Homecoming
An ONLINE 6-week Journey for Women in Embodied Voicework
From October 14th to November 18th 2021
Thursdays 11 - 1.30pm (UK time)
‘We’re all just walking each other home’ Ram Dass
Are you finding these times are calling you to your edge ?
Are you longing to feel a sense of both ground and uplift ?
Would you love to move and sing more freely and more often ?
Do you want to tune in to the joystream ?
Are you curious to explore the power and resource of your own Embodied Voice ?
Would you like to be supported to embed a daily practice of voice / song into your life ?
This is a journey for you. Just as you are.
Each week will be a time for you to explore the rich terrain of your own voice, breath and body; to move, sound, dance and sing.
I’ve heard it told that there is an African language that has the one the same word for human, dance, and song. Whether this is true or not, the very idea of it speaks to how inextricably linked our humaness is to dance and song. Rather than these forms of expression belonging to those who are seen to be ‘gifted’ in them, they are our birthright.
Cultures more intact than our so often disconnected western one, know that both our hurt and our healing are stored in our body, breath and voice. As we sing and dance, we come into fuller and more fulfilling expression of who we are here to be. As we track and welcome ourselves in these dimensions that exist beyond our logical minds, we can expand our experience of wholeness and our sense of at-homeness.
This course will support you to return to your joystream through voice and body.
Week 1 Arrivals: Bringing yourself as you are. Time to welcome ourselves and each other and to begin to move, sound, and sing in ways that feel nourishing and resourcing.
Week 2 Re-Source: Getting clear on which relationships actually resource us and amplifying these connections through movement and sound, chant and song. Elemental sounding.
Week 3 Explore: Becoming aware of where our own edges are. Strengthening our own circle and vertical axis (body, heart, mind). Knowing our ‘yes’ and our ‘no’ in our bodies and our voices. Leaning into the practices of free sound, intuitive movement and chant, to clarify, strengthen and nourish.
Week 4 Deepening: Listening to our longings. Playing with the song of our own prayers. Bringing focus and healing to the awesome centres of our wombs or womb spaces (whether you do or don’t have a physical womb).
Week 5 Homecoming Ceremony: Together we’ll step over the everyday threshold into the supportive realm of ceremony. Combining the power and beauty of our voices with our invocations, intentions and prayers - for self, for the wider circle of our lives, and for all life.
Week 6 Integration: A session to harvest the gifts of the journey we’ve shared and to bless the way ahead. We’ll just keep on singing . . .
We will work with vocal, embodiment and breathing practices to support opening and freeing your voice. And with practices of presence and connection to nourish your deeper being.
We will sound and sing
We will move and dance
We will listen and share
We will rest and journey
'What a joy to allow my authentic voice her freedom without judgement; I've loved every moment' - from Jackie, an online participant earlier in 2021
‘The course is all I needed it to be and more. Working with you I always feel I am the safest hands. You manage to balance the alchemy of allowing me to feel closer to spirit and closer to my deepest self.’ - from Bean, an online participant earlier in 2021