Making your own medicine drum is Sacred.
It is Healing.
It is Powerful.
Women’s Drum Making
Workshops
Sacred Medicine Drum Making
October 2025
A Transformational Journey of Sound, Spirit, and Soul
Melissa McGlenn welcomes you to a beautiful experience filled with ceremony, community, and alchemy in The Sacred Art of Drum Making. Join our sisterhood community of drum keepers and learn to be in rhythm with the heartbeat of Mother Earth.
The Power of Medicine Drumming
Drumming just might be the most powerful instrument for activating rhythms of whole-body resonance. Our sisterhood ceremonies include sacred dialoguing, vision questing, making your own sacred medicine drum, and activating your deep personal rhythms during drumming circles. This integrated approach provides you the opportunity to experience personal and collective transformational medicine that hums in the atoms of your being.
12-hr Ceremonial Drum Making Schedule
Day of the Hoop Fri 10/24 from 6-8:30pm
Day of the Weaving Sat 10/25 from 10am-5pm
Day of the Awakening Fri 11/1 from 6-8:30pm
**These are the times that we’ll gather in group ceremony. There will also be at-home practices and journalling exercises to support you.
Investment:
$555 for a 16-inch sacred elk drum(other sizes and sacred animal hides are available). Payment plans are available.
Awaken to Your Wild Natural Self
You have answered to the call to be a Drum Keeper. By taking this step you have committed both time and resources to what may prove to be a life-long journey of wonder. Perhaps the reasons and motivation in making a drum is different for every person. However, exploring naturally occurring rhythms and sounds can give you access that many have found to have strengthen their abilities to connect and build deep trust in ones inner guidance.
Your Medicine Drum
A note from Melissa’s mentor, Tarika Lea: “This Medicine Drum can be a profound instrument of healing. Many have found their drum has brought greater clarity in their life choices. Pick up your Medicine Drum often. Sing, cry, chant, hum, or just listen to the beats that it wishes to gift you. Allow it’s voice to awaken ancestral support as your very bones will feel to respond. The syncopation of your own heart beat aligns as you relax with the evolving rhythms coming through you. Emulate your highest intentions with prayers of gratitude. Face the East of your medicine wheel and find balance simply through ‘showing up’. Your personally made Journey Drum can create an environment like no other instrument. May it be a strong medicine of soul strengthening your calling and heart’s knowingness as it transforms your life.”
Resources Included
- Creation of your sacred healing drum with Melissa McGlenn
- Materials to create a 16” drum using sacred animal hides
- Meditations and sacred journeys
- Journals for personal reflections
- Rainbow obsidian sphere
What You Bring
- Yoga mat and comfy sitting cushions
- Comfortable clothing for free movement
- Apron and washcloth
- Lunch and refillable water bottle
- Curiosity and a willing heart
Drumming at the local Farmer’s Market – Melissa & mentor Tarika Lea.
Join us as we create our own beautiful sacred drums.
Meet Melissa McGlenn
Melissa McGlenn is a sacred drum maker and rhythm keeper devoted to facilitating embodied Soul presence supported by your connection with the sacred nature of Gaia. In this day and age, many of us feeling disconnected and ungrounded. Melissa’s passionate about cultivating experiences that help you to stop, listen, and feel your connection to the rhythms of life itself.
Based in beautiful Bend Oregon, Melissa McGlenn works one-on-one with individuals, in groups and for organizations, making personal and community medicine drums and facilitating drumming circles.
“I would be honored to share the healing power of the drum with you. Drum making is sacred art that our ancestors, across the world, have been sharing for generations. Making your own medicine drum is Sacred. It is Healing. It is Powerful.” ~Melissa McGlenn
Great Spirit has given me all the pieces.
Each piece has become One.
The One has become a drum.
With this drum I have been given a new voice.
With this voice my Spirit rises.
Grey Wolf