Awaken the Drum. Reweave the Ancestral Thread. Remember Who You Are.Welcome to Level 2.
Now a journey, each level a threshold of remembrance, each one a step in reclaiming your wholeness. Here, the modern self is re-woven into its ancient design: inseparable from Nature, animated by the pulse of evolution, and carried by forces older than time. This is remembrance as revolution an embodied return in an age of what has been prophesied. Level 2 is where you walk as both student and ancestor, summoned to rise as a vessel of continuity, courage, and song.
This Shamanic Drum Training is a living path of remembrance carried through 10 levels of initiation. Each level is a rite of passage and unfolding that guides you deeper into rhythm, voice, and ancestral belonging. Together, the 10 levels form a complete journey: from first contact with the drum as a vessel, to embodying it as a sacred tool of healing, leadership, and evolutionary remembrance.
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Malika Avani is a song-keeper, medicine woman, and founder of The Healing Drum, guiding training and initiations internationally since 2017.
A proud daughter of Singapura with Indian and Boyanese heritage, her 14-year path of initiation across more than 30 countries is rooted in shamanic rhythm, ancestral constellations, and vocal alchemy.
She trains experienced practitioners, facilitators, and space-holders who are ready to deepen their mastery. As a conduit for rhythm as medicine, voice as portal, and ceremony as a living ecology, Malika leads immersive workshops, retreats, and the 10 levels of Shamanic Drum Facilitator Training internationally, guiding practitioners beyond surface-level facilitation into embodied leadership, ancestral integrity, and transformative depth.
Malika’s work is grounded in over a decade of immersion with Indigenous tribes, living in community ritual, learning tribal songs, and apprenticing with master plant and animal teachers of their lineages. Her path has carried her through the landscapes of the Americas, from the depths of the Amazon jungle to the heights of the Andean mountains, where earth and ancestry continue to shape and inspire her work.
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🪶 Indigenous cosmovision and the circle as sacred ground , a return to relational rhythm
🪶 Foundational rhythms and elemental songs rooted in ancestral memory
🪶 How to attune to the drum as a bridge between this world and the unseen
🪶 Vocal activation and “Raw Voice Works” to awaken the ancestral body -
Day 1 🪶 Drum Work I: Womb of Rhythm, Journey of Return
Drum journeying is one of humanity’s oldest healing practices. Across cultures, the drum was revered as a vessel to commune with spirit, honor ancestors, and restore balance. Today, science affirms what our ancestors always knew: steady drumming shifts brainwaves, dissolves stress, strengthens the body, and awakens resilience.
Womb Voice is a descent into the first drum, the primal chamber of creation. Unlike the conditioned voice that performs and pleases from the throat, womb voice roots sound in the body, restoring expression as raw, ancestral, and whole.
The first session of Level 2 is a womb of rhythm, a return to the primordial mother drum, where voice and rhythm meet as one, and remembrance begins again.
✨ You will learn:
– How to experience a drum journey with guided reflections for deeper integration
– Practical skills to guide a drum journey for a group and receive supportive feedback
– Vocal practices that connect you to the womb as a portal of creative ignition
– How to apply the womb voice in sound journeys and facilitation to serve others with greater depth🪶 Drum Work II: Voices of the Ancestors
In Level 1, many of you shared how much was revealed through the Ancestral Ceremony. In Level 2, this ceremony returns, deepened. The drum becomes a living vessel, a ceremonial doorway into what still moves through your bloodline.
At the altar of the collective ancestors, rhythm and voice merge in ceremony—transmuting poison into nectar, transforming ancestral burden into ancestral power. We face the rupture not to be defined by it, but to transform it. The drum calls forth what was buried, gives sound to what was displaced, and returns the unsung songs of our lineage back into resonance.
What was once carried as weight becomes rhythm, prayer, and medicine. Voices of the Ancestors is where remembrance deepens, where broken threads are rewoven, and where you step into the living web of your lineage with a voice and body that finally belong.
🪶 Day 2: Drum Work III
Drum Mandala: The Shadow of the Healer
Every facilitator carries shadows that quietly shape the way we lead. The Drama Triangle—Victim, Rescuer, and Persecutor—is an unconscious cycle that fractures power and often shows up as over-giving, silenced voice, or burnout.
In Level 2, the Drum Mandala becomes the medicine to transform these patterns. Through rhythm, voice, and ceremony, the closed triangle dissolves into a circle of belonging—restoring balance in self-leadership and unlocking new depth in facilitation.
✨ You will experience:
– Holding and sustaining rhythm while staying centered in your own pulse
– Composing and expressing your Soul Song
– Practicing clear boundaries in sound and space
– Meeting and transforming your relationship with Victim, Rescuer, and Persecutor -
🔥 You have completed Level 1 Training
🔥 You feel the ancestral call, a longing to repair your perception of those who came before through embodied practice and living ceremony.
🔥 You are a space holder, or healing artist ready to deepen your roots and expand your capacity to hold yourself and others.
🔥 You crave rhythm not as technique but as medicine, a pulse that restores, remembers, and reweaves you back into wholeness.
Course Schedule: 19 & 20 September 2026 (Saturday and Sunday), 2:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Course Fee: $777 early bird rate, use promo code REWEAVE (valid until 15 Aug 2026) | Full rate $888
Limited spaces. Drums available to borrow or purchase.