Medicine Drum Making Workshops
These beautiful one and a half day workshops are a supportive space to come as you are, be held by the beauty of the land and sisterhood and receive gentle guidance to craft your own medicine frame drum and yourself as a sacred drummer.
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We will be gathering together in ceremony, sitting in sharing circle, exploring the women's mysteries, journeying with our birth stories and the way this shows up in our creative process.
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We will connect with the spirit of the kangaroo whose hide we craft our drums, the wood of willow in the frame of the drum and weave our prayers and unique personal medicine into our drums as we sit and craft on the land.​
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Women have been drummers for a long, long time. Often when we hear the drum it can feel so familiar and crafting our own drum can feel like a remembering.
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The frame drum is an instrument found in countries and cultures all around the world. Layne Redmond's powerful book "When the drummers were women" shows us the countless ancient paintings, sculptures and other depictions of women all around the world playing the frame drum. If you trace your lineage back, you would have ancestors who were drummers. Now is the time to remember and reclaim our ancient feminine connection to the drum.
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The frame drum can be used in many ways such as for healing, clearing, shamanic journeying, music, in ceremony, to support rites of passage and so much more. You will form a very special personal relationship with the drum you craft yourself, a relationship that can last a lifetime.
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“At the end, as at the beginning, stands the archetypal power of the Divine Feminine—the goddess. She is our future as she was our past. With her drum in hand, playing her sacramental rhythms, women can once again take their place in the world as technicians of the sacred. In the pulse of my drum, in the beat of my heart, I erect an altar to her forever.”
― Layne Redmond, When the Drummers Were Women: A Spiritual History of Rhythm
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What's Included:
- 1.5 days of guided ritual, circle and crafting
- Kangaroo hide
- Willow wooden frame
- All materials needed to craft your drum (stencils, scissors etc)
- Written instructions
- Shamanic drum journey and song
- As much support as you need/want during the entire process
- Snacks and cups of tea
- A simple and nourishing dinner on the first day and lunch on the second day
- Information on caring for your drum, crafting a beater etc
- Your beautiful, finished drum that you will get to take home with you!
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Investment:
$580
($130 deposit required upon booking)
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* These group workshops are currently only open to women. If any men would like to craft their own medicine drum, please feel welcome to send me an email and I would love to organize a personal one on one workshop for you to create your own drum!
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Upcoming dates:​
Castlemaine, Victoria: ​​​
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9-10th January 2026​
20-21st February 2026
Time of workshops: 1-6pm on the first day, continuing 9am-5pm on the second day.
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To book your place please call/text Laura on 0476686671 or email at wildernesswithin@protonmail.com​
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"Laura has been one of my inspirations with the womancraft arts for some time. Her embodiment of the wild woman ways activate a deep remembrance within me. I knew she would be the ideal guide to have alongside me as I birthed my drum. Laura offers an incredibly rich and nourishing space for all women to fully land and feel safe within. From start to finish she was intuitively on point for when I needed assistance or when I needed space to just be in my process. It truly was a magickal initiation which I am deeply grateful for. I loved learning so many songs and hearing Laura sing from her Heart. I can highly recommend her to anyone who wants an experience full of integrity, love, and true feminine strength."
~ Carlyn Hollingsworth
"I had wanted to do a workshop with Laura for the longest time and once I turned 40, I thought "what is stopping me?!"Laura is beautiful to deal with. She takes the upmost care in all her communications. From start to finish (and even afterwards) I have felt I was a part of something special. She creates a warm and welcoming space and gently guides you through the process. No question is a silly question. I know that is the days and years to come that whenever I play my drum I will be feeling a thanks to her. I fully intend to take part in her other workshops and will highly recommend them to everyone!"
~ Julz Taylor
"It was about seven years that I had been following the threads to making my first drum. I looked into different teachers, I signed up for workshops and then withdrew, I researched making it myself with the internet as my guide, but they were all loose threads. And when I heard you were offering drum making, there was no question for me about whether or not you were the one to guide me.
Making my drum wasn’t a complicated process, but it was absorbing and intimate. I was so grateful to be supported and encouraged to follow my process in my own way and in my own space, without any need for excuse or explanation.
It is a masterful thing to hold space for simplicity and creation. It requires genuine knowing and trust in the essence of what you are offering / serving. And that is what I felt from making my drum with you. The space you held felt easy, infused with integrity and love and invitation to move in the expression of authenticity.
My drum is alive. As alive as the plants who I tend and the birds I speak with. To express my love for my drum is to remember the failings of the English language. The words are something like adoration, honour, admiration and gratitude, which spreads out and in, like the roots of a forest."
~ Rosie Cooper
