THE SACRED DRUMMING ACADEMY


LEARN THE ANCIENT ART AND MODERN SCIENCE OF FRAME DRUMMING FROM YOUR OWN HOME


Sacred Drumming is an ancient and thoroughly modern, worldwide cross-cultural phenomenon

- Krista Holland 

Photo credit: left and upper mddle; Layne Redmd Archives Upper right; Antonis Kelaidis Lower right; Sequoia Miller Photography 

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What is Sacred Drumming?

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.


Did you know that all over the world throughout history, the drummers were women? 

Or that the drum was once forbidden to women and for a very long time the ancient lineage of women drummers was forgotten?


Photo credit: Antonis Kelaidis

People the world over are now reclaiming the Sacred Drum


Learn the ancient art and modern science of frame drumming from your home


Your Online Training Includes

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!

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“The frame drum is considered one of the most simple and one of the most powerful instruments known to humankind. Most anyone can learn to play the frame drum, and some will go on to connect with the drum as a potent instrument for invoking the sacred and transforming the mind."

- Krista Holland

Frame Drumming is a cross-cultural art form much like dancing is...

Krista Holland

Most every culture across time and place creates a Sacred Drum

Sacred Drumming

About Your Instructor

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.


Reflections from Students 

"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


"Drumming is a human birthright. Every one of us gestates to the rhythm of our Mother's heartbeat ~ when we play the drum, we return to our most primal rhythmic knowing and sense of belonging."

- 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. 


Learn to play the frame drum and discover the benefits for yourself!

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

  • Honoring and befriending your drum
  • Setting Intention
  • Creating Sacred space
  • Learn the 5 Basic Elemental Drum Strokes ~ Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Space  
  • Finger and Hand Warm-up routines
  • Frame drum techniques - learn the secret techniques of hand drumming 
  • Basic frame drum patterns and rhythms to get you started in your connection to the art of Frame Drumming

Module: 2 The Romance of Practice

  • How to seduce yourself into a love for practice
  • Entrainment and Focus
  •  Drum stroke combinations 
  • Odd and Even rhythmic time signatures
  • How to build drumming stamina and speed without strain
  • + Tips, hints, and secret techniques for honing your hand drumming skillset. Woop!

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.

  • Learn World Rhythms and hand drum patterns 
  • Gain an archive of classic open-source hand drum rhythms from around the world. Rhythms handed down to me from my teachers and my teacher's teachers..
  • Rhythms and methods that can be adapted to almost any style of hand drumming!

Module: 4 Original Compositions & Meditations

  • Learn Krista's original frame drum compositions & learn how to create your own!
  • Learn why drumming is an amazing form of meditation and mental relaxation
  • Brain train your mind with the aid of the drum
  • Sing, chant and vocalize with your drum

✴︎✴︎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!

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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: 

  • You have always wanted to play the drum or learn a new instrument.
  • You have absolutely no musical or drumming experience, but would love to learn! 
  • Are a seasoned drummer that would like to expand and refine your drumming skillset, improve your drumming stamina or want to deepen your understanding of the amazing history and science behind frame drumming.
  • You enjoy learning in a relaxed but focused environment ie; hanging out with me (via pre-recorded videos) and your drum(s) at your own home! 
  • You are interested in the idea of learning the foundational practices of Sacred Drumming so that you can lead your own Sacred Drumming circles in your community one day.
  • You are ready to learn and practice the sacred drum! 

✴︎  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 

  • Sacred Drumming Academy Foundations Introduction to Frame Drumming Part 1 & 2
  • Takes place November 1st 2020 - December 31st 2020. 
  • Weekly content delivered to your private online account. 
  • A total of 8 weeks of content will be delivered via a private online learning portal. 
  • Lifetime access - Once you receive each lesson, you can access them anytime, and they are yours to download and keep forever. 

Module 3 & 4

  • Sacred Drumming Academy Foundations Introduction to Frame Drumming Part 3 & 4
  • Takes place January 1st 2020 - Feburary 28th 2020. 
  • Weekly content delivered to your private online account. 
  • 8 weeks of content will be deliverd via a private online learning portol. 
  • Lifetime access - Once you recieve each lesson you can access them anytime and they are yours to download and keep forever. 

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"The beat of the sacred drum is ancient ~ modern ~ 'heart medicine,' which can help us synchronize in rhythmic coherence towards a more harmonious future."

 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.