To accompany the launch of my new book, The Beat of your Own Drum, the history, science and contemporary use of drumming as a path for women’s wisdom, health, and transformation, I have recorded this series of conversations with 9 change making, pattern disrupting women who have experienced this tension between silencing and expression in their lives.
Why am I offering this?
Throughout history, women who made themselves heard, whether through drumming, speaking out, or simply taking up space with their voices, have faced silencing, ridicule, and even persecution. From ancient prohibitions against women using drums in various cultures to the labelling of vocal women as hysterical, to the recent banning of women singing by the Taliban, women have been systematically discouraged from creating sound and expressing power through noise.
Despite these restrictions, women have continued to find ways to make themselves heard.
The conversation series
I’m delighted to share nine powerful conversations with extraordinary change-making women who have experienced this tension between silencing and expression.
Our conversations explore how women can reclaim their voices and power through drumming, sound and through overcoming societal conditioning that has taught us to suppress our natural expression.
These intimate dialogues explore the questions that have been on my mind throughout the writing of my book:
- How have you experienced the freedom or restriction to make yourself heard?
- What relationship do you have with creating sound, whether through voice, music, drumming, or other means?
- How has cultural conditioning around “appropriate” feminine behaviour affected your expression?
- What has helped you reclaim your right to make noise and be heard?
The voices in this series
I’ve had the honour of speaking with nine change making and pattern disrupting women whose work and lives embody the spirit of making noise and claiming space:
- Jane Hardwicke Collings
- Rachael Crow
- Lucy Pearce
- Melonie Syrett
- Kate Codrington
- Liz Childs Kelly
- Joyce Harper
- Carly Mountain
- Coco Oya Cienna-Rey
Ready to join the rebellion?
Starting September 19th, I’m releasing these conversations as a daily email series. Nine days of raw truth about what it means to make noise in a world that wants us quiet.
This isn’t just about drumming. It’s about reclaiming the power that’s been stolen from us, one voice at a time.
Click here to sign up and prepare to be inspired to make some beautiful, rebellious noise.
