Shamanic Drumming

I recently spent the week in Arizona, traveling, camping, and meeting with a Shaman in Sedona. I attending a Shamanic Drum Making workshop with Jade Wah'oo Grigori at http://www.shamanic.net/ Here he has an extensive website devoted to traditional and modern Shamanic Ceremony and Practice.

I discovered Jade's writings, website, and drum making workshop after I saw a video he made about the shamanic drum. Here is that video from Youtube:



Here is a small portion of an article about the origin of Shamanism by Jade Wah'oo Grigori.

In that time before there was Time, there was Grandfather Fire. Around Grandfather Fire sat the Circle of Animal Brothers, who, speaking in that Sacred Language of Spirit, told their Tellings, Through these Tellings Grandfather Fire gave rise to Creation...


So begins the mythic Telling of Shamanic Creation, when we Two-Leggeds (humans) were one of the Animal Brothers, in the place of our Origin. The story goes on to tell of how the Two-Leggeds left the Circle of Animal Brothers, left the embrace of Grandfather Fire, and went into the Darkness and into the land of Death that we humans refer to as Life. In this place of Death, we lost our ability to communicate in the Sacred Language of Spirit.

So that we would not be lost forever, but always have a way of finding our way home, Grandfather Fire sent the Eagle to Grandmother Earth, and to those who are of her domain. This Eagle -- Eagle Brother/First Shaman -- brought to us Two-Leggeds "The Ways" -- the compendium of knowledge, dances, songs, stories, methods, techniques, meditations, approaches to Spirit and ways of Power through which we could seek, find and fulfill our own unique Path of Reunification with Grandfather Fire, which is our path of self-realization.

There came a time when Eagle Brother brought to us the Shamanic Drum. It is the Shaman's foremost vehicle for engaging one's attention in spiritual upliftment, for the gift of the drum is that it enables us to once again communicate in the Sacred Language of Spirit! A thorough understanding of the phenomena associated with the experience of Shamanic Drumming must include an integration of both the physiological and the transcendent.

From: http://www.shamanic.net/articles/shamanicdrumming.html

Here is another video with more about The Shamanic Ways that Jade Wah'oo Grigori is the caretaker of. After spending several days with him, I found him to be wise, sincere, and a great person to learn from. I recommend his classes and work very highly.