Help with healing drumming please

Hello,

I hope I'm posting this in the right place:

Here goes, by chance I found myself in a short drumming taster workshop, needless to say I was soaring afterwards.

I've since joined a local drumming group, it's very much a bring your drum and follow on which is fine, but I'm having trouble understanding the opening/closing ceremony of the circle. Dependent on who is leading sometimes we drum to Father Sky, and not to Mother Earth and vice versa also the opening and closing of the circle is always clockwise but someone said it should be counter clockwise to close?
As I'm very new to the group and the others have been there quite a while I don't want to go asking the wrong thing or treading on anyone's toes so a little guidance on this would be very much appreciated.