African Drum Circle with Abdoul Doumbia, Mali presented by Sounds of Liberation
Welcoming back special guest and traditional Djembe player, Abdoul Doumbia of Mali. We will continue to focus on connecting to rhythm and to the traditional medicine of the Djembe and other drums. These classes are for all levels of players, there is an abundance of knowledge being shared and regardless of your experience, this is a special and rare opportunity to learn from a master.
Full Moon Meditation
The astrological new year is upon us! Aries season marks the beginning of the astrological calendar with the energy of the spring equinox. This is a time of tending to the soil and preparing to plant the seeds for the year.
Sound Healing Practitioner's Weekend: A 2-Day Retreat in the Catskills presented by the Dream Seed Sound Healer Training Program
Dive deep into the elemental healing expression of sound. This course will guide participants on how to structure a sound bath in relation to the medicine wheel and the four elements: air, fire water, and earth. Our intention is to teach sound practitioners how to create a ceremonial sound journey that draws upon the invocation of the elemental forces, weaving sonic expression into a cohesive narrative, guiding listeners towards a state of peace and harmony. We draw upon teachings passed directly to us by elders from various indigenous traditions, whose healing practices are focused on sound and music. We will also explore constructing a ceremonial four elements altar for healing work. This is a great course to understand the mythology of sound in ceremony and how modern day practitioners can work with these teachings in their own work.
Mayan Abdominal Massage Course: Balance for the Woman's Womb
From the perspective of the Mayan people, a woman's body has been considered a sacred temple, whose value lies not in its superficial appearance, but in its very essence. The connection that exists between a woman and her inner self is achieved through self-love and the support of the medicine women who are born with the mission of caring for us, helping us reconnect with our bodies, and guiding us.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Certified by the Yoga Alliance, 3Y is a comprehensive yoga science helping students integrate the mental, emotional and physical benefits of yoga for peace and health.
Psychophysical exercises
Cold shower, conscious relaxation
Teachings on yoga science
Hatha Yoga Asanas
This program is rooted in the teachings of Yug Yoga Yoghism: A Mathesis of Psychology by Dr. Serge Raynaud de la Ferrière (read the full text and other works here).
WHAT YOU WILL RECEIVE IN THIS WORKSHOP:
4 hours of in-person yoga instruction
Sensitive guidance and adjustments catered to all body types
Connection to a community of practitioners who value the tradition and integrity of yoga
Helpful structure and discipline to establish your practice
Multimedia documents, presentations, and journal reflections
Connection to a traditional system of yoga rooted in ancient knowledge
Practices to cultivate inner peace
REGISTER TODAY AND BEGIN THE PRACTICE OF PEACE
EARLY BIRD Suggested Donation $44 until 4/16
After 4/16 Suggested Donation $55
Includes 4 hours of practice and a nourishing vegetarian meal.
*No one turned away for lack of funds.
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.
Sound and the Elements: A 5-Hour Workshop presented by the Dream Seed Sound Healer Training Program
Dive deep into the elemental healing expression of sound. This course will guide participants on how to structure a sound bath in relation to the medicine wheel and the four elements: air, fire water, and earth. Our intention is to teach sound practitioners how to create a ceremonial sound journey that draws upon the invocation of the elemental forces, weaving sonic expression into a cohesive narrative, guiding listeners towards a state of peace and harmony. We draw upon teachings passed directly to us by elders from various indigenous traditions, whose healing practices are focused on sound and music. We will also explore constructing a ceremonial four elements altar for healing work. This is a great course to understand the mythology of sound in ceremony and how modern day practitioners can work with these teachings in their own work.
Spring Equinox Celebration
Join us for Yoga & Cacao for our Spring Equinox Celebration in honor of our 15 year anniversary!
Sonic Acupuncture: Instruments as Healing Tools - A 5-Hour Workshop presented by the Dream Seed Sound Healer Training Program
Using ancient techniques, participants will learn how to apply a variety of instruments: flutes, rattles, chakapas, tuning forks, and many others to specific regions of a listener’s body to activate deep catharsis.
Prayer Carriers - Women's Day Celebration
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
We welcome special guest and traditional Djembe player, Abdoul Doumbia. In this month’s Sounds of Liberation we will focus on connecting to our rhythm and to the traditional medicine of the Djembe and other drums.
Full Moon Meditation
This Pisces season we connect with the energy of the Full Moon in Virgo. A special time of connecting to how we balance the principles of science (Virgo) and spirituality (Pisces) in our lives. Under the Virgo moon we may become very analytical of our emotions, giving us the opportunity to see why we react to things rather than being ruled by our reactions. This full moon gives us the opportunity to examine our beliefs, and realign with our spiritual truths.
Anahata Sessions
In this Anahata Sessions healing night, participants will receive individual hands-on healing and sonic acupuncture through a deep 1-hour-long Gong meditation, bringing us into resonance with our Universal essence. Swimming through the cosmic waters of Pisces, we open to the super portal of the Full Moon in Virgo early next week. This is a powerful moment for visioning, innovation, and renewal. We will close the meditation with a collective integration, allowing what has surfaced to gently land. Together, we weave a moment of nourishment for the heart and mind—strengthening ourselves for the changes ahead and welcoming the visions and innovations seeking expression through us this year.
World Rhythm, Song and Drumming, A 7-Hour Workshop presented by the Dream Seed Sound Healer Training Program
We will explore the complex and creative expressions of world percussion in accompaniment with drums, group singing, chanting, vocalization, and dance.
Amhráin as Gaeilge, Traditional Irish Folk songs with AILÍSE
In this online class, you will get the opportunity to learn about the key elements of Irish singing from both the sean nós and traditional folk style. You will be introduced to a few songs as Gaeilge (in Irish) with some notes about the stories within the songs, the history of them as well as translations and phonetics. No experience required!
Cacao Ceremony with Maestro Manuel Rufino and Dream Seed in Celebration of Transcendental Love
Love is in the Air: A Special Valentine's Day Cacao Ceremony with Maestro Manuel Rufino and Dream Seed in Celebration of Transcendental Love - Open to All.
Prayer Carriers - Women’s Cacao Ceremony
Transcendence: An Invitation to be Guided by Love
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.
Doña Leova: Medicine + Healing in the Mexican Tradition
As a part of Golden Drum’s 15 year anniversary celebrations, we welcome Doña Leova, a healer and community leader from the Nahuatl Indian Tradition of Mexico.
African Drum Circle with Abdoul Doumbia, Mali presented by Sounds of Liberation
Together we will cultivate the consciousness of joy, love, gratitude, dignity and peace in ourselves to radiate throughout the world.
Full Moon Meditation
This Aquarius Season we align with the energy of innovation. Aquarius is an air sign yet it is symbolized by the water-bearer. The water-bear pours down to all the wisdom, knowledge, and visions to elevate the collective consciousness. With the moon in opposition to the sun at this time in the sign of Leo, we reflect on how we as individuals show up in the collective. This is a time to focus on cultivating our authenticity, creative self-expression, and releasing old patterns to embrace your unique role within the larger community.
Anahata Sessions
Across many wisdom traditions, there is a shared belief that humanity’s origins arise in the Pleiades. On this day, the Pleiades conjunct the Moon, offering a window into benevolent cosmic energies that support collective healing and awakening. We will gather in a sacred movement practice to embody and connect with our shared prayer for peace. We will close the dance practice with a Pleiadian Lightwork collective meditation accompanied by live sound.
CANCELED * Annual Cacao Ceremony In Honor of Dr. Serge Raynaud de La Ferrière with Maestro Manuel Rufino
With gratitude in our hearts and minds for all of humanity's great teachers, those who came to share transcendent and universal teachings and become catalysts for awakening, we will share in wisdom, sound, and meditation!
Prayer Carriers - Women’s Cacao Ceremony
This January, under the steady and wise influence of Capricorn, we’ll gather in circle with sacred cacao, held in the warmth of sisterhood. Through prayer and shared presence, we’ll invite courage, strength, and grounded determination into the year ahead - so that our steps in 2026 may be renewed, empowered, and peacefully aligned with our truth.
Afro-Roots Rhythm & Song with Kevin Nathaniel - Presented by the Dream Seed Sound Healer Training Program
Tap into the African music tradition, filled with inspirational songs, sounds and rhythms that have spread across the globe and influenced many other genres of music. Kevin’s approach to teaching is an experiential, collaborative, and group experience where participants will literally be feeling, moving, and singing the rhythms they are learning -- the class is a ritual in itself.
Full Moon Meditation
Align your energy with the powerful influence of the Capricorn season and the Cancer full moon. This is a beautiful time to ground in the structured and focused energy of the Capricorn season under the nurturing and intuitive Cancer full moon.
Sounds of Liberation
Together we will cultivate the consciousness of joy, love, gratitude, dignity and peace in ourselves to radiate throughout the world.
Dream Seed x Anahata Sessions
Dream Seed invites you for an immersive evening of healing and transformation in a collaboration with Anahata Sessions. Participants will create intentions for the coming New Year, we will have a candle meditation and vision practice to begin our sonic journey with Dream Seed, and Dream Seed will provide transcendental sound while participants receive personal healing, designed to foster deep relaxation, expand consciousness, and support personal growth and renewal.
Winter Solstice Cacao Ceremony
Honor and celebrate the shortest day and longest night of the year with song, dance, prayer, and community!
Wind Instruments For Sound Healers, A 5-Hour Workshop presented by the Dream Seed Sound Healer Training Program
Learn to play many different types of healing wind instruments including flutes, jaw harps, om wands, the didgeridoo, and the harmonica. The majority of the wind instruments used in this workshop are of an intuitive nature so no prior music experience is necessary to attend this program.
Prayer Carriers - Forgiveness Prayer
You are lovingly invited to gather in a sacred circle on the day of 8 Ajmak, a potent moment to honor the spirit of forgiveness, restore harmony in our relationships, and offer prayers for healing across time and lineage. Ajmak reminds us that to err is human - and to forgive is divine. It is the thread that weaves compassion through our stories, allowing us to release burdens and walk forward with grace.
MESA: Marketplace of Ethically Sourced Arts - Pop-Up Market
Immerse yourself in the beauty and power of traditional indigenous ceremonial arts, jewelry, clothing, tapestries, rare sound healing instruments, herbal apothecary and wild-handcrafted products. M.E.S.A features local artisans as well as ethically sourced, and fair-traded indigenous arts & gifts.
Full Moon Meditation (Sagittarius/Gemini Full Moon)
This moon invites us to reflect upon and recommit to our spiritual learning. This event is an opportunity to practice that learning and orient ourselves towards higher levels of communication with the divine and spiritual aspects of life.
Sounds of Liberation
Together we will cultivate the consciousness of joy, love, gratitude, dignity and peace in ourselves to radiate throughout the world.
Freeing the Voice, An 8-Hour Workshop presented by the Dream Seed Sound Healer Training Program
In this workshop we will guide participants on how to use the medicine of their voice through singing, chanting, mantra, toning, overtone vocalizations, and other vocal techniques, with and without instrumental accompaniment.
The Mayan Worldview: Introduction to the Mayan Calendar with Nana Marina Cruz
The Tzolk’in, the central Mayan calendar wheel, cycles through 20 days repeated 13 times, totaling 260 days—matching human gestation. Its 20 nawales represent fingers and toes, and 13 tones correspond to major joints. Each Ha'ab year (365 days) sees a new nawal rule.
Prayer Carriers - Remembering the Sacred Ways
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.