Rattle Making + Song Catching
Rattle Making + Song Catching is a live, in -person gathering of humans, who are calling upon the spirits of the animals and the songs of the wild to be born through their hands and bodies.
Held live, in-person in Birmingham, Alabama, on Thursday evenings and Saturday afternoons in June and July, 2025, this circle and workshop invites us to hand-craft and birth our own rattles from ethically and ceremonial harvested animal hides, and to deepen our capacity and skill to channel medicine songs for community gatherings and ceremonial spaces.
Rattle Making + Song Catching includes:
8, LIVE, IN-PERSON, multi- hour gatherings in the summer of 2025
(dates below)
Guided support in birthing your own ceremonial rattle (with video teachings from Jane’s teacher and collaborator, Nissa Howard)
A community of beings reclaiming ritual, shamanic craft, ancestral memory, here in Alabama
Support for activating and awakening your own personal creative life force through the practice of song catching and channeling
An opportunity to receive 1:1 Integration Space sessions with Jane in August, 2025
A Ceremonial Sweat Lodge Experience at the end of the course, to share and activate your rattle and sacred song
If you’re ready to commune with the deeply wild, primordial forces of animals, hides, life and death, and are longing to embody your skill to channel their wisdom and medicine as sacred ceremonial medicine song, Rattle Making +Song Catching is for you.
In the summer of 2020, I had the great oppotunity to birth a rattle with Nissa Howard, a free-range redneck medicine woman (her words!) who ethically and ceremonially hunts and harvests deer and elk in Idaho, and then works with the spirit of their hides to prepare them for deep work in ceremony. The way she holds and channels hide medicine is DEEP, and I am honored to be able to combine this medicine with my gift and dharma of song, and offer it to you this summer. May the wild in these animals hides remind you of your own, and may you bear medicine songs truly woven with the truth of Life on Earth.
$450, or three payments of $155
To join, emailjane@iamjanemayer.com, and make payment through Venmo @janeislistening , Zelle (janemayer@gmail.com) or cash.
Investment
Thursday, June 5, 5-7pm
Thursday, June 12, 5-7pm
Thursday, June 19, 5-7pm
Saturday, June 28, 3-7pm
Thursday, July 10, 5-7pm
Thursday, July 17, 5-7pm
Thursday, July 24, 5-7pm
Saturday, August 2 - 3 - 7pm (final Sweat Lodge— optional)
*Missing a class or two is fine— you will just need to catch up in your own time. It is not recommended to miss June 28.
Gathering Dates
Can’t join this summer?
