Open Drumming Circle and Drum Healing

     At the start of the Prayer Circle, Grandfather Rick will call the Four Winds through song, putting us in Ceremony. The Talking Stick will then be passed for us to hold as we pray, either aloud or in the silence. The group energy will facilitate powerful prayers!

     The giveaway is what it sounds like: we give something of value to us. The giveaway expresses love, it is an act of trust, teaching us to be generous, helping us forgive. If you participate (it is voluntary) bring a gift that has meaning to you that you've had for a year. Monetary value is not the issue: your giveaway is something you made, or found, or something you really like; it has learned who you are and carries your energy. We lay the gift on the blanket. Someone is chosen, usually the eldest or youngest, and they are handed a talking stick. They go to the blanket and pick up one thing they are drawn to. Once you touch it, you have to take it, so let your eyes do the choosing. When the giveaway item is chosen, the person who offered it says why it is special to them, where it came from, how long they've had it. After the story is told, it is their turn to choose. And so it goes, until that last giveaway is taken up. If you bring something for the blanket, make it for the same gender as you, or neutral. Giveaway blankets are fun and help us get out of material thinking, giving us a more trusting, liberated sense of freedom.

Native American Prayer Circle and Giveaway Blanket

     Prayer is a powerful practice. It can be even more powerful when people come together, to pray together. If ever there was a time the world needed prayer, it is now. But it is always "now," the present moment, isn't it? So why not sit with us and add your energy, especially as it is so needed?

     We will do a burning pine cone, where what we want to let go of, to release, is set affire in a pine cone. We'll also set our intentions to what we want to draw into our lives, and burn that as well. And what could be more appropriate than pine, whose medicine is protection?

     Afterward we will share the sacred Canunpah. When we smoke it, we know the smoke carries our prayers up to Creator.

     This is proper ceremony, so please come in a good way, with respect and definiteness of purpose. No alcohol or non-prescription drugs 24 hours before ceremony, women on their moon are asked to be honest about that and not handle the canunpah.

Prayer Circle, Burning Pine Cone, & Canunpah

Ceremony

     Below you will find Drum Circle and Prayer Circle, which we treat as ceremony because we do call the directions, offer a prayer, and ask for healing, None of these circles attempt to represent they are of, or from any particular Nation; they are "generic." They are open to anyone who has need or interest and comes in a respectful way. The best way to understand what's going on when you first start participating in ceremony, is by watching respectfully.

There is NEVER a charge for ceremony.