The beat of your own drum: a free book club from June 8 to 29.
Explore how drumming can help you to stand in your power
About the book
The Beat of Your Own Drum is a book about reclaiming something ancient. It is about the drum as a tool for healing, for nervous system regulation, for accessing the wisdom that lives beneath the noise of daily life. It is about the history that was taken from us when women were removed from the centre of ritual and ceremony. And it is about what becomes possible when we find our way back.
Written at the intersection of science and spirit, it weaves together research, lived experience, and practical guidance for anyone who feels called to bring the drum into their life or their practice.
This book club is an invitation to gather with a community of like minded women, who are already drumming or curious about drumming to find the power in this practice and how it can change our lives, to gather with me live, to be guided to grow or start your own drum microdosing practise, and how it can support you, and to explore themes around women, power and the drum.
βThis book encapsulates everything you need to know about sacred drumming, in fact this book should come as standard issue with every drum β bought and birthed.β
β Rachael Crow
What we will explore
Over four weekly sessions on Zoom, we will move through the themes at the heart of the book, not as a lecture, but as a living conversation and a community building process.
A little teaching, some journaling, sharing our experiences, and exploring themes around the drum, women, and power.
Week one: Women, power, and ritual. Women were the drummers. We begin by reclaiming the history that was taken from us, and what it means to step back into it.
Week two: Accessing your inner wisdom. Deinstitutionalising & deprogramming. Looking at what we have been taught about credentials , and what becomes possible when we stop waiting for the system to give us permission
Week three: The nervous system, and how the drum transforms consciousness. Understanding the science of drumming & ritual as a tool for transformation.
Week four: Drum microdosing and taking the practice into your daily life. How five minutes a day can change everything, and what it looks like to do it.
About me
My journey with the drum began at a retreat in 2013. I was utterly sceptical about drumming, convinced it wouldn’t work. Until I experienced a shamanic drum journey that gave me such vivid visions, I instantly wanted a drum of my own.
That moment transformed my path. Since then, I’ve collected over 30 drums, run drum circles for years, drummed during births, published scientific articles about drumming and birth, spoken at midwifery conferences and drumming conventions, and now written this comprehensive book.
The heart of this book’s message: the drum provides women with a path back to our innate ways of knowing.
I spent a long time writing this book alone, and now it’s out in the world, I want to gather women live around it to let it be lived rather than just read. Books do not fully come alive on the page alone. They come alive in conversation, in the questions they stir, in the recognition that passes between women when something names what they have always known but never had words for.
That is what I am hoping to create in these four sessions. Not a lecture, not a course, but a gathering. A circle. The kind of space women have always made for each other when they come together around something that matters.
This book club is for you if…
You are an experienced drummer
Seeking to deepen your practice with historical, scientific understanding, and sacred wisdom
You are a curious beginner
Wanting to understand why women are drawn to drums, why you don’t have to be “good at rhythm” and how to begin your own journey
You are a wellbeing professional
Interested in bringing an embodied and innovative way to support the people you serve
“We need to hear the drum-at births and deaths, during ceremonies and rites of passages, in homes, hospitals, woods and even offices. The drum is calling us back to ourselves. “.
β Jane Hardwicke collings, foreword for the book
What to expect in each session
Each session begins with a short drum meditation, some light teaching, followed by journal questions to sit with, and then we share together. I will also guide you through experiences of drumming together, so if you have a drum, bring it. If you do not have one, you can simply listen or drum on your body.
The details
Four weekly sessions on Zoom Starting Monday 8th of June, at 4pm UK time, until Monday 29th of June
Free to join & recordings available
What comes next
Towards the end of our time together, I will share ways of working further with me.
There is no obligation or no pressure. But if something has stirred in you over the month, I would love to find out what it is.
What to bring
I will invite you to bring a drum if you have one (if you do not it is totally fine), and a rebozo, scarf or shawl to each session, so you can wrap yourself as we work together.
Ready to be part of this? Simply enter your details in the form below.
