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YolandaMartinez : Creator Master Apache Drum Maker 🥁 | Author 📖 | Performer | Singer ⭐️ | Songwriter 🎶
🔗 linktr.ee/yolandasdrums Visit her website to learn more: www.YolandasDrums.com.

🎶✨ Yolanda Martinez: Musician, Drum Maker, Author, and Teacher ✨🥁

Yolanda Martinez is an award-winning Native American musician, master drum maker, and author of Following Earth Mother's Heartbeat. Born with a song in her heart, she began singing to those around her as a child while working in the fields, guided by her deep Native American, Inca, and Hispanic heritage. Her music, a soul-stirring gift from Great Spirit, touches listeners to their core, transporting them to places they only dream of. As a three-time NAMMY/GRAMMY winner and four-time nominee, Yolanda has also been honored with two ISMA (Indian Summer Music Awards), sharing her talent on stages around the world. Beyond her music, Yolanda creates handcrafted Native American drums and leads drum-making workshops and gatherings, bringing the sacred rhythm of the drum to people globally. Her teachings and work honor her spiritual journey and mission to share empowerment, connection, and inspiration.

📖 Discover her powerful memoir, Following Earth Mother's Heartbeat, a story of resilience, spirituality, and honoring the Earth Mother, available on her website, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble.

🌟 Join Yolanda’s drum circles, workshops, or book signings, and explore her teachings. Let’s connect through rhythm, spirit, and story. 💖

On Sunday, I was invited to speak at UUC of Las Cruces for Indigenous Peoples Day.I have been asked to speak on many day...
10/15/2026

On Sunday, I was invited to speak at UUC of Las Cruces for Indigenous Peoples Day.

I have been asked to speak on many days. This one always asks something more of me.

It is not a day for performing who we are. It is a day for remembering. For honoring the ones who came before us, who carried the songs and the teachings forward so that we could still sing them today.

One or two lines, in your own words, about what you shared or what you felt in the room.

Thank you to everyone at UUC for opening your doors and your hearts, and for listening so deeply.

Who taught you what it means to remember where you come from?

Aho.

Some songs are written. Others are given.I have always felt that the land sings first, and I am only learning to listen ...
10/14/2026

Some songs are written. Others are given.

I have always felt that the land sings first, and I am only learning to listen closely enough to follow.

When I sing outside, I am not performing. I am answering something.

Music has carried me through grief, through joy, through seasons I did not think I would make it through. It is one of the oldest ways I know to pray.

On Monday, I led a birthday drumming over Zoom for the Song of My Heart Celebration. Even through a screen, the rhythm found every one of us.

Is there a song that has carried you through something? Tell me what it is.

Aho.

Last month I told you some teachings deserve to be walked through slowly. So let us keep walking.This is the season of t...
10/13/2026

Last month I told you some teachings deserve to be walked through slowly. So let us keep walking.

This is the season of the West.

The sun sets a little earlier each evening. The light falls differently. The land itself begins to let go.

The West has always asked me to look inward. To be honest about what I have been carrying out of habit, not out of need. To set some of it down before winter comes.

Letting go is rarely easy. But the trees do it every year, trusting that what they release will return to the earth and feed what comes next.

What are you ready to set down this season?

Aho.

People who have never sat in circle sometimes tell me they are not sure what to expect. So I want to share a few of the ...
10/08/2026

People who have never sat in circle sometimes tell me they are not sure what to expect.

So I want to share a few of the simple ways we hold circle together.

None of this is complicated. But every piece of it matters. Together, these are what make a circle a safe place to land.

Which of these feels most needed in your life right now?

And if you would like to feel it for yourself, come sit with us this Saturday, October 10, for our Monthly Drum Circle at OM Valley Center. [10 AM to 12 PM. Radium Springs NM.]

[No drum or experience needed.] Just come as you are.

Aho.

10/07/2026

People sometimes ask me why I always come back to the circle.

Because in a circle, there is no front of the room. No one sits above anyone else. Every voice is at the same height.

The circle taught me how to listen. Not just to wait for my turn, but to really listen. To let people finish. To let their words land before I answer.

It taught me that I do not have to fix anyone. I only have to be present.

I have sat in hundreds of circles in my life. I am still learning from every one of them.

What has a circle, of any kind, taught you?

And if you are near Las Cruces this Sunday, October 11, I will be speaking at the Unitarian Universalist Church for Indigenous Peoples Day, at 10 a.m. I would be honored to see you there.

Aho.

There is a kind of listening that only happens when women sit together.No one is performing. No one is in a hurry. We si...
10/06/2026

There is a kind of listening that only happens when women sit together.

No one is performing. No one is in a hurry. We simply make room for one another, and the stories find their way out.

This Friday, October 9, we gather for our Women's Sharing Circle and Moon Lodge, held in the home of [my dear friend] Dr. Deb Thorne in Las Cruces.

5:30 to 7:00 in the evening.

We keep this circle small and close, so please let us know you are coming. You can reach me at [email protected] or Deb at [email protected], and we will share the address with you.

Come as you are. Bring what you are carrying. There is a place for you here.

Aho.

Something new is coming next month, and I wanted you to hear it from me directly, in plain words, before it arrives.Star...
10/01/2026

Something new is coming next month, and I wanted you to hear it from me directly, in plain words, before it arrives.

Starting in October, I am opening a way to gather with me virtually. Not instead of the Las Cruces circle, that stays exactly as it is, free and open every month. This is in addition to it. A way for those of you who cannot be here in person to still sit in circle, hear teachings, and be part of this community.

There will be a gathering for women. There will be a gathering open to everyone, because I believe this kind of connection should not exclude the men who are seeking it too.

I am still shaping the details. That is intentional. I would rather build this with you than hand it to you finished.
If this is something you have been hoping for, tell me. And if you want to be among the first to know when it opens, comment below or send me a message.

The circle is never truly finished. It is only ever wider open.

09/30/2026

There is a place where the rock rises up like it has been holding something for a very long time.

I stood beneath it and felt small in the way that reminds you what small is for.

People prayed here before me. The stone remembers what the page cannot.

I brought my voice to it — Ancient Altar Song — and left something there I don't have words for yet.

Some altars are built. Some altars were always waiting to be found.

Aho.

As September closes, I find myself asking an old question. Is there light, laughter, joy, love, when I turn and look bac...
09/29/2026

As September closes, I find myself asking an old question. Is there light, laughter, joy, love, when I turn and look back?

This month asked a lot of us. It asked us to hold balance during the Equinox. It asked us to be patient with what is still taking shape. It asked some of us to sit with grief, and others to sit with gratitude, sometimes both in the same week.

I want to take a moment to give thanks. To the earth that holds us. To the water that keeps finding its way back to us. To the neighbors and strangers who showed up when it mattered. To the animals who share this land with us and ask for nothing but respect.

None of us are going through this alone, even when it feels that way.

When you turn and look back on your September, what do you see? I would love to hear it.

Back in the spring, hands that had never touched rawhide before, started something. This week, some of those drums are f...
09/24/2026

Back in the spring, hands that had never touched rawhide before, started something. This week, some of those drums are finally finding their voice.

There is nothing quite like watching a drum go from raw material to something that can hold a room, hold a prayer, hold a whole circle of people. It takes months sometimes. It takes the maker’s patience, and mine.

The harvest is not only what grows in the ground. Sometimes it is what has been quietly taking shape in someone’s hands since spring.

I am harvesting something new this season too. I am building two virtual gatherings to open next month, one for women, and one open to everyone, because this work should not have to leave anyone out who is genuinely seeking connection. More details are coming very soon.

If you want to be among the first to know when the doors open, drop a raised hand below or send me a message. I will make sure you hear it first.

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