"OH KIN! ¿where ya been?" :: Community Singing to Practice Interbeing

Location: Morning Star Studio - Creative Arts and Yoga Center

Address: 51 1/2 South Court Street, Fairfield, IA 52556

Date: 10 Apr

"What do you see? How is it to be you?" ~MaMuse

How do we witness the suffering of our world and not turn away OR be consumed?

How do we care consistently, from our center?

Rooted, and rising.

In our culture, strategies of anesthesia & amnesia abound --- how do we grow beyond these coping patterns or "spiritual bypassing" 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?

“Justice is what love looks like in public." ~ Dr. Cornel West

We need each other. Let's be curious and sing into these questions together.

You are warmly welcome to come as you are ~ tired 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.

Evening flow:

☕️ Bring a tea mug!

Doors open: 6:45pm ~ please arrive & settle in by 6:55 (no stragglers, thanks)

Song container: 7-9pm

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 ꩜

Tickets required. No tickets at door.

Sliding scale: $22-44

Thanks for finding the sweet spot that's both generous & affordable for you! Your support covers my travel from IL and values my time, as well as paying for expenses, taxes, and tithe. I appreciate your support in seeing your small biz priestess sister into her soul work thrive, xx

(( If 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 Anera, helping refugees in Palestine, Jordan, & Lebanon

To offer community support, choose a "supporter" ticket to help cover those who will be scholarshipped in.

️ Young ones under 18 welcome to come with no ticket. NOTE: this event is aimed towards adults and will potentially include colorful language, stories of thriving after trauma, pathways of grief, etc. Children are welcome insofar as they are eager to participate or happily and quietly playing to the side and are able to hold silence when stories are told --- because the event is not mic'ed and it's very hard on the voice to project over side noise. Thank you for care and consideration in this!

BIG THANKS to Deep Green Machine for sponsoring this event!

Community care:

This event is indoors. Come healthy. No mask or vax status required. You are welcome to mask and distance to your own comfort level.

More about your host:

Travelling from the wide sky and open spaces of east central Illinois, 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.

https://www.lyndseyscott.earth/

Listen to her album Well Held: streaming on Spotify -or- purchase on bandcamp

For more about her "Why" -- check this podcast.

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