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.
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.
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.
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.
We will explore the complex and creative expressions of world percussion in accompaniment with drums, group singing, chanting, vocalization, and dance.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Together we will cultivate the consciousness of joy, love, gratitude, dignity and peace in ourselves to radiate throughout the world.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Together we will cultivate the consciousness of joy, love, gratitude, dignity and peace in ourselves to radiate throughout the world.
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.
Honor and celebrate the shortest day and longest night of the year with song, dance, prayer, and community!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Together we will cultivate the consciousness of joy, love, gratitude, dignity and peace in ourselves to radiate throughout the world.
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 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.
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.
