Drumsong Sanctuary for the Soul

Late Fall 2011

2011-10-26T12:52:00.000-07:00

Good Day My Friends!,
I’m home this morning after a beautiful weekend of Incan ceremony with Pierre Garreaud ( soundlighthealer.com ). It was fantastic! Much is happening this autumn and we are all having to make choices. I’m still reading and learning from the new book Power Up Your Brain by Alberto Villoldo Ph.D and David Perlmutter, MD. They merge the best of shamanism, neuroscience and functional medicine (nutritional healing) into a great program to heal our brains and build our energy. Once my cleansing of seasonal pollen or whatever has gotten me is cleared I’ll be jumping in with that.

We had a beautiful sweat lodge last month and a community member is bringing some wood today in preparation for the next and the next… Let me know if you are called to request a lodge for yourself or for the community or wish to support in any way.

Here at Drumsong on November 4th we’ll have a Drum Birthing Ceremony with Zoe Allison followed directly by the Day of the Dead Fire Ceremony. I hope to see you around the fire in ceremony as we honor our ancestors, our lineage, and offer and seek forgiveness in this great circle of life. See below for details.
Then over that weekend (Nov 5-6) Zoe is offering the first two levels of the Light Language training at Jordan Lake which looks amazing! .This weekend (Oct 28-30) Zoe Allison and Will Rockingbear will be in Winston-Salem, keep reading for the details.

May the dazzling colors and zest of Fall energize you and bless you with inspiration for your inward journey. As we encircle the fire with the leaves blowing around us, let us also dismantle our old growth and let it fall away making room for the dreaming time to come, the incubation of how we will transform as our roots systems sink deeper in to the earth feeding us at the core level. Come heal yourself and the seven generations in your circle of life.

Miriam/Windsong Woman

Drum Birthing Ceremony (for those who made drums with Zoe or have new drums)
Friday November 4th at 6:00- 7:00 pm Bring a snack 7:00 to 7:30 followed by Day of the Dead Fire Ceremony 7:30 till finished
Friday November 4th to circle up with us and our drums in the ceremonial birthing from 6-7 pm. Bring gifts for adorning our drums to gift to one another and/or pass around (preferably not sharp items that can injure our drums). I hope as many as you as possible can join us even though some of you live a distance from here. We will birth them together and then those who wish to stay for the Day of the Dead Fire Ceremony right afterwards are welcome . We’ll have a table for offerings of food to share if people wish to snack a little (simple finger foods are best, perhaps your ancestors favorite foods) before entering into the ceremony to honor our ancestors and to feed the holies.

Please let me know if you will be able to join us and please be prompt as the evening unfolds from this ceremony into the celebration of our lineages and those who came before us. There will be a large community altar to place sacred medicine pieces on, flowers, photos, foods, candles (bring tea lights) to light the way for them to join us at this fire. Hope to see you then

Fire Ceremony
Friday November 4 Day of the Dead 7:30 pm till late
Sunday December 18 4:00-7:30 Winter Solstice
Join us for a Fire Ceremony to release what no longer serves you. Come feed the eternal flame as we circle round the sacred fire . The Day of the Dead is a festival south of the border that celebrates the circle of life. Communities honor their loved ones with altars, processions and picnics to the graveyard, multitudes of flowers, candles, their favorite foods, drinks, photos, story telling. We honor them and what they have gifted us. We can also heal new and old grief, hurts and sorrow with the support of a loving community. We can make new agreements with them as their spirits are no longer entrapped in the body and personality but are free to love unconditionally .Take strength, courage, love, light, growth, resilience, clarity, innocence, playfulness, joy away with you.

You will have the opportunity to shed beliefs, grief, feelings, thoughts, relationships or anything else that is hampering your ability to be fully and completely who you are by offering them to the fire. We will witness each other as we make new agreements with spirit and dream our lives into being. We will feed the holies and ask their assistance in co-creating ourselves, our thoughts and our lives as we wish them to be. The choice is always yours!

“We spend our lives for-getting that living is for-giving.” Dean Fraser

If you are drawn to be here please call or email Miriam at (919) 304-5754 or melieber@mebtel.net so I’ll know how many people to expect and give you directions if needed. Come prepared for outdoor conditions. ….Bring, an outdoor chair, drums, rattles, water. I invite all women to wear a skirt or sarong over pants to honor our sacred grandmothers and the circle of life. There is never a fee for ceremony but Gifting is appropriate and appreciated to support the life and work of the elders who dedicate their lives to keeping the old ways available.

Bi-Weekly Shamanic Teaching & Healing Circle at Drumsong
Every Other Thursday 7:15 pm -9:30 pm
Remaining 2011 Dates:
Oct. 27, Nov 10, Dec 1, 15, 29

xplore the world of your dreams and partner with your spirit helpers to trek deep within and become a spiritual warrior on the path of peace. Each week’s skills will build upon the next, stalking our inner obstacles and finding our power through impeccable action. We will journey with the sacred drum each week. Learn to get out of your own way and bring spirit through serving as a hollow bone in all your endeavors. When we work with the guides and helpers that are available to us, invite our medicine ancestors and honor the old ways and our elders, the doors of spirit healing open to us. Come be a part of the magic as we offer shamanic healing ways to the community near and far.
Please call Miriam if you wish to attend or learn more about this circle.
A contribution of $20- $25 per circle is suggested. May spirit always be your guide.
Powerful Shamanic Healing for Self, Others, and Community
Join Zoe Allison-Rockingbear in a powerful Shamanic tradition to teach you Light Language.

Level One Saturday 9:00am-12:00pm
Level Two Saturday 1:00-5:00 and Sunday 11:00-6:00 Initiation to follow.
Level one 65.00; level two 330.00 one and two together $350.00
Jordan Lake Center at 1434 Farrington Road, Apex, NC 27523
Contact: Nathalie Worthington cell: 727.510.7573 or e-mail: art@worthingtonstudios.com

This teacher comes from the rich tradition of infusing participants in Shamanism practices of health and Light Language.Passed down for 25+ generations from an unbroken lineage of Curanderos (Mexican Shamans), Light Language is an ancient Mayan system that works using sacred geometry and colored light to reshape the aura for personal healing and co-create new realities for our futures and others.

Many of us have had the experience of working with color to shift our mood or outlook. Light Language can move you into operating with a quantum shift in attitude for your own therapy. You will be using the tools of geometric shapes and the color waves of the spectral lights of creation. Your own concentration will have attitude shifts for your therapies.

You will learn to communicate at light speed by writing light with specific patterns to create profound healing and transformation for yourself and the lives of your loved ones.

The Mayans have given us many levels of teachings through their sciences of Art, Architecture and Math. They have been marking and calculating our earth celestial movements in the sky. Astonishingly these calculations have shown us how powerful we truly are. We are pure conduits of Universal energy God's energy. We are capable of creating miracles. In this place of inner truth we can find inner peace and harmony.

Find the joy of the journey deep within. Where you can reform patterns nolonger needed and prepare to shatter old beliefs of your domestication. Learn new respect for the communal dream. See beyond restrictive fragments of your personal ego. Discover your own souls work. Light language, using the colored light frequencies and Sacred Geometry will give you the skills of your Life's Mastery.
Transform your life with the power and wisdom of these ancient teachings. You can experience dreaming your life into reality. You can co-create gifts with Spirit. Find a clearer connection with your inner Gods and Goddesses, helpers, guides and protectors.

These teachings will deepen your respect for Mother Earth and our ancestors. They will give you a new respect for our position in the cycles of time and creation. Light Language will help you find a place of inner peace and harmony knowing that you are co-creating on the deepest level with Creator. You only need to enter in with clarity of mind and open heart. Be willing to move away from a place of expectations, preconceptions and prejudices. This is a rich transformational teaching for claiming yoru personal power and breaking old patterns of mistrust, limitation and grief.
888 Light Language uses Sacred Geometries and vibrations of color light. Matching Geometrical shapes and pairing these shapes with colors to create patterns to realize perfection. Sacred Geometrical shapes form the building blocks of the universe. Specific shapes and patterns occur repeatedly in nature. Sacred geometries are paired with colors to create outcomes of health and well being in the situations of our lives. Freedom can be co-created in new forms for the benefic of all sentient beings. Even genetic or habitual energies can be shifted with Light Language. The prayers (directives) are clear and direct, free of contamination that words carry; and from this clarity, the universe responds as asked.

This is more than positive thinking and can move people or situations from suffering and distress with insight and reverence for Mother Earth. Please join us for this Shamanic gathering. Many people have made Light Language a profound part of their life. These teachings can be found to be a perfect and powerful place to allow transformation.

Empowered by the Mayan's teaching of the Sacred Days, learn how to tell the truth, so that the blood within can ignite the Solar Fires of the Sky Clans.

Discover how to empower yourself, your clients, your family, and your friends. Learn how to raise your vibration and align yourself with your purpose.

Give yourself this gift.
We are the Artists, Healers, Visionaries and Warriors; we have been waiting for. Through creativity, motion and music, story telling and the Law of attraction our initiations have begun. Initiations will follow Level Two class work!!!!
We will meet at a special place of nature, Lake Jordon, NC November 5 - 6, 2011

For information on Zoe see: www.mayanrecordkeeper.com or StarrFuentes@lightlanguage.com

Will Rockingbear and Zoe Allison-Rockingbear in Winston Salem
Public Teaching/Healing Circle - Friday Oct 28th 7 pm at Unitarian/Universalist Church on Robinhood - Monetary Gifting Appropriate. Come with your requests for healing and teachings to help you re-member, transform and become your Truest Self. Shamanic drumming for dreaming. No RSVP required. Floor and chair seating available.

Private Sessions - Will Rockingbear - Saturday Oct 29th. Contact Robin directly after October 5th to book your appointment. Sessions are limited in number so please take the opportunity to bring your request Friday evening. Location at Flower Eagle Medicine Lodge

Private Sessions - Zoe Allison-Rockingbear - Saturday Oct. 29th. Contact Robin directly after October 5th to book your appointment. Location at Flower Eagle Medicine Lodge

Pipe Ceremony with Will Rockingbear and Zoe-Allison Rockingbear - Sunday Oct 30th 10 am with potluck feast to follow at Flower Eagle Medicine Lodge. RSVPS appreciated.

Contact Robin Lynne at www.flowereagle.com or 336-416-7553 after Oct 5th.

For events happening in Winston-Salem with Robin Lynne , please visit www.flowereagle.com . For events happening at Bo's Elfin Peace Village in Asheville, please contact Bo Deatherage at borose63@gmail.com.

For events offered by Zoe Allison-Rockingbear, visit www.mayanrecordkeeper.com.

For Vision Quest information please visit www.earthgreenmedicinelodge.com

Fall 2011 Happy Harvest Time !

2011-09-29T14:15:00.000-07:00

What a day.! Hurricane Irene is spinning her way up the east coast after barreling through NC today. We had mostly gentle rain and big gusts of wind whipping the trees around here at Drumsong. The tree outside my kitchen window came crashing down and spirit was kind to us as it appears to have just dented the gutter and landed right between the corner of the kitchen and the fish pond that was recently donated . It just missed the electrical meter before crushing the chair I sat in last evening while visiting with the frogs and fish. Thank you Creator for the graceful way you spared us and the goldfish from danger! We are so grateful!!. May those in Irene’s path today be blessed with such grace as well. Today was spent harvesting and preparing the summer abundance of holy basil (tincture), hot peppers (drying), and basil (pesto). The house smells of basil, garlic, and bone broth as I settle in for the evening with so much to be grateful for.

Fall is on the way and the calendar is filling up. There are some changes from the last newsletter so please verify herein for dates and times of ceremonies. I had to cancel the Fall Equinox Fire ceremony here as I’ll be in ceremony elsewhere that weekend   but we will have the Yom Kippur ( Day of At-One-Ment) Fire Ceremony on October 8th and a Sweat Lodge on October 1st so we‘ll welcome Autumn then. Feel free to help out on one of the work days if you can. Then on November 4th we’ll celebrate our ancestors at the Day of the Dead Fire Ceremony. I hope to see you around the fire, in ceremony as we continue to heal ourselves and one another in this great circle of life.
If you have not yet seen the Paperhand Puppet Show this year next weekend is the last chance at Forest Theater before they go to Raleigh. The show is called The Serpent’s Egg and is about the Divine Feminine. It’s awesome!!! www.paperhand.org

May you take the colors of summer, the warmth of the sun, the hummingbird giggles, and the green of the sunlit water deep into your bellies as the nights get cooler and the days shorter.
With love and gratitude for my life and yours,
Miriam/Windsong Woman

Arapaho Little Boys and Girls Sweat Lodge
This lodge will be poured by Miriam / Windson g Woman    in the tradition passed down to me by my beloved Elder Sharon Mitchell. This is a beautiful teaching lodge that has the strength and heat for those with experience in an inipi and the gentleness and ease for those who will join us for the first time (which is how it came to be known and the Little Boys and Girls Lodge). While supervised children are welcome it is not a lodge specifically for children as some have asked me before. Feel free to call me with questions and to let me know if spirit is calling you to join us so I can let you know what time to arrive and how to prepare.

Saturday October 1 , 9:00 am until we have returned the land and lodge to order and feasted well … into early evening most likely

Workdays Possibilities: Saturdays September 3 and 17 ; Sunday September 4 and Fridays September 23rd or 30th   OR by letting me know when you are available to help with gathering wood and stones, raking, moving blankets, etc.

The preparations are part of the ceremony and are a labor of love and communion with the land, the tall standing ones, the stone people, the water and enrich one’s experience of the ceremony greatly as we joyfully do this sacred work together.

Please contact Miriam (919) 304-5754 or melieber@mebtel.net) to RSVP, find out protocols, directions and/or ask questions. I will send more information to those planning on attending as to how to prepare and what to bring. Directions are also available on my website www.drumsongsanctuary.com.

Sacred Pipe Ceremony
Drumsong Sanctuary for the Soul
September 29, 2011     7:15 pm
Come join our healing circle on Sept 29 for this beautiful ceremony passed down to us through various native traditions. We will gather and pray for peace, balance and healing in our country and planet at this time. All that is needed is for you to show up and participate with an open heart.
Please bring a cushion, a lap cloth, and a blanket for indoors or outdoors. If you wish to have water please bring a closed container. If you are drawn to be here please call Miriam at (919) 304-5754 or email me at melieber@mebtel.net so I’ll know how many people to expect and give you directions if needed.
Gifting is appropriate and very much appreciated.

Fire Ceremony
Drumsong Sanctuary for the Soul
Saturday October 8 5:30-8:30ish Solstice/Yom Kippur (Day of At-One-Ment)
FridayNovember 3 Day of the Dead
Sunday December 18 4:00-7:30 Winter Solstice

Join us for a Fire Ceremony to release what no longer serves us. Come feed the eternal flame as we circle round this sacred fire holding ourselves accountable to creator for our successes and our messes. Come prepared to lay down self- judgment, fear, blame, anger and take responsibility for your life stepping into the person you aspire to be.   Take your strength, courage, love, light, growth, resilience, clarity, innocence, playfulness, joy away with you.

You will have the opportunity to shed beliefs, grief, feelings, thoughts, relationships or anything else that is hampering your ability to be fully and completely who you are by offering them to the fire. We will witness each other as we make new agreements with spirit and dream our lives into being. We will feed the holies and ask their assistance in co-creating ourselves, our thoughts and our lives as we wish them to be. The choice is always yours!

“We spend our lives for-getting that living is for-giving.”      Dean Fraser
       If you are drawn to be here please call or email Miriam at (919) 304-5754 or melieber@mebtel.net so I’ll know how many people to expect and give you directions if needed. Come prepared for outdoor conditions. ….Bring, drums, rattles, water. I invite all women to wear a skirt or sarong over pants to honor our sacred grandmothers and the circle of life.   There is never no fee for ceremony but Gifting is appropriate and appreciated.

Bi-Weekly Shamanic Teaching Circle at Drumsong
Every Other Thursday   7:15 pm -9:30 pm
Remaining 2011 Dates:
Sep 1, 15, 29,Oct 13, 27, Nov 10, Dec 1, 15, 29
Explore the world of your dreams and partner with your spirit helpers to trek deep within and become a spiritual warrior on the path of peace. Each week’s skills will build upon the next, stalking our inner obstacles and finding our power through impeccable action. We will journey with the sacred drum each week. Learn to get out of your own way and bring spirit through serving as a hollow bone in all your endeavors. When we work with the guides and helpers that are available to us, invite our medicine ancestors and honor the old ways and our elders, the doors of spirit healing open to us. Come be a part of the magic as we offer shamanic healing ways to the community near and far.
Please call Miriam if you wish to attend or learn more about this circle.
A contribution of $20- $25 per circle is suggested. May spirit always be your guide.

For events happening in Winston-Salem with Robin Lynne , please visit www.flowereagle.com . For events happening at Bo's Elfin Peace Village in Asheville, please contact Bo Deatherage at borose63@gmail.com. For events offered by Zoe Allison-Rockingbear, visit www.mayanrecordkeeper.com. For Vision Quest information please visit www.earthgreenmedicinelodge.com

Spring Newsletter

2011-05-19T13:02:00.000-07:00

Hello Friends,

This Spring is dazzling us with luscious weather and prolific growth and bounty from the plant nation. The peonies in my garden are simply divine, some silky white with tinges of pink in the heart of the saucer sized blooms and others a magenta that shimmers in the sun. Their aroma fills the room. Deep purple salvia spikes, lavender with the little flags on top, irises a plenty, pink and red roses, and honeysuckle with cascades of orange and pink blooms adorn the yard . The clematis is reaching for the heavens but has not yet birthed its purple star flowers. Aaahh… the season of greens of all shades and depths from that early lime green of new growth to the rich greens of shiny foliage. The spring rains bathe the landscape and nourish us all. Our color palette is full and the senses enlivening. The birds are singing their waking up songs with glee!

Today my son gifted me a day of work, building a garden fence so we can grow food and keep the deer at bay. It is a perfect day! In this community alone there are many people needing prayers, healing and support of all kinds so kneeling on this mother earth I am offering up prayers for the people near and far facing challenges at this time. May you feel our love and support.

A friend shared a book with me this week called “Earthing” which scientifically proves what Native Americans have said for so long. We need to stand barefoot on the earth everyday to ground our energy and connect the circuit between sky and earth energies to get back in balance. Check it out!

As we prepare for this summer’s Vision Quest which will be July 11-16 at Big Butte, we are raising funds to support this beautiful ceremony as these questers prepare to go up on the mountain to seek their vision. We are having a yard sale on Saturday May 28 in Durham (see below). If you have items to donate for sale or can stop by we would so appreciate it. Call Miriam in Chapel Hill 919 304-5754 or Amy in Durham 919 597-8740 to donate your treasures to the next family or friend in the great circle.

AND there has been a request for a FIREWALK so it is happening Friday June 3rd, see the details below. Our Elder Rich Myers will be visiting and sharing this ceremony with us. Please let Miriam know if you are called to attend.

In gratitude for all life,

Miriam
Drumsong Sanctuary for the Soul

FIRE CEREMONIES

Sunday June 19th 6:30-9:30ish Summer Solstice
Friday September 23 6:30-9:30ish Fall Equinox
Saturday October 8 5:30-8:30ish Yom Kippur (Day of At-One-Ment)
Sunday December 18 4:00-7:30 Winter Solstice

Join us for a Fire Ceremony to release what no longer serves you. You will have the opportunity to shed beliefs, feelings, thoughts, relationships or anything else that is hampering your ability to be fully and completely who you are by offering them to the fire. We will witness each other as we make new agreements with ourselves and dream our lives into being. We will feed the holies and ask their assistance in recreating ourselves, our thoughts and our lives as we wish them to be. The choice is always ours!

Bi-Weekly Shamanic Teaching Circle at Drumsong
Every Other Thursday 7:15 pm -9:30 pm

2011 Dates: May 5, 19, June 2, 16, 23, July 7, 21, Aug 4, 18, Sep 1, 15, 29
Oct 13, 27, Nov 10, Dec 1, 15, 29

Explore the world of your dreams and partner with your spirit helpers to trek deep within and become a spiritual warrior on the path of peace. Each week’s skills will build upon the next, stalking our inner obstacles and finding our power through impeccable action. We will journey with the sacred drum each week. Learn to get out of your own way and bring spirit through serving as a hollow bone in all your endeavors. When we work with the guides and helpers that are available to us, invite our medicine ancestors and honor the old ways and our elders, the doors of spirit healing open to us. Come be a part of the magic as we offer shamanic healing ways to the community near and far.

Please call Miriam if you wish to attend or learn more about this circle.
A contribution of $20- $25 per circle is suggested. May spirit always be your guide.

Vision Quest 2011 Fundraising

Yardsale
Saturday May 28, 2011 7:30 am to 1pm.
2401 Glendale Ave. Durham, NC 27704
Miriam 304-5754 or Amy 597-8740 to donate items

Firewalk
with Rich Myers
at Drumsong Sanctuary for the Soul

If you have never experienced a Firewalk , here is an opportunity for you to come and have one of life’s most memorable experiences. Walk for yourself, for spirit, for joy, for life, for healing. Walk in celebration.
The evening with the fire allows us to merge with the fire…fueling our passion and enthusiasm for what we desire to create in our lives. Walking the coals is not required to benefit from this expansive experience and align deeply with our own fire.

Friday June 3 from 6:00 pm till …..
Arrive at 6:00 pm to learn about and prepare for the ceremony,
Wear clothes to be comfortable outdoors rain or shine
Cost: $50.00 (couples $75.00) (Students $30.00)
(Repeaters 40.00) (a few work scholarships are available)

Bring food to share afterwards (optional)
Limited to 25 participants, Call for more info or mail registration to:
Miriam Lieberman at melieber@mebtel.net or 919/304-5754
1920 Western Trail Chapel Hill, NC 27516
http://www.drumsongsanctuary.com/
(directions given at time of registration)

Firewalking is an ancient ritual that teaches people to reach beyond their limiting beliefs. In so doing we bring greater balance and beauty into our lives and spark our ability to co-create our personal dream. Many people say this evening program is the most transformational experience of their life. Whether you walk on the coals or not, you will feel empowered and inspired!

The intent is to align with the elemental energies of the fire and ignite the fire within each of us. Being with the fire allows us to step through our fears and become the people we are meant to be. The evening with the fire allows us to merge with our own spirit ...fueling our passion and enthusiasm for what we desire to create for our lives.
This intent is made possible by spending the evening working with the fire and, if we choose to, walking over the coals. However it is not required to walk in order to align with this element. The decision to walk the coals is between you and spirit, and an amazing experience, whether you walk the coals or stand by those who do.

Blessings and thanks for reading.

2011-02-13T17:30:00.000-08:00

Hello Friends,
The month of January has completely gotten away from me as I stoke the fire and cook soup for the soul warming body and spirit. The ice beings stayed in our little wooded world for quite some time and have now left the landscape damp and muddy. Keeping the birdfeeders full and the woodstove going are my focus along with quiet contemplative time to work on medicine pieces and restore my roots. The sun is shining brightly on this brisk wintry afternoon stirring the urge to grow green and tall beneath the earth’s surface.

It is time to dream and imagine the world we wish to live in so we can come out of the gates this spring ready to create ourselves in that image once again. We are our thoughts and we have the power to be who we most wish to be. But first take this winter time to revel in who you are now, how you got to this point in time, what have you accomplished, how have you seeded your life and what has grown? Spend some quiet time just appreciating who you are and the loved ones in your life. If we can treat our families with loving kindness, generosity and honest communication then we are on the way to creating a world of people who are generous, honest and kind. Ram Dass once said, “If you think you are enlightened, go home for a week.” Let us practice peace- making with every breath we take and let it begin within. Here’s some of what I’m dreaming up for 2011, more to come...
In gratitude for you,

Miriam

FIRE CEREMONIES

Sunday March 20 5:00-8:30ish Spring Equinox
Sunday June 19th 7:00-10:00ish Summer Solstice
Friday September 23 6:30-9:30ish Fall Equinox
Saturday October 8 5:30-8:30ish Yom Kippur (Day of At-One-Ment)
Sunday December 18 4:00-7:30 Winter Solstice

Join us for a Fire Ceremony to release what no longer serves you. You will have the opportunity to shed beliefs, feelings, thoughts, relationships or anything else that is hampering your ability to be fully and completely who you are by offering them to the fire. We will witness each other as we make new agreements with ourselves and dream our lives into being. We will feed the holies and ask their assistance in recreating ourselves, our thoughts and our lives as we wish them to be. The choice is always ours!

Bi-Weekly Shamanic Teaching Circle at Drumsong

Every Other Thursday 7:15 pm -9:30 pm NEW TIME !
2011 Dates: Jan 27, Feb 10, 24, Mar 10, 24, Apr 7, 21
May 5, 19, Jun 9, 23, July 7, 21, Aug 4, 18, Sep 1, 15, 29
Oct 13, 27, Nov 10, Dec 1, 15, 29
Explore the world of your dreams and partner with your spirit helpers to trek deep within and become a spiritual warrior on the path of peace. Each week’s skills will build upon the next, stalking our inner obstacles and finding our power through impeccable action. We will journey with the sacred drum each week. Learn to get out of your own way and bring spirit through serving as a hollow bone in all your endeavors. When we work with the guides and helpers that are available to us, invite our medicine ancestors and honor the old ways and our elders, the doors of spirit healing open to us. Come be a part of the magic as we offer shamanic healing ways to the community near and far.

Please call Miriam if you wish to attend or learn more about this circle.

A contribution of $20- $25 per circle is suggested. May spirit always be your guide.

Arapaho Little Boys and Girls Sweat Lodge Ceremonies at Drumsong Sanctuary for the Soul

Sunday February 27, 2011 poured by Zoe Allison-Rockingbear weather permitting

Saturday April 2, 2011 poured by Sharon Mitchell

Please Arrive between 9:30 and 10:00 am

Bring yourselves and your prayers to this lodge. As the water is poured over the sacred stones the steam will carry our blessings to creator and assist us to purify. The name of this lodge refers to an Arapaho tradition that is gentler and more flexible than some sweat lodge traditions but does not mean that is intended only for children as I have been asked this question often. This is a lodge for people of all ages to come and bask in the womb of the earth mother and the gentle teachings of our grandmother Sharon.

Rev. Sharon Mitchell has been honored with the passing down of the tradition of this Arapaho Nation sweat lodge. She has been on the Red Road, living Native American Spirituality for over twenty years. Her experience will inspire you to discover the power that you carry within you to manifest Grandmother‘s Spirit in your personal life. Rev. Sharon is a Science of Mind Ordained Minister bringing together New Thought and Ancient Wisdom in a weekly circle. She creates sacred and traditional ceremonies in her business, Ceremonies From the Heart.

Zoe Allison is an Artist, Scholar, Science of Mind Ordained Minister and SHY Spiritual Human Yoga Healer and Certified Hypnotherapist. She is co-founder of Earth Green Medicine Lodge, a center for creating healthy spiritual-based mindful lives, located in the Western North Carolina mountains. Zoe has led
classes and workshops privately and at colleges and universities for 35 years and has traveled extensively throughout Mexico, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina visiting many of the sacred sites, working with the people and creating sacred ceremonies. She is the author of the Mayan Record Keeper, the Sacred Tzolkin, an Almanac of the Days, the Mayan Wave Tracker and a yearly calendar of the days of prophecy, and The Mayan Record Keeper cards
Workdays: Fri. February 25 10:00-1:00, Sat. 10:-1:00, Fri. April 1 10:00-1:00,

or let me know when you are available to help with cutting, moving, and gathering wood and stones, raking, moving blankets, etc. If you have WOOD or STONES to offer, we are grateful and they can be brought anytime and stacked. The preparations are part of the ceremony and are a labor of love and communion with the land, the tall standing ones, the stone people, the water and enrich one’s experience of the ceremony greatly as we joyfully do this sacred work together. Let me know when you can help and we’ll make a plan.

Please contact Miriam (919) 304-5754 or melieber@mebtel.net ) to RSVP, find out protocols, directions and ask questions. We will potluck FEAST together afterwards. I’ll send more information to those planning on attending as to how to prepare and what to bring. Directions are also available on my website http://www.drumsongsanctuary.com/.

CREATION DRUMS with ZOE

When making drums in a traditional way, we bring into physical form sacred beings. As we open ourselves to the teachings from our drums, we receive healing and transformation. Working with the drum we are able to reach the place before and beyond words, this place is oneness with Creator.

A day of ceremony and drum making with others **** Saturday February 26th 2011 ****
10 am - 3 pm
$135.00 13” cow or $150.00 15” cow includes materials,
$150.00 for elk or bison

Drum can be in elk or bison if 3 or more request before the retreat. $50.00 Deposit 14 days before the retreat for supplies This is a 3" bent wood frame drum you will be expected to complete your drum that day.

We will be using lacing of cow and elk. Each person will find in ceremony with the help of the ancestors their drum. This work is done with ceremony and is intense. It does require your concentration and you will learn many things about yourself. Surprise yourself with the gift of this strong medicine tool.

Location: Drumsong Sanctuary for the Soul
1920 Western Trail
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
RSVP: Miriam at 919 304-5754
Longed-for good ones of the Winters Cave of Introspection and finding skillful means to create deep medicine with our lives together. Welcome to the Drum Creation Ceremony I look forward to looking in your eyes and celebrating with you this ancient ceremony with the gifts of calling in your own helpers, guides, protectors and ancestors. Our ancestors have been enjoying this part of the creation since the beginning of sound. Please in honor of this ceremony which you have already started by your commitment to fulfill your part of this Beauty Path. Please bring a small bit or corn meal and a small piece of ribbon or yarn of any color. Please include all of these items in this list of things to bring with you

PLEASE BRING THE FOLLOWING WITH YOU:
A dish ready to share for Lunch
Large plastic garbage bag
Clothes Pins
sharp pocket Knife or exacto knife
very good tough craft scissors (for leather)
Patience
Ancestors
2 Ball point pens
pliers are also handy
please bring a cushion to sit on the floor (or chair for outdoors if warm)

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Zoe Allison is an Artist, Scholar, Science of Mind Ordained Minister and SHY Spiritual Human Yoga Healer and Certified Hypnotherapist. She is co-founder of Earth Green Medicine Lodge, a center for creating healthy spiritual-based mindful lives, located in the Western North Carolina mountains. Zoe has led
classes and workshops privately and at colleges and universities for 35 years and has traveled extensively throughout Mexico, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina visiting many of the sacred sites, working with the people and creating sacred ceremonies. She is the author of the Mayan Record Keeper, the Sacred Tzolkin, an Almanac of the Days, the Mayan Wave Tracker and a yearly calendar of the days of prophecy, and The Mayan Record Keeper cards "The sacred space created by Zoe in which to make our drums made all the difference. Birthing my drum was a definite highlight in my life. It was a powerful, deep and connective experience... I would recommend it to anyone who wishes to tap into their fullest sense of their creative self."

Robin Lynne, Rainbow Feather, Intentional Healing

"The drum making workshop was and continues to be an amazing experience for me. I had no conscious experience with drums or drumming in this lifetime and was expecting a kind of fun and light "craft" workshop with a Native American flavor. Instead I found the ritual, hard work and reverence for what I was creating to be serious and profoundly meaningful and healing." - Patricia Dee, Astrina Living Art

2010 Fall Newsletter

2010-09-08T12:20:00.000-07:00

Good Morning Friends,
Ahhhhh, the air is cool this morning and the ground dewy soft as the autumn slowly breathes itself into this smoldering land. We planted a fall garden yesterday and the little baby plants are raising their morning faces to the sun as their roots begin digging deep into the warm soil drawing up into themselves the earth’s essence. The promise of life lives in them and in us as we face each day with love in our hearts and in our actions. We do this one interaction at a time, drawing the essence of life up through our feet and releasing it on our breath, with our words, touch and thoughts. My teacher reminds me that our thoughts are our prayers so let us keep our thoughts full of kindness, grace, abundance, gratitude, clarity, forgiveness, strength and love for all beings, but especially ourselves at this season of returning our gaze inward.

As the hummingbirds prepare for their flight south and the butterflies drink the last summer nectar, the peppers, tomatoes, basil, zinnias, okra, and eggplants fill our harvest baskets let us remember what is lush and vibrant in our lives, let us be grateful for this green home.
Miriam

FIRE CEREMONIES

Friday September 17th 7:00-9:30ish Yom Kippur Day of At-one-ment

Sunday October 31st 5:00-8:00ish Day of the Dead Ancestors Altar

Sunday December 19th 4:00-7:00ish Winter Solstice
This ceremony will take place as Yom Kippur begins, a time of holding oneself lovingly accountable for one’s deeds and actions the prior year. This is a time to get in right relations with ourselves and Creator, to seek and offer forgiveness to ourselves and others. It is also the season of the Green Corn Ceremony, to give away our excess, to clean out our cupboards and keep only what we need. In the old ways the previous year’s grain was offered up in flames as the new grain is brought in for another year of grateful abundance. We recommit to live our lives freshly with respect, gratitude, renewed vigor and trust that we always have what we need.

Join us for a Fire Ceremony to release what no longer serves you. You will have the opportunity to shed beliefs, feelings, thoughts, relationships or anything else that is hampering your ability to be fully and completely who you are by offering them to the fire. We will witness each other as we make new agreements with ourselves and dream our lives into being. We will feed the holies and ask their assistance in recreating ourselves, our thoughts and our lives as we wish them to be. The choice is always ours!

Bi-Weekly Shamanic Teaching Circle at Drumsong
Thursdays 9:45 am -11:45 am

Dates: 2010: Sept 9, 23, Oct 7, 21, Nov 4, 18, Dec 2, 16, 30

Explore the world of your dreams and partner with your spirit helpers to trek deep within and become a spiritual warrior on the path of peace. Each week’s skills will build upon the next, stalking our inner obstacles and finding our power through impeccable action. We will journey with the sacred drum each week. Learn to get out of your own way and bring spirit through serving as a hollow bone in all your endeavors. When we work with the guides and helpers that are available to us, invite our medicine ancestors and honor the old ways and our elders, the doors of spirit healing open to us. Come be a part of the magic.

A contribution of $20- $25 per circle is suggested. May spirit always be your guide.

Arapaho Little Boys and Girls Sweat Lodge Ceremony at Drumsong Sanctuary for the Soul led by Sharon Mitchell

Saturday, October 23 Sweat Lodge

Bring yourselves and your prayers to this lodge. As the water is poured over the sacred stones the steam will carry our blessings to creator and assist us to purify. The name of this lodge refers to an Arapaho tradition that is gentler and more flexible than some sweat lodge traditions but does not mean that is intended only for children as I have been asked this question often. This is a lodge for people of all ages to come and bask in the womb of the earth mother and the gentle teachings of our grandmother Sharon.

Rev. Sharon Mitchell has been honored with the passing down of the tradition of this Arapaho Nation sweat lodge. She has been on the Red Road, living Native American Spirituality for over twenty years.

Her experience will inspire you to discover the power that you carry within you to manifest Grandmother‘s Spirit in your personal life. Rev. Sharon is a Science of Mind Ordained Minister bringing together New Thought and Ancient Wisdom in a weekly circle. Rev. Sharon is part of the Pastoral Team at the Mt. Area Hospice. She creates sacred and traditional ceremonies in her business, Ceremonies From the Heart.

Workday options: October 10, 16, or let me know when you are available to help with cutting, splitting and gathering wood and stones, raking, moving blankets, etc. If you have WOOD or STONES to offer, we are so grateful and they can be brought anytime and stacked. The preparations are part of the ceremony and are a labor of love and communion with the land, the tall standing ones, the stone people, the water and enrich one’s experience of the ceremony greatly as we joyfully do this sacred work together. Let me know when you can help and we’ll make a plan.

Please contact Miriam (919) 304-5754 or melieber@mebtel.net ) to RSVP, find out protocols, directions and ask questions. We will potluck FEAST together afterwards. I’ll send more information to those planning on attending as to how to prepare and what to bring. Directions are also available on my website www.drumsongsanctuary.com.

Spring Newsletter

2010-03-17T11:02:00.000-07:00

DRUMSONG SANCTUARY FOR THE SOUL

Miriam Lieberman, MA, LPC

1920 Western Trail

Chapel Hill, NC 27516

(919) 304-5754

http://www.drumsongsanctuary.com/

Let us all welcome spring!

It is a beautiful transitional morning with the woodstove still warming the room while the sun beams in, lighting up the Buddha by the window. Gaia (the goddess kitty) lies in the sunny spot on the floor taking in the warmth, light and Vit D. There are yellow and purple crocus blooming and the daffodils are about 6 inches above ground. Spring is coming and we are so grateful after a real winter even here in the Triangle. I would like to express my gratitude to all the tall standing ones who provided heat over this long winter as I was still gathering wood last weekend to get through these final weeks of cold nights. With all the rain and snow we’ve had, spring promises to bring exuberance of color and renewed energy to us all. Let us celebrate with the earth as she comes alive with green, pink, yellow, and white and orange. Any day we will see the red buds, the dogwoods and the happy buttercups turning those sun rays into golden bells of light and love. Come join us in ceremony and renewal as we rebuild the lodge and feel our own sap rising. Bring your blues and relinquish them to the red hot coals and transform your life. Jump up and live again! Let us give thanks for the cave as we adjust our eyes to the glorious light returning.

May the longtime sun shine upon you and all love surround you and the sweet light within you guide you, Miriam

Drumsong Sanctuary for the Soul

Fire Ceremonies

Date change! Saturday March 20th 2:00-5:00ish Spring Equinox

Friday June 18th 7:00-9:30ish Summer Solstice

Friday September 17th 7:00-9:30ish Yom Kippur Day of At-one-ment

Sunday October 31st 5:00-8:00ish Day of the Dead Ancestors Altar

Sunday December 19th 4:00-7:00ish Winter Solstice

Join us for a Fire Ceremony to release what no longer serves you. You will have the opportunity to shed beliefs, feelings, thoughts, relationships or anything else that is hampering your ability to be fully and completely who you are by offering them to the fire. We will witness each other as we make new agreements with ourselves and dream our lives into being.

We will feed the holies and ask their assistance in recreating ourselves, our thoughts and our lives as we wish them to be. The choice is always ours!

If you are drawn to be here please call or email Miriam at (919) 304-5754 or melieber@mebtel.net so I’ll know how many people to expect and give you directions if needed. Come prepared for outdoor conditions (December may be indoors). If it rains really hard we will come indoors and use the woodstove….Please dress for ceremony (knees and shoulders covered), and women please wear skirts or sarongs over your pants to honor our grandmothers. Bring drums, rattles, water to drink and food to share (optional).

Gifting is appropriate and appreciated.

Bi-Weekly Shamanic Teaching Circle at Drumsong

Thursdays 9:45 am -11:45 am

Dates: 2010: Feb 11, 25, Mar 11, 25 Apr 8, 22 (?), May 6, 20

Explore the world of your dreams and partner with your spirit helpers to trek deep within and become a spiritual warrior on the path of peace. Each week’s skills will build upon the next, stalking our inner obstacles and finding our power through impeccable action. We will journey with the sacred drum each week. Learn to get out of your own way and bring spirit through serving as a hollow bone in all your endeavors. When we work with the guides and helpers that are available to us, invite our medicine ancestors and honor the old ways and our elders, the doors of spirit healing open to us. Come be a part of the magic.

A contribution of $20- $25 per circle is suggested. May spirit always be your guide.

VISITING ELDERS

Arapaho Little Boys and Girls Sweat Lodge Ceremony at Drumsong Sanctuary for the Soul led by Sharon Mitchell

Saturday, March 27 We will build a New Lodge

Sunday, March 28 Sweat Lodge

Saturday, October 23 Sweat Lodge

Bring yourselves and your prayers to this lodge. As the water is poured over the sacred stones the steam will carry our blessings to creator and assist us to purify. The name of this lodge refers to an Arapaho tradition that is gentler and more flexible than some sweat lodge traditions but does not mean that is intended only for children as I have been asked this question often. This is a lodge for people of all ages to come and bask in the womb of the earth mother and the gentle teachings of our grandmother Sharon.

Rev. Sharon Mitchell has been honored with the passing down of the tradition of this Arapaho Nation sweat lodge. She has been on the Red Road, living Native American Spirituality for over twenty years.

Her experience will inspire you to discover the power that you carry within you to manifest Grandmother‘s Spirit in your personal life. Rev. Sharon is a Science of Mind Ordained Minister bringing together New Thought and Ancient Wisdom in a weekly circle. Rev. Sharon is part of the Pastoral Team at the Mt. Area Hospice. She creates sacred and traditional ceremonies in her business, Ceremonies From the Heart.

Workday options: Saturday March 20, Friday March 26 and Saturday, March 27 or let me know when you are available to help with cutting, splitting and gathering wood and stones, raking, moving blankets, etc. The preparations are part of the ceremony and are a labor of love and communion with the land, the tall standing ones, the stone people, the water and enrich one’s experience of the ceremony greatly as we joyfully do this sacred work together.

Please contact Miriam (919) 304-5754 or melieber@mebtel.net ) to RSVP, find out protocols, directions and ask questions. I will send more information to those planning on attending as to how to prepare and what to bring. Directions are also available on my website http://www.drumsongsanctuary.com/.

DRUM PAINTING: “Brushing of The Quetzal’s Feathers”

March 6 in Burnsville, NC call Zoe Allison 828 284-0975

March 27 in Winston Salem call Robin Lynne 336 416-7553

April 24 in Chapel Hill, NC call Miriam Lieberman 919 304-5754

(SPACE IS LIMITED TO 10)

$50.00-75.00 with $20 deposit requested to hold space by April 16, 2010

PAINTING FROM OUR MEMORIES:

The Heart Beat of the Central Drum has been courting us with the words of our native mind and tongues through the whispering of the leafless trees this winter. This communication has been using the colors of the winter’s twilights and has been nudging the flanks of the deer, elk, buffalo, cows, and goats to come forth out of the hidden caves and recesses of our own cold tangled manes and tails.

From the place of your inner visionary and artist, now is the time to call in the memory Medicine of your drums and the strength your hearts desire. Whether it’s the airy feathers and flight of the small people, or the cold wash of the surf all are being invited to the ceremony of the “Brushing of The Quetzal’s Feathers” and to fly.

Visionary art for our Drums.

Your challenge is to embrace your visionary artist and

tap into our collective rich traditions.

Infuse your artistry with the drum and experience your

“Dreaming your Life into Creation.”

Your gift for Spirit is your creative self.

Dream with the Gods and Goddess. Find a clearer

Connection with your own helpers, guides, and protectors.

Investigate new skills with the use of your drum to

Find answers to your personal questions.

Divination and protocol will be employed to find

The meanings and share the teaching of our designs. Shamanism practices of health and healing
with the drum will be addressed. Transform your life with the power and wisdom of ceremony.

10:00am-3:00pm Gathering includes:

This is a day workshop using multi-media techniques for you to create Art, from nature, meditation and ceremony. Books and magazines will be used with historical and architectural references for background information.

Most supplies will be provided however if you have special pens, pencils or small paint brushes and would like to use, in addition to our supplies, please bring them.
Your Drum!!!
Please bring a sturdy tray.
A small container for water (i.e. Bowl or cup)
Two pieces of paper as large as your drum size.

We will use ancient and modern techniques.

You may want to prepare by bringing ideas or inspiration from your dreams, books or magazine resources.

We will use ideas or designs from our collective past or future.

Dress comfortably.

Zoe Adele Allison-Rockingbear

Zoe Allison-Rockingbear is aTeacher of creating ones life using the aspects of the Artist, Healer, Visionary, and Warrior. Her personal work explores the mysteries and magic of our human relationship with Nature and the marriage of Celestial and Terrestrial energies, She incorporates the symbols and teachings of ancient cultures into our current life. As a Mayan Scholar and Day Keeper, She makes use of the sacred calendar and count of days. With integrity, heart and humor, she offers support and guidance in opening veils, dancing in multiple dimensions, manifesting dreams, and bringing clarity, freedom, and balance to our individual Earth walks.

VISION QUEST 2010

The Earth Green Medicine Lodge Vision Quest will be the week following July 4th in the mountains near Asheville, NC so mark your calendars and more information will follow. Feel free to call with questions about questing or supporting those on the mountain.

Wintry Greetings Everyone,

2010-02-02T14:35:00.000-08:00

We’ve just returned from a hike to the river in the snow after awakening this morning to a landscape draped in white. Here in the Piedmont snow is a rare occurrence and invokes the magic and beauty of the north country. In the woods, by the river, two huge oak trees have come down and we stood in awe of their grandeur and size as they cleared a swath of forest with them. The ground must have been too saturated from all the rain and the last time the river jumped its banks flowing around the vast roots of these ancient tall standing ones. They have lain down their lives. We paid them homage. This is a good time to take into account all that is living and growing beneath the surface of the earth, readying itself for the sunshine of spring and all that flows within us beneath our own skin. With the crackle of the wood stove I’m enjoying this time of hibernation and quiet. Take the time to appreciate yourself today and the many connections to the life source running through your life. May we all lay down that which no longer serves us.

Please read through the offerings here at Drumsong and our extended community. I’m happy to answer any questions and to assist in anyway I can.

Peace, Love and Gratitude, Miriam
Drumsong Sanctuary for the Soul

Fire Ceremonies

Sunday March 21st 4:00-7:00ish Spring Equinox
Friday June 18th 7:00-9:30ish Summer Solstice
Friday September 17th 7:00-9:30ish Yom Kippur Day of At-one-ment
Sunday October 31st 4:00-7:00ish Day of the Dead Ancestors Altar
Sunday December 19th 4:00-7:00ish Winter Solstice
(Feel free to bring food to share afterwards)

Join us for a Fire Ceremony to release what no longer serves you. You will have the opportunity to shed beliefs, feelings, thoughts, relationships or anything else that is hampering your ability to be fully and completely who you are by offering them to the fire. We will witness each other as we make new agreements with ourselves and dream our lives into being.

We will feed the holies and ask their assistance in recreating ourselves, our thoughts and our lives as we wish them to be. The choice is always ours!

If you are drawn to be here please call or email Miriam at (919) 304-5754 or
mailto:melieber@mebtel.netso I’ll know how many people to expect and give you directions if needed. Come prepared for outdoor conditions (December may be indoors). If it rains really hard we will come indoors and use the woodstove….Please dress for ceremony (knees and shoulders covered), and women please wear skirts or sarongs over your pants. Bring drums, rattles, water to drink and food to share (optional).
Gifting is appropriate and appreciated.

Bi-Weekly Shamanic Teaching Circle at Drumsong

Thursdays 9:450 am -11:45 am
Dates: 2010: Feb 11, 25, Mar 11, 25 Apr 8, 22, May 6, 20
Explore the world of your dreams and partner with your spirit helpers to trek deep within and become a spiritual warrior on the path of peace. Each week’s skills will build upon the next, stalking our inner obstacles and finding our power through impeccable action. We will journey with the sacred drum each week. Learn to get out of your own way and bring spirit through serving as a hollow bone in all your endeavors. When we work with the guides and helpers that are available to us, invite our medicine ancestors and honor the old ways and our elders, the doors of spirit healing open to us. Come be a part of the magic.
A contribution of $20- $25 per circle is suggested. May spirit always be your guide.
VISITING ELDERS
Arapaho Little Boys and Girls Sweat Lodge Ceremony at Drumsong Sanctuary for the Soul led by Sharon Mitchell
Saturday, March 27 We will build a New Lodge
Sunday, March 28 Sweat Lodge
Saturday, October 23 Sweat Lodge
Bring yourselves and your prayers to this lodge. As the water is poured over the sacred stones the steam will carry our blessings to creator and assist us to purify. The name of this lodge refers to an Arapaho tradition that is gentler and more flexible than some sweat lodge traditions but does not mean that is intended only for children as I have been asked this question often. This is a lodge for people of all ages to come and bask in the womb of the earth mother and the gentle teachings of our grandmother Sharon.

Rev. Sharon Mitchell has been honored with the passing down of the tradition of this Arapaho Nation sweat lodge. She has been on the Red Road, living Native American Spirituality for over twenty years.
Her experience will inspire you to discover the power that you carry within you to manifest Grandmother‘s Spirit in your personal life. Rev. Sharon is a Science of Mind Ordained Minister bringing together New Thought and Ancient Wisdom in a weekly circle. Rev. Sharon is part of the Pastoral Team at the Mt. Area Hospice. She creates sacred and traditional ceremonies in her business, Ceremonies From the Heart.

Workday options: Saturday March 20, Friday March 26 and Saturday, March 27 or let me know when you are available to help with cutting, splitting and gathering wood and stones, raking, moving blankets, etc. The preparations are part of the ceremony and are a labor of love and communion with the land, the tall standing ones, the stone people, the water and enrich one’s experience of the ceremony greatly as we joyfully do this sacred work together.

Please contact Miriam (919) 304-5754 or mailto:mailto:%20melieber@mebtel.netto RSVP, find out protocols, directions and ask questions. I will send more information to those planning on attending as to how to prepare and what to bring. Directions are also available on my website www.drumsongsanctuary.com.

DRUM PAINTING: “Brushing of The Quetzal’s Feathers”

March 6 in Burnsville, NC call Zoe Allison 828 284-0975
March 27 in Winston Salem call Robin Lynne 336 416-7553
April 24 in Chapel Hill, NC call Miriam Lieberman 919 304-5754
(SPACE IS LIMITED TO 10)
$50.00-75.00 with $20 deposit requested to hold space by April 16, 2010

PAINTING FROM OUR MEMORIES:
The Heart Beat of the Central Drum has been courting us with the words of our native mind and tongues through the whispering of the leafless trees this winter. This communication has been using the colors of the winter’s twilights and has been nudging the flanks of the deer, elk, buffalo, cows, and goats to come forth out of the hidden caves and recesses of our own cold tangled manes and tails.
From the place of your inner visionary and artist, now is the time to call in the memory Medicine of your drums and the strength your hearts desire. Whether it’s the airy feathers and flight of the small people, or the cold wash of the surf all are being invited to the ceremony of the “Brushing of The Quetzal’s Feathers” and to fly.

Visionary art for our Drums.
Your challenge is to embrace your visionary artist and tap into our collective rich traditions. Infuse your artisty with the drum and experience your “Dreaming your Life into Creation.” Your gift for Spirit is your creative self. Dream with the Gods and Goddess. Find a clearer connection with your own helpers, guides, and protectors.

Investigate new skills with the use of your drum to find answers to your personal questions.

Divination and protocol will be employed to find the meanings and share the teaching of our designs. Shamanism practices of health and healing with the drum will be addressed.Transform your life with the power and wisdom of ceremony.

10:00am-3:00pm Gathering includes:
This is a day workshop using multi-media techniques for you to create Art, from nature, meditation and ceremony. Books and magazines will be used with historical and architectural references for background information.

1. Most supplies will be provided however if you have special pens, pencils or small paint brushes and would like to use, in addition to our supplies, please bring them.
2. Your Drum!!!
3. Please bring a sturdy tray.
4. A small container for water (i.e. Bowl or cup)
5. Two pieces of paper as large as your drum size.
We will use ancient and modern techniques.
You may want to prepare by bringing ideas or inspiration from your dreams, books or magazine resources.
We will use ideas or designs from our collective past or future.
Dress comfortably.

Zoe Adele Allison-Rockingbear
Zoe Allison-Rockingbear is aTeacher of creating ones life using the aspects of the Artist, Healer, Visionary, and Warrior. Her personal work explores the mysteries and magic of our human relationship with Nature and the marriage of Celestial and Terrestrial energies, She incorporates the symbols and teachings of ancient cultures into our current life. As a Mayan Scholar and Day Keeper, She makes use of the sacred calendar and count of days. With integrity, heart and humor, she offers support and guidance in opening veils, dancing in multiple dimensions, manifesting dreams, and bringing clarity, freedom, and balance to our individual Earth walks.

VISION QUEST 2010
The Earth Green Medicine Lodge Vision Quest will be the week following July 4th in the mountains near Asheville, NC so mark your calendars and more information will follow. Feel free to call with questions about questing or supporting those on th

Autumn Colors

2009-09-29T07:37:00.000-07:00

Greetings Everyone,

Aaahh, the fall colors are sublime. This weekend I‘ve been out walking in the rain and driving past trees on fire with orange, yellows and reds. We had some cool weather and more is on the way. I’ve been stacking wood and getting ready for the cold weather. I love the smell of the wood, feeling it in my hands, hearing the thud of logs landing atop one another, splitting kindling and feeling my muscles tighten as I grip the axe and feel it sink into the end of the wood. I love the focus required to use the tools and knowing that these tall standing ones have given their lives and will also heat our home. The roses and honeysuckle have lingering blooms and the little porch lizard has moved from the flower pot to the wood pile but still greets me as I come and go. The spiders continue to catch the last of the summer’s bug harvest in their shimmering webs.

I’m heading south for a Vision Quest Ceremony so we will miss the Day of the Dead Fire Ceremony here this year, but we’ll meet at the winter solstice around the fire circle (Dec. 20th). Prior to that we will have circles here at Drumsong, a Clan Mother’s circle with Robin Lynne, a sweat lodge (Dec 5th) with Sharon Mitchell, and then in January Will Rockingbear and Zoe Allison Rockingbear return to our area for teachings, healings and drummaking. Please read the newsletter for more information.

May the vibrancy of the autumn colors illuminate your heart and bring a smile to your face in this season of great gratitude.

Peace, Love and Gratitude,
Miriam

Drumsong Sanctuary for the Soul

Fire Ceremony
Sunday, December 20, 2009 (Winter Solstice)
4:30 pm till 7:00 ish

Join us for a Fire Ceremony to release what no longer serves you. You will have the opportunity to shed beliefs, feelings, thoughts, relationships or anything else that is hampering your ability to be fully and completely who you are by offering them to the fire. We will witness each other as we make new agreements with ourselves and dream our lives into being. We will feed the holies and ask their assistance in recreating ourselves, our thoughts and our lives as we wish them to be. The choice is always yours!

If you are drawn to be here please call or email Miriam at (919) 304-5754 or
melieber@mebtel.net so I’ll know how many people to expect and give you directions if needed. Come prepared for outdoor conditions. If it rains really hard we will come indoors and use the woodstove….Bring sarongs, drums, rattles, water to drink.

Gifting is appropriate and appreciated.

Bi-Weekly Shamanic Teaching Circle
Thursdays 9:30 am -11ish am
Dates: 2009: Nov. 12, Dec 3, 17, 31

Explore the world of your dreams and partner with your spirit helpers to trek deep within and become a spiritual warrior on the path of peace. Each week’s skills will build upon the next, stalking our inner obstacles and finding our power through impeccable action. We will journey with the sacred drum each week. Learn to get out of your own way and bring spirit through serving as a hollow bone in all your endeavors. When we work with the guides and helpers that are available to us, invite our medicine ancestors and honor the old ways and our elders, the doors of spirit healing open to us. Come be a part of the magic.

A contribution of $20- $25 per circle is suggested. May spirit always be your guide.

VISITING ELDERS
Arapaho Little Boys and Girls Sweat Lodge Ceremony
at Drumsong Sanctuary for the Soul led by Sharon Mitchell
Saturday December 5, 2009 10:00 am till……after the feast.
Bring yourselves and your prayers to this lodge. As the water is poured over the sacred stones the steam will carry our blessings to creator and assist us to purify. The name of this lodge refers to an Arapaho tradition that is gentler and more flexible than some sweat lodge traditions but does not mean that is intended only for children as I have been asked this question often. This is a lodge for people of all ages to come and bask in the womb of the earth mother and the gentle teachings of our grandmother Sharon.

Rev. Sharon Mitchell has been honored with the passing down of the tradition of this Arapaho Nation sweat lodge. She has been on the Red Road, living Native American Spirituality for over twenty years. Her experience will inspire you to discover the power that you carry within you to manifest Grandmother‘s Spirit in your personal life. Rev. Sharon is a Science of Mind Ordained Minister bringing together New Thought and Ancient Wisdom in a weekly circle. Rev. Sharon is part of the Pastoral Team at the Mt. Area Hospice. She creates sacred and traditional ceremonies in her business, Ceremonies From the Heart.

Workdays: Saturday November 21 and Friday December 4

or by letting me know when you are available to help with cutting, splitting and gathering wood and stones, raking, moving blankets, etc. The preparations are part of the ceremony and are a labor of love and communion with the land, the tall standing ones, the stone people, the water and enrich one’s experience of the ceremony greatly as we joyfully do this sacred work together.

Please contact Miriam (919) 304-5754 or melieber@mebtel.net ) to RSVP, find out protocols, directions and ask questions. I will send more information to those planning on attending as to how to prepare and what to bring. Directions are also available on my website http://www.drumsongsanctuary.com/.

Cherokee Elder Will Rockingbear Returns to Chapel Hill
January 8-10, 2010
SAVE THE DATE

We are still planning the weekend but he will most likely give a public teaching on Saturday night. What are you ready to heal in your life? He will be available for some private sessions so let me know if you wish to reserve a time. The sessions will most likely be on Friday and Saturday (Jan 8 and 9).

Zoe Allison Rockingbear will also be available for some private sessions.

Drummaking
January 9th, 2010 10-3pm (location TBA)
Calling all those who wish to make a drum. Saturday Jan 9th, 2010 10-3 (Location TBA)
$135.00 for 13” or $150.00 for 15”, $35.00 Deposit by December 15, 2009 for supplies
Zoe will be here and will lead a drum making ceremony if we have enough people.

Drum Birthing Ceremony with Zoe Allison
January 9th, 2010 evening time TBA
At Drumsong Sanctuary
RSVP 919 304-5754

Bring the drum you created in ceremony here This Spring or a drum that has come into your life and Birth it in ceremony. Bring gifts such as adornments, talismans, cordage, ribbons, belts, fetishes or beaters as gifts for all the drums being birthed (check with Miriam about Numbers).

The gifts need to be ready for the drums. Also bring a cushion and a blanket to sit on.

Sharing our abundance with Zoe for travelling this way and blessing these drums is appropriate and appreciated.

CD’s available from Rockingbear’s Teaching Circle and Drumming at Unity Church in Chapel Hill April 09 and from his visit here in 2006.

Cherokee Elder Will Rockingbear
APRIL 24-26, 2009
Teachings on “Healing Fear” $15 Donation plus S&H
to support Will Rockingbear and Earth Green Medicine Lodge
make checks to: Earth Green Medicine Lodge

Robin Lynn Rainbow Feather

Robin has begun a Clan Mother’s circle in Chapel Hill at the United Church of Christ on Airport Rd. It meets the second Friday of each month 7-9:30 pm. Call Robin for more info (336) 416-7553 or email her at robin@flowereagle.com

Spring Events

2009-04-19T08:57:00.000-07:00

Cherokee Elder Will Rockingbear
at Drumsong Sanctuary for the Soul
APRIL 24-26, 2009

Will Rockingbear is a Cherokee Elder from the mountains of North Carolina. He teaches people how to truly heal, reclaim their personal power and create the life they want with humor, joy, clarity and impeccable precision. He will be available for private sessions to request information; healing, or a Shamanic ceremony (such as soul retrieval, cutting ceremony, calling in ceremony, releasing attachments).

TEACHING CIRCLE at Unity of Chapel Hill
8800 Seawell School Road
Saturday April 25th 7:00-9:30 pm

Bring a cushion and a lap cloth floor seating. Chairs will also be available.
Monetary gifting is appropriate and appreciated in the amount you are guided to support this elder coming from afar to be with our community and share from his tradition.

RSVP to Miriam

VISITING ELDERS
Hello everyone,
You are invited Friday night May 1st to join me and my sweet and close friend Sharon for a party...this however is no ordinary party!

This is bringing in the ancient wisdom of chocolate: Food of the Gods used in ceremony, ritual, as medicine, for barter and for money. Our ancestors in the South knew of the great healing powers of the cocoa bean and now with scientific research, we know the incredible antioxidant value of this raw chocolate. Come hear a short presentation on creating an additional income during these economic times and join us to sample this delightful decadent dark raw chocolate!

We’ll gather at 7:00pm at Drumsong Sanctuary.
Any questions, please call Sharon Mitchell (828)712-1119
For directions call Miriam (919) 304-5754 or go to http://www.drumsongsanctuary.com/

Arapaho Little Boys and Girls Sweat Lodge Ceremony at Drumsong Sanctuary for the Soul led by Sharon Mitchell
Saturday May 2, 2009 9:30 till……?
Bring yourselves and your prayers to this lodge and as the water is poured over the sacred stones and the steam will carry our blessings to creator. The name of this lodge refers to an Arapaho tradition that is gentler and more flexible than some sweat lodge traditions but does not mean that is intended for children as I have been asked this question often.. This is a lodge for people of all ages to come and bask in the heat of this turtle lodge and the gentle teachings of our grandmother Sharon.

Rev. Sharon Mitchell has been honored with the passing down of the tradition of this Arapaho Nation sweat lodge. She has been on the Red Road living Native American Spirituality for over twenty years. Her experience will inspire you to discover the power that you carry within you to manifest Grandmother‘s Spirit in your personal life. Rev. Sharon is a Science of Mind Ordained Minister bringing together New Thought and Ancient Wisdom in a weekly circle. Rev. Sharon is part of the Pastoral Team at the Mt. Area Hospice. She creates sacred and traditional ceremonies in her business, Ceremonies From the Heart.

Workday: Friday May 1 or by letting me know when you are available to help with cutting, splitting and gathering wood and stones, raking, moving blankets, etc. The preparations are part of the ceremony and are a labor of love and communion with the land, the tall standing ones, the stone people, the water and enrich one’s experience of the ceremony greatly as we do this sacred work together joyfully.

Please contact Miriam (919) 304-5754 or melieber@mebtel.net) to RSVP, find out protocols, directions and ask questions. I will send more information to those planning on attending as to how to prepare and what to bring. Directions are also available on my website http://www.drumsongsanctuary.com/.

Winter 2009 Newsletter

2009-01-23T17:57:00.000-08:00

DRUMSONG SANCTUARY FOR THE SOUL
Miriam Lieberman, MA, LPC
1920 Western Trail
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
919 304-5754
www.drumsongsanctuary.com

A warm wintry greeting to you,

This season of going within has called me into the lodge to dream, rest and heal the deep within places with quiet time by the woodstove listening to the ancestors and guides. It is a time to work on medicine pieces and to hone our intentions for this New Year. Here at the lodge part of that is fresh paint and fresh perspective. The rains have blessed us pretty steadily replenishing our water tables and providing many gray soggy days to deepen the turn inward, to be rather than to do. I’m grateful for all the teachers in my life who remind me that joy is my birthright and that fear and anger can be transformed into trust and right action. I am learning from my teacher that generosity heals anger. I listen much these days to the chanting of the Dalai Lama and feel his commitment to non-violence in the face of great challenge as an inspiration to my life and practice.

In this time of political transition and wars that engender suffering it is a time to be the peace we pray for, to call it forth in our thoughts, actions and dreams. In a week’s time we will have a new president here and hopefully many positive changes in our nation and world. Let us each take responsibility for our own thoughts and actions, to speak our truth in loving and kind ways and hold ourselves accountable first and foremost for the healing we bring into our own lives and the lives of others. May we abundantly embody our medicine gifts and be blessed ten-fold in return for each act of kindness and generosity (to self and others) that we freely give. May this year bring us together in ceremony and healing.

With great gratitude for life,
Miriam 1/12/09

Scroll down to learn about ceremonies and classes:
At Drumsong Sanctuary for the Soul (Chapel Hill)~ (Fire Ceremonies, Sweat Lodge Feb.7, Teaching circle, drummaking, Cherokee Elder Will Rockingbear will be back at Drumsong this Spring, date TBA
At Raven Haven (Graham)~ Gods and Goddesses class with Zoe Allison.
At Flower Eagle Medicine Lodge (Winston Salem)~ visit www.flowereagle.com for Soul Healing Training, classes and ceremonies
At Healing the Heart to Heart Connection~ Soul Healing Sessions 919 545-9833

Fire Ceremony
Drumsong Sanctuary for the Soul
Friday March 20 Spring Equinox
Sunday June 21 Solstice
6:30 pm till 9:00 ish
Join us for a Fire Ceremony to release what no longer serves you. You will have the opportunity to shed beliefs, feelings, thoughts, relationships or anything else that is hampering your ability to be fully and completely who you are by offering them to the fire. We will witness each other as we make new agreements with ourselves and dream our lives into being. We will feed the holies and ask their assistance in recreating ourselves, our thoughts and our lives as we wish them to be. The choice is always yours!

“We spend our lives for-getting that living is for-giving.” Dean Fraser

If you are drawn to be here please call or email Miriam at (919) 304-5754 or melieber@mebtel.net so I’ll know how many people to expect and give you directions if needed. Come prepared for outdoor conditions. Bring sarongs, drums, rattles, water. Gifting is appropriate and appreciated.

Bi-Weekly Shamanic Teaching Circle
Mondays 4:30 -6:30 pm
Dates: 2009 , Feb. 2, 16, Mar. 2, 16, 30, Apr. 13, 27, May 11, 25
Explore the world of your dreams and partner with your spirit helpers to trek deep within and become a spiritual warrior on the path of peace. Each week’s skills will build upon the next, stalking our inner obstacles and finding our power through impeccable action. We will journey with the sacred drum each week. Learn to get out of your own way and bring spirit through you to serve as a hollow bone in all your endeavors. When we work with the guides and helpers that are available to us, invite our medicine ancestors and honor the old ways and our elders, the doors of spirit healing open to us. Come be a part of the magic.
A contribution of $20- $25 per circle is suggested. Just let spirit be your guide. Keep scrolling down

VISITING ELDERS
Arapaho Little Boys and Girls Sweat Lodge Ceremony at Drumsong Sanctuary for the Soul led by Zoe Allison
Saturday February 7th, 2009 4:00- till……?
Zoe Allison is an Artist, Scholar, Science of Mind Ordained Minister and SHY Spiritual Human Yoga Healer and Certified Hypnotherapist. She is co-founder of Earth Green Medicine Lodge, a center for creating healthy spiritual-based mindful lives, located in the Western North Carolina mountains. Zoe has led classes and workshops privately and at colleges and universities for 26
years and has traveled extensively throughout Mexico, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina visiting many of the sacred sites, working with the people and creating sacred ceremonies. She is the author of the Mayan Record Keeper, the Sacred Tzolkin, an Almanac of the Days, the Mayan Wave Tracker and a yearly calendar of the days of prophecy, and The Mayan Record Keeper cards

We will light the fire after Zoe’s God/Goddess class and be in ceremony until we have feasted well … into the moon filled night.

Workday: Sunday Friday Feb. 6 or by letting me know when you are available to help with cutting, splitting and gathering wood and stones, raking, moving blankets, etc. The preparations are part of the ceremony and are a labor of love and communion with the land, the tall standing ones, the stone people, the water and enrich one’s experience of the ceremony greatly as we do this sacred work together joyfully.

Please contact Miriam (919) 304-5754 or melieber@mebtel.net) to RSVP, find out protocols, directions and ask questions. I will send more information to those planning on attending as to how to prepare and what to bring. Directions are also available on my website www.drumsongsanctuary.com.

GODDESS AND GODS: TEACHINGS FOR THE MODERN NOBILITY
In our modern times we often look to others to see how to act; or at the very least reflect on how dysfunctional our personal families are. Do we see immature, weak or absent mothers and fathers? Are our kings and queens sufficiently present? Are the god and goddesses of our lives in disorder and chaos or are we showing up engaged and wholly (holy) present with our spiritual helpers. Join me in this exploration of the Goddess and Gods and how they might become more vivid, and more fully present. Knowing the shadow work in our psyches can always use some new light.
In our pre-patriarchal times, the earth as Mother was seen as the primary source of fertility but as our cultures have risen this modern time, the emphasis has shifted from the feminine as the source of fertility to the masculine. The ancient myths have used Biology, at least on the physical plane to be recognized as the union of the males and females, however on the cultural plane and the creation of civilization and technology, the mastery of the natural world, needs to employ both the Goddess and the Gods in recreating the mastery of our natural world. The primary expression for many peoples of the life-force, the libido, of the cosmos must be addressed with a new compassion of the life giving nurturing of ourselves as well as the mastery of our psyche. Allowing us to become the noble beings and create the new Earth.
This will be an empowering, delicious reference guide for modern day people working with gods and goddesses from many traditions in our daily lives. We will spend a year investigating the known strengths and weaknesses of the Gods and living our lives with assistance from the Gods. Perhaps you remember some of these from your past…Diana, Isis, Hathor, Ra, Osiris, Quetzacoaztl, Tzcatlipoca, Ceridiwen as well as others. Traditional ceremonies, messages, altars and teachings of the Gods will be employed to create an ongoing connection with our creators.
January-10 Asheville, NC and January 24 near Graham, NC
February- 11 Asheville, NC and February 7 near Graham, NC
March- 25 Asheville, NC and March 28 near Graham, NC
April- 8 Asheville, NC and April 11 near Graham, NC
May-6 Asheville, NC and May 9 near Graham, NC
All gifting is appropriate and appreciated. Suggested monetary gifting is $20.00 per session and will include all materials. The amount you gift is entirely up to you - it's between you call:
Zoe (828) 284 0975 mayanrecordkeeper@hotmail.com for Asheville or Graham
Judith (919) 260 1430 jabrooks@bellsouth.net for Graham class only

CREATION DRUMS
A day of ceremony and drum making with others
When making drums in a traditional way, we bring into physical form sacred beings. As we open ourselves to the teachings from our drums, we receive healing and transformation. Working with the drum we are able to reach the place before and beyond words, this place is oneness with Creator.

Sunday March 29 10 am - 3 pm
$100.00 includes materials, $35.00 Deposit by March 10 requested (scroll down)

Mail to: Drumsong Sanctuary for the Soul in Chapel Hill, NC
1920 Western Trail Chapel Hill, NC 27516
To register call Miriam at (919) 304 5754 or Email: melieber@mebtel.net

Please bring the following with you:
Lunch to share (ready to eat)
sharp pocket Knife or exacto knife
Very good craft scissors for leather
Patience
Ancestors
Ball point pen, pencil
Small pliers
Two towels
Cutting board
please bring a cushion to sit on the floor inside (a camping chair optional)

Thanks for reading and hope to see you along the path….to unsubscribe here just reply and say unsubscribe in the subject line and I’ll take your name off mymailing list

Drum Birthing Ceremony & Rattle Making Ceremony

2008-07-28T19:06:00.000-07:00

Drum Birthing Ceremony
With Zoe Allison
Friday August 8
6:30-8:30 pm

Drumsong Sanctuary for the Soul
1920 Western Trail
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
RSVP to Miriam at 919 304-5754
melieber@mebtel.net
www.drumsongsanctuary.com
(see website or email for directions)

Bring the drum you created in ceremony here nine months ago or a drum that has come into your life and join the birthing ceremony.

Bring gifts such as adornments, talismans, cordage, ribbons, belts, fetishes or beaters as gifts for all the drums being birthed (check with Miriam about Numbers). The gifts need to be ready for the drums. Also bring a cushion and a blanket to sit on.

Sharing our abundance with Zoe for travelling this way
and blessing these drums is appropriate and appreciated.

Rattle Making Ceremony with Zoe Allison
At Drumsong Sanctuary for the Soul
Saturday August 9, 2008
$75.oo (materials included)
9:00 am –1:00 pm

The ancient rattle gives us access to the unseen realms and has been used to dispel illness, dis-ease and also during life’s many celebrations. The sound of the rattle is magic and the ritual use of it’s energy can move us to create a deeper place of connection to ceremony within us. You will create a rattle and charge it with your own energy to assist you in calling in and working with your own helpers, guides, teachers and protectors. We will use simple techniques of sewing, painting and dreaming to create from our own inner wisdom a place where the magic of the rattle can assist us. Whether your rattle is made of hide or gourds, it will include the beings of the tree people, the four leggeds, the sacred plant people and all our relations. We will give thanks to all the beings and Mother Earth who in her abundance has given us refuge with our spirit relations who come to assist us.

Please BRING some or all of these sweet gifts from nature:
Sea shells, sea salt, seeds, beads, small round stones (corn seed size),
Any personal scissors, awls, needles, cutting boards you may prefer using.

Registration and information:
Call Miriam Lieberman at 919-304-5754 or email: melieber@mebtel.net
Deadline for registration paid in full: Saturday August, 9, $75.00 (bring a snack for yourself)
Make checks payable to: Zoe Allison
Send to Miriam Lieberman 1920 Western Trail Chapel Hill, NC 27516
Directions to Drumsong Sanctuary for the Soul will be sent upon registration or can be found at http://www.drumsongsanctuary.com/

Zoe Allison is an Artist, Teacher, Healer, Mystic, Visionary and Warrior. Her work explores the mysteries and magic of the dynamic human relationship with Nature and the marriage of Celestial and Terrestrial energies, incorporating the symbols and teachings of ancient cultures. A Mayan scholar and Day Keeper, Zoe assists her students in making use of the sacred calendar and Count of Days in their lives. With integrity, heart and humor she offers support and guidance in opening veils, dancing in multiple dimensions, manifesting dreams, and bringing clarity, freedom and balance to our individual Earth walks.

Zoe authored the The Mayan Record Keeper, The Sacred Tzolkin and the Mayan Wave Tracker. She is also a Reverend, Certified Hypnotherapist and Shaa Healer. She has traveled extensively throughout Mexico and South America working with native elders to create sacred ceremony honoring the Earth and Ancestral Wisdom. Zoe lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains where she leads ceremonies and circles and works as a spiritual and shamanic counselor. She is co-founder of Earth Green Medicine Lodge, a center created from her vision of providing a place for spiritual community, healing, empowerment and transformation.

Fire Ceremony and Firewalking

2008-06-18T11:15:00.000-07:00

Fire Ceremony
With Miriam Lieberman
and
Firewalking
Roll out the red carpet to your life
Presented By : Marada Uchniat F.I.R.E. and SUNDOOR Certified

If you have never experienced a Firewalk and have always wondered, here is a beautiful opportunity for you to come and have one of life’s most memorable experiences.
Walk for yourself, for spirit, for joy, for life.
Walk in celebration.
The evening with the fire allows us to merge with our own spirit…fueling our passion and enthusiasm for what we desire to create in our lives. Walking the coals in not required to benefit from this expansive experience and align deeply with this aspect of yourself.

Friday June 27 6:00 pm till …..
Arrive at 6:00 pm to learn about and prepare for the ceremony,
Wear clothes to be comfortable outdoors rain or shine
Cost: $65.00 (couples $110.00) (Students $35.00)
(Repeaters 55.00) Some scholarships available
Bring food to share afterwards (optional)
Limited to 30 participants, Call for more info or mail registration to:
Miriam Lieberman at melieber@mebtel.net or 919/304-5754
1920 Western Trail Chapel Hill, NC 27516
www.drumsongsanctuary.com
(directions given at time of registration)

Firewalking is an ancient ritual that teaches people to reach beyond their limiting beliefs. In so doing we bring greater balance and beauty into our lives and spark our ability to co-create our personal dream. Marada brings this primitive practice of Firewalking into our contemporary setting, giving us tools to improve our lives, while keeping alive the sacred nature of the ceremony. Many people say this evening program is the most transformational experience of their life. Whether you walk on the coals or not, you will feel empowered and inspired.

The intent is to align with the elemental energies of the fire and ignite the fire within each of us. Being with the fire allows us to step through our fears and become the people we are meant to be. The evening with the fire allows us to merge with our own spirit ...fueling our passion and enthusiasm for what we desire to create for our lives.

This intent is made possible by spending the evening working with the fire and if we choose to, walking over the coals. However it is not required to walk in order to align with this element. This will truly be your individual choice and an amazing experience whether or not you walk the coals.

We will be spending the evening outdoors (rain or shine) so bring what you will need to stay dry and comfortable bring your favorite snack or dish to share afterward.

Drumsong Sanctuary for the Soul Newsletter and Calendar

2008-04-04T06:25:00.000-07:00

http://www.drumsongsanctuary.com/
Summer 2008

Bi-Weekly Shamanic Teaching Circle
Dates: June 9, 23, July 7, 21, Aug. 4, 18, Sept. 1, 15
Explore the world of your dreams and partner with your spirit helpers to trek deep within and become a spiritual warrior on the path of peace. Each week’s skills will build upon the next, stalking our inner obstacles and finding our power through impeccable action. We will journey with the sacred drum each week. Learn to get out of your own way and bring spirit through you to serve as a hollow bone in all your endeavors. When we work with the guides and helpers that are available to us, invite our medicine ancestors and honor the old ways and our elders the doors of spirit healing open to us. Come be a part of the magic.
A minimum contribution of $20- $25 per circle is suggested. As always, let your heart and spirit be your guide.

Monthly Soul Retrieval Support Circle Dates: Mondays 4-6 pm June 16, July 28, August 25. Sept. 22
RSVP at least 2 days in advance (if possible) for planning purposes.
This circle provides a supportive environment for those who have had a soul retrieval to communicate with the returned pieces of soul and to support each other in keeping the agreements made to them during the ceremony. This teaches us to be impeccable with our word, to honor the relationships and agreements we make in our lives, as demonstrated by our actions. You will be in the company of others who are welcoming back pieces of themselves and making room inside for this reunion to take hold. You will have the opportunity to journey in the dreamtime to renegotiate soul contracts made long ago that impact your life today and co-create the life you wish for yourself now.
The gifting basket will be available for your generous contribution, remembering that what we give to the spiritual sources in our lives comes back ten fold to us.

Monthly Fire Ceremony
Friday Nights 7:00 – 9:30 pm June 27, July 25, Aug. 29
RSVP at least 2 days in advance (if possible) for planning purposes.
Join us for a Fire Ceremony to release what no longer serves you. You will have the opportunity to shed beliefs, feelings, thoughts, relationships or anything else that is hampering your ability to be fully and completely who you are by offering them to the fire. We will witness each other as we make new agreements with ourselves and dream our lives into being. We will feed the holies and ask their assistance in recreating ourselves, our thoughts and our lives as we wish them to be. The choice is always yours!
The gifting basket will be available for your generous contribution, remembering that what we give to the spiritual sources in our lives comes back ten fold to us.

Vision Quest 2008
The Earth Green Medicine Lodge Vision Quest 2008 will take place in the mountains of North Carolina the week of July 14-20 at Big Butte. People interested in supporting the questers as they go up on the mountain in prayer for up to 4 days and four nights as we eat, drink, pray, and live in community are welcome to come and participate in the ceremony and offer their loving assistance.

For more information call Miriam at 919 304-5754 or melieber@mebtel.net or go to www.earthgreenmedicinelodge.com
For Lodging call Rob Luka 828- 280-2623

Trance Healing Circles (maximum 8 people per session by reservation only)
Contact Tracey Turner Keyser for dates and times (919) 942-0110
A Trance Healing is an opportunity to listen to and integrate information from souls that have been influencing your feelings, thoughts, habits and/or relationships before they are sent with their lights by two trance healers. Trance healings facilitate forgiveness, peace and reconciliation for all beings involved. Over time we recommend a series of eight healings to complete the cycle around the sacred spiral and balance your masculine and feminine energies.
Suggested donation: $15 per healing per person.

Individual or Family Counseling, Soul Retrieval, Cutting Ceremony, Fire Ceremony, Land Clearing, Calling Ceremony, and Shamanic Counseling, and Clinical Supervision are available by appointment.

I’d love to hear from you and can be reached at 919 304-5754 or melieber@mebtel.net or www.drumsongsanctuary.com

In gratitude,
Miriam

Fall Newsletter

2007-10-05T17:49:00.001-07:00

Hello Fellow Travelers, 10/4/07

I can’t believe it is already October! The summer went by in a flash, a heat flash! What a remarkable show of stamina the plant beings have demonstrated week after week in this hot dry weather. I am given strength by their insistence on living, on digging their roots a little deeper, by casting their seeds out for distant rains to sprout our future landscape with. We have been feeding the deer our melon rinds and giving them water and asking them to spare the plants that are still standing with green heads against all odds. The creek is dry with no sound of the bull frogs. I hope they have buried themselves into the mud or hopped all the way to the river. A beautiful box turtle has been enjoying the shady shelter of the cavern within the grandmother beech tree here where the earth is dark and cool.

Thunder beings, we call you forth to quench the thirst of these lands and to replenish the water tables of the region, we are grateful for you and long to hear your strong voice echoing above us and to feel the rain on our skin and in our hair. The cooling of the air tells us that Fall is arriving with her colorful cloak to brighten our dusty vision with amber, red, gold, orange, yellow, crimson, umber and the magenta skyline as the October sun sets to make way for that large autumn orb in the sky. The night eagles here at Drumsong sing loudly and raucously in this season reminding us to pay attention to that which we don’t see and to give thanks for it all!

Be sure to scroll through to see all the great teachers and ceremonies coming this fall and winter. We have sweat lodge, drummmaking, teaching circles and fire ceremonies. Or you can just go to the website and check there, http://www.drumsongsanctuary.com/ or the blog http://www.drumsongsanctuary.blogspot.com/ which I’m still learning to use (patience please). I hope to see you again soon and to share sacred space and time with you or just give me a call at 919 304-5754 to connect.

In gratitude for my life and yours,
Miriam

Sacred Fire Ceremony Flyer
Mondays: Oct 8, Oct 29, Dec 3 from 7:00 – 10:00 pm
Our Monday night healing circle invites you to join us for a Fire Ceremony to release what no longer serves you. You will have the opportunity to shed beliefs, feelings, thoughts, relationships or anything else that is hampering your ability to be fully and completely who you are by offering them to the fire. We will witness each other as we make new agreements with ourselves and dream our lives into being. We will feed the holies and ask their assistance in recreating ourselves, our thoughts and our lives as we wish them to be. The choice is always yours!
The gifting basket will be available for your generous contribution, remembering that what we give to the spiritual sources in our lives comes back ten fold to us.

Third Annual All Souls Day Fire Ceremony. Flyer
Monday October 29th at Drumsong 7:00-10:00pm (All are welcome please rsvp)
We will honor our ancestors in a multi-cultural Day of the Dead Ceremony. There will be a festive community altar to pay homage to our ancestors. Bring drums, rattles, bells, photos, food or drinks to honor and feed them, and a chair. Come prepared for outdoors but we will meet indoors in the event of heavy rain.

Monthly Soul Retrieval Support Circle Second Wednesday of each month 7-9pm: 2007: 10/10, 11/14, 12/12
2008: 1/9, 2/13, 3/12, 4/9, 5/14, 6/11, 7/9, 8/13, 9/10, 10/8, 11/12, 12/10
This circle provides a supportive environment for those who have had a soul retrieval to communicate with the returned pieces of soul and to support each other in keeping the agreements made to them. This teaches us to be impeccable with our word, to honor the relationships and agreements we make in our lives, as demonstrated by our actions. You will be in the company of others who are welcoming back pieces of themselves and making room inside for this reunion to take hold. You will have the opportunity to journey in the dreamtime to renegotiate soul contracts made long ago that impact your life today and co-create the life you wish for yourself now.

The gifting basket will be available for your generous contribution, remembering that what we give to the spiritual sources in our lives comes back ten fold to us.

Shamanic Teaching Circle Flyer
Mondays 4-6pm
November 12 Gratitude for All our Relations and Helpers
November 19 Spiritual Cleansing and Protection Protocols
November 26 Altars: Sharing and Declaring our Sacred Space
December 3 Drumming our Dreams into Being
December 10 Receiving and Using Tools for Healing
December 17 Taking Sacred Action: The Gift of Ceremony

Explore the world of your dreams and partner with your spirit helpers to trek deep within and become a spiritual warrior on the path of peace. Each week’s skills will build upon the next, stalking our inner obstacles and finding our power through impeccable action. We will journey with the sacred drum each week. Learn to get out of your own way and bring spirit through you to serve as a hollow bone.

The gifting bowl will be available for your generous support of this work and the elders who bring it our way. A minimum contribution of $25 per circle or $135 for the series is suggested. As always, let spirit be your true guide.

VISITING ELDERS
Traditional Arapaho Little Boys and Girls Sweat Lodge with Sharon Mitchell Sunday October 14, 2007
9:30 am until we have feasted well and returned the land and lodge to order…
Please contact Miriam to rsvp , find out protocols, directions and or ask questions.
This lodge is to honor a request made by our friend and elder Ms. Arrizzonaas to bless her and the many “grandfathers” (sacred stone beings from many tribal lands across this country) that are journeying to the Louis Gregory Bahai Center in S.C. to create a medicine wheel there for the land and people. Come stand by her as the water is poured over these sacred stones and the steam carries these blessings to creator. Bring yourselves and your prayers. This is a lodge for people of all ages to come and bask in the heat of this turtle lodge and the gentle teachings of our grandmother Sharon.

Rev. Sharon Mitchell has been honored with the passing down of the tradition of the Arapaho Nation sweat lodge. She has been on the Red Road living Native American Spirituality for over twenty years. Her experience will inspire you to discover the power that you carry within you to manifest Grandmother‘s Spirit to your personal life. Rev. Sharon is a Science of Mind Ordained Minister bringing together New Thought and Ancient Wisdom in a weekly circle. Rev. Sharon is part of the Pastoral Team at the Mt. Area Hospice. She creates sacred and traditional ceremonies in her business, Ceremonies From the Heart.

CREATION DRUMS Flyer
A day of ceremony and drum making with ZOE ALLISON
Saturday November 17, 2007 10 am - 4 pm
$100.00 includes materials $35.00 Deposit by November 3 required
Send to:
Drumsong Sanctuary for the Soul in Chapel Hill, NC
1920 Western Trail
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
To register call Miriam at (919) 304 5754 or Email: melieber@mebtel.net
When making drums in a traditional way, we bring into physical form sacred beings. As we open ourselves to the teachings from our drums, we receive healing and transformation. Working with the drum we are able to reach the place before and beyond words, this place is oneness with Creator.

Zoe Allison is an Artist, Scholar, Science of Mind Ordained Minister and SHY Spiritual Human Yoga Healer and Certified Hypnotherapist. She is co-founder of Earth Green Medicine Lodge, a center for creating healthy spiritual-based mindful lives, located in the Western North Carolina mountains. Zoe has led classes and workshops privately and at colleges and universities for 26 years and has traveled extensively throughout Mexico, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina visiting many of the sacred sites, working with the people and creating sacred ceremonies. She is the author of the Mayan Record Keeper, the Sacred Tzolkin, an Almanac of the Days, the Mayan Wave Tracker and a yearly calendar of the days of prophecy, and The Mayan Record Keeper cards

Cherokee Elder WILL ROCKINGBEAR
Saturday, October 20, 2007
9:30am - 5pm in Asheville
Join us in this powerful day long Teaching Circle where we will create the time, space, and opportunity to connect with Will Rockingbear. We will spend this day together honoring Ourselves, Our Ancestors..... All Our Relations. We will begin our Circle time together by Calling in the Directions. There will be time for listening, time for Journeying, time for remembering, and time for asking questions. Donations are accepted, appreciated and appropriate.

To Register: for this Day-long Teaching Circle with Rockingbear and receive details and directions, please contact Theresa at the Rites of Passage Council Medicine Lodge located at 12 NW of Asheville, NC theresa@ritesofpassagecouncil.com or call (828) 777-1492
Mark your calendars as these dates are to be confirmed and more information to follow!

February 1, 2, 3 2008 Will Rockingbear in Chapel Hill/Durham

Will Rockingbear is a Cherokee Elder from the mountains of North Carolina. He teaches people how to truly heal, reclaim their personal power and create the life they want with humor, joy, clarity and impeccable precision. He will be available for private sessions to request information; healing, or a Shamanic ceremony (such as soul retrieval, cutting ceremony, calling in ceremony, releasing attachments).

Now is the time to be in contact with me to let me know what you would like to learn as we plan this trip. Feel free to make your desires known as we create this healing time together with this powerful teacher, healer, elder whose teachings have transformed my life in too many ways to count. We really can ask for what we want!

Full Moon Pipe Ceremony with Monday Night Healing CircleMonday November 26 at Drumsong 7:00-9:00 pm
All welcome. Please rsvp. Bring cushion and lap cloth.

Trance Healing Circles (maximum 8 people per session by reservation only)
Contact Tracey Turner Keyser for more dates and times (919) 942-0110
A Trance Healing is an opportunity to listen to and integrate information from souls that have been influencing your feelings, thoughts, habits and/or relationships before they are sent with their lights by two trance healers. Trance healings facilitate forgiveness, peace and reconciliation for all beings involved. Over time we recommend a series of eight healings to complete the cycle around the sacred spiral and balance your masculine and feminine energies.
Suggested donation: $15 per healing per person.

Weekly Monday Night Healing Circle
(speak with Miriam for information about requesting a healing or joining the circle)

Individual Soul Retrieval, Cutting Ceremony, Fire Ceremony, Land Clearing, Calling Ceremony, and Shamanic Counseling , Psychotherapy or Clinical Supervison Available by appointment.