Suzi Crockford

Suzi and Fergus Snow Crockford

Suzi

I have been in contact with the spirits of the land, the spirit of the drum and my helping spirits since childhood. It is through the interweaving of these relationships that both my work as a healer and my drum making comes about.

 

My work is greatly inspired by the teachings I have received - as well as my on-going education from the spirits themselves. As a drum maker I have received teaching from Carolyn Hillyer who in turn received the particular method of drum making that I use from the Tarascan Master Drum maker Guillermo Martinez.   I have undertaken a number of workshops and trainings in Shamanism including the two year Shamanic Practitioner Training with The Sacred Trust and an ongoing private training in the ways of the Melissae; the distaff members of The Path of Pollen (a little known yet well-trodden European spiritual path that works with the honeybee and the hive). In the past I have worked with Jill Purce both as a student and as a drummer for her Shamanic and Zen Trance Dance Ceremonies, also with Leo Rutherford and Annette Høst.

 

 

As a creator of drums and rattles with hide, leather, wood and earth pigments, I am experienced in making other unique sacred objects, gifts, tools and instruments as guided by Spirit for the individual client, please don't hesitate to enquire if you need a similar creation.

 

Fergus

The healing power of drum's rhythms has been in my life for twenty years, my relationship with the frame drum has developed through my experiences drumming in shamanic and zen trance dance ceremonies during ten years of Jill Purce's Healing Voice workshops, within the mysteries of the British Isles, running a drumming circle and drumming with friends or alone for meditation, healing and pleasure. Drawing from my interest in natural and elemental forms, ancient and prehistoric art and the power of symbol, the images for the drums are birthed as a result of the interweaving between the images given to Suzi, my intuitive knowings and the drum's purpose.