Can you appreciate how a drum beat transports you to another time and place?
Do you long for more connection to the sacred?
Do you feel an affinity for traditional practices and wonder who your traditional ancestors were, and how they lived?
Come and co-create a ceremonial circle of sound, healing and awakening. We will drum, chant and move together inside a safe and sacred container of connection, release, and positive intention.
We will gather on the Summer Solstice and National Aboriginal Day, an auspicious day that is good to reflect on your life, your relationship to Mother Earth, and on our relationship with Turtle Island's First Peoples, and what we can do in right relationship with them to foster healing and promote reconciliation.
We will also honour and participate in the Otomic Tolteca Prophesy of 8,000 drums - for hundreds of years this prophesy has been passed on through the generations, inspiring drummers to gather on the solstices and equinoxes to drum for Mother Earth. This is the phophecy that Otomi Tolteca Elders and Wisdom Keepers have shared:
“When 8,000 drums will sound again the great healing for Mother Earth will happen and more Peace on Earth will come. The People from the Four Directions will come together to bring about a great healing for Mother Earth. They will have realized the great harm we humans have done to nature. The Children of the Earth will come together to recognize their Mother Earth as a Living Being who can also feel, breathe, love and be happy.”
It is also a powerful day to take stock of how our year is going, and to refocus our energies on what we wish to manifest and heal during the summer, and in the remainder of the year. A Shamanic Drum Circle is an ideal vehicle for journeying to discover what is true for you.
Come and be guided to express yourself, to open your heart, to connect with your emotions and to work and feel at home in yourself. Align with others of like minds and hearts to experience and be empowered by shamanic drumming practices.
We will create sacred space by smudging, honouring the traditional stewards of this land, the four directions, grandfather sky, grandmother earth, and our spirits.
® SACRED CACAO CEREMONY ®
Alchemically brewed, ceremonial-grade, Mayan-inspired cacao is passed around the circle, and before we drink it, we connect to it with our senses, with our gratitude for all those who brought it to us, and for ourselves for coming to receive it. We then infuse it with intention for that which we wish to let go of, and to receive, during the rest of the ceremony.
® SHAMANIC DRUM CEREMONY ®
We will drum and sing medicine songs from the modern shamanic tradition - the rainbow tribe that welcomes seekers from all backgrounds. We will release what no longer serves us, and invite something new into the space we have created.
We will drum and move through the elements, and drum with intention to attract what our hearts and spirits desire. We will go deep to help us envision what we want to bring to life this year, for ourselves, our relationships, our communities and our planet. We will send those visions on waves of sound and intention out into the universe.
We will connect and support each other with rhythm, voice and vibration, and create community in a circle inside a sacred labyrinth. This will be a unique drum circle, as it will be facilitated to gently guide you through transformative experiences. This is not a typical un-facilitated drum circle, many of which have blossomed in the Greater Toronto Area - they can be a lot of fun, but this circle will take you deeper, into sacred space.
® WHAT TO BRING ®
Please have your favourite drum or shaker ready (although you don't need any instruments to benefit from the ceremony), a journal and pen for insights received, and an intention, a question, and or a request for healing, either for your or someone else. A few extra frame drums will be provided on a first come first served basis, and a large gathering drum will be also be there for people to take turns playing.
® LOCATION ®
We will gather in at Swan's Nest Holistic Wellness & Nature Centre, located in a private nature sanctuary atop the Oak Ridges Moraine, only an hour's drive from downtown Toronto (due north of Bolton & Pearson International Airport). OUR ADDRESS IS PRINTED ON YOUR TICKET, OR WILL BE EMAILED TO THOSE WHO PAY BY E-TRANSFER.
No experience is necessary, and this event is family friendly and open to all ages and abilities. As we are creating sacred space together, the consumption of alcohol and drugs is not permitted.
Saturday, June 21st, 2025
6:30 - 9:00 pm
® COST ®
Early Bird (Limited # available until June 8th at 11:45 pm): $20 Adults in advance: $25
Youth & Older Adults (60+): $15
At the door: $30
® PURCHASE TICKETS ®
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/summer-solstice-sacred-cacao-shamanic-drum-circle-ceremony-tickets-1389655530099
E-transfers can be sent to
cnVmdXNnbGFzc2NvIHwgZ21haWwgISBjb20= without a fee from Canadian bank accounts, or funds can also be sent through PayPal: paypal.me/RufusGlassco. NB: PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS IN THE MESSAGE OF YOUR E-TRANSFER SO WE CAN SEND YOU OUR ADDRESS.
® VOLUNTEER? ®
If you would like to attend but are unable at this time to purchase a ticket, just let us know and we can work something out - we're always grateful to have volunteers join us to help make the zoom experience that much smoother for everyone!
® OUR FACILITATOR ®
Rufus Glassco is a drum circle facilitator who specializes in drumming for health and wellness. He has been studying modern shamanic practices and shamanic coaching for the past 7 years through the Institute of Shamanic Medicine, and with Sandra Ingerman in the US. He’s also been learning from curanderos and chamanes for even longer in Mexico, where his wife Dinora is from. He believes that everyone, regardless of bloodline or ethnic origin, can access the knowledge and practice of Shamanism, because it connects us to our ancestors. If you go far back enough in time, all of us had ancestors who lived in greater harmony with the natural world, and were able to better communicate with, and benefit from the connection to, the natural and spiritual worlds.
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