Into the Heart of Bhakti: A Community Immersion Through the Lens of The Gita with Special Guest Swami Revatikaanta + Kirtan lead Radharani + Supported by Akash Chander + Moderated & Meditation by Paola Cruz. Please join us for an evening of conscious conversation, music, & community. Rather than a lecture, this is a space for living inquiry — exploring the Gita not just as a text, but as a mirror for your own life and practice. Swami Revatikaanta will guide us through story, reflection, and dialogue, as we dive into key teachings from the Gita that speak to purpose, action, inner steadiness, and devotion. 

Kirtan is a devotional singing practice from India and is practiced around the world. It involves chanting or singing mantras, sacred phrases, or bhajans in a call-and-response style.  It is a beautiful way to learn how to open our hearts and connect to something much greater than ourselves. (Come at 6:30 for homemade kitchari and chai!)

Anahata Sessions is a transformative healing night brought to you by us - a collective of visionary healers from the Golden Drum community. In each session, we will offer a specially curated program of healing modalities and traditions, which will create a unique experience inspiring healing; inducing relaxation; supporting growth; and transforming perception. The healing modalities that will be offered during this Anahata Session are: Tarot, Astrology, Sound Healing, Lightwork, Reiki, and more.

We invite you to join us in community and ceremony, sharing sacred cacao to open the heart, settle the mind, and connect more deeply with ourselves and one another. Together we’ll reflect on what has grown in our lives, acknowledge what we’re ready to release, and set clear intentions for the season ahead. The evening will include music from Dream Seed, meditation, and space for reflection.

While Gemini thrives on gathering information, Sagittarius seeks wisdom and meaning—together, they push us to connect the dots between what we know and what we believe. Join us for a sound meditation, astrology talk, tea and more.

Rediscover the joy of spinning as a child. Join us for the Whirling for Peace workshop to experience freedom and lightness through dance. Create a space where whirling feels natural. Connect with this experience and feel unity and love as you whirl for hours.

As the last full moon of spring is rising in the sky, we gather in a sacred circle to honor the Festival of Goodwill—a time of generosity, connection, and collective prayer. We open our minds and hearts to new perspectives, to weave our voices together in shared wisdom, and to celebrate the power of community.

Join us in welcoming Nilda Callañaupa Alvarez, an indigenous Quechua weaver from the mountain village of Chinchero, Peru, to share about the rich textile traditions of the Andes by the master weavers of her culture.  Nilda will share with us demonstrations of traditional backstrap loom weaving and the spinning of alpaca wool into yarns.  There will be an assortment of hand made textiles available for sale to help support the weavers involved in her non-profit organization.

Dream Seed is a sound healing ensemble created by members of Golden Drum, Sacred Arts Research Foundation, and Didge Project. Shamanic chanting, mantras, overtone singing, Native American songs, indigenous music, didgeridoos, crystal singing bowls, bells, gongs, harmoniums, tuning forks and other overtone-emitting instruments are used to create an environment conducive to deep relaxation and inward investigation. 

This program will give sound healing practitioners the tools needed to understand the depth and consciousness on how to properly and safely hold space, how to guide recipients into a place of equanimity, and sustain personal balance while working with many different people and energies in the role of a healer. 

Transform yourself during this Taurus Season under the full moon in Scorpio. The Scorpio full moon reveals deep emotions and illuminates our fears and emotional baggage, but with the help of the Taurian energy we can release them into the material world. Scorpio's transformative energy can also be a time of rebirth, and with Taurus’ earthy energy we can help ground this process. Join us during this time of transformation and release to embrace where you need to grow with sound meditation, reiki, and more.

Join Dream Seed for a deep dive into sound healing work for practitioners at our weekend-long retreat in the Catskills, 2 hours from NYC. Dream Seed will conduct a series of sound baths and hands-on workshops in addition to a traditional sweat lodge. This is an opportunity to get extended time exploring the instruments and techniques within the sound healing modality. Meals and accommodations are included. This is an in-person workshop only (no online broadcast option available).

You are warmly invited to a transformative gathering with Nana Marina Cruz & Rosa Penele, two remarkable wisdom keepers from the Mayan tradition. Together, we will enter a sacred cacao circle, exploring the profound teachings of the Mayan grandmothers on feminine care, healing, and empowerment.

We welcome back Tz ́utujil Elder Nana Marina Cruz to the Golden Drum who will share two Mayan cacao ceremonies. This second one will take place on Wednesday, April 30. Not to be missed!

Meybol and Rosa, two Indigenous Atacameño women from the north of Chile, come to share the vision of the Condor through ceremonial tobacco prayers. They intend to honor and give thanks for life, water, and food. This ceremony consists of cleansing and protection prayers, a tobacco prayer, and an Andean offering.

Join us on Saturday morning, April 26th for a Round Table conversation amongst leaders from indigenous nations from the north and south, as they cross pollinate knowledge ways and share wisdom on Pollination through their traditional cosmology. This event is in collaboration with Root to Heaven's New Initiative, Pollinate NYC. 

Golden Drum has partnered with Root to Heaven for Pollinate NYC : the launch of Root to Heaven’s new initiative, in addition to The New School’s Food Studies Program and Heart & Mind Festival. Join us on Friday, April 25th from 11am-4pm.

With reverence and respect to the original peoples and their ancestral language, the mission of the sacred song school is to learn from one another and embrace what makes each culture a unique treasure to humanity. Like beautiful birds living in one forest, we admire their differences and celebrate what makes each one so special and colorful. With that enthusiasm and love, we invite in the sacred songs of the earth to be shared at the Golden Drum.

We welcome back Tz ́utujil Elder Nana Marina Cruz to the Golden Drum who will share two Mayan cacao ceremonies. This first one will take place on Wednesday, April 23. Not to be missed!

Join Yube Huni Kuin for a hapé ceremony at Golden Drum. In addition to sharing hapé, an ancient medicinal plant blend from the Amazon, Yube will share traditional music and knowledge.

Aries season welcomes the beginning of the astrological new year in the zodiacal calendar, so this is a beautiful moment to come together under this fiery, independent, strong-willed sign to set our intentions for this next Zodiac year. This Aries full moon in Libra is illuminating the “me” and the “we”, giving us a perfect moment to reflect how we are balancing our relationships with ourselves and with others. It also invites us to look at how our personal growth can fit harmoniously within the collective and the bigger picture. This Libra Full moon is an opportunity to bring more peace and diplomacy to your interactions while still honoring your own unique path. Join us for sound meditation, reiki, and more for a moment to honor yourself and call in more clarity into your path. 

Dream Seed is a sound healing ensemble created by members of Golden Drum, Sacred Arts Research Foundation, and Didge Project. Shamanic chanting, mantras, overtone singing, Native American songs, indigenous music, didgeridoos, crystal singing bowls, bells, gongs, harmoniums, tuning forks and other overtone-emitting instruments are used to create an environment conducive to deep relaxation and inward investigation. 

In this workshop, we will explore the complex and creative expressions of world percussion in accompaniment with drums, group singing, chanting, vocalization, and dance.

Prayer Carriers is a call to re-ignite this sacred ritual, bringing together women from all walks of life to share, to pray, to dream, and to find the healing prayers and actions that guide us all towards a more natural existence.

Immerse yourself in the beauty and power of traditional indigenous ceremonial arts, jewelry, clothing, tapestries, rare sound healing instruments, herbal apothecary and wild-handcrafted products. M.E.S.A features local artisans as well as ethically sourced, and fair-traded indigenous arts & gifts.

Long-time Golden Drum members Matt and Hillary Canale will facilitate kirtan monthly in the space. Matt has been studying kirtan for the past decade in Hare Krishna temples in the city and upstate New York. Kirtan is a beautiful way to learn how to sing as a practice to offer our hearts and love to something much greater than ourselves.

Heart & Mind Festival Presents a Spring Equinox Celebration: Masters of the Waterways: A tribute to the Canarsie People of Brooklyn with Algonquin Author Evan Pritchard. Join us for an evening of renewal with yoga and live music, a powerful presentation on the hidden history of the Canarsie Nation, and a heart-opening cacao ceremony.

Presented by Heart & Mind Festival & Golden Drum.

Doña Leova is a Traditional Healer from the Nahuatl nation of Puebla, Mexico. Her work is based in a cosmology of Healing that is known as the "Tradition of the Grandmothers," named because historically, one grandmother would share the practice with one granddaughter who would then go on to become the next practitioner.

The Virgo Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse during Pisces season invites us to explore the delicate balance between science and spirituality. This moon calls us to examine the chaos and disorder in our lives—whether emotional, environmental, or intellectual—and decide whether we need to clean it up or surrender to the chaos. It's a powerful time for introspection, as it is the last moon of the astrological year when we consider Aries as the beginning of the Zodiac. As we approach the Spring Equinox, this full moon offers a chance to take stock of the year, re-evaluate our beliefs, and purify our routines to better align with our spiritual truths. It’s an invitation to ground ourselves before a new cycle begins, honoring both what is true for us and what may no longer serve us.

Learn to play many different types of healing wind instruments including flutes, jaw harps, om wands, the didgeridoo, and the harmonica. The majority of the wind instruments used in this workshop are of an intuitive nature so no prior music experience is necessary to attend this program.