  Making my first Red Drum: It is hard to believe that it has been so many years now since I made my/the first red drum, which must have been sometime in 2007-so about 10 years ago now, and wow has it ever been a wild ride, full of the most wonderful things that I simply never could have predicted! After I began dyeing drums red and offering workshops to women, the word seemed to spread as more, and more women felt the longing to become Red Drum Carriers and now as I write this in 2017 yet more expansion and opening has come forward..... In 2013 I wrote a Blog post on my experience with the red drum, how it came to me within the shamanic journey realm, and why the colour red was so important in relation to the divine feminine, so if you are curious about this, that post is a great starting place... Since then it has continued to grow and honestly I never could have known how significant the medicine of the Red Drum would become in my life, and the lives of other women, but how could it not, as it is a huge piece of ancient feminine reclamation that has been restored within the red pulse of the drum.... I never could have predicted how much meaning that I myself and other women would find within the creation of their own red drums, but there is something powerful that happens when women gather to create medicine objects! What do women get from Red Drum ceremonies? Not to mention the ceremonies these drums go to, the joy they create for the women playing them, and the ancient connection with the sacred feminine that woman are finding within them. Woman {you} who come to buy or make a red drum with me continually blow me away with your depth of creativity, passionate insights and willingness to dig deep inside to see what resides in your beautiful red hearts. A year ago this month the Grandmother Womb Drum came into form, her pulse specifically asking for healing within the womb of women, asking for more stretching, more sharing, and most importantly more community! And so that brings me to today, this moment here now and what is being asked to come forward, how I am being asked to stretch and grow within this form...to expand out into more communities so that more women can have the chance to craft their own red drums....to become Red Drum Carriers.... What will the Red Drum Ambassador program look like? Well---It is with much excitement that I share the news of an upcoming Ambassador program in which women who are leaders in their communities, those who offer new and full moon ceremonies, small workshops and large workshops, those who are gathering women together to create community and sisterhood, and who wish their group could all become Red Drum Carriers, a chance to make exactly this happen! If you are a leader and would like to offer a Red Drum Making workshop to your community I am setting up a program in which you can do this! As it stands we have several such women offering these workshops with the hope for more, so that the Red Drum can become a beacon for all women, kind of like a secret handshake or nod among women. Imagine seeing another sister carrying her red drum, and with the full understanding of what it is to truly craft and make one of these sacred medicine drums you send her a smile, perhaps introduce yourself as a fellow sister and together a new friendship is formed.... Lets create a sisterhood of mutual respect and understanding, not competition and competitive self destructive comparison, this is what the medicine is asking for-more community, not less! If you are interested Click Here for more information.... The Red Drum is the birth rite of all women--lets see more women becoming carriers, and drummers--because lets face it--the drummers were always women!! “Because drumming was recognized as an ancient source and symbol of the power of female technicians of the sacred, drumming was banned. Henceforth divinity was to be exclusively masculine. The suppression of women was directly linked to the suppression of the goddess.” Layne Redmond, When the Drummers Were Women: A Spiritual History of Rhythm 
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