Rooted Together in Harmony Singing & Voice Journey

This is an ongoing journey to free your voice, sing in harmony and feel part of a community of warm, friendly people. There will be 15 Thursday night sessions in Dublin city centre, you can come for them all or sign up for a group of 5. Enrolments happening on 12 Mar, 30 Apr and 4 June.

These group harmony singing and vocal exploration sessions are for anyone who is longing to connect to themselves and others through the voice in service to a more loving world.

Over the course of these sessions we will explore together what it is like to cultivate a sense of being enough (will less effort). This is a radical rejection of the ideology of self-improvement, productivity, speed, talent, growth and individualism which we are surrounded by. When we sing, we work intimately with worries around what we sound like, whether the sounds we are making are acceptable, whether we are ‘doing it right’ and ultimately whether we are enough. As we notice these thoughts and feelings, we can invite the ease with which we were born to return. We also work intimately with liberation of our breath and body.

> In these sessions you will be invited to become more aware of opportunities to try less, let go more and you will learn about how to support your voice through diaphragmatic breathing and somatic connection.

Humans have gathered to use their voices as tools for healing, prayer, divination, plant communication, echoes of topography, expressions of identity, creators of harmony and much more but music and singing have been reduced largely to entertainment and big business in modern capitalist culture. In these sessions we reclaim our voices as technologies of connection and enchantment. Singing is not for the few, it is our birthright and a means to better health and wellbeing. We will experience beauty not only in the aesthetics of our voices but in their authenticity and capacity to connect us. We do not have to sound or look beautiful to be beautiful as we are all miraculous beings simply by existing. Singing is one of the most powerful tools to connect and bond human beings so as we sing together, you will experience a sense of being held in a container of human sound, a balm for the soul. You may even experience a sense of ‘interbeing’, a deep sense of interconnectedness and non-duality. Contrary to what we are told, us humans are not on this Earth to compete with and dominate each other.

> We are all leaves of the same tree, cells of the same organism, stewards of the same Earth.

This course will also be rooted in what we can learn from Indigenous and traditional cultures and from living systems (nature). We will sing songs which connect us to our ancestral lineages and to the Earth. We will musically explore and celebrate concepts from the Global South such as Ubuntu (a set of related African value systems emphasising interconnectedness) and Buen Vivir (a Latin American concept describing living well as sustainably living in harmony within a community including humans and nature) as well as those from closer to home such as ‘Dinnseanchas’, meaning lore and knowledge of place and ‘dúchas’ (heritage and wildness, a sense of where you come from, to whom and to where you belong).

This course is open to all, regardless of how you sound and previous experience.

The Facilitator:
Rachel is a song leader with a background in ethnomusicology and has spent time with many communities around the
world facilitating and researching music making, Rachel is also an educator and uses music and singing as a tool for for learning and changemaking in the areas of wellbeing, diversity, sustainability, social justice and community building
community.

##### Booking & Pricing:

There are 15 sessions in total, grouped in 3 courses of 5 sessions each. For the best value price per session you can sign up for the full 15 sessions and it is ok to miss a few.

All 15 sessions is priced at €300/€240 and if you need an additional concession please contact me.

5 week course €140 - €90 sliding scale

Info and sign ups: https://fullcirclechange.ie/event/rooted-together-in-harmony/