The Song
7-week online songwriting class
July 14th- September 1st
5:00-700pm
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There’s a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.
~Rumi
Join me on a 7-week-long immersive journey exploring our authentic sound, our unique tone as it pertains not just to the creative process and songwriting, but to all areas of our life.
What is a song but a birth of the soul?
First comes the opening
then the seeping
the welcoming
the unwilled
full-embodied
Song of Being.
This offering is playful, constructive, radical, curious, undefined and unrefined. It is an intimate online learning community connected through our breath.
Investment: Sliding scale: 111 $ | 222$ | 333$. Please pay what you can. No one turned away: if this is inaccessible and it truly speaks to you please reach out.
Time: Friday 5-7pm (Pacific Time).
Dates: July 14th - September 1st, 2023 (7 weeks- no class August 4th)
Flow: We will meet weekly for 7 consecutive weeks. Every other week will be inspiration, tools, guided meditations, prompts, and more. We will end the class with a prompt to create with. The weeks in between will be a time for folks to share a song from the week, and any experiences with the material.
This course is open to anyone who feels the call to engage with songwriting. It is a safe space for folks to explore, play and express.
Week 1: PLAY
Open your voice, lighten the pressure, enjoy the unfolding of your authentic expression
Week 2: Share
Week 3: LISTEN
Find the silence, what lives between each breath, word, tone… allow the silence to sing
Week 4: Share
Week 5: WEAVE
Embody elemental tones… Weaving your song with the soul of nature
Week 6: Share
Week 7: BIRTH
The song birthed from your spirit has a soul of its own, allow it to become
I have been writing songs since middle school. Songwriting found me, opened me, moved me, and is an integral part of life for me. This word—songwriting— holds a lot of weight, meaning, and history in its lungs. This offering is my own exploration of what songwriting and the creative process is, how it has been a catalyst in my life, and how you too, can access this river of creativity within your own life.
It is time,
our souls are hungry:
they ache to be heard.