about weaver...

weaver is a multi-faceted self-taught artist, musician & initiate/healing practitioner of the shamanic and reiki healing arts. As a young child growing up on an East Delta farm, she spent countless hours in the back fields observing & tracking majestic snowy owls and hawks, creating ceremony, building secret forts and flying kites.

weaver has drummed for as long as she can remember. An old friend of the family fondly known as "Mrs. B", inadvertently discovered weaver's drumming ability at the early age of seven when she randomly picked weaver and handed her a pair of bongos at church choir. weaver instantly & naturally played them with one hand & her connection to and love for the drum began (or was born).

After being "tricked" into learning a couple of chords on the guitar at a summer church camp she taught herself to play better & to sing... (thank you John Denver!) where later, in her young adult years, she pursued a music career in the United Church... sharing her gift of music in worship, performing at concerts & coffeehouses, leading many workshops in song-leading, plus singing at various gatherings & summer camps. She was also a music resource at BC Conferences & at Naramata Centre in the BC Okanagan. A serious abrupt illness shifted that life-path in the church where spirit eventually directed her to return to earth-based spirituality, where she pursued and was initiated into the study of shamanism...she's never looked back.

weaver currently plays and builds a wide range of hand percussion from Middle Eastern dumbecks & frame drums to large hoop drums used for community drumming. She has created monthly sacred drum circles to provide a safe & encouraging environment for women and men to learn to drum mindfully & to explore their own spiritual connection to the drum and our blessed mother earth. She also assists and provides sacred music & sound healing in shamanic training workshops in Kamloops/Sorrento BC.

weaver's other musical pursuits also include being a songwriter/poet, drum-kit player, singer and guitarist (six and 12-string guitars and dulcitar). She has performed as a solo artist and played in a variety of musical acts, from duos, trios and original bands to theatre and live community radio.

As an artist and graphic designer, weaver creates vibrant original works as paintings, illustrations and t-shirt designs. Her work has been featured on the Vancouver Folk Music Festival Society t-shirts, as well as numerous designs for trade union and co-operative based groups acress the country from Vancouver to Ottawa. She also created the popular 1994 International Women's Day poster design (every woman makes a difference) that was commissioned by the BC Ministry of Women's Equality that was widely distributed all over the province for four years in a row. In 2002, she won the World Aids Group (WAG) World AIDS Day poster contest with an original design. To view an online portfolio of some of her past work, please go to www.carolweavercreative.com.

weaver continues the study of her own Celtic heritage, shamanic healing traditions & art. She holds a third level master degree in the healing art of Reiki (Usui system) and has been initiated into the shamanic lineage of the Q'ero nation in Peru through the Four Winds Society & carries a mesa (shaman's altar/medicine bundle). She has studied Core Shamanism with the Foundation of Shamanic Studies and Healing the Lightbody School through the Four Winds. Some of her teachers have been Dr. Alberto Villoldo Phd, Linda Fitch and Lynn Berryhill of the Four Winds Society, Lisa Summerlot Zamuto, Valerie Owen, Sr. Valorie Lordi and Margaret West.

She has been assisting and teaching the Inca Medicine Wheel and the new medicine of the white mesa and related shamanic advanced trainings in the Kamloops/Sorrento, Vancouver and New York for the past 6 years including facilitating sacred drum circle ceremonies and workshops in the greater Vancouver area for the past decade or more... she also offers ceremonial sacred music and performance for many different events, concerts and private gatherings as well... please see her calendar >>

She is very honoured to be the caretaker & carrier of a powerful 27-inch qilaut wind drum, "laughing wolf".

artist statement...

"i am honoured to be called to the path of healing in partnership with our brothers & sisters and our blessed pachamama, mother earth. when i connect to the divine spirit within myself, something special happens... if i just allow it. i believe that we all have the innate ability to tap into a creative force that is a part of all of us, a part of everything.

if we just stop, listen & recognize these special forces of nature, that "they" are always calling us... waiting for us and beckoning us to respond with them, to co-create together & return as one — then magic & miracles can & do happen."

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Above... YouTube video - weaver playing drums for Westcoast Harmony Chorus!

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