windwalker has awoken...

dearest ayllu...

"I hear a drum in my soul's ear
coming from the depths of the stars!"
...Jelaluddin Rumi

Good News!
...Windwalker has awakened from her deep winter sleep and calls us...

Our Ayllu Sacred Drum Project Gathering...
September (4) 5, 6, & 7, 2008
@ Sorrento Centre...

• The time has come to gather together as ayllu to fulfill the dreaming-creation of our sacred community drum, windwalker...

• We welcome those who wish to assist us in this project in all aspects... come help pull hides... to build a drum stand... to create mallets with the tree people... to sew a cloth honouring cover... or come hold space with your prayers, despacho, drumming, singing, your voice... and whatever else might need doing... we welcome everyone...

• this event can only happen with you... with ayllu... windwalker calls us to gather... as one...

• Tentative Schedule... subject to change as spirit directs... please check here with this blog site for updates to this schedule/updates...

• Two Hides will go into Shuswap Lake... for soaking early in the day on Thursday, Sept. 4th and we welcome all to come join us in an opening "letting-go" water ceremony to acknowledge and honour the "Deva of the Lake" that evening at 7:30 pm lakeside at the Morris residence... remainder of the weekend will continue at Sorrento Centre...

• Friday starting at 9 am... we begin with a stone people ceremony... and then we will spend the day in sacred space completing the drum - this process will continue on through to the next day on Saturday until we finish... We will hold a sacred fire/despacho ceremony Saturday evening while the drum's new hides continue to dry and process...

• Sunday morning air & breath ceremony... together, with one-voice, we will welcome and dedicate our new community drum by celebrating in devotional chant, song, singing and drumming together in mesa-mestay... and we will end our gathering with a feast/lunch...

• What to bring... your mesa... your prayers, talents, tools, drums, instruments, a crystal or amythyst, or lake stone to represent your-self and your prayers which will be embedded ceremonially into the inside windwalker's belly/frame.

• Facilitated by... *ayllu members... this weekend is an ayllu-spirit event... please join us in community... as one...

*Please contact weaver at... stardrum@yahoo.com if you're interested in helping facilitate any part of this event...

i.e... leader(s) for... mallet buiding... drum stand... honouring cover... crystal/stone gathering... despacho/fire ceremony... video/photographers/artists... musicians... dancers... etc... this weekend is our ayllu's dreaming...

• Information/updates... about the journey and dreaming of this sacred drum is being journalled here at... www.drum4mum.blogspot.com

• To register for this saced event... please contact Michelle Morris...
by email at... trackersoflight@yahoo.ca
...suggested sliding scale - pay what you can... $35 - $80 to cover costs of the room at Sorrento and some material expenses - we will not turn anyone away because of money... please join us...
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• Meals/Accomodation available for additional cost at Sorrento Centre...
Please contact Sorrento Centre directly (asap) to arrange your needs...
...the cut-off date for booking both with Sorrento Centre is Friday, August 29th!
• Phone: 250-675-2421 • Toll Free: 1-866-694-2409
• Email... info@sorrento-centre.bc.ca • www.sorrento-centre.bc.ca
@ Sorrento Centre

with much light and love...
and hope to see you all there... weaver (((o)))

Note... above photo was recently taken at the last Dialogues weekend in Sorrento - where windwalker joined us... and was honoured as our central altar... and held space for all of us... it was truly a beautiful experience sharing sacred space with her all weekend... photo taken by Rick Ellis (c) 2008

my recent visit with windwalker...

Hi ayllu...

I'm just back from my visit with Windwalker.... When I last had been with Windwalker in Feb I could feel her humming energy - I didn't feel that this time.

Windwalker is very happy to be out where she now is, on a small rise, where she can feel the wind, and according to Rick and Ann, have birds sit on her and have the rays of the setting sun caress her.

I had to really keep myself grounded and my feet separated or I was off!!! Flying like an eagle. I stuck my head inside her and she showed my an eagle's eye view of where she came from - the water, islands, trees.

She feels glad to be where she is, yet sad. She wonders if she will ever become what she was meant to be. She no longer feels the pull or strength of the allyu.

Few come to visit or sit with her. She wonders if she will fulfill her reason for being. Rick felt and I agree, that there is no sense of trauma there now at all. She is being kept olive oiled. ...
So....it was a good visit, yet poignant...

In munay and in light... Julie

balance...

Hello out there......... Hello everyone.......
First I would like to say, "HI YI YA weaver!!!!" Your last words echo in my heart. Though my words would not have been as elegant as yours. During the winter months my frustration with what I call, "the torn tapestry of our allyu", hit me hard. I sought a place where I could come to some peace with the way things are, rather than how I thought they should be. Over lunch with someone a wee bit wiser than me, I began to settle down. However, the niggling of impatience is showing up again. I want a date to put on my calender for gathering with windwalker. I find my addiction to knowing, (who, what, where, when and why) egging me on. Balancing my impatience, is an ongoing life lesson ... Balance... Learning to walk in balance...

Recently, I came across several sticks that Beaver had been considering. The first bunch came out a river running into the North Thompson. They were close enough to the edge of the river that I could scramble down to get them, with a minimum risk to life and limb. After asking for permission, I collected several, thinking they would make great drum sticks. A couple of weeks later, walking along Adams Lake, sure enough more Beaver sticks were on the beach. These were more substantial. WOW, perfect for drum sticks!!! I look at them every day and hear them. So I'm thinking I'm ready.........Anyone else?