Singing the Trees

This is an opportunity to deepen your connection with nature and explore your own wild voice. While we are none of us travelling much, it could be the ideal time to tune in to the landscape where we are.

Indigenous wisdom from around the world recognises an innate intelligence in trees, as in all of life. Modern biologists are learning how trees communicate and care for one another, and increasingly even physicists suggest that consciousness is inherent in all matter. Whatever our own sense of non-human beings’ experience may be, it can be very special to take some time to stop, breathe, and connect with our always immobile neighbours - the trees.

Maybe there’s a tree you already know you’d like to sing with? Or maybe you’d like to get to know a tree before we meet? Together, online and each in our different places, we will take this time to tune in with love and kindness and our hearts’ prayers. With gentle support and guidance from your hosts, we will listen to the trees around and find the sounds or song that wants to come through where they grow. Any sounds that come may be silent and inward, gently hummed, a pretty tune may or may not emerge or even some wild sound.. you may prefer to work choose a tree somewhere you will feel relaxed should other humans hear your sounds ;-)

Whatever emerges will be perfect and unique: to you, to the tree you choose and to that place and time.

Outline programme

7:30 Welcome & introductions
7:40 Wild Voice warm ups
7:50 Locating yourself in the sacred landscape
7:55 Simple Heart Meditation
8:00 Listening to the trees
8:05 Singing the trees
8:15 Closing circle & sharing
8:30 Looking ahead and end

We will be connecting through Zoom, so you may wish to find a tree located where you definitely have access either to phone or data signal. You might wish to use headphones so you can listen to the guidance without others being disturbed. If it’s raining or you are staying in your home for other reasons, you can connect with a tree that you know or perhaps a photograph of one. Please arrive 5 minutes early with your phone’s notifications off to settle in and relax.

This even is free/donation with a portion of proceeds going to support Three Streams (Scotland)

To register your place, please contact us.

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