Healing Drum Retreat

Are you ready for the next Healing Drum Retreat?  We’ll be back at the Hope Grange in Winlock, Washington, making this retreat an easy drive for our Portland and Oregon attendee’s, but we’re still within a close driving distance for Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia, and other nearby attendee’s.
Hope Grange offers us a large room for meals [...]

Today speaks of celebration in so many ways.  In the Mayan calendar today is 13 Chicchan, the Monkey – and the focus is on that child-like quality of play and adventure that should be woven deeply into our adult lives.  Today is also my birthday, and this once a year event comes and goes so [...]

What are you thinking of when you think of camping? At the Healing Drum Retreat you’ll have a choice of staying in the Grange building or camping outside. Where do your thoughts go?

burning marshmallows at the campfire
dreaming under the stars
drumming songs that connects your heart to the others in the group
delicious [...]

Okay, we’re really taking a serious jump in the play of words!  At the Healing Drum Retreat we start early, Friday evening, with a drum making class.  The hide is an important choice in drum making, and Kaye can share more about this with you in a phone conversation when you call her to sign [...]

What are you doing this summer? Well many of us from the Healing Drum Retreat have gone to Unity Works earlier in the spring and made necklaces that are going to The Macah Nation for canoe journey giveaways. We did this as a service project and for a reason to get together between healing drums. [...]

How do we describe the Healing Drum Retreat?  There is so much given during this two and three day event.  It is a banquet for the spirit and soul, a time when you can let go of the circumstances of everyday life and breath.  Many have said “it feels like I am home”, in a [...]

Yesterday I was walking down a fairly empty street in Seattle, in a section of town that is at times filled with thousands of people, all heading in the same direction with thoughts of anticipation, enthusiasm, and excitement. If you haven’t guessed it, I was nearby the stadiums. At this time there was [...]

I’ve heard a quote that has been attributed to Cherokee, and I’d like to share it with you here today. “When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.”
For me this statement has a lot of meaning, and can guide [...]