Welcome to Wakan Drums
Sacred Drums Honoring the Trees, Tribes, Cultures and Beliefs - Hand Crafted Shamanic Drums and new Totem Drumsticks
OUR DRUMS AND MISSION
“I have been blessed to have crossed paths with Chuck Wilson, creator of Wakan Drums, during a Shamanic Reiki workshop. This connection was obviously orchestrated by spirit, and I have recently had the honor of becoming one of his “drum keepers” for a sacred Elk drum that he created for me with his allies in all realms. His tracking for empowering my medicine path was impeccable. The drum brings so many layers of healing, honoring, magical depth, and connection to the world of nature and spirit. I know this will continue to bless, unfold, and inform my healing journey and those it touches, for the rest of my life. I am so deeply grateful to Chuck for creating this sacred work and all it represents.”
Much love,
Traci
https://www.couragetoleap.com/
THE STORY WITHIN EACH DRUM
Wakan Drums grew from a personal spiritual journey that began with a vision given to me to create sacred drums in a way I had never encountered before by my late life partner after she passed, more than seven years ago. Please see the page https://wakandrums.com/the-drum-maker
Each drum frame is my original work; it is not a laminated frame. It is handcrafted from many different rough woods, incorporates crushed stones, fibers, and personal client items into the frame construction. All drums tie to my experiences, relationships, teachings, and encounters with people and cultures I have met. These are not reproductions of other cultures or tribal sacred/ceremonial drums. They are my own contemporary expression of the sacred drum.
The selection of the word “Wakan”. “Wakan” (wakȟáŋ/wakaŋ) has a broad and difficult-to-translate semantic field, which involves sacred, spiritual, remarkable/incomprehensible, and mysterious. It is a remarkable Lakota word, and no single English word fully captures its meaning. I chose the name after consulting with my tribal friend, because my own drum-making journey became inseparable from my understanding of the range of spiritual and sacred meanings of this word.
I use the name to describe the importance and sacred nature of these drums—not to claim Lakota identity, ceremonial knowledge, or the right to claim a connection that is not mine. These drums are contemporary works born from my own life, that carry spiritual influences from many places and traditions, not created to represent any one tribe or tradition, but to honor the remarkable diversity of our Spirits, human cultures and our natural world and universe.
The many Trees that create each frame carry its own history, character, and metaphysical healing relationship and medicine to the future drum keeper. The Trees also represent all plant life on the Earth. The drum hide and small touch of bear grease on the wood under the hide represents all life on Earth to me. The strength ring made of Basalt rock fiber under the hide/frame top represents the grandfather stones in many ceremonial fires and the Earth. My first Inipi was in Washington and those stones were basalt.
Some elements of my work have been deeply influenced by experiences with Pacific Northwest and Lakota spiritual teachings and other Indigenous traditions, while others come from entirely different cultural and spiritual paths. I believe those influences should be acknowledged honestly, rather than hidden, while also being clear about where my own work and intent begin.
The drums have become something deeper and wider than most sacred drums. Through my own experiences, and those shared with me by people who have experienced or keep one of these drums, they have demonstrated that they are deeply personal companions in meditation, serving as spirit gateways/portals, enhance healing work, ceremony, and spiritual exploration. I make the drum with the spiritual drum family, intention and craftsmanship, and then step aside. What unfolds belongs to the person, within their human and spiritual relationships.
My vision is to provide sacred drums that will spread as many spirit voices and healing into as many hands around the world as possible. These new drum keepers can further spread the drum healing magic to their circle of people and so on into the future. Our frames honor the many that have followed their paths, are following and will be expanding their spirit path.
The meaning of each of the woods used in our drums can be found on the pages on our site "Sacred Trees".
Podcasts of drum journey recordings can be found at the bottom of this page or all of them are found at
https://wakandrumspodcasts.buzzsprout.com
I would deeply appreciate if you could assist me with my work and these free drum recordings with a donation at
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Many blessings to you.
Wakan Drums Photo Gallery
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Wakan Drums - How they work with you and others
Check out this interview I gave to the Shamans Directory. It is about Wakan Drums and how these are used which is a bit different than drums are normally used. Enjoy and Blessings to you.
My first interview regarding my path and our Sacred Drums
A great interview I was asked to give to the Shamans Directory April 10, 2023. It is about my path from my Awakening and the vision given to me to bring these multi wood sacred drums into existence that are wonderful gateways for people to engage with their spiritual family and more. Blessings to you.
I would love your support at buymeacoffee.com/wakandrums
Contact Us
Hours
Open today | 09:00 am – 05:00 pm |
Monday - Friday: 9am - 5pm
Saturday - Sunday: Closed