New Dates For 2025 Workshops
Monday 22nd September 7-9pm - Drumming For Healing - around the fire - at Riverbank Cottage, Wareham
Maternity Leave Update 2025
I am expecting a baby in November 2025, and due to pregnancy complications am now on maternity leave. Health depending, I will still be offering drum circles, but now from my home: around the fire in the ancient woodland if the weather is fair, around the log-burner in the lounge if it is raining.
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Drum birthing workshops will likely be on hold until late Spring 2026. 1:1's may be possible before this time but if so, would need to work around my breastfed baby.
I will be running workshops at The Healing Weekend at the Lighthouse, 7th and 8th February 2026.
It will still be possible to commission a drum or buy one that has already been made; please get in touch.
Welcome
I’m Lucy, and I’m a shamanic practitioner. I’m a healer, a reader, and I work with the medicine gifts of Mother Earth to craft sacred tools and objects.
I work in particular with Deer, an animal that links us with strength, protection, spiritual connection, but also gentleness and compassion. I birth drums and rattles from their hides so that the spirit of the deer which has passed may live on and guide us, with tools which become our companions and friends. I take ethically sourced local skins and prepare them into rawhide myself, incorporating honour and ceremony from start to finish. I teach drum birthing workshops, and take commissions for drums and rattles.
Sacred crafting is a large part of my work, and it is not limited to drums. I work with with the spirits of the winged ones to create feather fans, with the spirits of the trees to create Ogham staves, and with the spirits of the plants to create an extensive range of flower essences and smoke cleansing bundles.
Drum Birthing
A drum is a powerful ally - a tool, a healer, a friend - and a drum that you have birthed yourself, or one that has been birthed especially for you, even more so. Gathering together the hide and the hoop, lacing them together in ceremony with love and intent, calling in the spirit of the drum, holding space for it as it dries; this process is one of magic and wonder, and the result is a medicine drum intimately connected to you.
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I offer drum birthing workshops, retreats, 1:1 tuition, or I take commissions to birth drums; please find out more by clicking the link below.
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Bio
Lucy McLeod is a medicine woman - a healer, reader, and sacred craftswoman. It is her passion to create safe spaces for those seeking personal growth, healing and clarity, as well as creating medicine tools that aid the spiritual journey.
Through her healings and readings she facilitates the release of deep-seated trauma, blocks, and limiting stories, sparking a healing journey of transformation.
The spirit of the Deer guides her pathway; she takes locally sourced deerskins and prepares them in ceremony from start to finish. The rawhide is used to birth drums and rattles with high integrity and ethical standards. She works to commission, as well as running drum birthing workshops from her rural home in Dorset.
