Saturday Night @ The OM - Return To Innocence

Join local performance artists as we celebrate Imbolc, traditionally a festival of awakening in the Celtic wheel of the year to honour the Divine spark of inspiration within. We'll be exploring and giving a voice to our theme "Return To Innocence", through stories, poems, music and song. 

The Earth is awakening at this time from the slumber of Winter. These stirrings of renewed life that we see in the emergence of the first snowdrops remind us of the potency that dwells beneath our feet, of beauty and the need for innocence. It's a delicate time, for to be innocent is to be vulnerable. There's an invitation to remain curious as the serpent life force in Nature and our own body is getting ready to be reborn.

Winter is giving way to Springtime energies. We are still deeply connected to the fertile darkness within us, so it's a great time to journey inwards, to plant seeds of intentions and bring forth visions and revelations through poetry and song. If we can remain innocent, we become open to receive intuitive flashes, sparks of inspiration that lighten our Spirit and guide us further along our chosen path.

Imbolc is also a time for reclaiming what has been forgotten. Sometimes life's challenges cause us to forget who we really are. Will we meet ourselves anew? Will we shed our old skin with gusto and allow a new being to emerge? A being that to date, has overcome every challenge that they've faced. A being that alchemises struggle into Wisdom. A being thats ever evolving, ever growing, ever changing. Will you meet your emerging Self and life with Innocence?

We're so excited to welcome our special guest, local, BBC featured, spoken word artist Growing Nai, who joins our in house musician, singer & songwriter Lootie Johansen and myself Raye, aka The Bendy Witch, as compere, weaving together the theme with some poems, stories and a Haiku here and there. 

There'll be OM NOM NOM's included, a delicious snack and hot beverage provided and served by Debbie OM, toilet break mid way and a chance to connect and chat with like-minded folk. There's the opportunity at the end via a fun Q&A to ask the performance artists questions or share any revelations that may arise for you throughout the evening.

We look forward to inspiring you, through the sharing of our own journeys, towards the reclamation of innocence.

This is an intimate Venue -  Only 30 ticket sales in total - 3 admission options available - Please pay what you can genuinely afford 🙏🏼

Admission includes refreshments during the break - There's access to a toilet throughout the night. 

Seating is relaxed, cosy and informal with a mixture of chairs, cushions, bolsters and blankets.

*Please note before booking: This is a small venue with access that is NOT suitable for wheelchairs. The toilet is upstairs and not suitable for disabled persons. Due to small numbers we have a no refund policy.

The OM Studio in Northampton has been used for many years for Yoga, Meditation, Song Circles, Workshops, Day Retreats and Community Gatherings. It has a beautiful atmosphere of Peace infused into its walls.

Doors open at 6.45pm, performances start at 7pm prompt, please familiarise yourself with the OM Studio location and allow an extra 10 mins for parking and walking to the studio. Please see this link ref location and parking:

https://www.theomstudio.com/contact-us

THE LINE UP...

Special Guest:  Growing Nai

Growing Nai has featured on BBC Radio 6 (Steve Lamacq and Mary Anne Hobbs), BBC Three Counties (Kerrie Cosh, Radio 1 DJ), New Style Radio, and with Live Sets at Camper Calling Festival 24, Birmingham Music Festival 23, Back to the Roots Festival 23 and Kaya Festival 21

Growing Nai was born out of Nai’s need to ‘grow’ her circumstances after being left a single mother with CPTSD after an incredibly abusive relationship. Nai instinctively took to poetry, journalling and artistic expression to outlet the memories and experiences overwhelming her system.

Poetry brought Nai an everlasting connection to her inner world and wisdom instead of being dominated by the voice of abuse that lived on after the abuse had ended. Nai journeys through her poetry, breaking through chains of limiting self talk and finding deeper purpose and meaning in all she experiences.

Check out Nai at https://www.growingnaipoetry.com/

Follow Nai on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/growingnai.poetry/

In House Musician & Singer Songwriter: Lootie Johansen Bibby

Lootie is so happy to be sharing her music and songs with you. There's a beautiful heartfelt and healing resonance to Lootie's voice that for sure will find its way to bless many.

The arts, creativity and healing have always been central in Lootie’s life and work. After a youth in dance, she trained as a movement artist, creative facilitator and expressive arts psychotherapist.

For 15 years, Lootie has worked with professionals, children and communities to facilitate theatre and performance. She then worked as a therapist with children in nurseries and schools, with adults in mental health and in the community.

In 2016, Lootie had a head injury which changed the course of her life, and facilitated her journey back to herself, to spirituality and nature. She continues to deepen her relationship with her embodied Self and the earth through yoga, sound and song, and tending a garden and allotment.

Music has become an increasingly important part of Lootie’s healing and her way of connecting. She sings regularly in a medicine and mantra circle at The OM Studio, where she has increased in confidence, connection and joy.

Your Compere: Poet and Storyteller Rachael "Raye" White aka The Bendy Witch.

Having loved writing as a kid because she was painfully shy, extremely sensitive and found it very difficult to express herself verbally, Raye randomly started writing Poetry again during an anxiety attack on the London Underground in 2014, whilst mid way through an Authentic Success Coaching program with Dr Robert Holden. She was invited to read out the poem “Dancing In-Between the I’s”. It was received with a standing ovation and has two more since. An unexpected success indeed!

In 2015 she found herself in Spain for 6 months and became a Meditation Monk for 5 years. However, the poetry flood gates had opened and the “Poetry Pixies” persisted in pestering her until she rather surprised herself by performing poems at Scribal Gathering in 2019, where she was welcomed and encouraged and became a regular performer for “Ode to the Siren” as part of the Stony Live festival and hasn't looked back since. She honestly believes if she can stand on the stage and speak then it's possible for anybody.

In 2022 Raye started “The Silent Revolution” to help people reconnect with their most authentic selves, to find more Joy in their Hearts and their everyday mundane existence. She wishes to bring people together not just in the Silence through Meditation, but in Heartfelt connection, through their shared stories, songs and poems.. And so here we are experiencing a wish being fulfilled in Saturday Night @ The OM, where Raye performs, comperes and weaves together the theme with the other performers throughout the night.

Subscribe here to receive Raye's poetry and blogs and newsletters: www.thebendywitch.com

Follow Raye on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebendywitch/ 

Book Shamanic Therapies & Readings with Raye here: https://bluestartherapies.com/

Also on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bluestartherapies/ and https://www.instagram.com/the_silent_revolution_/

Host: Debbie OM

Debbie OM and the OM Studio are all about how awareness of the body/mind connection has a profound effect on the quality of our lives.  She had her first visions of the OM Studio in 2003 after returning from a Mantra Retreat with one of her Beloved teachers Muz Murray. You can read more about the birth of the OM Studio here. 

Debbies own Yoga journey started in 1995 with Mary Davis as she rediscovered through Yoga the enjoyment of movement, ease and fluidity in her body, which led her to training to become a Yoga teacher. She felt like she was on a mission to finding more meaning through life. It was in 2000 she met Muz, whom work with the Sanskrit alphabet and Mantra, she has described as a revelation.

Debbie has a clear vision of continually creating a safe space for bringing souls together to work on letting go of past hurts. She envisions creating a space for the heart to rest and feel safe for self enquiry into the NOW moment.

In 2006 she found herself at the foot of the Divine Arunarchala mountain in India which re-opened within her the joy of sound, dance and music. Unknown to her it had been buried and forgotten, however the mantra was now fully bringing this remembrance back to life.

Debbie supports Saturday Night @ The OM with her Presence, welcoming all who join us and provides the delicious nibbles and refreshments we have in the break. Sometimes she joins us on the stage to sing and also for the Q & A.

You can read more about Debbies journey and find out about all the other wonderful things happening with the walls of the OM at:

Check out all the wonderful offerings at The OM Studio here: www.theomstudio.com

Follow Debbie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/debbie_om/