Custom Painted and Handmade Drums

Emily offers custom painting on Remo synthetic hide drums or natural hide drums, and she also makes natural buffalo, moose, horse, and elk hide drums completely by hand. Emily’s custom painted drums can be found all over the world from Hawaii, to Portugal, connecting drum keepers with their beautiful and unique healing tool. Custom painting for the Remo drums start at $235. for the 16” size and $285. for the large 22” size drums plus return shipping. Handmade natural hide drums are $460. Please visit her online shop for completed drums ready for purchase.

For custom painting you would bring or ship your drum to Emily’s studio, then she would do a shamanic journey to the spirit worlds and to your drum retrieving its imagery for connection, activation, healing and growth. Every drum painting is completely unique to the person using their drum. It is painted with professional archival paints and the drum painting is sealed to be able to be played on and used everyday. If you need to acquire a drum, Emily can give some recommendations and help you find the right drum for you.

If you are interested in working with Emily to create a custom painted or handmade drum please send an email to request more information.

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Drumming for Theta: The Relaxed Mind Through Rhythm

Drumming repetitively at about four beats per second, has been proven to relax the mind, inducing either Alpha or Theta in nearly all participants in studies on the effect of drumming. An abstract from the US Library of Medicine by Professor Winkelman, concluded, from a study: “Research reviews indicate that drumming enhances recovery through inducing relaxation and enhancing theta-wave production and brain-wave synchronization. Drumming produces pleasurable experiences, enhanced awareness of preconscious dynamics, release of emotional trauma, and reintegration of self. Drumming alleviates self-centeredness, isolation, and alienation, creating a sense of connectedness with self and others. Drumming provides a secular approach to accessing a higher power and applying spiritual perspectives.”