soul root//
an 8-week song & support circle
7-9pm THURSDAYS < oct 16 thru dec 11 >
@ 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 meeting on 11/27 (thanksgiving)
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