"we are the door" :: Community Singing to Practice Interbeing

How you doing, Friend?

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How do we witness the suffering and chaos 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?

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.

The Safe Passage Singers, a tri-state area women’s song collective who have been singing songs of comfort, healing, and courage to people on the tender thresholds of life for over a decade. (Email [email protected] to find out more or get involved!)

Doors open: 6:15pm ~ please arrive & settle in ~ Bring a tea cup!

Song container: 6:30-8:30pm

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 ꩜

Thanks for finding the sweet spot that's both generous & affordable for you! Your support covers my travel, values my time, and helps my small business grow. 🙏🏼 **

(( I f this range is not accessible, please come anyway! Reach out to me for a coupon code -- no one turned away for lack of funds. ))

Our tithe for this sing goes to Great Plains Action Society.

✅ This event is indoors. Please come without contagious symptoms. You are welcome to mask and distance to your own comfort level.

✅ This event is designed for adult singers - children who enjoy singing and participating in circle or who can play quietly at the edges are welcome to come.

✅ Free parking is adjacent to Shalom.

✅ Wear comfy clothes. Chairs will be available for those who prefer them. Standing and moving will be invited.

Lyndsey Scott is an artist and ritual-maker devoted to priestesSing the Heartland, (literal and figurative). She catches and weaves sacred music to empower earth-based spiritual consciousness, and gathers soul circles that use Song and sacred listening to decompose oppressive scripts that get in the way of freely living the Love we are. She currently lives in Iowa City and teaches "Community Singing as Collective Power" at the University of Iowa School of Music as the Grant Wood Fellow in Interdisciplinary Performance.

https://www.lyndseyscott.earth/

Listen to her music streaming on Spotify -or- purchase on bandcamp

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