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Drum Making Retreat with Horses April 25-27th 2026

Glenreagh NSW

Deep in the lush embrace of Glenreagh, on sacred lands where the wind still whispers the ancient names of the stars, a quiet transformation is unfolding. Here, beneath the expansive skies and among the dreaming stones of an activated stone henge, we are calling in the seekers — the rememberers — to gather for a workshop unlike any other.

This is not just a drum-making workshop. It is a healing pilgrimage. A return.

Guided by Rae Brady, Star Lore Wisdom Holder and Gaian Midwife, and Jo Sheval Iskra, Creationist, Artist, Healer, and Equine Therapist, this sacred gathering is an invitation to remember your original rhythm — the one that connects you to the Earth, the stars, and the deep lineage of ancestral knowing.

Led on this journey by the healing energy of horses — sentient beings who carry the medicine of freedom, strength, and deep emotional wisdom — participants are invited to craft their own sacred drum, each strike of the hide and frame resonating with the beat of Mother Earth’s heart.

But the creation doesn’t stop there. From the fallen branches and sticks gathered on the farm, each participant will also handcraft their own drum beater — a process as meditative and intentional as the drum itself. These beaters, like wands, hold the memory of the land and the spirit of your own journey.

Throughout the workshop, you’ll be nourished in more ways than one. Wholesome, nutritious food prepared with love will support your body as you journey through emotional and energetic transformation. You'll also be immersed in healing sound baths, held at sacred intervals during the experience. These sound journeys will help recalibrate your energy, deepen your connection to the Earth, and open your heart to the higher frequencies of spirit and star.

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Sacred Drum & Blue Lotus Ceremony — Glenreagh
Throughout the workshop, we will weave together the physical and the cosmic. We begin with a Blue Lotus ceremony, opening the inner waters and attuning the senses. Through this alchemical rite, perception softens, memory awakens, and the maker is prepared to receive the drum before it is born.
As hands stretch hides and shape frames, we move between worlds. We speak of the galactic womb of Mother Earth—the infinite void from which all life emerges—and the universal drumbeat that pulses through it. The rhythm you craft is not separate from this pulse; it is a remembering of it.
We sit in circle, learning how our stories connect to those of the stars, how our voices carry echoes of the Dreaming, and how our instruments become living vessels of healing—not only for ourselves, but for our ancestors, our descendants, and the Earth itself.
Guided by the Blue Lotus, by horse medicine, and by the living land, the drum-making becomes ceremony. Each knot, each pull, each beat is an act of alignment—between body and cosmos, earth and star.
This is a time of remembering.
A time of listening.
A time of crafting tools of power and peace.
You are not just making a drum.
You are reclaiming your place in the great cosmic rhythm—
guided by horse, by star, by stone, and by song.
Join Rae and Jo in sacred Glenreagh.
Come walk the spiral path.
Come home.

What You Will Experience
✨ Craft your own sacred healing drum


🥢 Create your own drum beater


🪷 Participate in a Blue Lotus ceremony to open the alchemical drum-making journey


🐴 Connect deeply with horse medicine


🐉 Learn star lore & walk the Dragon Songline

🌠 Sit in ceremony within an activated stone henge


🌍 Reconnect with the galactic womb of Mother Earth
🎼 Experience sound baths throughout the retreat


🍎 Enjoy nutritious food made with love

Investment: $888


Food & camp-style accommodation included
 or book local accommodation in the area at your expense.

All materials provided
For more information or to book, email Jo at
📧 enquiry@holisticequitation.com.au
📱 0478 711 180

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Blue Lotus Drum Creation Ceremony

Before the hide is stretched and the frame is laced, the Blue Lotus is received.

Through the Lotus ceremony, the senses soften and the inner waters open. Breath slows. Perception widens. This is the alchemical threshold where the maker is prepared to create. The Lotus attunes you to the unseen currents, allowing your body, heart, and memory to enter coherence with the land, the stars, and the rhythm yet to be born.

As you stretch the hide and lace the frame, you are not only crafting an instrument—you are activating a living portal. Each knot, each pull, each breath becomes an act of alignment. The heartbeat of the horses nearby, the pulse of the earth beneath you, and the rhythm moving through your own body begin to converge. Here, your soul’s rhythm meets the greater cosmic pulse. This is your cosmic gate—the place where your voice, your medicine, and your lineage remember one another.

Each drum carries its own distinct voice and vibration, shaped through ceremony and intention. Through the Blue Lotus, you are guided to recognise your unique signature and the symbolic codes you bring into the circle. In learning your drum, you learn yourself.

The sacred circle of the drum represents balance, equality, wholeness, and connection. It holds the continuity of life and the eternal return.

Shamanic drumming, as distinguished from other forms, is rooted in sustained, repetitive rhythm—an invitation into trance and remembrance. As you find your rhythm, the drum becomes a bridge. Through its voice, you reconnect with your Star Clans and open the cosmic womb gate, allowing ancient memory and future vision to move through you as sound.

This is not the making of an object.
It is the birth of a companion.
A drum awakened through Blue Lotus alchemy.

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The Golden Dragon Henge

This stone henge rests upon an ancient golden dragon songline—sacred crossing where Earth’s memory gathers and is guarded by the presence of the Golden Dragon. Within the Songline, interdimensional crystal caves weave through the land, holding light, sound, and ancestral knowing beyond time.

The songline is walked not only by those in form, but by spirit. It is guarded by a Golden Dragon, a keeper of thresholds and pathways, whose presence protects and activates the field. Where the dragon rests, the energy becomes healing, transformative, and alive with remembrance.

This place holds old pathways back to Lemuria, preserved within the memory field of stone and soil. The rocks here are not silent—they sing for those ready to hear.

In the early dawnings, Indigenous Elders have been heard walking the songline in Dreamtime, their clap sticks echoing through the field—calling, answering, keeping the ancient rhythm alive. Their sound moves through the stones, through the dragon’s path, and into the living present.

This is not a monument. It is a living gateway. A place where Earth, star, spirit, and song meet— held in guardianship by the Golden Dragon.

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Sound Healing

Given that everything has a vibrational frequency, including ourselves, it makes sense that sound frequencies impact our bodies. In fact, it is an archetypal language, instinctively recognised by every cell in our body. That's why certain types of music often bring about specific types of emotions. Sound healing, which is an ancient healing practice, uses tonal frequencies to bring the body into a state of vibrational balance, healing and harmony.

Sound healing works by activating the parasympathetic nervous system – the opposite of the stress flight or fight response, it slows down your breath rate, your heart rate and even your brainwaves, putting you into an almost trance-like state.

Jo has witnessed some of the most profound healing and esoteric experiences in her clients after a sound healing. 

Jo is a certified Sound Healing Practitioner, specialising in Gongs. Jo sees herself as a Frequency Facilitator. She facilitators the frequencies of sound, light and nature.

LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING

Corporate & Group Workshops

Our team at Holistic Equitation are very experienced at running workshops, groups, team building and tribal gatherings.

We tailor workshops and events for groups based on the needs and desired outcomes.

Our programs include art therapy, clay therapy, equine therapy, mindfulness activities, sound healing, drumming, team building, boundaries and more. Jo has also been a guest speaker and teacher at many international and local events.

To find out more about please contact Jo