Shamanic Drum - Dreaming the Polar Bear
This is a beautiful 14inch Oak frame drum with a Red deer hide, which was carefully selected and traditionally tanned in the Highlands of Scotland.
Birthed into being in the Full Moon Energies of the Worm Moon, the last Full moon of the Winter before we beckon in the Spring energies, bringing with her a newness born out of the composting we have done over the winter.
All my drums come with a hand felted Drum Beater, their full Creation Story & a handcrafted anointing oil. You will also be invited to a personal ’Awaken the Drum Ceremony, either in person at my studio, or via zoom.
She has the most unassuming, yet powerful presence. Here is the Dream of the Polar Bear Drum Creation Story……
This is a beautiful 14inch Oak frame drum with a Red deer hide, which was carefully selected and traditionally tanned in the Highlands of Scotland.
Birthed into being in the Full Moon Energies of the Worm Moon, the last Full moon of the Winter before we beckon in the Spring energies, bringing with her a newness born out of the composting we have done over the winter.
All my drums come with a hand felted Drum Beater, their full Creation Story & a handcrafted anointing oil. You will also be invited to a personal ’Awaken the Drum Ceremony, either in person at my studio, or via zoom.
She has the most unassuming, yet powerful presence. Here is the Dream of the Polar Bear Drum Creation Story……
This is a beautiful 14inch Oak frame drum with a Red deer hide, which was carefully selected and traditionally tanned in the Highlands of Scotland.
Birthed into being in the Full Moon Energies of the Worm Moon, the last Full moon of the Winter before we beckon in the Spring energies, bringing with her a newness born out of the composting we have done over the winter.
All my drums come with a hand felted Drum Beater, their full Creation Story & a handcrafted anointing oil. You will also be invited to a personal ’Awaken the Drum Ceremony, either in person at my studio, or via zoom.
She has the most unassuming, yet powerful presence. Here is the Dream of the Polar Bear Drum Creation Story……
I hadn’t expected to birth this drum on this day. In the morning I had spent most my time in the old Birch Wood forest down the lane, here is where the Fly Agarics flourish in the late Autumn and the Birch Sap flows like a sweet nectar, ushering forth the newness of Spring in March. Here I was gathering up some Plant Kin, ready to bath the hide that was to become a huge Ovoid Drum. As I filled my basket I watched a Blackbird dance from through the briars and brambles and land on the only Oak tree in this place. An Oak tree where the Guardian of this place can often be found – a beautiful Red Kite.
As I stood in the presence of this Oak Tree I found myself in deep conversation about the web of connections that swirled and danced beneath my feet and how, through the mycelium networks these connections ran back through the past, into the present and off, far into future. As I stood there I was reminded that even though I was made of blood and bone and the Oak was made of Oak he was part of me and I was part of him, our stories were interwoven through all of time. And so it was through this network that ran beneath my fee and this conversation that the Oak Hoop sang to me that today was their day to be birthed too.
The snow began to fall as I made way from under Oaks big bare boughs and just as I caught some snow flakes on the tip o my tongue the Oak whispered and now you are part Polar Bear. What a gift that felt to feel into my wildness as a Polar Bear, who brings me the reminder to stay curious & qho for me is a of a symbol of Family and Togetherness.
And so this was how on this day I began to birth the Big Birch Wood Ovoid Drum and this beautiful smaller Oaked Drum.
As I prepared the bath to soak this hide in I swirled in the Plant Kin I had gathered from the Birch Wood forest, some new nettles for nourishment & nurture , some drops of birch water, cleavers to cleanse & dead nettle who brings with them love and sweetness and I stirred them all in with intention and love. As I slipped the hide into the bath she called for snow, so I went into the garden and collected a bucket of freshly fallen snow which I added to the freshly drawn Well water that I drew up from deep underground.
The next morning there felt an insistence to birth her, as the first rays of Sunlight danced over the horizon she was complete. This one was birthed easily and rather quickly, almost as if there was an urgency that she was being called forth into being by the one who would become her Guardian. Weaved into her back is a star, as a remind to always aim for the Moon, so the stars can catch you if you fall.
As I held this one in my hands and dreamed into her being she showed me the Polar Bear again & reminded me of the power of inner strength, deep knowing & a wisdom that can only be found when you find yourself in the quietness of the world. aand she sang into me heart ‘ Be big my little one’ .
She is a beautiful drum – I am sure you know if it you she seeks, because you too will be part Polar Bear, waiting for your wildness to be witnessed.
There is a deep love here & connection already here
The exchange for this drum is £325, plus £10.75 P&P – Please note all my Drums are sent by Special Delivery, which you can select at checkout. Kerb Side Collection is also avalible if you are local to Shrewsbury.
Please get in touch with any questions.
Much Love
Louise
