Sing From Soil

Sing from Soil is a unique offering that supports reconnection with each other and the Earth. Through vocal expression, ceremony, herbalism and guided practices that support embodied listening, we will reconnect with parts of our humanity that intuitively understand how to learn from plants and places. For this Fall season, we will drop in deeply to support our transition into winter, allying with grounding root medicines and the land to move into an inward season with intention. We will gather in circles in different outdoor spaces, all within an hour of Asheville, NC, with our main hubs in Marshall and Barnardsville, NC.

Hi, I'm Sarah Louise. I will facilitate our journey to the realms where plants and music mingle. Some of my earliest memories include singing to wildflowers. Through embodied listening, ceremonial herbalism and ancestral grief work over the past decade, I have recovered this practice, learning that the blockages and the forgetting are the openings to remember. I bring a deeply compassionate presence to circles, with a belief that the Earth delights in all of our expression, no matter how blocked it may seem. Studying vestiges of animistic music and herbalism from my own ancestry as well as experimental art and music traditions inform my cultural orientation. I have foraged and made herbal medicine for over 20 years, and I bring deep knowledge of and devotion to our mountain ecosystems. It is now my pleasure to invite others into caring spaces that support their own reconnection, in whatever way that looks and sounds for them. All voices are heartily welcomed!

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We will meet each Sunday from 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM for 6 weeks to:

Ease into intuitive space with guided meditations and sound baths

Practice exercises for nervous system regulation

Practice call-and-response choral music channeled from the land

Develop supportive relationships with plants through herbal tea ceremonies and altar-building

Practice Music Gardening, an emergent group singing practice that opens a door to using song to communicate across species lines.

Learn to work with blockages as openings to your most authentic expression

Practice song as a means to make offerings to and learn directly from plants

Nurture your inner child who remembers how to sing with wildflowers

Be in conversation around offering and receiving ancestral repair

Be in practice growing healthy land-based song culture that supports us as a keystone species in healing ecosystems

Learn about characteristics of nature-based music from around the world, with an emphasis on the ancestral traditions present in the circle. This will include a rich exploration of the vestiges of animistic music found in Appalachian and Celtic folk music.

If you would like to attend this program, but are unable due to a lack of resources, please reach out:
https://www.springfromsoil.com/