THE SACRED DRUMMING ACADEMY
- Krista Holland
Photo credit: left and upper mddle; Layne Redmd Archives Upper right; Antonis Kelaidis Lower right; Sequoia Miller Photography
The frame drum is one of the world's most ancient and sacred instruments played for health, connection, and wellbeing. From the very beginnings of its inception, the Sacred Drum has been played predominantly by women. All around the world, people of all orientations are returning to the heartbeat-like rhythms of the sacred drum.
Ancient Herstory of Drumming In the ancient world, the drum was played by women and priestesses. Discover the fascinating history of feminine drumming.
Elemental Drum Strokes Learn to play the frame drum through elemental strokes ~ earth, water, fire, air & space.
Connect to Your Natural Rhythm Every human gestates to the sound of their mother's heartbeat and pulse of her bloodflow. Learn to reconnect with your natural sense of rhythm.
Supportive, Inclusive Community Connect with other drummers through our online group and join us on retreat one day to be together and drum in circle. .Dedicated students can move on to become Sacred Drumming circle facilitators.
Rhythmic Meditation Practice Drumming can help to synchronize the mind, heart, body, brain, and soul leading to meditative flow states.
Strengthen Your Brain Rhythmic hand drumming offers a host of health benefits. Modern research conducted on drummers and drum circles is beginning to show healing benefits for people suffering from social anxiety, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, children's sensory processing difficulties, depression symptoms, addiction, and other challenges. Drumming is proving to be a powerful adjunct and complementary tool for health and wellness.
Photo credit: Antonis Kelaidis
Six Modules to inspire you and engage you in learning the art and science of frame drumming
Learn - Frame Drumming Basics
This module will give you everything you need to begin learning how to play the frame drum. All you need is a drum!
Explore - World Rhythms
Frame drumming is in a renaissance worldwide; amazing cross-pollination, rhythmic communication, and connection are happening between cultures. Music is the universal language!
Study - The Herstory of Ancient Frame Drumming
The history of frame drumming is still relatively unknown. In ancient days ~ the Drummers were Women; We welcome and honor people of all genders, faiths, continents, and colors - and - this tradition focalizes the Feminine and her rhythmic traditions and wisdom. Join us!🤍🌎⚪️
Discover - Drum Meditations
Drumming is a powerful way to focus the mind as well as connect to individual and cosmological rhythms. Rhythmic drumming has been shown to effect the brain waves much like years of a dedicated meditation pracitce. Rhythmic entrainment is why shamans of every culture and gender have traditionally played the frame drum.
Uncover - The Drumming Goddess of the ancient World
Who were the Goddesses of the ancient world connected to the frame drum? Learn why the sacred drum was and is considered an instrument of Feminine Power. - from Rhea to Cybele to Innana to Isis to Hathor to Aremis to Demeter to the Bee Goddess and on...the Sacred Drum was the traditional instrument in the rites of the God/dess.
Engage - The Romance of Practice
Learn how to romance yourself into a love for practice. Receive guidance on how to set up a focused and sacred space to support and enhance your frame drumming practice. Plus tips, hints, and secrets for honing your skills set!
- Krista Holland
Frame Drumming is a cross-cultural art form much like dancing is...
Most every culture across time and place creates a Sacred Drum
Krista Holland is a teacher of both Sacred Drumming and full-spectrum Yoga. She began her pursuit of the drum as a young adult studying drum set, world drumming, and percussion with master drummers in private, workshop, and academic settings. In 1995 Krista met her mentor and teacher, Layne Redmond, author of "When the Drummers Were Women". Krista apprenticed herself to Layne and her prolific teachings of the frame drum, ritual, myth, and ancient feminine drum history at every opportunity, until Layne's passing in 2014. With Layne's encouragement and prompting, she began teaching and sharing her love of the frame drum in 2007. Krista is known for her innovative and avant-garde playing style and her powerfully transformative teaching of Sacred Drumming and Yoga. Krista is honored to invite others into the incredible artistry, practice and powerful historical lineage and legacy of the Sacred Drum.
My name is Krista Holland teacher and guide of Sacred Drumming.
When I picked up the frame drum over 20 years ago, I never could have imagined the amazing journey of depth and discovery the sacred drum would lead me on…
To the ancient Goddess temples of Greece...
To the high desert of New Mexico...
To scouring museums searching for images of women with the sacred drum from the ancient world as my teacher had done before me...
To leading circles of women and community members in ritual and ceremony..
To discovering the fascinating and mysterious connections between the ancient frame drummers, the Bee Goddess, priestesses, oracles and the honeybees...
Since learning to play the frame drum, I have drummed for cancer patients in hospice, for pregnant mothers at their blessing ways, for grieving parents, for modern temple dancers, for trance journeys, for children at bedtime, for elderhood rites of passage, and a variety of other life ceremonies and rituals. Even dogs and other animals respond positively to the sound of the Sacred Drum.
This style of frame drumming is known for its incredible range - from dreamy lullaby-like softness to intense trance-inducing power
The Sacred Drum has been utilized around the world in rituals for healing, prayer and celebration for thousand upon thousands of years.
The drum has guided me and many others onto a path of mythic exploration.
"Krista's ability to demonstrate, entrain and teach the drum without ever losing touch with the sacred, ancient roots of the practice is a true gift. Her class is part of the voice of the ancestress, calling us home to the powerful mystery of belonging to an endless lineage of holy women and mothers."
Jumana Sophia Founder ~ Her Mystery School
www..hermysteryschool.com
"Krista Holland~historian, instructor, mentor, story-teller, spiritual-guide, community builder, and, frame drum teacher. I found your relaxed sharing style so rich in nourishing knowledge and exquisite drumming techniques. Your fingers dancing the beat, I felt I was listening to the transmission of arcane wisdom through "drum brushing" sounds of parchment pages turning inside the lost library of Alexandria as you de-coded & translated the alchemy of hidden treasures.
Your words - an art form
Your drumming - soul food
Your presence - heartfelt, timeless, spacious"
Elise Lockhart, M.ED
"I began a journey of healing, reuniting, honoring, remembering my inner feminine prior to the Sacred Drumming retreat but it was here that I finally began to feel ease and joy in the journey. She had been shoved into the shadows and the circle of this retreat created a safe space for her to step into the light."
Marcella Bell
Author and yogini
https://www.harpercollins.com/blogs/authors/marcella-bell
"This entire experience gives us a taste of the transformational potential in women's Sacred Drumming, as Krista teaches it. Combined with gentle yoga and the beauty of Ghost Ranch, it is a uniquely powerful experience. I would come again and again, if I could. p.s. It works for all ages
Demaris Wehr
Author
Jung & Feminism
Psychotherapy and Counseling
https://demariswehr.com/
I’m very grateful to have met Krista Holland and taken frame drumming lessons with her live, via Skype. After reading “When the Drummers were Women “ by Layne Redmond. I felt so inspired to play the frame!!! I was thrilled to discover Krista. Her way of teaching is simple, sacred, clear and with depth. Krista showed me to how to connect to the drumming path in a very satisfying and personal way on all levels, a way I had been longing for. She helped me to develop skills and confidence to facilitate Sacred Frame Drumming circles in my community here in a remote area on the far south coast of Australia. I love this!! I feel so blessed to be living with this ancient, mysterious rhythmic thread which continues to weave and unravel its magic and beauty in and through me.
Lynne Bowman
Yogini and Sound therapist
lynnemareebowman.weebly.com
"The delicious weave of knowledge, wisdom, playfulness and skill was a treat to be with. Krista is a bright light with much to share! I encourage anyone to check out her drumming class!"
Shellee Rae
Spiritual Guide, Healer, Author
www.shelleerae.com
- Krista Holland
There's a good reason why most every culture worldwide, throughout time, creates a sacred drum and why people of all ages, ethnicities, and genders around the world are reclaiming the drum.
Music is the Universal language that creates cross-cultural conections
Photo credit: upper left and right Layne Redmond Archives - Center: Sancha Demetriou Lower right: Meghan Frasheski
🤍Sacred Drumming is open to anyone ~ with a heartbeat! 🤍
Modern research studies are now proving what people globally discovered long, long ago...
Drumming and being in rhythm creates a cascade of benefits for a player's mind, mood and immunity, both while playing individually, and especially while playing in community.
What you'll receive in this course:
Everything you need to know to begin your Frame Drumming Journey!
Four stand-alone modules (✴︎plus two bonus modules!)
Learn at your own pace from your own home
In-depth yet straightforward instruction on the art and science of Sacred Drumming
Modules delivered via video, PDF, written transcripts, easy to read notation, and slide presentation format to a private members-only website
Rythm booklet with various time signatures
Sixteen weeks of content delivered over four months—yours to download and keep forever.
100 + easy to follow lessons from beginning through intermediate
Completely downloadable with a lifetime membership
Course Curriculum:
Module: 1 Introduction to the Sacred Drum
Module: 2 The Romance of Practice
Module: 3 World Rhythms
Sacred Drumming honors both the ancient origins and the modern innovations and cross-cultural fusions happening in the global renaissance of frame drumming.
Module: 4 Original Compositions & Meditations
✴︎✴︎Plus Two Bonus Modules! Bonus Module: 1 The Feminine Herstory of Ancient Drumming Bonus Module: 2 Drumming for Healing - The Modern Research
The History of the Sacred Drum in ceremony and ritual
The Neurobiology of Sound ~ Modern research on the healing power of rhythm and drumming.
+Plus!!!
4 LIVE Q&A Group calls (Can't make the group calls? No problem! Recordings sent to your inbox via email - watch later if you can't make that live call)
Private Facebook Group ~ Connect with a worldwide circle of Sacred Drummers. Make connections + share your tips!
🌎
Lifetime Access
Learn at your own pace.
You can't fall behind!
Earlybird BONUS! Register by 10/14/20
You will receive the bonus mini-course on my signature
Hand Strengthening and Rebalancing Exercises!! Hand health, anyone?!
LEARN TO PLAY THE FRAME DRUM!!!
This course is for you if:
✴︎ The Sacred Drumming Academy Foundations Training ✴︎
<<<<<<< is the foundation for our upcoming >>>>>>>>
The Sacred Drumming Academy Facilitators Training!
✴︎✴︎Students must take the SACRED DRUMMING Foundations as a prerequisite for next years facilitator training
(to be released in late 2021-2022)
FAQ
Module 1 & 2
Module 3 & 4
Join the
Karla
Anne Moon
100 % PERCENT RISK-FREE MONEY BACK GUARANTEE
I'm confident that this program can teach just about anyone how to play the frame drum IF a person participates fully, which is why I'm offering a 100% Percent Risk-Free Guarantee.
Here's how it works...
Sign-up today and complete the first module; if after 14 days of playing, you are not happy with what you're learning, you can request a full refund.
Copyright © Sacred Drumming 2020