How do we witness the suffering of our world and not turn away or be consumed?
How do we care consistently?
In our culture, strategies of anesthesia & amnesia abound --- how do we grow beyond these coping patterns to find sustainable pathways that engage both the inner and outer work that the marathon-not-a-sprint of true justice requires -- with ample support?
“Justice is what love looks like in public." ~ Dr. Cornel West
We need each other. Let's be curious and live into these questions together.
You are warmly welcome to come as you are ~ tired or fraught or inspired or sad or angry or lonely or glowing ~ and experience an evening of interactive call-and-echo style singing, facilitated sharing, restful reflection, and community care.
I know and practice community singing as a pathway to mutual liberation, a reclamation of ritual wisdom skill, and an expression of sensual devotion. Unblocking energy, melting judgment, decomposing scripts of separation, enlisting endorphins, . . . . in Singing, we practice the muscle to choose the love and freedom we desire to. Wavelengths change things.
Evening flow:
Doors open: 6:30pm ~ please arrive & settle in by 7 (no stragglers, thanks). Bring a tea cup!
Song container: 7-9pm
We'll open circle space, ground + warm-up + connect, then call-and-echo learn songs and make beauty -- building them slow and steady, welcoming harmony and improvisation as we find our groove. This type of singing is for all voices, to unfurl the line from heart to throat and claim our power and belonging. Science says our heartbeats sync up when we sing together ~ My prayer, you'll leave our gathering feeling more open and expansive, flushed with happy chemicals, love gleaming out your beautiful eyes, and with a pocket full of sacred songs to keep singing yourself free ꩜