AN INTRODUCTION TO
Singing the Earth
A FREE Global Gathering
Awaken your voice as a pathway of connection to the land where you are
ALL VOICES WELCOME
Tuesday, 7th April
10am PDT / 1pm EDT / 6pm BST
75 minutes
It is time for us to grow the skills that our ancestors had – to listen to the land & act on the messages that we receive.
Join 5 earth-devoted teachers in exploring the human voice as a bridge to the natural world.
Featuring:
Ayla
Schafer
Scott
Kloos
Hanna
Leigh
Lana
Lanaia
Elin
Teilus
Singing our Belonging
This is a FREE gathering to slow down, listen deeply, and awaken our voices as bridges to the living world.
- Elin Teilus will share a joik, which is an ancient vocal technique from the indigenous Sámi people of Northern Europe, designed not just to sing about a subject, but to evoke or "sing into being" the essence of a person, animal, or place.
- Ayla Schafer, a multilingual visionary musical artist, will inspire us with a story of how she received a song from the waters and how we may open ourselves to do the same.
- Scott Kloos, Wildcrafter, Ceremonialist & Founder of the School of Forest Medicine, will guide us in hearing the songs of the plants.
- Our hostesses Lana Lanaia & Hanna Leigh will share inspiring stories, songs & a guided mediation from their embodied experience of walking the path of Earth-devotion.
Our time together will be a taste of the goodness that’s to come in our upcoming 9-week course, “Singing the Earth“, starting 23rd April.
We sing to connect.
We sing to remember our belonging.
We sing because we yearn for a better way.
We sing because we love deeply.
We sing to feed that which feeds us!
What's Included
- 75-minute live workshop with 5 guest teachers from the upcoming 9-week course, "Singing the Earth"
- Personal stories, songs & guided vocal practices
- Recording emailed to you within 24 hours
- Attend this live call to enter our GIVEAWAY ($345 VALUE!) for free registration in "Singing the Earth" – a 9-week course starting April 23rd
Our Guest Teachers
MUSICIAN & FOUNDERESS, WEAVING REMEMBRANCE
Hanna Leigh
Hanna Leigh is a Singer-Songwriter, Voice Doula, Weaver, and Devotee of this precious, living Earth. She was raised in California (Chumash territory) though in recent years has spent extensive time residing on ancestral lands in the Celtic isles. Her people migrated to the U.S. several generations ago from England, Scotland, Norway, Germany and the Netherlands.
This organization, Weaving Remembrance, was birthed through her own passion to reclaim ancestral wisdom and grow in intimate reciprocity with this miraculous earth that sustains us.
SINGING THE LAND & STARS
Lana Lanaia
Lana is a musician, and facilitator of retreats, ritual & healing spaces. She lives in the Scottish Highlands, and her lineage is woven through many lands.
Lana has been studying and working with earth wisdom traditions & sound healing for over 25 years. She has a deep love for these holy Isles of Albion, her ancient places & wisdom. She has spent many years journeying to sacred sites, living in wild places, questing and communing with the land, sea & sky.
Lana’s work, through retreats, ritual, and sound, is an invitation to return to wholeness, to reawaken the songlines of the soul, and to enter into deep communion with the Earth as a living, breathing being.
SINGING THE WATERS
Ayla Schafer
Ayla Schafer is a multilingual visionary musical artist, acclaimed as the “Voice of the Earth.” Her music weaves a spellbinding tapestry of world folk and medicinal song, and her poetic repertoire, sung in Spanish, English, and Proto-Celtic, threads memory, remembrance, and power into every note. Each performance is an enchanting musical journey, a sacred, heart-opening encounter through visible and unseen worlds, inviting listeners to reconnect with themselves, the earth, and the quiet power of presence.
SÁMI JOIK
Elin Teilus
A singer, yoiker and artist of the Sámi. Daughter of the lands of Udtja, Sábme. From her rebel heart and with a proverb for the innocence of Life she yoiks the unseen and unspoken.
The music is encapsuling grand sceneries at the same time as being intimately close, always with elements of free creation. The musicians are handpicked from internationally renowned musical worlds; Rickard Åström, a former member of the twice Grammy awarded Folk Group Groupa, Roots rock guitarist Mats Jenseus and Anders Waernelius, who has a lifelong experience of the eastern and Nordic folk percussion tradition. Together they form a unique musical breed that flies with Elin and her yoik on strong wings.
PLANT SONGS
Scott Kloos
Scott Kloos—ceremonialist, author, wildcrafter, plant medicine maker and practitioner, animist, singer of plant songs, and aspiring integral ecologist—guides The School of Forest Medicine and Cascadia Folk Medicine and is author of Pacific Northwest Medicinal Plants: Identify, Harvest, and Use 120 Wild Herbs for Health and Wellness. Through his writing and his facilitation of co-created spaces of learning and healing, he explores various ways of working with plants and their medicine, relationships with our nonhuman kin, and ecologically integral modes of engaging with and thinking with the community of life.
Frequently Asked Questions
The giveaway winner will be chosen at the end of of gathering, around 11am PDT / 7pm BST.
This offering is online through Zoom with teachers joining from different countries.
Yes, those who register will receive a recording of the gathering within 24 hours of the live event.
