about weaver...

• artist's statement >>

• weaver is a multi-faceted self-taught artist, musician & initiate/healing practitioner of the reiki shamanic healing arts.

She believes her earth-based spirit-roots come from the gift of being raised on an East Delta farm, where she spent countless hours alone in the back fields flying kites, hanging out with majestic snowy owls, hawks, creating ceremony and building secret forts—a sacred landscape that taught her many things...

weaver has drummed for as long as she can remember. A dear old friend of the family fondly known as "Mrs. B", (Evelyn Beharrell) inadvertently discovered weaver's drumming ability at the early age of about seven when she randomly picked weaver and handed her a pair of bongos at church choir. weaver instantly and 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 camp she later taught herself to play and to sing... (thank you H.J. Deutchendorf!) She later pursued a music career in the United Church... sharing her gift of music in worship, performing at concerts & coffeehouses, leading workshops in song-leading at various gatherings and summer camps.

For a number of years she worked as a music resource for BC Conferences in the Vancouver lower mainland and the Island including Naramata Centre in the BC Okanagan.

She was always called to a spiritual life—where she also began studies to become a United Church minister. A serious illness abruptly shifted that life-path where spirit re-directed her to return to earth-based spirituality—and was eventually initiated into the study of the healing arts.

weaver's spiritual life has definitely come full-circle... she continues to share her art, sacred music in all diverse circles of spirit—at workshops and trainings of all kinds, sing-song events, the medicine wheel, women's spirituality events to opening sacred space in churches and more. ...please see her calendar to see what's she's up to >>

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.

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 Government's 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 visit 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 also with the Four Winds Society. Some of her teachers have been Dr. Alberto Villoldo Phd, Linda Fitch and Lynn Berryhill of the Four Winds Society, Leslie Conten, PhD, Lisa Summerlot Zamuto, Valerie Owen, Sr. Valorie Lordi and Margaret West.

She is in private practice in the Vancouver area offering medicine healing with spiritworXshamanics with Joan Wright.

She is very honoured to be the caretaker and carrier of a powerful 27-inch qilaut wind drum named, "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.... our earth-mother is a living breathing spirit and humbly asks us to remember her... to return to her...

great spirit is everywhere... above, below, beside and within us all... if we just stop, listen & recognize these special nudges 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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Below... YouTube video
weaver playing drums (dumbeck) with Westcoast Harmony Chorus!

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