Awaken the Drum. Reweave the Ancestral Thread. Remember Who You Are.

This is not just a drumming course. It is a call to your bones.
A rhythm-led return to the memory your lineage still carries.
Before silence. Before shame. Before survival.

In Level 1, we work with the drum not as an instrument, but as a vessel. A sacred portal to reconnect with your ancestors, to unravel inherited rupture, and to reclaim the sound your bloodline longs to release.

🪶 Indigenous cosmovision and the circle as sacred ground — a return to relational rhythm
🪶 Foundational rhythms and elemental chants 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

• Meet Your Trainer: Malika Avani

  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.

• What You'll Learn on Day 1

  Theme: The Return to Rhythm

  Drum Work 1: Power.

  This session opens the training with an embodied introduction to sacred circle technology. We ask: Where are you drumming from?

  You will learn:
  – How to enter ceremonial space with presence and reverence
  – The origins of the drum as a spiritual tool and transmitter of ancestral power
  – The somatic roots of rhythm — and how your body already remembers the beat
  – The difference between drumming from the mind, the womb, the heart, or survival
  – The circle as a container of power, not performance

  You will not just drum —
  You will remember how to be held by rhythm,
  how to speak without words,
  how to enter the drum as temple.

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  Drum Work 2: Roots.

  This session deepens into the root system of the work — where rhythm meets memory, and myth becomes map.

  You will explore:
  – The drum as an ancestral tool of remembering
  – Raw Voice Works to access stored emotional memory in the body
  – A Circle of Words: storytelling as ritual
  – The power of myth in Indigenous cosmovision — myth as memory, not metaphor
  – A Collective Altar Ceremony: bringing offerings to your lineage in prayer, in silence, or in song

  This is where rhythm meets your rivers.
  Where blood stories are witnessed.
  And where we do not fix the past — we sing it forward.

• What You'll Learn on Day 2

  Day 2: The Ancestral Body Remembers

  Drum Work 3: Embodying the Ancestral Self

  "You are not just descended from your ancestors  you are carrying out what they began."

  This session invites full-bodied connection with your Ancestral Self  the part of you shaped by prayer, bloodline, and archetypal memory.

  You will experience:
  – Drum-led somatic movement to awaken ancestral gestures
  – Raw Voice Works to express grief, reverence, and rage stored in the line
  – Call-and-response chant and vocal toning
  – Deep journaling and integration prompts
  – A sacred return to inheritance — not as burden, but as power

  Guided Inquiry:
  Who are you when you’re not performing healing —
  but becoming the prayer your ancestors never finished?

  This is where we remember that the body is archive,
  and movement is remembrance.

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  Drum Work 4: RHYTHMIC REVIVAL

  Theme: Celebration as Integration

  We close not with words, but with rhythm.

  Rhythmic Revival is the final temple —
  a full-bodied YES to life.
  A celebration where the drum carries everything we’ve moved, released, reclaimed.

  Through collective dance, song, and drumming, we honor the ancestral body — the one that trembled, cracked open, and rose again.

  This is not the end.
  This is the beginning of rhythm as practice.
  A way to live, to relate, to lead.

This is not about performance. It is about pulse. The sacred responsibility of remembering what your lineage still longs to express through you. Come as you are. You don’t need to lead yet — you need to listen.

• Course Schedule: 30 Aug, Saturday: 2pm to 8 pm | 31 Aug, Sunday: 2pm to 8pm

• Course Fee: 🌀 Early Bird: $444, use promo code DRUMHEALS to unlock special rate (valid until 10 Aug 2025) | Full Price: $499

Join In-Person

🌀 Limited spaces. Drums available to borrow or purchase.

• Affirmations to Carry You Forward:

  🌀 My body is a vessel of celebration, movement, and sacred sound
  🌀 I remember who I am through rhythm
  🌀 Each beat I dance is an offering to joy, to Spirit, and to those who came before me

• What to Bring

  1) Shamanic drum

  2)water bottle

  3) journal

  4) pen / coloured pencils

  5) light snacks

  6) fruits to share

  7) sacred objects/ tools to be placed on the collective altar

  objects or photos that represent our connection with our ancestors, photos of our grandparents, family members