As part of Golden Drum’s 15-Year Anniversary, Prayer Carriers is deeply honored to welcome and present esteemed elders from the Haudenosaunee and Lakota traditions. These wisdom keepers will share sacred stories, ancestral experiences, and the ceremonial practices their traditions use to honor the cycles of life.

This November 14th and 15th we celebrate 15 years since the Golden Drum first opened its doors to New York. Born from a community vision that was guided by our elder, Maestro Manuel Rufino, we gathered collectively to create an oasis where indigenous elders and their wisdom can unite together.

This November 14th and 15th we celebrate 15 years since the Golden Drum first opened its doors to New York. Born from a community vision that was guided by our elder, Maestro Manuel Rufino, we gathered collectively to create an oasis where indigenous elders and their wisdom can unite together.

The drum is a sacred instrument that speaks a universal language. Its rhythmic heartbeat is at the center of ceremonies held by people all over the world. The shamanic drum is used to communicate with the Spirit and to connect our hearts with the heartbeat of the Earth. It is a powerful medicine that heals the body, heart, mind, and spirit. In this workshop, we will come together in a sacred space to create our own ceremonial hand drum and learn a hand drum-tying technique. 

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. 

Join Tania for a unique opportunity to experience these traditional healing practices and to learn directly from a keeper of the living tradition from the Sapara Nation.

Join us to take a moment to honor your growth, soften into your becoming, and be present the transformations you may be moving through with an astrological conversation, sound bath and guided meditation, integration circle and more.

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.

In celebration of Golden Drum’s 15 year anniversary, Shola & Brooke dive into their favorite repertoire of songs for this special 3 hour workshop! Experience the unifying force of a group singing and playing guitar together. This class is available In-person and on zoom! 100% of the proceeds will be donated to support fundraising efforts of our 501-c3 Non-Profit Organization, M.A.I.S.C

Together we will cultivate the consciousness of joy, love, gratitude, dignity and peace in ourselves to radiate throughout the world.

Join us in mediation as we discuss more about the astrology of this time, enter a sound bath and guided mediation, and more to connect with, realign and harmonize our inner and external worlds. 

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.

As the harvest ripens around us, we pause to give thanks for the dreams that have taken root, the messages received in stillness, and the clarity that has begun to emerge. Tz’ikin calls us to listen deeply to Spirit, to the whispers of the Earth, and to the song of our own soul.

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. 

The Mapuche Lafkenche nation lives at the gateway to Patagonia in southern Chile. Despite colonization, they have preserved their traditions over time—protecting their land and keeping alive their prayers and ways of honoring the spirits. They are a nation of the moon, with silver as a symbol of their water lineage—beings guided by lunar cycles. Their lives revolve around these cycles, carrying messages about the feminine, the role of women, and the balance of the human lineage.

Join us to celebrate and connect with this astronomical phenomenon of equal day and night. Together we will sing, pray and dance with the sacred plant teacher, cacao in a ceremony of light and gratitude.

Join Andy Fisher-Price and Rebecca Elatiki for an evening of heart-centered, visionary folk music in service of personal and collective healing, liberation, and remembrance. 

A 90-minute live online informational meeting to share about what participants can expect in the Dream Seed Sound Healer Training Program. Come ask questions!

Join us this Virgo season for the Pisces full moon to call in the balance of the practical knowledge and spiritual wisdom that we carry within us.

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. 

Over three nourishing days in the wild stillness of the Catskills, we will gather in sacred sisterhood to birth our drums, not just as instruments, but as sacred companions for prayer and healing. We will journey into nature together for an immersive experience, returning to the heart, the heartbeat of the Earth, and the wisdom that lives deep within us all. 

Join us this Leo season for the Aquarius full moon and the Lion’s Gate Portal to connect with your inner creativity, set intentions for life, and more.

Journey into the wisdom of two ancient traditions—the non-dual teachings of Vedanta and the sacred chants of the Amazon rainforest—as we explore timeless truths about the nature of the Self, consciousness, and the path to inner freedom.

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. 

Join us for a special healing ceremony with the Venerable Lama Konchok Sonam (Tibet), who will be sharing teachings, practices and medicine from the Tibetan tradition, including a specially formulated ‘blessing pill’ for the purpose of healing all sickness.

This month, as we attune to the energy of the New Moon in Leo, we invite you to embrace your authentic self and explore the vibrant creativity that arises from it. We’ll begin with an intention-setting circle, accompanied by a seasonal herbal tea infusion to ground us and connect with the natural rhythms around us.

This workshop offers a taste of this sacred art form, guiding you through the process and teaching you how to create your own illuminated painting.

In this workshop Raquy will teach you how to play the darbuka (aka dumbek), the Middle Easter goblet drum. You will learn the basic techniques, some middle easter rhythms and solo phrases. You will also to accompany some traditional melodies played by Raquy on the Kamancha.