LOVE IS POWER - community song circle (MADISON)
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"Anytime we do the work of love, we end the work of domination." ~bell hooks
Come sing songs of resilience, power, kindness, care, and tenderness with your community. Come just as you are and experience an evening of interactive singing led by experienced songleader Lyndsey Scott. After a simple vocal and body warm-up, we'll learn songs through call-and-echo repetition. Rounds and layers will add complexity for those who want it -- before you know it, we'll be making beauty! Singing will be interspersed with facilitated sharing, opportunities to move, and a spacious tea break time to meet and connect with community.
ALL VOICES WELCOME!
Whether you love to sing, only ever sing in the shower, or were told "you shouldn't sing" - you are welcome and valued here. This way of being together is an antidote to perfectionism; it's about remembering that we belong and that our voices have power. Science says our heartbeats sync up when we sing together -- You'll leave feeling more open and relaxed, with a pocket full of positive songs to keep singing through the week. ꩜
Location:
Gates of Heaven
James Madison Park
302 E Gorham St, Madison, WI 53706
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LOVE IS POWER - community song circle (LAWRENCE KS)
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"Anytime we do the work of love, we end the work of domination." ~bell hooks
Come sing songs of resilience, power, kindness, care, and tenderness with your community. Come just as you are and experience an evening of interactive singing led by experienced songleader Lyndsey Scott. After a simple vocal and body warm-up, we'll learn songs through call-and-echo repetition. Rounds and layers will add complexity for those who want it -- before you know it, we'll be making beauty! Singing will be interspersed with facilitated sharing, opportunities to move, and a spacious tea break time to meet and connect with community.
ALL VOICES WELCOME!
Whether you love to sing, only ever sing in the shower, or were told "you shouldn't sing" - you are welcome and valued here. This way of being together is an antidote to perfectionism; it's about remembering that we belong and that our voices have power. Science says our heartbeats sync up when we sing together -- You'll leave feeling more open and relaxed, with a pocket full of positive songs to keep singing through the week. ꩜
Location:
Sunflower Wellness Space
804 Massachusetts St.
Lawrence, KS 66044
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Sisters in Harmony Retreat
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An ALL INCLUSIVE women's singing retreat AND Live Song Leader Training at the stunning Green Mountain Retreat center in the Santa Cruz Mountains!
Please join Heather Houston with special guest artists - Amanda West, Debbie Nargi-Brown, Julianna Zarzycki, Kaitie Ty Warren, Sheniqua Trotman, and Lyndsey Scott.
Supported by Namasya on percussion, Sound Bath with Caroline, and Qi-Gong with Beth.
Immerse yourself in sacred sisterhood, song, meditation, ritual, nature, a swimming pool, and hiking trails. We’ll be singing together in one big group the entire weekend, with the exception of a round robin session where we will break into smaller groups and YOU will have the opportunity to lead and learn songs from the other participants. (Don't worry, leading a song is optional!) :)
Fill your cup with songs that open your heart and uplift your spirit!
REVEL: A Dance Meets Tantra Convergence
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LOVELAND,COLORADO
Dance Meets Tantra’s first full-send convergence.
A celebration of the artists, facilitators, and methodologies that move us most.
REVEL brings together world-class DJs, musicians, and embodiment teachers in a container that holds the depth, safety, and intimacy Dance Meets Tantra is known for.
More intimate than a festival. More free and expansive than a retreat. REVEL is a culture-making convergence at the intersection of dance, tantra, art, somatics, sexuality, community, and collective evolution.
Set against the stunning red-rock bluffs of Sunrise Ranch, our venue offers convenient camping locations, cozy indoor accommodations, and a farm-fresh meal plan that is the best retreat food you'll ever have (some of which is grown right at Sunrise Ranch). REVEL is a place to exhale, unwind, and truly drop in with community.
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BLESSFEST
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Come relish in the alchemy of community, music, nature and the sacred arts this September 10th - 13th for an uplifting and healing time in the Berkshire mountains of Massachusetts. This two day intimate festival will be a time to slow down in nature and join with friends in many of the best ancient customs of being human.
BlessFest East 2026 features an array of uplifting and heart-opening offerings from inspired and epic musicians, teachers, fire keepers and ceremonial elders from across the United States. Come as you are, come with all your humanness and dive into experience. This is a time for nurturing your body, mind and soul though being immersed in the magic of this beautiful community.
4 Days and 3 Nights of:
Inspiring World Music
Kirtan & Chanting
Daily Yoga and Meditation
Indigenous Wisdom and Ceremonial Teachings
Sacred Storytelling
Evening Fire Gatherings
Morning Singing Circles
Dances of Belonging
Nourishing & Delicious Organic food
And the Warmth of a Heartfelt Community
BlessFest is excited to host its 7th east coast community festival gathering at Middle Way Farm in the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts. This mountain top farm has panoramic mountain views and gorgeous sunsets. The 20 acre property abuts the largest state forest in MA and is surrounded by trees and fields idealic for this celebration of life.
This gathering has the intimacy and healing qualities of a retreat while also possessing the excitement and grandeur of a festival. This event provides the opportunity to truly slow down, relax, tune in, learn, dance, play, listen and immerse yourself in the joyful and healing qualities of ecstatic community.
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A Year in Ceremony @ Earthkeeper Wisdom School
A Year In Ceremony
Soul-Deep Transformation & Apprenticeship for Sacred Space Holders
A 10 month journeywithin a deep, immersive learning cohort for those called to ritually tend to life’s sacred thresholds, to the wholeness of their communities, and to the balance between the human and more-than-human-world.
- In-Person Gathering Dates -
September 17-20, 2026; December 3-6, 2026; March 18-21, 2027; June 3-6, 2027
INFO + APPLY
Mama I Feel Y0u: A Song Feast for Praising Earth (online)
“We must create new rituals to hold our heartbreak for the world and to ignite radical imagination for a new way of moving forward.” — Francis Weller
In these times marked by disconnection and cultural unraveling, we gather to tend to the sacred web of kinship and to be nourished at depth.
Through song-infused ritual, we will root in the miracle of life, hold tender space for our grief, and magnify our boldest prayers for a more liberated world. You are warmly welcome to join this offering of Earthkeeper Wisdom School once or monthly. Invite like-hearted friends!
FREE! REGISTER
PRAISE EARTH! (Iowa City) song circle + potluck
RSVP HERE
In honor of spring and earth day, come sing to express our love for this blue spinning planet! Through call-and-echo, we'll learn simple songs that celebrate the elements, the wisdom of our more-than-human teachers, and the wonder of being in kinship with this wild web of Life.
We'll make a beautiful mandala from natural materials for the center of our circle ------> bring flowers, twigs, seeds, or stones, ....a little something from your land to help create a collective beauty offering.
(Lyndsey's dear friend & Earthkeeper Wisdom School founder Carolyn Griffeth will be visiting Iowa City -- this is a wonderful opportunity to meet if you're curious about joining A Year in Ceremony!)
We rented the pavilion so we can gather rain or shine
restrooms are not yet open for the season. BYO water bottle!
♥︎ COST
This gathering is a gift to the community, and an invitation to "pay it forward" in donation to Great Plains Action Society
♥︎ LOCATION:
Shelter #6 at Lower City Park
200 Park Rd, Iowa City, IA
♥︎ POTLUCK
If you’d like to linger and meet people who love the earth and like to sing too, feel free to bring a dish, snack, or dessert to share (as well as your plate & silverware)
Grief as Gateway to Soul:: (Online Grief Ritual)
Grief as Gateway
to Soul
8:00 am – 11:30 am PT · with Carolyn Griffeth & Lyndsey Scott
in partnership with Purpose Guides Institute
"Grief work is soul work. Grief tending is the cutting edge of soul activism."— Francis Weller
How do we carve out space amidst the overwhelm of life's requirements to slow down and feel deeply enough to access the caverns of our hearts? How will anything change if we don't?
We see everywhere the evidence of generational trauma repeating itself. The breakneck pace of modernity demands that we numb out to keep going. To interrupt the cycles of insanity, we are learning to pause and practice the sacred art of grief tending. To access the gold of our souls, we must.
Come tend with us, friends — your personal grief and that of our collective. Let's remember the wisdom that lives in our bodies and connects us to the soul of the world.
What we'll explore
In this three-hour + 30-minute workshop, we will:
i.Invite our voices to open the path to our heart through Song
ii.Anchor a practical skillset of embodied space holding
iii.Practice sacred witness as a key component of building relational safety
iv.Explore each of Francis Weller's Five Gates of Grief through interactive processes
v.Create beauty through a simple, repeatable ritual
Each time we practice together we build skill. Each time we tend our own grief, we tend the heart of the world. May this time of tender listening and honoring our sorrow reignite the passion of our souls and awaken an outpouring of love for the world.
LOVE IS POWER: Des Moines song circle
"Anytime we do the work of love, we end the work of domination." ~bell hooks
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Come sing songs of resilience, power, kindness, care, and tenderness with your community. Come just as you are and experience an afternoon of interactive singing led by experienced songleader Lyndsey Scott. After a simple vocal and body warm-up, we'll learn songs through call-and-echo repetition. Rounds and layers will add complexity for those who want it -- before you know it, we'll be making beauty! Singing will be interspersed with facilitated sharing, opportunities to move, and spacious tea break time to meet and connect with community.
ALL VOICES WELCOME!
Whether you love to sing, only ever sing in the shower, or were told "you shouldn't sing" - you are welcome and valued here. This way of being together is an antidote to perfectionism; it's about remembering that we belong and that our voices have power. Science says our heartbeats sync up when we sing together -- You'll leave feeling more open and relaxed, with a pocket full of positive songs to keep singing through the week. ꩜
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Solidarity Sing-in!
Join the nationwide wave of singing resistance with your Iowa City neighbors!
On Monday, March 23rd, we are gathering from 7-9pm to learn movement songs, ground ourselves in joyful and civil nonviolent resistance, and share ways to plug in to our local ecosystem of action.
WHY WE GATHER:
We know that singing together invites us to open ourselves to grief and love, connect to each other in breath and heartbeat, and strengthen our souls for resilient action. This sing-in will cultivate connection and prepare us for strategic ways to act locally.
WHO WE ARE:
The Singing Resistance is a decentralized mass movement singing solidarity in strategic noncooperation against rising authoritarianism in the United States. Standing on the shoulders of civil resistance transnationally, the movement is grounded in radical welcoming and nonviolence, inviting all to stand against oppressive systems and to create the future of collective liberation. Iowa City’s pod is a convergence of song families inviting neighbors to sing on the streets against local authoritarian tactics and to uplift already present networks of mutual aid for sustained resilience.
Stay tuned @ insta @singingresistanceic
Questions? Reach out to singingresistanceic@proton.me
SOUL ROOT song circle (spring sesh)
soul root//
an 8-week song & support circle
7-9pm THURSDAYS < feb 19 thru apr 16 >
@ sangha wellness collective (downtown iowa city)
facilitated by Lyndsey Scott
“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.” ~ Anne Sexton
step into an intrepid circle full of harmony & connection
where yOur depths are honored and nourished
Each week we’ll sing simple songs taught on-the-spot to release stress, spark creativity, build resilience, and welcome the full gamut of human emotion. Singing together is an ancient/familiar “technology of Belonging” that helps us to attune simultaneously to ourselves, to one another, and to the greater web of Life. Over the course of our eight weeks together, you’ll grow a collection of catchy song mantras to call upon whenever you need to come back to center. Every two hour meeting will include warm-ups, ample singing!, a tea break, and select opportunities to reflect and share in writing, in dyads, or in circle. Leave feeling grounded, energized, and nourished ~~ in touch with interbeing and more connected to that which Sources you to live your gifts.
“Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times.” ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes
DETAILS:
*no meeting on 3/19
sliding scale // scholarships available
ages 16+
you don’t have to be a ‘singer’ to sign up! This is “all voices welcome” – no one put on the spot. Songs will be taught call and echo – no sheet music or lyrics, only mirror neurons and ample repetition.
this is not a drop-in class —-> please commit to the full ride. (and Life happens! — very ok if you need to miss one or two, but I’d really like to give priority to those who can show regularly, to build community!)
No refunds after start date (except special circumstances)
30 person max capacity
ACCESSIBILITY NOTES:
venue is on the second floor of The Building – accessible by stairs or elevator. <Note: the elevator path still requires up 3 / down 4 stairs.>
Chairs or zabuton (floor cushions) provided. Movement and standing will be invited and is optional.
Bathroom on site.
Please come without contagious symptoms. You are welcome to mask if desired; not required.
REGISTER HERE
“This work is for Love. We do this work to free the
heart so that our love can flow more freely into the
world, into the streets.”
– Francis Weller
Lyndsey Scott is an artist, songleader, and ritualist committed to exploring community singing as a strategy for collective liberation. She composes and records sacred music with a beat to empower earth-based spiritual consciousness. As the 2024-25 Grant Wood Fellow of Interdisciplinary Performance at UIOWA she taught Community Singing as Collective Power and created SONG*LINES, a series of eight interactive song circles in eight local village-building sites – and 😍 she liked Iowa City so much she stayed!! Current projects include priestessing at Earthkeeper Wisdom School’s A Year in Ceremony, hosting online Songversation gatherings for both private clients and organizational enrichment, and recording a new EP, “Kin!” With nimble facilitation that glides easily between the sacred - silly - sexy - serious : your inner child, exiled banshee, and wise elder are all very invited to this circle.
Front Porch Music Festival
photo by Clarity Guerra
BRIGID'S FLAME
Join us for Groundswell Joy Collective’s first annual participatory celebration and production bringing community together to experience the joy and creativity of community Singing, Dancing, Storytelling, Silence, and Puppetry!
January 30 & 31
Steeple Square
Dubuque, IA
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BRIGID'S FLAME
Join us for Groundswell Joy Collective’s first annual participatory celebration and production bringing community together to experience the joy and creativity of community Singing, Dancing, Storytelling, Silence, and Puppetry!
January 30 & 31
Steeple Square
Dubuque, IA
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POWER UP! :: a community song circle to spark soul
Are you tired, dear one? Fatigued down to the bone?Maybe your power has been disconnected for too long.
Connect your life to your soul and your soul to its source.
Spending time with your own soul heals everything.
Even the world.
– Jaiya John
As the passing days grow minutes of more sun, as the seeds beneath the ground start to sigh and stir a little . . . . so might we be coming alive with inklings of the dreams that want to wake up through us this coming year. Let's gather together and reflect each other's goodness through song. Let's plug into what powers us up so we can ripple out this Possibility!
Come just as you are and experience an afternoon of interactive singing led by experienced songleader Lyndsey Scott. After a simple vocal and body warm-up, we'll learn songs through call-and-echo repetition. Rounds and layers will add complexity for those who want it -- before you know it, we'll be making beauty! Singing will be interspersed with facilitated sharing, opportunities to move, and spacious tea break time to meet and connect with community.
ALL VOICES WELCOME! Whether you love to sing, only ever sing in the shower, or were told "you shouldn't sing" - you are welcome and valued here. This way of being together is an antidote to perfectionism; it's about remembering that we belong and that our voices have power. Science says our heartbeats sync up when we sing together! You'll leave feeling more open and relaxed, with a pocket full of positive songs to keep singing through the week ꩜
ADVANCE TICKETS REQUIRED
SOUL ROOT song circle
soul root//
an 8-week song & support circle
7-9pm THURSDAYS < oct 16 thru dec 18 > *with breaks
@ sangha wellness collective (downtown iowa city)
facilitated by Lyndsey Scott
“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.” ~ Anne Sexton
step into an intrepid circle full of harmony & connection
where yOur depths are honored and nourished
Each week we’ll sing simple songs taught on-the-spot to release stress, spark creativity, welcome grief, and build resilience. Singing together is an ancient/familiar “technology of Belonging” that helps us to attune simultaneously to ourselves, to one another, and to the greater web of Life. Over the course of our eight weeks together, you’ll grow a collection of catchy song mantras to call upon whenever you need to come back to center. Every two hour meeting will include warm-ups, ample singing!, a tea break, and select opportunities to reflect and share in writing, in dyads, or in circle. Leave feeling grounded, energized, and nourished ~~ in touch with interbeing and more connected to that which Sources you to live your gifts.
“Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times.” ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes
DETAILS:
*no meetings on 11/27 (thanksgiving) or 12/4 (i’ll be gone)
sliding scale // scholarships available
ages 16+
you don’t have to be a ‘singer’ to sign up! This is “all voices welcome” – no one put on the spot. Songs will be taught call and echo – no sheet music or lyrics, only mirror neurons and ample repetition.
this is not a drop-in class —-> please commit to the full ride. (and Life happens! — very ok if you need to miss one or two, but I’d really like to give priority to those who can show regularly, to build community!)
No refunds after start date (except special circumstances)
35 person max capacity
ACCESSIBILITY NOTES:
venue is on the second floor of The Building – accessible by stairs or elevator. <Note: the elevator path still requires up 3 / down 4 stairs.>
Chairs or zabuton (floor cushions) provided. Movement and standing will be invited and is optional.
Bathroom on site.
Please come without contagious symptoms. You are welcome to mask if desired; not required.
REGISTER HERE
“This work is for Love. We do this work to free the
heart so that our love can flow more freely into the
world, into the streets.”
– Francis Weller
Lyndsey Scott is an artist, songleader, and ritualist committed to exploring community singing as a strategy for collective liberation. She composes and records sacred music with a beat to empower earth-based spiritual consciousness. As the 2024-25 Grant Wood Fellow of Interdisciplinary Performance at UIOWA she taught Community Singing as Collective Power and created SONG*LINES, a series of eight interactive song circles in eight local village-building sites – and 😍 she liked Iowa City so much she stayed!! Current projects include priestessing at Earthkeeper Wisdom School’s A Year in Ceremony, hosting online Songversation gatherings for both private clients and organizational enrichment, and recording a new EP, “Kin!” With nimble facilitation that glides easily between the sacred - silly - sexy - serious : your inner child, exiled banshee, and wise elder are all very invited to this circle.
Front Porch Music Festival
photo by Clarity Guerra
Nourishing Soul: A Daylong Retreat of Rest, Ritual, and Renewal
Resting enough to remember our right place within the expansive web of kinship supports us to live from a place of wisdom and interbeing. At Earthkeeper Wisdom School, we practice attuning to Earth, to all that Sources us, and to each other, to be able act from a place of emergent Listening.
Join songleader Lyndsey Scott and ritualist Carolyn Griffeth for a day of renewal on beautiful land an hour west of St. Louis, MO. During this daylong retreat, we'll practice simple, song-filled rituals that center earth connection, anchor in gratitude, tend grief, and invite deep rest. You'll emerge from our time together with more bandwidth in your beautiful heart to feel it all and move from a place of courage.
FULL INFO + REGISTER
Information about and directions to the retreat center will be sent upon registration.
Songs for Ceremony
Join songleader Lyndsey Scott and ritualist Carolyn Griffeth for a relaxed evening of singing together and grounding in song as an essential ingredient for ceremonial alchemy.
In sacred space, we will share accessible songs that relate to core movements of ritual as we practice at Earthkeeper Wisdom School ~ magnifying gratitude, welcoming grief, attuning to soul, and surrendering to service.
You'll come away from the evening with a handful of easy-to-teach songs you can begin to weave into your gatherings!
Additionally, we will share some reflections on experiencing Song's ceremonial power within our first cycle of a Year in Ceremony and other moments when we have witnessed the somatic impact of singing on the collective field -- at protests, tending illness, making meetings less mundane. ⚡️
We'll spend some time in Q/A at the end to share about the upcoming iteration of A Year in Ceremony. We welcome those who are discerning application to please come and bring questions!
This gathering is free to attend and will be recorded to be sent to those who'd like to watch later.
REGISTER
Sing the Unfolding Journey: 7-day Green River Trip
What does the river teach us about how to Be?
What do rocks teach us about Time?
What does the wind teach us about how to Sing?
What do we teach each other about the face of the Divine?
What wants to be released in you to flow on downstream?
What wants to be nourished in you to allow for Soul to lead?
Loose the hold of goals, screens, and modern cacophony to sense the soul tugs underneath and in between. Relax into the currents of emergence to notice and bless how life wants to move as You! Let kinship help molt any scripts that keep you separate. Refresh your mother tongue: fluency in the sensual world.
Become part of the One Song that is always singing.
What note is mine to hold in this great chorus of interbeing?
Guided by these inquiries, in song and silence, in story-sharing and sacred witness, in the wise company of the more-than-human world, and with the fun of brand new friends…..we’ll travel the river together as a ritual of Remembrance.
FULL INFO @
https://www.theriverspath.org/the-way-knows-with-lyndsey-scott/
SONG*LINES Project
SONG*LINES PROJECT
weaving Village by singing together in places we love
Spring 2025, Iowa City
in partnership with Grant Wood Art Colony + the University of Iowa School of Music
TO REGISTER, <SIGN UP HERE>
“Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.” — Louise Erdrich
“We belong to the land and it belongs to us. We sing to the land, sing about the land. We are that land. It sings to us.” ~ Songspirals: Sharing Women’s Wisdom of Country Through Songlines, Gay'wu Group of Women
SUNDAYS, 2-4pm
(SITE ~ 🎵 THEME)
FEB 2: RSFIC ~ 🎵 resilience
FEB 16: sacred collective ~ 🎵 queer Love
MAR 2: PS1 Close House ~ 🎵 we weave the web
MAR 16: CITY HIGH ~ 🎵 “care is the work” *NOTE TIME CHANGE: 1-3PM
MAR 30: Stanley Museum ~ 🎵 cross-pollination
APRIL 13: Johnson County Historic Poor Farm ~ 🎵 land connection
APRIL 27: Bike Library ~ 🎵 people power
MAY 4 : “BIG SING” @ OLD BRICK, 2-5pm
How do we feel for and lift up the soul of a place? How do we intentionally weave together those who are stoking it, in rest + play + dreaming? How does the ancient, simple act of singing together remind us what our bones already know? How does this humble, collective music-making feed Life and the land that gives us home?
I’m learning about and deeply inspired by the Aboriginal tradition of songlines (also called song spirals or “dreaming tracks”) that map pathways of intimacy between land and people. New to this community, I’m feeling for the whisper of wind and song of river, the chorus of those already working for justice, fueling resilience, and insisting on beauty….steady thrum of the One Song in between and beneath the noise of modern discord.
For me, part of sensing a new place is feeling for resonance with those laboring in love and joining them in vision. Songs are a vital nutrient that catalyzes and refreshes work we will never see finished.
My hope for this project is to nourish the thriving of local community-building organizations and to cross-pollinate new connections by weaving these sites of aliveness together with a series of song circles that culminates in a Big Sing.
TO REGISTER, <SIGN UP HERE>
MUS 4800:: COMMUNITY SINGING AS COLLECTIVE POWER
Register here on MYUI
Let’s take an experiential journey, exploring grassroots community singing as a dynamic force for building group cohesion and power. We’ll learn the anatomy of a ‘circle’ and how to co-create wise, brave spaces in which to vocalize together – welcoming each of our lived histories and positionalities. Then we’ll explore song as a conversation with the land, song as a somatic practice, song as a vehicle for grief tending, and song as a technology for belonging. We’ll look back in time to gather clues from other singing people: grounded in the civil rights movement Freedom Singers, we’ll research some historic sites where singing catalyzed cultural shifts.
How do these practices and places relate to our current crises such as racism, sexism, mental health, climate change, and mass incarceration? What role can singing together play in our collective healing, here now? We’ll define ritual and explore the relationship of song to ritual. I’ll share my personal work in creating layered compositions for mindfulness, as well as my colleagues' work in the growing international community singing movement alive in festival and ceremonial culture. Our class will culminate with each student’s creation of an original participatory song or ritual designed to meet the edge of growth in their personal life and/or social vision for justice and peace. This class is designed for those who love to sing and who care about gathering more skillfully and soulfully. All majors are welcome, and all voices are Welcome – (not just for “singers” or musicians!)
prodigal daughter :: 5 week online deep dive into album songs + themes
(( 𝙍𝙚𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙣 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙙𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙇𝙤𝙫𝙚, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙡𝙚𝙛𝙩. ) )
You're invited into a five week zoom song small group -- we will learn the the lush harmonies and layers of the 9 songs from prodigal daughter while exploring their themes of radical imagination, willingness, forgiveness, tenderness, faith, and interbeing.
Tuesdays
Jan 21 + 28 + Feb 4 + 11 + 18
7-9 CST (8-10 eastern // 5-7p pacific)
REGISTER on Eventbrite
Through small group sharing, singing, and mindfulness/embodiment practices, we'll move the songs into our bones' knowing while weaving the web of connection between us.
Great for songleaders who want to bring these songs into your repertoire & for all singing humans who resonate with the messages of the music.
I intend that this way of circling nourish you with soulful community, refresh your resilience, and fill you up with faith, pleasure, and grace in the process.
(Song teaches will be recorded -- whole sessions will not).
REGISTER on Eventbrite
We May Sing #45 with Tembre de Carteret
more info coming soon!
https://www.tembresong.com/events-and-workshops/
Singing for Sanity! @ VOXMAN
Songbreak!! Come enjoy an hour of feel good “All Voices Welcome” community singing in the Commons of Voxman Music Building. Easy songs taught on the spot. Relax, de-stress, connect.
Brought to you by MUS 4800: COMMUNITY SINGING AS COLLECTIVE POWER
Community Song Circle ~ "Singing Love into Life"
at Faith United Church of Christ
full event info HERE
Come sing together!
Relax, connect & have fun:)
Simple to learn songs will be taught on the spot — no experience is needed and ALL voices are welcome.
We are partnering with Inside Out Reentry & Hope House to invite formerly incarcerated individuals to sing & build community.
Inside Out Re-Entry: https://www.insideoutreentry.com/
This monthly circle, hosted by Mary Cohen and Marie Garry, meets at Faith United Church of Christ on the first Saturday of every month.
Community Song Circle with Liz Rog and Lyndsey Scott
Community Song Circle with Liz Rog and Lyndsey Scott
Sat Oct 12, 10am to Noon (with a potluck to follow!)
𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘫𝘰𝘺 𝘢 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭-𝘢𝘯𝘥-𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘰 𝘴𝘵𝘺𝘭𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘓𝘪𝘻 𝘙𝘰𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘓𝘺𝘯𝘥𝘴𝘦𝘺 𝘚𝘤𝘰𝘵𝘵. 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘺𝘱𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘷𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘴! 𝘌𝘢𝘴𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘵, 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘹𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 + 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 + 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘺-𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘖𝘶𝘳 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘴 𝘴𝘺𝘯𝘤 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 - 𝘸𝘦 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘤𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘸𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘰𝘯 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘵 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘩.
♥︎ COST
You are welcome to come for Free // & Donations will be gratefully accepted. We will pass the hat!
♥︎ LOCATION:
Shelter #6 at Lower City Park
200 Park Rd, Iowa City, IA
Restrooms are nearby, and water will be on hand (byo water bottle). There are benches for sitting.
♥︎ POTLUCK
If you’d like to linger and meet people who like to sing too, feel free to bring a dish, snack, or dessert to share (as well as your plate & silverware
♥︎ YOUR HOSTS:
LIZ ROG lives in the Driftless region of Northeast Iowa. As a cultural activist Liz uses song, ritual, festival, and nature to create welcoming spaces where we can remember together how beautiful we can be. In 2020 she and Daniel Rotto created the Center for Belonging Folk School where they host gatherings rooted in nature and song. Liz spends part of her time helping to weave local neighborhood and community in parks and around kitchen tables, and part of her time traveling to other communities to nurture belonging through song.
LYNDSEY SCOTT: Here for the year in Iowa City as the Grant Wood Fellow in Interdisciplinary Art, Lyndsey Scott is an artist and ritual-maker devoted to priestesSing the Heartland, (literal and figurative). She’s teaching a class in the School of Music called Community Singing as Collective Power, and she catches and records singalong music with a strong beat to empower earth-based intelligence and sensual devotion. You can listen to her albums Well Held and prodigal daughter wherever you stream. https://www.lyndseyscott.earth/
♥︎ QUESTIONS For more information, feel free to comment in the facebook event or email Adina Levitt adinajoylevitt AT gmail.com
To stay connected to ongoing Iowa City Community Singing, you can join their facebook group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/267741506947451
Singing @ PEACE IOWA
I’ll be facilitating community singing as part of the annual meeting at City Park in Iowa City.
PEACE IOWA: Promoting international peace through education, intercultural communication, public witness, citizen involvement, and personal choices
(image from Raygun)
Sisters in Harmony Global with Lyndsey Scott & Ahlay Blakely
REGISTER HERE
9/30 @ 4pm PT/ 6pm Central
Sing your grief, gratitude, prayer, and praise within the safe container of a women's circle.
Learn heart-opening songs for the journey.
Feel fortified, connected, and uplifted.
Let's feel the power of our global community!
All female-identified folks and their friends and family are invited.
Lyndsey, Ahlay, and Heather offer you powerful songs for these transformational times we are living in. We'll dive into vocal meditation and collective prayer, mantra, heart-opening songs, soulful songs, fun songs, and songs that invite us to dance!
A Year in Ceremony @ Earthkeeper Wisdom School
A 10 month journey within a deep, immersive learning cohort for those called to ritually tend to life’s sacred thresholds, to the wholeness of their communities, and to the balance between the human and more-than-human-world
Find out more and express interest for next year’s cohort:
Grant Wood Fellowship at the U of Iowa
Mami goes to university !? I am delighted to receive the Grant Wood Fellowship at the University of Iowa for 2024-2025 school year.
Here’s the course I’m teaching:
𝙈𝙐𝙎 4800
"𝙄 𝙘𝙖𝙣’𝙩 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙟𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙮 𝙗𝙮 𝙢𝙮𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛" :: 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙎𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙨 𝘾𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙋𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙣 𝘼𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙨𝙢, 𝙍𝙞𝙩𝙪𝙖𝙡, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙈𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙝
𝙂𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙡 𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨 𝙢𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙁𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙙𝙤𝙢 𝙎𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧𝙨, 𝙬𝙚’𝙡𝙡 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙖𝙣 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙟𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙧𝙤𝙤𝙩𝙨 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙨 𝙖 𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙛𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙘𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙨𝙤𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨. 𝙁𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚, 𝙬𝙚’𝙡𝙡 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙡𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙝𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙘 𝙧𝙤𝙡𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙜 + 𝙙𝙧𝙪𝙢 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙮𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙘𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣 𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙪𝙖𝙡. 𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙙𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙨𝙚 𝙥𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙚𝙨 𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙖𝙡 𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙚𝙨 𝙨𝙪𝙘𝙝 𝙖𝙨 𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙝, 𝙘𝙡𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙢𝙖𝙨𝙨 𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣? 𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙧𝙤𝙡𝙚 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤𝙜𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙮 𝙞𝙣 𝙘𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜? 𝙄’𝙡𝙡 𝙨𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙢𝙮 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠 𝙞𝙣 𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙡𝙖𝙮𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙛𝙪𝙡𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨, 𝙖𝙨 𝙬𝙚𝙡𝙡 𝙖𝙨 𝙢𝙮 𝙘𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙜𝙪𝙚𝙨' 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙜𝙧𝙤𝙬𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙢𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙛𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙖𝙡 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙘𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚. 𝙊𝙪𝙧 𝙘𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙨 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙝 𝙨𝙩𝙪𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙩’𝙨 𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙖𝙣 𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙧 𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙪𝙖𝙡 𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙜𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙚𝙚𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙚𝙙𝙜𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙜𝙧𝙤𝙬𝙩𝙝 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙/𝙤𝙧 𝙨𝙤𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙫𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙚. 𝘼𝙡𝙡 𝙑𝙤𝙞𝙘𝙚𝙨 𝘼𝙧𝙚 𝙒𝙚𝙡𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚!
Songs for Ceremony
Join us for an evening of free, online community singing to practice embodied Song as a tool for holding sacred space
Join songleader Lyndsey Scott and ritualist Carolyn Griffeth for a relaxed evening of singing together and grounding in grounding in song as an essential ingredient for ceremonial alchemy.
In sacred space, we will share key songs for various movements of ritual --- opening, invocation, activation, & closing. You'll come away from the evening with a handful of easy-to-teach songs you can begin to weave into your gatherings!
Additionally, we will share our story of discovering Song's ceremonial power within Earthkeeper Wisdom School as well as other moments when we have experienced the somatic impact of singing on the collective field.
We'll spend some time in Q/A at the end, and share about A Year in Ceremony--an upcoming offering of Earthkeeper Wisdom School. We welcome those who are discerning application to come and bring questions!
This gathering is free and will be recorded to be sent to those who'd like to watch later.
Zoom link will be sent to the email you use to register.
Applications open for A Year in Ceremony
A 10 month apprenticeship within a deep, immersive learning cohort for those called to ritually tend to life’s sacred thresholds, to the wholeness of their communities, and to the balance between the human and more-than-human-world
A Year in Ceremony is for those who acutely sense the lack of soul within our culture and who long to recover a more beautiful way of being human together.
Intuitively, you know that reclaiming a sensual life of deep ritual is key to nourishing your soul and serving the regeneration of culture.
Perhaps you also feel called to deepen your role of sacred space holder, ritualist, sacred activist, healer, artist, or priestess and long for a community to accompany you as you embody your calling in ever fuller and more aligned ways. Additionally, given the complex legacies of colonization and the lack of resonant modeling, you may feel a bit awkward and even weary as you seek to embody this role with authenticity and integrity.
If you feel this calling and long for your gifts to grow and mature in ways that are deeply-rooted and profoundly potent, A Year in Ceremony offers you a lovingly-held apprenticeship and inspirited practice ground.
Rewilding Feminine Soul: A Weekend Gathering to Recover our Wholeness
Is your wild heart longing for some barefoot-on-earth dancing, forest wandering, cuddled-in-each-others-arms recalibrating, gathered-round-the-fire Singing, cold water plunging, and brave heart truth-telling?
You’re invited.
Come be refreshed and drink deep from the well of wisdom inside you, catalyzed by the caring presence of others who are also coming home to the vibrantly Alive divine feminine within. We’ll ground in the blessings of our lives, grieve the impact of internalized sexism, slough and molt unneeded energies, and attune to where our soul’s song harmonizes with the great Song of Life.
This gathering is for all those who identify as women or femme, and/or for those gender queer and nonbinary kin who were raised as female and welcome further connection in undoing unwanted sexist scripts ready for unwinding. This is a trans- affirming space AND it is led by two white cis-women doing their human best to outgrow blind spots…. we are unlearning together & we warmly welcome a call pre-registration to presence any questions and concerns so we can ease into brave clear space in relationship and curiosity.
Opening to Freedom: Embodied Facilitation for White Racial Justice Organizers
The call to co-create an intimate 28 -person program emerges from almost four years of bringing somatics to white racial justice organizers. The focus thus far has been on practicing together and building community around our shared commitments to defend Black life and end white supremacy in our lifetimes. We’re wanting to go deeper together. Deeper in practice, in relationship, and in our capacity to hold the complexity and urgency of this political moment as accountable, relaxed, and dignified white people—with love and rigor. We know that more is possible when we practice together, because we’ve seen it already. What more might be possible if we commit to this intensive container, to a year of deepening together?
In this pilot year, we are exploring how we might bring our fully embodied selves to the work of:
Conflict, rupture & repair
Shame, trauma & resilience
Ritual & holding sacred space
Grief
WHO IS CREATING THIS PROGRAM?
Dara Silverman is the lead teacher, as part of a skilled team of four teachers - Cari Caldwell, Michael Strom, Sarah Abbott and Lyndsey Scott (song-leader). Each teacher will be a mentor to a small group of participants. The program overall has an advisory group of BIPOC and white embodiment practitioners and racial justice organizers. We plan to include a team of cohort members / participants who will advise the creation of each session and also bring their experience and expertise to the program, deepening our practice around coaching & facilitation, cultural reclamation, conflict, grief, ritual, trauma & resilience.
STRUCTURE OF THE PROGRAM:
Four in-person retreats spread across the year (currently May, August & November 2024, 2025 dates TBD)
Monthly Practice & methodology calls in between retreats to stay in practice together and go deeper on concepts and political analysis, including calls with guest teachers
Monthly mentorship circles with members of the teaching team
Individual sessions
Participant organized and led groups to go deeper in topics and practices based on interest and experience
A curriculum arc integrating somatic practice and theory as foundational to the practice of other methodologies including:
Facilitation — holding space for conflict, healing, and transformation
White folks’ work — embodying racial justice, ancestor work, cultural reclamation
Political education — embodied race/class analysis, bring in relationship and our bodies as we do theory work
FRUIT TREE COMMUNITY CHOIR!
stay tuned on instagram @fruit_tree_community_choir
Fruit Tree Community Choir is a collaborative artwork by geographer Hazlett Henderson, songleader Lyndsey Scott and orchardist Skyler Adamson. In this event we will reimagine public space’s capacity to nourish our needs for connection and care. We will be planting an orchard on library grounds and serenading it into being. All are welcome to let their voices harmonize and get some dirt under their nails, or simply be present at the ceremony this spring. In case of rain, the event will be held on April 7 from 11 AM–2 PM.
Three choir practices will be held online before the ceremony. Snacks and children’s activities will be provided at the ceremony. We need both singing and planting volunteers to nurture these trees as they begin life by the library. Sign up for the project by contacting fruittreecommunitychoir@gmail.com
Support for this community artwork is provided by a Rocket Grants project award, a program of Charlotte Street and the Spencer Museum of Art. Funding is provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
WE BLESS THIS SEED! an online community ritual for spring equinox
Come gather with soul community to bless the sacred passage of spring equinox.
What dream-seeds are stirring in you as the light grows stronger day by day?
Whether or not you are planting a garden this season, we are all "gardeners of energy" --endowed with the capacity to bring our soul's visions into form by giving them our sacred attention.
To exercise this power of co-creation, we will ritually activate the unique dream seeds we carry-- all essential parts of the Earth's dream of wholeness. Our ritual will be a heart-nourishing space woven with song, embodiment, partner connection time, group sharing, and devotion. Please come willing to be screen-on & participating!
Prepare by reflecting:
What seeds of possibility am I carrying for my soul's thriving and the emergence of a more beautiful world?
What possibility, if actualized, would feel like a homecoming for my soul's longing?
If you have an object or symbol that represents your dream, we welcome you to bring it with you.
For the farmers and gardeners in our community: At the close of our ritual, there will be an opportunity to bless the physical seeds (flower of vegetable) that you are planting this spring. We warmly welcome you to bring your soon-to-be-planted seeds with you!
We pray that our ritual will further the dreams of our souls and of the soul of the world!
With and devotion,
Carolyn and Lyndsey