Drumming The Soul Awake

Dear Drummers, This Saturday I want to offer you an opportunity to sink richly into a "spiritual Halloween." The intention is to offer you a way to honor, listen to or heal your ancestors. Drumming will begin at 7, but please feel free to come earlier to hang out and help with some set up. I'll be in the space by 6:15 PM. As always, come with or without a drum, with or without any experience in drumming, with or without the need to dance wildly, but definitely with a desire to open whatever has been closed off in you for too long, to be with similarly exotically cool people and to sail out onto amber-lit, undulating waves of the irrational human soul-scape. It's going to be a big, messy ceremony - beautiful, and very communal. I'm hoping several people will step forward to help facilitate the ceremony. You don't need special skills or training. I'll let you know what's needed. Just email me. One thing you'll have to do is make prayers each day this...

Shamanic Retreat to Isla Mujeres February 18-25, 2012 Isla Mujeres (The Women's Island) is a small island about a 20 minute ferry ride into the Caribbean Sea from Cancun Mexico. The north end of the island has all the amenities any northern winter vacationer might want: fabulous gourmet dining, interesting shopping, massages on the beach, flowing rum and tequila, and a tiny bit of nightlife. The southern part of the island is its own quiet small town. At the southern tip you'll find Punta Sur, which holds a funky sculpture garden and a 300 year old temple to Ixchel, the Mayan goddess of the sea, the moon, the rain, fertility, the jaguar, weaving, and birth – in other words, one Mayan name for the Great Mother. There by her temple, we will sing, rattle, drum and pray in reverence, surrounded on three sides by the sea, crashing majestically from the wild, open Caribbean side, flowing shallow and gentle from the Yucatan side, and blending into a milky way-like swirl of aqua, cerul...

Dear Drummers, Welcome one and all to drumming this Friday, September 30, at First Universalist Church in cosmically stimulating Uptown, Minneapolis, 7-9:30ish. Drums and many other wahoo-makers are provided if you don't have one. No experience, skill or tools needed - just a desire to be open, to have fun, and if you want, to work on refining your soul-power, so that this whirlwind we call life buffets you to and fro with less ferocity. We are all in a whirlwind life in one form or another, and the reason drumming exists is to help us at least survive the wind, but in the best case scenario, actually exit it. It's good to be in a room of drummers and spiritual seekers, and know that you are not alone in the wind. See you at the drum! Jaime

Within singing distance of the Mississippi River, cradled among the giant trees, with both shelter and open spaces available in case of rain. Saturday, August 13 Time: 5-9ish PM. Hidden Falls State Park - North Gate (Map) Water Ceremony at 6:30. Drum ceremony at 7:30. Drumming, dancing and ebullient wahoo throughout. The intention is simple: Let us gather in gratitude to the spirit of the drum which is also the spirit of the earth and the wholly Holy Spirit of mystery, love, darkness, dreams, openness, pathwalking, beauty-making, inner courage, life-force, God/ess, shaper, unnameable, ungraspable delight-maker, healer and teacher. Bring a drum or rattle (we’ll have extra too), blanket or camp chair if you want to, wares to sell if you want, some food and drink (with a little extra to share) and a desire to commune with the larger tribe of those who love this earth and love to drum. The feeding of the drums: With fire and incense, we ritually feed our drums - an annual ritual that honor...

At the Minnesota Opera Center 620 North First Street Downtown Minneapolis ( Click for a map ) Ample free parking across the street, paid parking all around. 7 PM (Drumming starts at 6:30.) Ticket Price: $20 Order tickets online with a credit card: CLICK HERE or pay cash at the door Past Solstce wahoo events have sold out quickly! Need more info? Email Jaime Meyer: mailto:drummingthesoulawake@gmail.com or visit: http://www.drummingthesoulawake.com/ Part theatre. Part shamanic ceremony. Primal, live, laughing, human reverent reverie.The entire audience drums. Drums are provided, or bring your own! Dancing and ecstasy are allowed (but not required). As he has in seven years of sold-out winter and summer solstice "Blessings" Jaime Meyer will weave storytelling, sheer wildness and sacred shamanic ceremony from Celtic and northern European traditions into an inspiring, funny, spiritually imaginative and, if you are seeking it, healing evening. Idisi (a chorus of ultra cool, groovi...

Dear Drummers, Welcome one and all to the previously unscheduled drum, this Friday, April 29th in the basement womb of First Universalist Church in cosmically kinky uptown Minneapolis! Why the unscheduled drum? Because of the dream I had Monday night. I have kind of ritualized practice in terms of how I serve the Spirit and our drumming community. On the Monday before the next drum, I send prayers for the community out, and I send an open-ended question out to the otherworld “What do the people need from Friday’s drum?” Often a clear answer comes, often none at all, often blurry mixed messages that make me grumble and mutter all night long. Last Monday, with no drum this week, I had a powerful dream. I woke up with a clear message that what was needed this Friday was smudging (cleansing with aromatic smoke). The smudging has a clear purpose: to reshuffle inner energies so that you may trust your visions, trust your love, and trust your power. I waited for a couple of days to make sure ...

Dear Drummers, Welcome, oh air-blown wanderers, oh, pilgrims seeking some inner dawn! Welcome, oh you winged creatures circling over this gorgeous earth, welcome to the drum this Friday in the friendly basement otherworld of First Universalist Church, 34th and Dupont, in Fairy-kissed Uptown, Minneapolis. Welcome, all! No need of drumming skill or experience, no need to own a drum. Only one requirement: show up. Spirit will take it from there. Below is a meditation on "belonging" - the general theme for this Friday's drumming. But first I want to announce two items that may interest you. 1) It is time to make your reservations for the Annual Earth Ecstasy Spring Wahoo Drumming Retreat, May 20-22 (Friday evening to Sunday noon). Honestly, this weekend is so fun, freeing, relaxing and cleansing for the spirit - and it's an unbelievable price ($250 includes accommodations at what the Star Tribune calls "one of the five best resorts in Minnesota). Go to my web site fo...