Each month at Living Water Community Center, we gather to connect to our voices, our breath, and with one another. This isn’t a choir or chorus but a circle of folks singing together. No musical experience is necessary.

Singing is our birthright – in fact, some anthropologists believe that humans sang to communicate before we had spoken language. Yet, singing is often categorized into something only “the talented” are supposed to do. Let’s unlearn that together and reclaim song as a tool for community-building, self care, reflection, and fun!

In this circle, I share songs by beginning with their lyrics, then teaching the songs with drum or a cappella (without instruments) through call-and-echo, gradually building as we go. We repeat them several times to let the words & sound sink in. They focus on themes like love, kinship with the Earth, and self-compassion — little pocket songs we carry to encourage & comfort ourselves and each other.