The Drum Journey Method: Access to your Inner Wisdom

These sessions help you switch off your busy left brain, to find relaxation and new inspiration. When working with the right half of the brain, you can experience aspects of your reality that the analytical mind can't reach. There you find new ideas, strength, grounding, and resources for positive transformation.
We offer private and group sessions with guided drum journeys and meditations. If you like to learn the method yourself and apply it to your everyday life, you may consider attending our weekend training course.  This will give you access to our monthly drum journey circle.

Guided Drum Journeys and Meditations
​(for people with no experience)

These sessions offer guided visualisations where you listen to a soft drum-beat, while going on an inner journey. For example, you might be 'visiting' a nice garden where you encounter a helpful animal or a tree that 'speaks' to you and helps you access your inner wisdom.  Don't worry if you feel you have no imagination - you will be supported all the way through the exercise and you will discover new ways of perceiving. And you do not need a drum to join. 
To get ready for the drum journeys, these sessions contain some other guided meditations and breathing techniques, which are inspired by Reiki, Chi Gong and Tai Chi. These are mostly moving meditations, so you don't have to sit still.  

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Private Sessions for Individuals and their Friends/Families

For Individuals (or Groups of Friends/Families)
Where: In person in Hanwell, West London,  or per Zoom.
​When: At a time that suits you
Cost: £60 per 1 hour session.  If you like to bring friends/family members, then every additional person pays £5. Up to six people.

Guided Group Sessions

Will be scheduled soon, please contact us if you are interested in joining.

Journey-Training

Foundation Course Drum Journeying for Guidance, Healing, and Transformation
​This weekend course teaches you how to journey by yourself, setting your own intention for your journey and using this method for your everyday life. It also covers the history and principles of contemporary shamanism (which is not a religion, but a set of tools that help you access your essence and inner wisdom).

• Dates: Weekend of 12/13 March, or 8/9 October 2022
• Time: Whole day Saturday and Sunday afternoon
• Location: Hanwell, West London
• Cost: £160 (£50 non-refundable deposit)
• More info: ​Fireside Lodge: Foundation Course 

Drum Journey Circle

A monthly group for people with journey experience.
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In this group, we will do an opening ceremony and a sharing round, and then one or two journeys. You can bring in your own questions/intention for your journey. Sometimes we also use seasonal questions (e.g. finding closure at the end of the year), or we journey for each other. Members of this circle are also invited to our Equinox and Solstice celebrations.  
Dates: 23 Jan; 20 Feb; 20 March (Equinox); 1 and 22 May; 19 June (Solstice) 
Time: Sunday afternoon, 3.30-6pm
Location: Hanwell, West London
Cost: £15 (£18 for Equinox or Solstices)
More info: Fireside Lodge: Drum Circle​​

How Drum Journeys work

The origins of  Journeying

Being able to change our brain waves to access deep wisdom, by using a drum beat or another rhythmic impulse, is an ancient skill. It has been used by Native Americans and other shamanic communities all over the world for thousands of years. Nowadays, it is a practice that anyone can enjoy and find valuable, regardless of their religious or spiritual belief. 

Have you ever noticed that you have the best ideas when you stop thinking too hard and just relax? Drum Journeys make use of this phenomenon. The beat of the drum fosters your ability to stop thinking in a logical way and open yourself up to a different way of being and perceiving.
Scientifically speaking, participants change their brainwaves from alpha waves (our usual way of thinking) to beta or theta waves (this is how the brain works when we are sleeping or meditating).

• Drum Journeying is a bit like meditating; the difference is in the intention: When you meditate, you usually try to relax and empty your brain. When you journey, you do this with a specific question or intention in mind. 
• Drum Journeying is also similar to dreaming – the difference is that you are fully awake and can take an active part in the journey. You can ask questions and state your intention for the journey, and then receive targeted guidance and new vitality. 

An example:
Jeremy recounts the story of his Visualisation Journey

The purpose of my meditation was to seek guidance on how I can find more clients for my catering business. When the drum started, I was guided to imagine myself walking in a lovely garden. I was told to look around to see whether I could find a bird or another animal, and sure enough, there was a spotted woodpecker. I introduced myself to the woodpecker and asked him whether he could show me some answers to my question.
He invited me to come and fly with him, and we both took off high into the clouds. Up there, I saw a neon sign, bright with red and yellow colours. Nothing written on it though; it was just a blank board. Woodpecker told me to write my name on it. I did not know how to do this, and I asked woodpecker for help. He plucked one of his feathers and used it as a writing pen. His ink was a drop of blood that had come out from his skin when the feather was plucked. He gave me the feather and told me two write. I felt reluctant and shy to do it. Woodpecker kept encouraging me. Finally, I wrote my name on the neon sign, and it lit up even more and started to turn. Then I heard the call-back signal of the drum, Andrea told us to give our thanks and say our good-byes. Then I went back to the garden and into normal reality.

What did the journey teach me?

I noticed that I had been reluctant to believe in myself before this meditation. Yes, I wanted to put my name ‘out there’, but I was not self-confident enough to really stand out from the crowd and believe in the quality of my offerings. Woodpecker taught me that I had to be more self-confident and really put more of myself - even a ‘drop of blood’ - into this business. This was a real boost for me. I keep imagining the neon sign and I still see it turning and shining up there - a good reminder that I ought to believe in myself.