Healing Drum Circle w/ Wakan Wiya Two Spirit Drum (Weds March 22)

Native Healing Drum Circle

Weds March 22 @ 6pm

This is an in-person indoor circle  |  All Are Welcome

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Our Protocol: All are welcome to join our drum and learn together this traditional healing and wellness way. You are each invited to put tobacco down on the drum with your intentions, your gratitude, your prayers and hopes for the coming Spring. As the sun returns and we feel just a little bit closer to the Spring, we see our dreaming and visioning begin to seed in the light. Join our friends in planting good seeds, as we are ready to grow. This is the time we make for ourselves to dream and vision our wellness as communities, as families, all under these skies here in Huichin, land of the Lisjan Ohlone people. Healing Drum Circles with the Wakan Wiya Two Spirit Drum and drumkeeper Zamora are a chance to tap into collective healing/prayer/ meditation work through the heartbeat.

Our drum is held by Two Spirit community and is open to all. Sit with us at the drum, or circle up and let the heartbeat medicine help you lay down tobacco prayers/intentions for the future. This is the manda for our drum, to bring drum medicine to the people. Help us continue our work with our growing Wakan Wiya community. We will take turns sitting at the drum and learning more about how the drum helps us Hold the Form for each other. We will share palabra and share songs, all these forms of heartspeak (cuicatl, as our Mexica maestras remind us!). In these ways we practice cultura Indigena, and give expression to our prayers, give thanks for the ways in which our full selves, especially our Two Spirit selves, can and do make our way in this world.

Energetic exchanges/donations are always welcomed as part of ceremonial circles, though payment is never required. We ask everyone to make small offerings in gratitude and reciprocity (e.g. $5-20 donation each time, or a quarterly donation, etc.) as part of our registration process, or in person. This is part of a protocol of exchange, where we learn the place and value of medicina in our lives, and account for this as you are able. Your generosity helps our Casa Tia Luna and our drum to continue this spirit work.

Please always bring a gift of tobacco -or- a medicine offering from your tradition for the drumkeeper. We also ask you to bring your waterbottle and snacks/food to share afterward, as is our tradition.

*Wakan Wiya (Sacred Woman) Two Spirit Drum is our Native American drum founded and led by Indigenous Two Spirit women in the Bay Area. Our drum was gifted to us to support access to drum medicine for our Two Spirit communities, our friends and familia, so that Two Spirit people might return to our Native drum traditions where healing medicine is for all. Our circles will always center Indigenous Two Spirit & Indigequeer TG/GNC LGBQIA+ peoples, and we ask everyone who attends to respectful of this focus. If you have questions or would like to invite the drum to your community or organization, please contact us at [email protected].

*Drumkeeper M. Zamora is a Chicana, Yoeme (Yaqui) and Tongva Two Spirit feminist educator and community organizer. Their ancestors come from the Los Angeles Basin and northern Mexico’s Sonora and Chihuahua regions. They have served as ceremonial singer/drumkeeper in their Two Spirit community for over 17years. Zamora has led several drums, and brought the Wakan Wiya Two Spirit Drum to Casa Tia Luna in 2020 where it is now the drum in residence. Zamora has taught Ethnic Studies, Chicana/o Latina/o Studies, and Gender Studies and Feminist Theory at California State University East Bay, University of San Francisco and Stanford University. They are currently the department administrator for Race, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Mills College.

Our Casa Tia Luna Spring 2023 Offerings from our CTL community of maestras, including Michele Elizabeth Lee (Author of Working the Roots: Over 400 Years of Traditional African American Healing), Awon Ohun Omnira (Voices of Freedom, from the Omnira Institute), Maestra Veronica Iglesias (The Jade Oracle), Mama Davina D. Estrella Ramey (Founder, Water and Honey Community Well ), and the Wakan Wiya Two Spirit Drum with drumkeeper Zamora are all listed at https://CasaTiaLuna.eventbrite.com. Follow Casa Tia Luna on Facebook, Instagram, and Linktree to receive notices of all our upcoming circles and workshops.

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