Birthing my Womb Drum part 1

Birthing a healing shamanic drum with the intention of playing it to support the healing of women's wombs is an incredible process.

Today I began the process of bringing my dream drum into the world and I wanted to dedicate my first blog on my website to my drum. She has been a long time gestating, many things needed to happen to birth her into the world and as I type this we are still in the labour part of the process, having waited more than 2 years to create her, I need a little more patience for just a couple more days.

Her journey began in November 2023 when I birthed my very first drum, supported by a friend who guided me through the whole process. She was unable to source a horse hide for me, so we went with a Reindeer hide, sourced from Scotland. This felt right to me as I developed a deep spiritual connection to Scotland during this period. So Clare sourced the Reindeer hide and supported me through creating sacred space, choosing the section of the hide to use, measuring and cutting the hide, cutting the strap, stretching it, creating the holes to thread the strap through, threading the back of the drum to secure the head onto the hoop, creating the handle - it was a long process and very hard work. I was physically exhausted by the end of the day but when I saw my drum for the first time, I cried, moved to tears by how beautiful she was and the fact that this incredible drum had been created by my own hands.

In the summer of 2024 at a hot healing festival in Malvern, I took my drum to use in womb healing, and in the heat the strap snapped. Gutted, I hatched a plan to use the same hide on a smaller 16" drum and keep the 20" frame to birth a drum with the horse hide I had originally felt drawn to.

In November 2024, Clare once again supported me in creating my smaller drum and this drum has been used many times in my sound baths, healings, ceremonies and drumming circles.

This morning I received a voice note from a friend of mine, a lady who was at the healing festival with me when my first drum snapped. She described a dream she had about me last night. We were looking out of our windows as a huge storm passed over us, within all the storm clouds she could see beautiful rainbows and cosmic shapes of the constellations passing through the storm.

I found it interesting as last night - perhaps even at around the time my friend was having this dream I saw this image and saved it to my phone...

Today I arrived at Clare's ready to rebirth my drum. Clare and I worked together to cut the head from the incredible horse hide and carefully cut the strap, working round and round meticulously cutting the hide forming the strap that would thread the head of the drum onto the hoop. As we worked I looked up and gasped - there right over the garden was an incredible rainbow!

We worked on until we had completed the strap and went inside for a cuppa and a snack and as we sat down, the heavens opened. We ran out to grab what we didn't want to get wet and watched through the window as the wind picked up and a storm passed over us.

I told Claire about my friend's dream as we decided to leave it for the day and finish the process in a couple of days in doors in my womb room.

So, we have paused, my drum is half way through being created, but I must wait a little longer.

As I was leaving her house Clare said to me 'Your drum has been birthed in rainbows and storms. I loved that so much! The balance of the energies of rainbow and storm, the light and the dark pattern of the hide and the balance of masculine and feminine that will be held within the drum as I weave my dark goddess figure into a four pointed swirl, as well as the synchronicity that this drum is being birthed in instils in me a sense of faith that everything is unfolding in divine timing.