What past audience members say:

"Dear Jaime Meyer, I don't know who you are or how you learned this, but you blew my mind in exactly the way I've been wanting. I haven't felt this alive in years. Thank you." 

"Great event, great ceremony. This guy is the real deal." 

"Thank you for the fantastic Sat eve winter solstice event.  I have never attended a drumming event--much less a winter solstice event and I loved it---felt renewed and blessed. Thank you. Looking forward to future events....and I especially loved dancing with you!!"

"Crazy Amazing. It's like church on acid."

"Just wanted to say what an amazing experience last weekend was. I felt the reindeer goddesses coalesce into a sisterhood as you rattled around the reindeer hide and antlers. It was a transcendental moment for me in which I loved my life and felt incredibly grateful for everything of every flavor that has led me to where I am now. So Be It."

 "Wow!  What a great night with so many blessings for all beings in all realms!  Such beauty and a good feast for the Ancestral World! We both felt deeply blessed and healed by the ceremonies and the magic that you and the team wove for us!"

"I want you to know I found the service Friday night to be powerful, authentic and healing. I know shamanic shape-shifting and merging when I see it. I encountered the spirits in a powerful way through your leadership, Jamie. And I thank you!"

"Thank you so much for Sunday night: beautiful show, great stories, needed ritual."

"The wonderful energy created by your storytelling, the singing and the vibrations from the drumming was magical. Thank you for blessing us with this ceremony!"

From the Official Press Release:

Jaime Meyer’s “Winter Solstice Blessing” is part theater, part laugh-out-loud storytelling, and part interactive shamanic ceremony. It’s played to sold-out houses for 12 years. Everyone in the audience plays drums or rattles supplied by Meyer (many audience members bring their own drums). Dancing and ecstasy are encouraged but not required. The evening blends Meyer’s seminary degree with his 30 years of studying indigenous spiritual traditions with shamans from various traditions.  

The experience takes the audience deep into the realm of the reindeer as the “great beating heart of blessing at the center of creation.” The evening culminates with a shamanic ceremony in which everyone on the audience can receive a blessing from the Reindeer Spirit. 

Meyer first encountered the spiritual reindeer while studying with a shaman, an ethnic Sami—the indigenous people of northern Scandinavia. Meyer’s fascination with the reindeer as a spiritual image, and how that image has been twisted by the patriarchal, industrial culture into the story of Rudolf lead him to create this unique winter solstice event. 

The show includes live musicians playing a variety of unusual ethnic instruments and a chorus of women chanting mysterious Celtic and Nordic melodies with a dark and ancient feel, songs that, as one audience member said, “Lutherans are simply not allowed to learn.”  

Meyer has a long background as a playwright and theatre producer. For the last 17 years he has lead drumming circles, performed shamanic healings and taught workshops on shamanic practice for thousands of people.  He has written 20 plays that have been produced in various cities around the nation, and he is the author of "Drumming the Soul Awake," a funny and touching account of his journey to become a modern shamanic healer in an urban setting. The Minneapolis Star Tribune has hailed Meyer’s writing as “…enormously seductive. It’s far-fetched whimsy with thickly textured thoughtfulness. It’s like metaphysical cartoons on speed.”