, music and healing work, and is great for those who want to go deeper into doing sound healing work for others as well as those who want to explore sound for personal practice. Participants who meet the attendance requirements will receive a certification of course completion.
Throughout the course of this training, we will focus on various exercises to learn more about sound healing through intention setting, listening, giving, receiving, and developing our intuition in relationship to sound. Participants are encouraged but not required to bring their own sound healing instruments to our sessions. Many instruments from around the world will be available for participants to utilize and a variety of sound-healing instruments will also be available for sale.
The training course will include a weekend intensive in upstate New York in June 2025 (in-person participants only) where participants will go deep into traditional healing practices from around the globe. There will be multiple expert guest teachers for several modules in the course.
Full details on the Sound Healer Training Program can be found here
The “Eye of God'' is a sacred symbol and motif in Wixárika (Huichol) art. While they come in many forms, God’s Eyes are often made by wrapping brightly colored strings around sticks in the form of a diamond. These objects of sacred art are prayers for protection of the family and community, and are often placed on altars, as offerings in nature, and on pilgrimage.
Join us for an immersive journey of self-discovery and relaxation at our "Breath and Sound" event. Breathwork will be guided by Oihana and the Sound Journey will be created by Adrian DiMatteo, an experienced sound healer and excellent musician.
Join Ekaa Virikuta Wixárika (the wind of the Wixárika people) — wisdom keeper, master artisan and ceremonial leader — as he shares the wisdom and cosmology of one of the oldest living traditions on earth.
Join Dream Seed for a sacred cacao ceremony as we connect our hearts and experience new life through the healing qualities of cacao. We are honored to be joined by special guest, elder, Ekaa Virikuta Wixárika (the wind of the Wixárika people).
Doña Leova is a Traditional Healer from the Nahuatl nation of Puebla, Mexico. Her work is based in a cosmology of Healing that is known as the "Tradition of the Grandmothers," named because historically, one grandmother would share the practice with one granddaughter who would then go on to become the next practitioner.
Join us for an immersive journey of self-discovery and relaxation at our "Breath and Sound" event. Breathwork will be guided by Oihana and the Sound Journey will be created by Adrian DiMatteo, an experienced sound healer and excellent musician.
A 2-day workshop that will cover the depth of the discipline and energetic hygiene required to begin to be a sound healing practitioner.
The cacao ceremony is a sacred gathering in which participants gather to connect to their hearts and experience new life through the healing qualities of cacao.
A plant revered by the indigenous people of the Americas, cacao has received widespread recognition through its usage as the key ingredient in chocolate. For the Mayan people, cacao is utilized as a rebirthing medicine, helping people get rid of negativity, release emotional suffering, and experience universal love.
Traditional Indian music is renowned worldwide as a sacred musical tradition that is unique, mystical, complex, and deep. In this weekend workshop, participants will be introduced to Indian Classical Music and mantra through the concepts of melody, intonation, mood, rhythm and raga.
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