Free Spirit Gathering 2026 - 40th year

Jeff, from Bohemian Brewing, will be offering a workshop to make your own 10 inch shamanic hand drum!
Always wanted your own hand drum for a drum circle? Want to add your own touch into reiki or sound work? Ever curious about how they are made? Then this is the workshop for you!
Come join us for an hour and a half and we will help you stretch and tie your own hand drum made from ceder wood and Buffalo or cow rawhide! Price for the workshop will be $110 for one 10 inch hand drum and that includes materials and our help to construct the drum.

*different size drums can be considered for additional cost, please reach out to us to discuss

This is an *adults only* workshop designed for teaching techniques for using energy in a sensual/sexual manner. Because of the deeply intimate nature of this kind of energy use, it is recommended that you bring one (or more) intimate partner(s) if you wish to practice any of the techniques we will discuss and/or demonstrate during the workshop.

Our Seidr (“sayth”) ritual is a modern reconstruction of a Norse Divinatory Rite known as Seidr or Spae (“spau”) in the lore. Like most pre-Christian religions, we’re missing a lot of information about the mechanics of how this ritual was performed. Modern Seidr is an amalgamation of historical information, lore, and seership techniques that come from contemporary sources. This Seidr ritual includes elements from Eric the Red’s Saga, The Eddas, The Saga of Hervor (“hairvore”) and Heidrek (“heydrick”), and more.
Before the Christian conversion, Seidr or Spae rituals were performed for a community by a traveling priestess known as a Volva and her assistants. These rites were an opportunity for people to gain information. People would seek information for their communities, like how to end a famine or plague, as well as for themselves, like when they would marry or have a child. In the contemporary version of this ritual, anyone, regardless of gender identity, can serve as a seer.