It’s cold outside, the days are shorter, the darkness is creeping in and when we pause for a moment, perhaps we feel grief surround us. There is so much struggle around us, at times it seems challenging to find gratitude and beauty.
Sometimes it just feels good to move a little and sing a lot. No one is required to be a singer or a vocalist – every voice is welcome to attend and sing. You will be guided in vocal parts that will shift and change, the layers will be instantly created and simultaneously let go of. We will soar with our voices and come to silence, the rhythms will intensify and at times the lullabies might be heard.
For centuries, and perhaps for as long as villages have existed, songs and wailing rituals, have been voiced to release, transform, cure, inspire, welcome us through our lamenting grief and equally to celebrate our joy. Grief was never meant to be experienced alone, It’s best held in community.
Participant testimonials:
“Cari orchestrated us like true wizardess weaving invisible strings of connection and healing”
“I had the experience of working with Cari in her grief and song workshop last year, at Wild and Alive, Thriving Roots, (an outdoor nature program for adults) and it was one of the most profound workshops I’ve ever sat in. The way in which Cari holds space is with both such tenderness and strength. I’ve never felt such deep grief as well as joy simultaneously and been held in it all. There was one particular part in the ceremony where I felt that if we did this more often the world would be a much better place to exist, humans would feel less alone, to feel grief is to feel love and in this container Cari holds space for all these parts to be explored within your own sound.
“This was one of the most powerful ceremony rituals I have ever been a part of. I wanted so much to be witnessed in my grief and through this I was, and held so deeply, surrounded by community, as we sung back to each other, our rage , our joy , our sadness, our fear. “
December 17th, 5:30 pm – 9 pm Vocal Improvisation Grief & Praise Ceremony @Lila Music Centre Yurt, 3228A Gibbins Rd, 250 710 4174, www.joythroughmusic.com $30 – $60, Sliding Scale
Photos by Ace Hicks
