Anahata Sessions: SEPTEMBER
Step into the rhythm of Virgo Season with an evening devoted to the hearth, celebrating and attuning to the symbol of the cornucopia and deeply connecting to the beauty of presence. This Anahata Session at the Golden Drum invites you to unearth the intelligence of the heart and mind in harmony in an embodied way.
Virgo New Moon Meditation
Join us under the energy of the Virgo New Moon, set your intentions for this transition into the fall season.
Dream Seed: A Journey Through Sound
Dream Seed is a sound healing ensemble created by members of Golden Drum, a sacred arts and cultural center in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and the Sacred Arts Research Foundation and Didge Project. Through shamanic chanting, mantra, overtone singing, indigenous music traditions, and sacred sound practices, Dream Seed creates immersive sound healing journeys using didgeridoos, crystal singing bowls, gongs, bells, harmoniums, tuning forks, and other overtone-rich instruments. These vibrational experiences support deep relaxation, meditation, inner exploration, and connection through the healing power of sound.
Healing Ceremony with Wixárika Elder
In the Wixárika tradition, healing and cleansing ceremonies are done for the soul and the spirit. Using prayer tools such as candles, feathers, sacred words, incense and the elements, “limpias” (cleanings) are performed with the help of the ancestors to bless a person’s life and path.
Awaken The Light Within Presents THE 22 METHOD
A 44-day journey of simple daily practices combining yoga, breathwork, and elemental wisdom to help you feel more grounded, energized, clear, and connected. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE TIME WILL BE ADJUSTED TO ACCOMMODATE PARTICIPANTS WORLDWIDE.
Songs for Healing & Liberation with Andy Fischer-Price & Rebecca Elatiki
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.
Dream Seed Sound Healer Training Program, 2026-2027
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.
Alash Ensemble, Kevin Nathaniel & Dream Seed Live in NYC
Join us at Golden Drum for a special evening of live music bringing together Alash Ensemble, Kevin Nathaniel, and Dream Seed for an exploration of rhythm, resonance, voice, and music from across cultures.
Full Moon Meditation | Scorpio Sun x Taurus Moon
Join us under the energy of the Scorpio Sun and Taurus Moon, take this moment of reflection during this season of transformation.
African Drum Class with Abdoul Doumbia, Mali
Djembe master, Abdoul Doumbia of Mali teaches us about the traditional healing rhythms and uses of the Djembe.
Hand Drum Making Workshop with Maestro Manuel Rufino
The drum is a sacred instrument that invokes the heart and 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, Maestro Manuel Rufino, spiritual leader, elder, and the visionary founder of the Golden Drum brings us together in a sacred space to create our own ceremonial hand drums and learn a frame hand drum-tying technique.
Day of the Ancestors Cacao Ceremony with Maestro Manuel, Dream Seed and Golden Drum
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.
ARA Healing Arts School Year Long Apprenticeship & Launch
Golden Drum is pleased to announce the launch of ARA Healing Arts School, guided by community members Brooke Hamre Gillespie and Nicole Adriana Casanova. ARA Healing Arts honors and integrates the sacred traditions of humanity that support awakening, consciousness, and holistic healing. Brooke and Nicole bring over twenty years each of dedicated study and practice in traditional healing arts and spiritual lineages.
African Drum Class with Abdoul Doumbia, Mali
Djembe master, Abdoul Doumbia of Mali teaches us about the traditional healing rhythms and uses of the Djembe.
Full Moon Meditation | Sagittarius Sun x Gemini Moon
Join us under the energy of the Sagittarius Sun and Gemini Moon, as we begin to prepare for the winter season ahead, this is a perfect time to reflect on all the fruits of our fall harvest and prepare our minds and bodies for the hibernation ahead.
Darbuka Drumming, Open Level with Raquy Danziger
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.
Sagittarius New Moon Meditation
The Sagittarius New Moon marks a quiet beginning in the midst of Sagittarius season—a moment to pause, look toward the horizon, and consider where we are being called to grow.
African Drum Class with Abdoul Doumbia, Mali
Djembe master, Abdoul Doumbia of Mali teaches us about the traditional healing rhythms and uses of the Djembe.
Unveiling the Temple Body with the Sacred Roses by Ananda (Brazil)
Join Ananda for a two-hour experiential workshop exploring the body as a space for awareness, transformation, and deeper connection with ourselves.
Drum Workshop—by Yara Yaworâ (Brazil)
In this 2-hour workshop, I will share knowledge about the Sacred Lineage of Umbanda (an Afro-Brazilian religion), where we will learn more deeply about who the Orixás are and how they work through the elements of Nature.
African Drum Circle with Abdoul Doumbia, Mali presented by Sounds of Liberation
Special guest and traditional Djembe player, Abdoul Doumbia of Mali returns to teach us about the traditional rhythms and uses of the Djembe.
New Moon Meditation
In this Leo season we are invited to go inside and connect with our inner fire. Where do we shine? Where do we want to shine, but are holding ourselves back? This is a time of creativity and light. So join us for a sound bath, astrological talk, warm tea and more to connect with your individuality.
Anahata Sessions: AUGUST
As the Sun moves through Leo, we are invited into the heart—into courage, expression, and the living light that animates all things. The Sun, center of our solar system and source of life, reminds us of our own inner luminosity and our connection to the greater web of existence. At the same time, we are in the aura of the full-moon lunar eclipse in Aquarius, which shines a light on all of the ways we are working to express our individual vision within the context of the greater collective.
Cacao Ceremony in Honor of the Elder Brother, José Manuel Estrada, with Maestro Manuel Rufino and Dream Seed
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. Join us Friday, July 28th, for a very special, heart opening cacao ceremony guided by Maestro Manuel Rufino & Dream Seed. We will dedicate this ceremony to honoring and celebrating the life, dedicated service, and birthday of the Elder Brother, Sat Guru Dr. José Manuel Estrada.
Info Session for Dream Seed Sound Healer Training 2026-2027 - Online Via Zoom (FREE)
A 90-minute live online informational meeting to share about what participants can expect in the Dream Seed Sound Healer Training Program which starts October 2026. Come ask questions!
Anahata Sessions
Under the astrological waters of Cancer, we gather as a community to study and practice what it means to flow and to be in the flow of life, reweaving narratives around nurturance, safety, support, play, and freedom in our expression and relationship to the space around us.
3Y Yoga
3Y Yoga offers a grounded, accessible path for cultivating inner calm, embodied awareness, and harmonious ways of moving through the world.
Liquid Tobacco & Ancestral Massage with Tania Montahuano Ushigua (Sapara Nation)
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.
African Drum Circle with Abdoul Doumbia, Mali presented by Sounds of Liberation
Special guest and traditional Djembe player, Abdoul Doumbia of Mali returns to teach us about the traditional rhythms and uses of the Djembe.
3Y Yoga
3Y Yoga offers a grounded, accessible path for cultivating inner calm, embodied awareness, and harmonious ways of moving through the world.
Full Moon Meditation
The Cancer Sun and Capricorn Full Moon asks us to reconcile our inner needs with the outer world. Cancer is the sign of the nurturer, the mother, it is ruled by the moon so it is particularly influenced by the moon's placements at this time. Capricorn is ruled by Saturn, it is seen as the Father archetype, bringing structure, responsibility. This axis also invites a mediation between our home life and our work life, and seeing where we may be in our out of balance between these two worlds.
3Y Yoga
3Y Yoga offers a grounded, accessible path for cultivating inner calm, embodied awareness, and harmonious ways of moving through the world.
Summer Solstice: A Day of Yoga & Renewal
In collaboration with M.A.I.S.C., Heart & Mind Festival, The Sacred Arts Research Foundation, and Acción por la Unidad Mundial, Golden Drum invites you to join us for a special gathering in honor of the Summer Solstice and International Day of Yoga. This is a FREE event. ALL are welcome.
3Y Yoga
3Y Yoga offers a grounded, accessible path for cultivating inner calm, embodied awareness, and harmonious ways of moving through the world.
Anahata Sessions
Join us for a deeply restorative evening dedicated to soothing the nervous system, awakening the voice, and reconnecting to the body’s innate capacity for healing. This Anahata Session will center on learning more about the vagus nerve, one of the body’s primary pathways for regulation, connection, and restoration.
3Y Yoga
3Y Yoga offers a grounded, accessible path for cultivating inner calm, embodied awareness, and harmonious ways of moving through the world.
The Way of the Warrior Priest With Kumu Ramsay Taum (Saturday Only)
In a time of increasing complexity and tension, how we navigate conflict—both internally and with others—matters as much as the solutions we pursue. This session offers a unique, transformative space rooted in ancestral Hawaiian cultural practice. It invites participants into a hands-on experience that weaves together Lua (Hawaiian combat systems) and Hoʻoponopono (the practice of spiritual alignment and reconciliation).
The Way of the Warrior Priest With Kumu Ramsay Taum
In a time of increasing complexity and tension, how we navigate conflict—both internally and with others—matters as much as the solutions we pursue. This session offers a unique, transformative space rooted in ancestral Hawaiian cultural practice. It invites participants into a hands-on experience that weaves together Lua (Hawaiian combat systems) and Hoʻoponopono (the practice of spiritual alignment and reconciliation).
Prayer Carriers - Women’s Cacao Circle
Prayer Carriers is a call to re-ignite this sacred ritual, bringing 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.
African Drum Circle with Abdoul Doumbia, Mali presented by Sounds of Liberation
Special guest and traditional Djembe player, Abdoul Doumbia of Mali returns to teach us about the traditional rhythms and uses of the Djembe.
3Y Yoga
3Y Yoga offers a grounded, accessible path for cultivating inner calm, embodied awareness, and harmonious ways of moving through the world.
Full Moon Meditation
Since we are in the season of Gemini, which rules our intellectual nature and our desire for more information. As we collect more information about ourselves during this time, this Sagittarius moon helps us to assimilate that information and turn it into knowledge and wisdom to give direction to our lives.
Dream Seed: A Journey Through Sound
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.
African Drum Circle with Abdoul Doumbia, Mali presented by Sounds of Liberation
Special guest and traditional Djembe player, Abdoul Doumbia of Mali returns to teach us about the traditional rhythms and uses of the Djembe.
3Y Yoga Foundations: The Practice of Peace
3Y Yoga Foundations offers a grounded, accessible path for cultivating inner calm, embodied awareness and harmonious ways of moving through the world.
New Moon Meditation
The Taurus New Moon encourages creating beautiful environments inside and out, strengthening our foundations, and initiating financial or self-care routines that nourish the body and spirit, focusing on creating long-term security.
Join us for this moment of self-care through conscious connection to the astrological moment, a sound bath, warm tea and more.
Prayer Carriers - Heart of the Earth
Prayer Carriers is a call to re-ignite this sacred ritual, bringing 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.
Gathering of Wisdom and Sacred Community: Welcoming Maestro Domingo Días Porta and Maria Guadalupe Abundis de Días to Golden Drum
With gratitude and reverence, we welcome Maestro Domingo Días Porta and Maria Guadalupe Abundis de Días to North America for a special time of shared presence and learning. This gathering is an invitation into sacred community — a space where wisdom is not delivered from a stage, but woven through dialogue, listening, and sincere exchange. Together, we will reflect on what it means to cultivate peace and community as a living practice.