What sound does grief make? A community ritual to honor & release grief

1818 West 57th Street,Indianapolis IN 46228

08 April, 2023

Description

"When everything in life presses from outside of us, we have no choice but to sing like scared children relying on their song to stop the pain, the way that fire stalls the cold. This is the secret of all spirit, why it cannot stay inside, but must be brought from within us into the world. For it is the song from within that keeps the pain of living from snuffing our lives. It is the song from within ignited, again, and again, that keeps the world going." — Mark NepoCommunal grieving is a technology it’s high time to relearn, and we can’t go there without our bodies. Singing is one way in, to our hearts, to our cells, to our memories, to what it means to rest back into collective holding and Let Go. It’s too big to venture in without each other's compassionate company. Join songleader-ritualists Pam Blevins Hinkle and Lyndsey Scott for a daylong gathering that explores this sacred ground. We’ll move from first grounding in gratitude and grace and all that Sources us, to exploring the tender terrain of what hurts. Through somatic practices, singing, sounding, and ritual, we’ll tend the personal and collective grief we each carry. After the arc of the journey, we’ll feast together in celebration of life on life’s terms. We’ll be drawing wisdom and resource from our teachers:: Joanna Macy, Francis Wellers, Laurence Cole, Rhiannon, Martin Prechtl, Pauline Oliveros, David Darling, and Sobonfu Some. This kind of singing is for all voices, simple songs taught call-and-echo on the spot. We welcome your questions as you discern if this ritual is a fit for you. Registration is limited to 25 participants. Further details following registration. Details: Saturday, April 8th, 10a-7pm 9:30am (arrival) 10a (ritual begins) Location: New Aeon Center, 1818 W. 57th Street, Indianapolis Sliding scale: $99 - community supported $123 - sustaining $141 - pay it forward If this cost is currently out of reach for you, let us know. We are saving a few spots for partial scholarship. Register by April 6. No refunds after this date. Please bring: Sack lunch Your favorite tea cup + box of tea to share Potluck dish Journal Layers for thermoregulation Yoga mat and/or cushion About your facilitators: 🧡 Pam Blevins Hinkle believes that sounding together helps us share our untameable joy, express our unnameable pain, and connect us more deeply with our truest selves, with each other, and with the more-than-human world. With a musical career spanning over three decades, Pam is a song leader (certified by the Ubuntu Choir Network), composer, and multi-instrumentalist. She leads singing in multiple environments, including SongSquad Indianapolis, DePauw University’s Putnam County Festival Choir, and the annual Indy Winter Solstice Celebration. Pam is also currently one of 22 vocalists from around the world selected by Rhiannon for All The Way In 2023, a masters level study program in improvisation. Learn more about Pam’s work at songsquadindy.com, pamblevinshinkle.com and spiritandplace.org. 🧡 Lyndsey Scott (she/her) is a cis-white womxn artist + songleader, born raised and residing in central IL, devoted to priestesSing the Heartland, (literal and figurative). She weaves community singing to empower earth-based spiritual consciousness, and gathers soul circles that, through Song and sacred listening, decompose oppressive scripts that get in the way of freely living the Love we are. With jams that get you skipping easily between the sacred, sexy, and sssssilly : your inner child, exiled banshee, and wise elder are all very invited to the circle! Listen to her new album Well Held for twelve luscious singalong earworms to nourish your journey. @ Nevertidy she creates imagery to nourish the soul journey; @ The We Belong Community of Song, she gathers small groups for song & story in real life and on zoom, and with @Earthkeeper Wisdom School, she tends grief and ceremony in service of social change. Visit her Patreon to learn more and support this prayer-in-process! For more about her "Why" & to pre-learn “As I Relax,” check this podcast.