Singing Alive is an annual, since 2007, summer gathering devoted to Gaian Folk-song circles. Singing Alive was born of a confluence of the song culture (rainbow, gospel, trad. Americana, Native Amer.) of back-to-the-land healing gatherings of the Cascadia bio-region (Pacific NW), and the song-medicine of teacher-plant traditions world-wide. It has since grown to encompass a wide variety of singing people(s), including community choirs, devotees of contemporary spiritual figures (e.g., Amma, Prem Baba . . ), yoga (kirtan) communities. and star-language enthusiasts.

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 At Singing Alive we teach, share, and invigorate the songs that travel thru this great circuit of like-hearted beings. We hold ceremonial space for the songs to do their healing work, to brew the melodic magic of collective singing. We are about bringing people together who feel called to awaken and nurture their spiritual life thru communion with songs (and prayers, chants, blessings, and so om) of celebration of life in this temple universe. Such songs clarify our lives, strengthen our communities, and foster personal and planetary renewal. At Singing Alive we gather to share them, and ourselves, in a safe, welcoming environment.

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At Singing Alive we voice a sacred geometry of intention for a more peaceful world. We work with compassions born of our wounding as individuals and as a species, with our hopes and dreams for a better life on planet earth. To do this we help each other practice discernment in the energies that trail behind us from the ‘game of separation’ that we humans have been playing for many millennia. For it is one thing to acknowledge their signatures in our conditioning, in habitual tendencies, yet another to feed, justify, and indulge them, just as it is one thing to learn from the collective past and its dramas and traumas, another to live there. If we truly do have faith in the ultimate power of Love, then we need to live where this Love resides, in the unifying fields of the heart-space, and if we feel the call, the rising inspiration, Sing it Alive.

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Singing Alive is not a festival or a conference. It not an entertainer / audience event. There are no staged performances, amplification, paid musicians, nor vendors. It is a DIY-styled, highly participatory adventure in Gathering, a co-prayformance where we all sing (and eat!) together, and work together to make this happen. Those who don’t think they can sing are encouraged to remember the wise African proverb, ‘If you can walk, then you can dance, if you can talk, then you can sing!’  This is a family-friendly event, with generous space made for children.