Mandala! A Winter Solstice Song Vigil

Name: Mandala! A Winter Solstice Song Vigil
Start: 2024-12-20T18:30:00-05:00
End: 2024-12-20T21:30:00-05:00
Location: A2 Yoga

Schedule

Fri Dec 20 2024 at 06:30 pm to 09:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

A2 Yoga | Ann Arbor, MI

WE ARE NOW FULL! We are taking a wait list in case of cancellations - complete the registration form if you want to be notified of an opening.
🕯️Join Julie Kouyate, Tatianah Thunberg & Kath Weider for an evening of creativity, singing, movement and rest ... a vigil to honor winter solstice!
🕯️Slow down during the busy holiday season and step into sacred circle as we gather around a beautiful mandala that we will build together to honor the longest night and the return of the light.
🕯️Mandalas are temporary installments of living art crafted with items like shells, candles, flowers, and stones. As we work together to build an intricate and beautiful design, we will join our voices together in community singing and once complete, sing and dance around the mandala. Our songs will reflect the theme of winter solstice, which marks a completion of our sojourn through the fall harvest season, and our turning towards the quiet winter months of introspection before spring reemerges. To complete our vigil, we will sink into our first deep winter rest, surrendering to the gifts of stillness and silence.
🕯️ Join us as we cross this threshold together! Through ritually honoring the shift into winter, we soothe our nervous systems and prepare ourselves for a deep and full communion with the season.
+No prior singing or dancing experience required.
+Advanced tickets are required.
+Registration is limited to 25 folks.
+Sliding Scale: $25- $60
+A few partial scholarship opportunities are available - reach out via the registration form below!
+Nonrefundable. If you are unable to come, you may gift or sell your ticket to a friend.
+Full playshop attendees only: in order to hold the container with depth, no late arrivals or early departures, please.
REGISTRATION LINK 🔗
https://www.spiritmoves.us/wintersolstice
Meet your song leaders!
👉🏽 Kath Weider (she/hers) is the founder of the Studio for Vocal Freedom, where she offers opportunities to deepen one’s attention to the inner body through sound and to feel alive through the joy of spontaneous music making. Singer, vocal coach, writer, filmmaker, devotee of the art of improvisation, and a long-time meditator and inquiry student of the Diamond Approach School, she is most delighted in teaching the shared threads between music, movement, improvisation and spiritual practice
👉🏽 Julie Kouyate (she/her) is the founder of Kouyate Healing Arts, where she weaves touch, sound, drumming, breath, dance and song into her healing sessions, ceremonies, classes and retreats. Devoted teacher, facilitator, singer, song catcher, intuitive bodyworker, somatic experiencing practitioner, Bodymind and Sacred Living coach and dance teacher, she welcomes you to join us in exploring the power of voice.
👉🏽TatiAnah Thunberg (she/her) is the founder of Spirit Moves LLC, where she blends contemporary somatic therapies and ancient wisdom traditions to anchor home in spacious present moment awareness where thriving resides. Master facilitator, she has been leading experiential classes, groups, workshops and retreats since the 1990's. Singer, dancer, yogini, ceremonialist, psychotherapist, foodie, forest and plant lover, she is devoted to gathering in sacred circles to remember we belong to ourselves, each other, this planet and Source.
REGISTRATION LINK 🔗
https://www.spiritmoves.us/wintersolstice