If you're feeling called to work with the sacred frame drum to facilitate healing experiences, this workshop is for you! Whether you're a healer, therapist, or simply drawn to the sacred drum, this experience will deepen your connection and expand your practice.
Join us for our Drum Facilitator Workshop, where you'll gain the skills, wisdom, and confidence to guide client sessions, drum circles, shamanic journeys, and more, with intention and expertise.
🪘 What You'll Learn:
- The history and sacred traditions of the frame drum
- How drumming affects the brain and nervous system
- How to care for and honor your drum
- Connecting with the spirit of the animal hide
- Facilitating drum circles
- Facilitating shamanic drum journeys
- Working with the drum to transmute and move energy
- Working with the drum to call on ancestors
- Understanding cultural appropriation & colonialism in drumming practices
- Incorporating drumming into individual sessions, such as therapy, Reiki, massage, and other clinical and alternative healing settings
- Working with the drum to process trauma
📅Date: Friday, April 25th
🕜 Time: 4:00 pm - 8:30 pm
📌 Location: Private Residence in SLC (address to be given upon receipt of payment)
✅ What to bring:
- Notebook and pen
- Water bottle
- Blanket and pillow
- Chair
- Potluck item for dinner
☀️ This is an outdoor workshop, so please bring a hat, sunscreen, bug spray etc if you would like.
💰 Investment: $175
Pre-payment secures your spot. You can send your payment via Venmo or Zelle.
Venmo: @Tawny-Cluff
Zelle: 3853210709
📞 Please text Tawny at 385-321-0709 or McKinley at 801-678-0922 to receive the address of the workshop, or to ask any questions.
🪘 OPTIONAL ADD-ON: DRUM BUILDING CEREMONY 🪘
Join us April 26th (the next day) to make your own animal hide drum with Integrated Healing Arts Practitioner Melanie VanMatre. The drum building ceremony will be from 11am - 4pm in South Jordan. Drum prices range from $311 - $575 depending on choice of animal hide and drum size. Please reach out to Melanie at 385-313-8348 to reserve your spot.
✨ The sacred drum is calling you. We are here to help you answer the call! ✨
🤝About Your Instructors:
Tawny Cluff is a certified Sound Healing Practitioner, Holy Fire Reiki Master, Herbalist, Intuitive Reader, and Master of Ceremonial Facilitation. She spends her time in one-on-one client Reiki and Intuitive Reading sessions, teaching and certifying the next wave of Sound Healers and Reiki Practitioners, and holding sacred ceremonies and drum circles. Her message is that everyone is divine, and they do in fact have access to all of the knowledge and gifts that give them answers and healing for their physical, emotional, mental and spiritual needs.
McKinley Merchant is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She works to bridge the gap between the western medical model of healing and the eastern spiritual model of being. She believes in autonomy and that every person has the 'answer' to their healing inside of them. She is the cheerleader guiding you along. She believes that we are all capable of change. McKinley is passionate about community healing and believes that we can not heal in a silo. She is certified in the following: Sound Healer, Ketamine Assisted Therapist, Gottman and Emotionally Focused Therapy. She has taken trainings in Internal Family Systems and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
