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“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” - Rumi
Description
RECLAMATION is a 5-week journey through the elements of songwriting. Held with the intention and understanding that music is soul retrieval, we will journey through the elements of songwriting as a tool for community, self-awareness, and spiritual communion. Soul retrieval is a shamanic term, that refers to the process of reintegrating dissociated and repressed parts of the self back into everyday consciousness. Because communicating emotion is at the heart of songwriting, we use music as a gateway to access our emotions, reclaim stories, share our voices, and connect with others through our shared humanity. You will learn practices and tools to alchemize your emotions so that your life can become a work of art. Some topics we'll be exploring are: soul loss & retrieval, emotional alchemy, creative writing, sound journeying, ritual, listening, music theory, and more.
In this journey, you will learn the elements of songwriting and tools for alchemizing emotions so that they can become works of art. At the end of this course, you will have alchemized your journey into the form of a song that you will share with your fellow journeyers. This course is designed for people who are new to songwriting, or who want to take their craft to a new level that integrates mind, body, and spirit. RECLAMATION is about tapping into what lives deep inside of us that is asking to be reclaimed. What are YOU reclaiming?
Our Journey
Week 1: Introduction
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Establishing course container
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Building community
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Introducing our welcoming ritual
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What is soul loss and soul retrieval?
Week 2: Emotional Alchemy
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Working with what's present
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Developing a vocabulary for our emotions
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Cultivating a relationship with our emotions
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Using our lived experience as fuel for creative inspiration
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Creative writing practices
Week 3: Listening
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Layers of listening
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Stewarding the Void
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Sound Journey
Week 4: Voice & Breath
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Breath work
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Utilizing the full range of voice & breath
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Vocal exercises to liberate your voice
Week 5: Share
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Bring your music to life and let your voice be medicine.
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Sharing the integration of your journey through song
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Reflections on course
"Expansion" by Paige Bradley
Topics we'll be exploring
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Reclamation: what are you reclaiming?
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Soul loss and soul retrieval
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Emotional alchemy - holding space for what's present.
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Opening the voice
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Breathwork
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Sharing stories through music
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Building community based on shared humanity
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Creativity
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Sound as the intersection of art, science and spirituality
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Ritual
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Layers of listening & sound scapes
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Music theory
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Creative Writing/Poetry
The Commitment:
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Weekly Sessions: Mondays from 6-7:30 PM from January 16th-February 13th, 2023
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WhatsApp group to connect and engage more outside of the course.
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Weekly Practices: Each week, you'll have exercises and resources to explore that pair with the lesson topic. This will include recorded meditations, writing prompts, playlists for deeper contemplation, and guided rituals. These are not required but highly encouraged to do for deeper learning and understanding.
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Cumulative Project: during the course of your five weeks, you will be given the tools and time to write a song of your own that reflects what you're reclaiming. At the end of our time together, you will be asked to share with others your final song. This is challenge is offered with the intention to be an invitation, not intimidation. Not required but highly encouraged.
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Your Journey: the highs, the lows, the empowerment, the doubt, the frustration, and the liberation.
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Showing up authentically & giving space to what's present
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Getting curious & experimental
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Cultivating a relationship with your voice and letting others hear it.
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Reclaiming a lost part of yourself (your voice, your story, your experience, your identity, etc).
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Setting intention while simultaneously letting go of control over your creative process.
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Community: respect for the journey of others
"Illumination, Third Life" by Paige Bradley
Meet Your Facilitator, Rebecca
Rebecca is a Moroccan-American multidisciplinary artist, whose work lives at the intersection of art, humanitarian work, cultural curiosity, and spirituality. Her professional roots in social work have provided her training in trauma-informed care, and enabled her to travel the world, working with diverse and vulnerable populations. From orphanages in India to medicine circles in Brazil, she has used creative arts as a vehicle for cross-cultural connection and healing. As a former foster youth and adoptee, Rebecca has an ability to overcome hardships with a powerful determination to find and share life’s beauty. Her voice is an offering of medicine, and a manifestation of her journey to the freedom of expression.
"This course was a beautiful experience that created & nurtured a safe space for all individuals to show up where they are at in their level of music ability and still make them feel important and worthy of being in the class. It was super informative & truly an opportunity to get out of my comfort zone. I loved that we all had a chance to collaborate as a whole group to feel an even deeper connection as a collective but also take our project home to practice our individual creativity using the inspiration of our class sessions."
-Britney Kane