weaver's voice and drum are one with her heart. I have been transformed by her playing. Her strong voice calms, quiets, and stirs me. She is a light. The planet seems to resonate as she chants. The rhythms she channels are the heart beat of the mother. Her sacred drums' sing and bring blessings to many." -- Eva Rose
carol weaver, sacred earth drummer, sound artist...
weaver
I have been walking an earth-keeper path since early child-hood... i was born in Prince George, BC (Lheidli T'enneh territory) and 10 days later adopted + grew up on a small settler farm/community, south of Vancouver on the mud-flats of East Delta, BC (Boundary Bay, Tsawwassen terrritory). It was from living and playing upon this sacred flat landscape, big open sky, along with Apu Mount Baker in my back yard that taught me to see in so many beauty ways...
I believe that for us to return to balance of right relationship (ayni), 'we' must choose to come together as community, to acknowledge and honour our blessed earth mother - to support her for the sacred gift and privilege of walking on her beautiful back.
I feel we have lost our connection + relationship to the land below our feet, the natural cycles of our earth mother and have simply forgotten to give thanks and appreciation for the gifts she freely offers. One way of return, is to choose to awaken + stand in presence as extensions of source energy... within reverence... as our ancestors once stood... restore and create our ceremonies, celebrations and rites of passage... to co-create with our dear mother with integral, reciprocal relationship in sacred partnership - for, we know wouldn't be here without her...
For over 40+ years i've been immersed with spirit guiding and initiating me to many teachings received... from our blessed Earth Mother and her healing Voice, the Sacred Drum... the many beautiful Souls who have saved my butt numerous times over... the ancient practice of Shamanic Reiki... through the ancestral* memory from which i source... being unexpectedly, though gently, guided to the Andean Shamanic teachings + initiations received from the Mountain People of Peru, the Q'ero... Where now, i'm proud to walk as Reiki Master (Usui), Mesa Carrier (sacred bundle of caring stone) and Sacred Drum Carrier...
*my ancestral roots are Celtic, Slavic, Hungarian, Romanian, North Finland + Russian...
weaver - photo © 2017 by bill pope...
I also embrace the creative soul 'i am'... as multi-faceted sacred drummer/musician, singer-songwriter, drum-maker and visual artist. I came into this earth-walk called to the sacred path... It's not been an easy road... as, many times, for many reasons, i have attempted to resist my path... However, along with spirit, my sweet helpers and those who love me and held my back, gently guided me back on this path of beauty... i know i'm never alone and with this knowing, i am truly grateful... So far, it's been one fascinating + wild trip...
I have been deeply blessed to have been apprenticed and mentored in many earth-based studies... My exploration has always been one of ongoing learning and mentorship - where now, i am honoured to share that which has been lovingly shared and passed down with me.
The earth does not belong to us - we belong to the earth and so, i feel that we are here to be of sacred service to each other, our sweet mother and all her beings... Let us shift our thinking from seeing and using our Earth Mother as a resource to honouring and seeing her as our Source...
For those of you who wish to know, some of my teachers have been + are... our blessed Earth Mother, Gaia Great Goddess - the Sacred Healing Drum, shashen, little ms. murphy, ella and beejay, Leah Brenda Smith, Royanne McFarlane, Dhyani Ywahoo, Leslie Conten, PhD, Alberto Villoldo, PhD, Lisa (Summerlot) Zamuto, Valerie Owen, Sr. Valorie Lordi, Katina O'Neil, Shaari Kamil, Esther + Abraham, Margaret West, Ubaka Hill, David Campbell, Leonard Howell, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Bhagavan Das and others... i give great thanks to all my teachers of the past and present - those who have gone before and show the way - within deep munay-love! x (((o)))
I have been deeply blessed to have been apprenticed and mentored in many earth-based studies... My exploration has always been one of ongoing learning and mentorship - where now, i am honoured to share that which has been lovingly shared and passed down with me.
The earth does not belong to us - we belong to the earth and so, i feel that we are here to be of sacred service to each other, our sweet mother and all her beings... Let us shift our thinking from seeing and using our Earth Mother as a resource to honouring and seeing her as our Source...
For those of you who wish to know, some of my teachers have been + are... our blessed Earth Mother, Gaia Great Goddess - the Sacred Healing Drum, shashen, little ms. murphy, ella and beejay, Leah Brenda Smith, Royanne McFarlane, Dhyani Ywahoo, Leslie Conten, PhD, Alberto Villoldo, PhD, Lisa (Summerlot) Zamuto, Valerie Owen, Sr. Valorie Lordi, Katina O'Neil, Shaari Kamil, Esther + Abraham, Margaret West, Ubaka Hill, David Campbell, Leonard Howell, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Bhagavan Das and others... i give great thanks to all my teachers of the past and present - those who have gone before and show the way - within deep munay-love! x (((o)))
weaver opening sacred space at Root Victoria 2016 © copyright all rights reserved...
an ongoing sacred, healing journey...
weaver + laughing wolf...
As a sacred drummer and deep-lover of ceremony, i have been offering sacred music and assisting with sacred circles, gatherings and advanced shamanic trainings since my late teens...
More recently, during the past couple decades or more, i have been teaching/mentoring with advanced earth-based trainings in the Kamloops/Sorrento, Vancouver and Vancouver Island areas - including facilitating sacred drum circle ceremonies, sacred drum-birthing workshops...
My deep love and connection in partnership with our blessed earth mother is with the sacred Reiki-Spirit Drum, strings and voice—gently moving and shifting energy with healing sacred sound - within safe, sacred space.
I am also deeply honoured to carry and caretake a powerful 27-inch Qilaut Wind Drum known as laughing wolf and big mother drum, windwalker.
i am honoured...
"... to have been called to the path of beauty and healing... in partnership with our brothers and sisters and our blessed earth mother Gaia. When i connect to the divine spirit within myself - of who i truly am as a being of light, something very special happens - if i only allow..."
"...I believe that we all have the innate ability to tap into a creative healing field that is a part of all of us, a part of everything.... our dear earth-mother is a living breathing spirit and humbly asks us to remember her... to return to her in balance within sacred 'Ayni ' of right relationship..."
"...great spirit... a living sacred loving energy is everywhere... above, below, beside and within us all... if we just stop, get quiet and listen - when we say hello to the loving spirits, they will say hello back... they help us to re-member and acknowledge the beauty-way nudges of all nature... that "'they and we' are always calling us... patiently waiting for us.... beckoning us to connect... to lovingly co-create together and return as one... and, when this partnership sparks and lights up... then magic and miracles can and do happen... It is my path to share this with you and i look forward to you sharing with me..."
*above/right photo of laughing wolf + weaver by jp wright ©
More recently, during the past couple decades or more, i have been teaching/mentoring with advanced earth-based trainings in the Kamloops/Sorrento, Vancouver and Vancouver Island areas - including facilitating sacred drum circle ceremonies, sacred drum-birthing workshops...
My deep love and connection in partnership with our blessed earth mother is with the sacred Reiki-Spirit Drum, strings and voice—gently moving and shifting energy with healing sacred sound - within safe, sacred space.
I am also deeply honoured to carry and caretake a powerful 27-inch Qilaut Wind Drum known as laughing wolf and big mother drum, windwalker.
i am honoured...
"... to have been called to the path of beauty and healing... in partnership with our brothers and sisters and our blessed earth mother Gaia. When i connect to the divine spirit within myself - of who i truly am as a being of light, something very special happens - if i only allow..."
"...I believe that we all have the innate ability to tap into a creative healing field that is a part of all of us, a part of everything.... our dear earth-mother is a living breathing spirit and humbly asks us to remember her... to return to her in balance within sacred 'Ayni ' of right relationship..."
"...great spirit... a living sacred loving energy is everywhere... above, below, beside and within us all... if we just stop, get quiet and listen - when we say hello to the loving spirits, they will say hello back... they help us to re-member and acknowledge the beauty-way nudges of all nature... that "'they and we' are always calling us... patiently waiting for us.... beckoning us to connect... to lovingly co-create together and return as one... and, when this partnership sparks and lights up... then magic and miracles can and do happen... It is my path to share this with you and i look forward to you sharing with me..."
*above/right photo of laughing wolf + weaver by jp wright ©
"weaver's voice and presence is exquisite and deeply healing." - Linda Nardelli., Sunshine Coast, BC
"Carol, this beloved woman is such a gentle warm individual who can really open you up through sound, providing you with an opportunity to reset, let go of what no longer serves you or be with your own being. The accompaniment serves the whole experience so well to help ground one out, cajole the group energy together or create a space to process some of the learnings from the day." - Iain M., Abbotsford, BC
"I just love the way weaver holds space and conducts ceremony. She is so casual without all the theatrical BS you find elsewhere. She stands fully in her power, in complete integrity, and she is so humble about it. I always feel heard, seen, and supported." - Uli S., Delta, BC
weaver offering sacred fire ceremony at Insprial... photo by Dee Gandhi © 2014 copyright - all rights reserved...
"the earth is alive and she sings, calling us to remember our sacred place
and our dance in this life... she calls us to recognize that all of us walk around the sacred wheel,
that whatever tradition we have come from, we can all trace our roots back to the tree of peace."
-- Dhyani Ywahoo
and our dance in this life... she calls us to recognize that all of us walk around the sacred wheel,
that whatever tradition we have come from, we can all trace our roots back to the tree of peace."
-- Dhyani Ywahoo