Sacred Red Drums

Awakening the Divine Feminine Heartbeat

"The first sound we ever hear, the one that shapes our very being, is the sound of our mother's heartbeat. It is our first drum, the rhythm that cradles us in the womb. For millennia, the drum has been sacred to women because it mirrors the pulse of life itself, connecting us to the rhythms of the Earth, the cycles of nature, and the deep wisdom of the Divine Feminine." -

LAYNE REDMOND

Red Drum Creation Ceremony:

Awakening the Sacred Feminine Heartbeat

A Full Day Women's Retreat

IInspired by Layne Redmond’s groundbreaking work uncovering women’s ancient role as sacred drummers, this day retreat is a powerful reclamation of rhythm, ritual, and remembrance. For millennia, women in sacred circles used the frame drum—not as entertainment, but as a divine tool for healing and invoking life’s cycles.

Across ancient cultures, the drum was the Earth’s heartbeat, accompanying rites of passage and honoring seasonal shifts. In this ceremony, the Red Drum becomes a mirror of the wild feminine wisdom we carry in our bones. When we drum, we remember, restore, and awaken the Sacred Feminine within and among us.

During the Red Drum Making Ceremony, you’ll craft your own 16" frame drum—hand-dyed to symbolize menstrual wisdom, ancestral memory, and life’s heartbeat. This drum will be your sacred companion, infused with prayers and blessings.

Through intention, ritual, movement, and storytelling, you’ll connect deeply with the lineage of drumming women and reclaim rhythm as your birthright. Whether new to drumming or growing your practice, this ceremony invites you to awaken the sacred feminine heartbeat inside you. No experience necessary.

This version keeps the core message clear and evocative with fewer words.

Create sacred space through intention, song, and ritual
Prepare and assemble your own 16" Red Frame Drum using traditional materials and sacred process
Infuse your drum with prayers, breath, and blessings
Connect with the ancient lineage of drumming women, reclaiming rhythm as a birthright
Engage in storytelling, movement, and sound to activate the drum’s spirit and your relationship with it

This is a journey of reconnection; to your hands, your heart, your ancestors, and the living Earth. When you make your own drum, you are not just crafting an instrument, you are calling back a piece of your soul.

Whether this is your first time working with a drum or you are deepening an existing practice, this day offers you a profound invitation: To listen, to remember, and to awaken the sacred feminine heartbeat that lives within you. No drumming experience necessary.

What to Expect:

Jamie will guide you through a sacred, hands-on ceremony to birth your own unique Red Drum. Together, we will move intentionally through each step of the drum-making process, honouring the materials, setting personal intention, and working in rhythm with the group. There will be space for quiet reflection, storytelling, and connection as you bring your drum to life. By the end of the ceremony, you will leave not only with a finished drum, but with a deeper connection to your own voice, rhythm, and inner knowing.

Following the drum birthing and lunch, Trish will guide you into an immersive sound experience to awaken the voice of your drum and your sacred relationship with her. Through igniting the root and sacral chakra energy you will enjoy an experience that offers grounded healing through the vibrations of the collective heartbeat created through drumming.

With meditation and journaling you will be held in remembering of your roots and collective feminine, anchoring into the embodied feminine wisdom and awakening your personal intuition, your inner drum beat. You will leave feeling empowered within your own feminine energy.

When: Saturday, July 26th, 2026

Time: 10 AM - 4 PM (this is an estimated time)

Where: The Yurt - Cochrane AB

Investment: $495 + GST

*This includes all the supplies for your 16" Red Drum & refreshments. Due to the need to pre-order the drum kits a non-refundable deposit of $150 is due upon registration

Your Guides:

Trish Hardy

Trish is a certified therapist, yoga teacher, and energy guide who passionately supports women in coming home to themselves. She helps awaken greater calm, confidence, and clarity through mind-body therapies, Eastern philosophy, grounded feminine wisdom. Her own soul remembering is to create powerful, nurturing spaces for deep inner restoration—guiding women back to their truest, most radiant selves.

Jamie Mathiasen

Jamie guides women back into relationship with their instinctual, wild nature through ritual, story, and connection to the land. Rooted in the rhythms of nature and the wisdom of myth, her work weaves ceremony as a pathway to remembering one’s soul story. She has been leading women's circles, yoga teacher trainings and international retreats for the last 20 years.

Testimonials

Let Others Inspire You.

Jamie has such a special gift of creating a safe space in the group. It allowed me to really be me and to be able to dig into what I needed to do on this journey. And I felt safe to share it with others in the group. Truly special and changed how I walk in the world.

The program far exceeded my expectations, I now will always remember you. You gave me
a place to talk of magic, mysteries, of ancient knowing’s, of raw truths and trauma and
simply holding space, reflecting back to us what you see, we were all alchemized…what
more is there to say. As we have spoken, this has to be experienced, for words cannot
describe it adequately.

Shannon Oberle - Yoga Therapy Graduate

Sandra Swanson- WILD Woman