Singing
the Earth
The land where you are right now has messages for you.
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.
9-Week Online Course
23rd April - 18th June 2026
Live Sessions at 10:00am PDT / 6:00pm BST
Singing the Earth is a 9-week journey to explore your belonging to the living world, awaken your voice & deepen your relationship with the land where you are.
A 9 Week
Immersive Program
Learn from indigenous and earth-devoted teachers how to deeply listen to the Earth & SING as an act of healing, blessing and offering.
Amidst an era of disconnection, disembodiment & dysregulation…it is time to return. But return to what?
This course is part of a larger movement of those who are returning to earth-honoring ways of living.
What does it mean to deeply listen to and clearly communicate with the land around us? And what might unfold within us and around us as we dedicate time in our lives to practicing this?
These are some of the guiding questions we will live into together and explore as a cohort of singing humans.
May we re-learn to become people who feed the earth & the waters with our songs and offer our voices back to Life.
Featuring
Angharad
Wynne
Anthar
Kharana
Ayla
Schafer
Elin
Kåven
Elin
Teilus
Hanna
Leigh
Jungle
Svonni
Lana
Lanaia
Mitchell
Hambley
Scott
Kloos
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A New (Old) Way of Relating
Beyond seeing the land as merely a backdrop to human life or a resource to be extracted, there are older ways of relating to the animate world around us as alive, sovereign, and sentient.
Through singing, vocal toning, guided drum journeys and storytelling we will explore how our human voices provide a pathway of deeper connection to the other-than-human beings around us.
Who This Course Is For
- People of all genders & backgrounds who yearn to deepen their listening & communication skills with the land around them
- Those who sense an untapped power within their voice, which can be used for healing and service (including those who don’t consider themselves “singers”)
- Practitioners, facilitators, and seekers drawn to sound, animistic & indigenous wisdom, and earth-honoring practices as tools for personal & collective transformation
- Creatives, singers & vocal explorers who want to move beyond performance into singing as an intuitive conversation with the living world
What You'll Receive
This course is designed as an embodied journey, not simply an intellectual learning experience.
9 × 2 Hour Live Weekly Classes
Join our guest teachers each week for inspiring personal stories, cultural & animistic teachings & vocal practices.
Downloadable Morning Meditations
After each live class, you'll receive a pre-recorded 10-15 minute guided meditation from each teacher to listen to throughout the week.
7 × 1 Hour Live Community Calls
A facilitated hour-long call to share your experience and hear how the morning practice is unfolding for others.
Online
Community Space
Access to a private community space to post songs, photos, and what is moving through you.
Course
Recordings
You'll have access to the course content for 1 year on our private course & community platform.
a note from course co-creator
Lana Lanaia
Sharing the vision of this course:
“The inspiration for this course was born from my own journey of living & biodynamically gardening with the land ~ listening to the songs that come from rivers, mountains, and the earth herself, and then singing those songs back to her. For years, I felt this connection without a name, journeying with sound as a way of healing, giving, and blessing.
When I began to learn about the Sámi tradition of joik, as well as other indigenous cultures who ‘sing the essence of a being’, something deepened within me. I felt how this way of listening and singing is ancient wisdom, rooted in tradition. The earth is alive, and we are in a reciprocal relationship with Her.
This course was created as a way to share in this experience of opening our voices and growing in relationship with the land.
The course is designed to give you a foundation, a set of practices and a way of being that you can continue to develop for the rest of your life. It is a pathway to remembering that your voice is a bridge to the unseen worlds, a way of feeding & nurturing Life.
If this resonates with your heart, we invite you to join us.“
"In the Sámi vocal tradition of yoik, we don't sing about the mountain...
We sing the mountain."
– Elin Kåven, Sámi Tradition-Bearer
Elin Teilus shares a joik in “Songs of Mother Europe.”
“Gulahallat Eatnamiin” (“We Speak Earth”) by Sara Marielle Gaup Beaska
What Is a Yoik?
A joik (or yoik) is an ancient, traditional vocal expression of the 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.
LEARNING FROM
Indigenous Cultures
One of the great honours of this course is the opportunity to learn from teachers connected to the Sámi tradition of joik, an Indigenous lineage of Northern Europe that carries a profound relationship with the living Earth.
In this course we will be in conversation around what it means to relate to these teachings in a respectful way, while receiving inspiration from these living examples of how humans have sung in relationship with the land for thousands of years.
Through this encounter, we are invited to remember something that lives within all of us: the ancient human capacity to listen to the Earth and sing what we hear.
A percentage of the profits of the course will be donated to a Sami charity.
An Invitation into
Paradoxical Activism
We know these times are dire, and at this fertile crossroads each of us is a person of consequence.
Whether or not we call ourselves “activists”, our daily choices are shaping the world around us, and affecting the other-than-human-world.
We live in a time plagued by disconnection and the illusion of self-sufficiency—so pervasive that we’ve even named the era after ourselves: the “Anthropocene.”
THE RADICAL ACT
of slowing down to listen.
Joining this group is a conscious choice of each participant to slow down & devote 2-4 hours per week (either attending live or keeping up with the recordings) to tend to our relationships with the lands where we live…actively learning to listen, and to open our voices as an offering and pathway of connection.
Program Overview
Music is the sound of nature speaking to the soul.
This course runs for 9 weeks from 23rd April to 18th June.
1) 2-Hour guest teacher workshops every Thursday
2) 1-Hour community calls every Wednesday, starting on Week 2
Thursday, April 23rd
WEEK 1
Tending the Ground
with Lana Lanaia, Hanna Leigh & Micaiah Hambley
An opening ceremony for our 9-week journey into deep intimacy with earth & the magic of song that’s sourced from the land. Gather around the timeless hearthfire to feel our togetherness as a cohort–as humans alive in unprecedented times. Through stories and song with Micaiah, Lana & Hanna Leigh, gain inspiration for the course ahead and an embodied feel for how “Singing the Earth” can be powerful medicine and ally for our hearts, the land, & the more beautiful future beckoning.
You’ll leave this session knowing how to approach the weeks ahead, feeling held by community, and with your first practice for listening to the land where you are.
Thursday, April 30th
WEEK 2
Sámi Joik & Shamanic Sound
with Jungle Svonni & Elin Kåven
An introduction to the Sámi people and their tradition of joik. Jungle will share a profound story of Sami shamanism, indigeneity, and how he learned from Nature itself. Together with Elin, we will explore shamanic sound-healing and the practice of singing the essence of something to facilitate healing. You will learn how to find your own “joik voice” in service of Mother Earth. We’ll explore what it means to learn from a lineage without appropriation, and how this wisdom can help us connect more deeply with our own land, self, and others.
Thursday, May 7th
WEEK 3
Listening with the Land
with Angharad Wynne
How can we connect with the wisdom within the land?
The songs, like stories and language come from the land. Since ancient times people have listened to the earth and heard the voices of plants, mountain, river, wind. How do we open to listen to these voices, and the songs of ancient memory that echo within us still…?
Angharad will guide us into a practice of listening, to open our awareness to the ancient memory that lives within the earth.
Thursday, May 14th
WEEK 4
Body, Ground, Sound - Yoik &Vocal Embodiment
with Elin Kåven & Hanna Leigh
Learn to open your body as an instrument, connect with your wild voice, and become receptive to receiving the songs that move through you.
In this class, we will continue our exploration of joik and other practical ways to sing in relationship with the land and our surroundings. Through simple, guided practices, we work with the whole body as an instrument, and open to the wild, natural voice and subtle songs around us. You’ll come away feeling the hum of aliveness within your body, and a sense of deeper connection to the land where you are.
Thursday, May 21st
WEEK 5
Sámi Music & Singing as Healing for Our Earth
with Elin Teilus
Elin will share about joik as a way of honouring and remembering life, and singing as an offering. We will explore the practice of singing to the sacred within and the sacred within the earth; as a prayer and offering to Nature.
Thursday, May 28th
WEEK 6
Singing the Waters
with Ayla Schafer
In this session, we come into relationship with water as the mother of all life. We will sense how water holds memory, carries prayer, and responds to our voices.
Through Ayla’s music and vocal practices may we open channels of connection that flow both through our bodies and the waters of the Earth.
Thursday, June 4th
WEEK 7
Songs of Origin
with Anthar Kharana
What are songs of origin? Anthar will share about this from the traditions of his homeland in Colombia. We explore how songs emerge from the very essence of place or being. “Let your soul remember its original song”
Thursday, June 11th
WEEK 8
Singing the Land & Belonging to Life
with Lana Lanaia & Micaiah Hambley
The land is a living, breathing being. We are made of the same minerals as the mountains, the same waters that flow through rivers, the same breath that moves through trees.
How do we deepen into this practice of singing the land? Remembering that we are of the earth, and we each carry gifts that can nurture Life.
Thursday, June 18th
WEEK 9
Earth Activism Through Song
Teacher TBA
Check back for more information.
Meet the Teachers
Angharad Wynne
Angharad has spent much of her life exploring the landscapes and lore of the British Isles. Since childhood, she has followed her feet along pathways back through the portals of ancient myth, folklore, song and poetry of Britain, and particularly of her native Wales.
Today, she draws together the fragments of our tradition, that can help guide and sustain a living spiritual practice, connected to this land and her creatures. She shares her learning and explores understanding and contemporary practice through retreats, storytelling gatherings, ceremonies, dreaming circles, writings and pilgrimages. These are conceived as radical acts of re-membering our soulful, deep humanity and re-weaving ourselves back into fully engaged participation within the web of life.
Angharad is a member of the Wisdom Keepers: Reigniting Ancient Ways collective and creator of Dadeni, a programme that explores the native spiritual traditions of Britain. She is a founding member of ‘Animate Earth’, an international animism collective of teachers, facilitators, thinkers, scientists and writers. She regularly speaks at events and festivals across Europe on these and related matters. Her first English language book, Wise Women – Myths and Folklore in Celebration of Older Women, a collaboration with Dr Sharon Blackie was published by Virago in October 2024.
Anthar Kharana
Anthar Kharana Navarro is native from the land of the Hacaritama people up in the high Andes in the north of Colombia, born in 1977 in a land where ancient warriors used to live. He is a guardian of the sacred fire and traditional medicines of the Americas, guided and supported by wise Elders from his homeland from an early age.
He is also a music composer and sound healing practitioner.
As a Sundancer he carries the Chanupa (peace pipe) and Inipi (sweat lodge) medicines from the linage of Leonard Crow Dog and became one of the Sons of the alliance of the Eagle and Condor, a New Nation united by the agreement of the Elders of the North and South America to become One. Anthar has been ordered as a Spiritual leader of the Pachamama Native American Church to continue spreading the word worldwide.
Over the last 15 Years Anthar has been traveling and sharing the wisdom of the Sacred Fire and Ancestral Sound and its relation to the Plant and Animal Kingdom Medicine. He leads traditional ceremonies, sound journeys, conferences, workshops, concerts, therapies and retreats in different countries around the world including, Colombia, Chile, England, Scotland, Wales, Ibiza, Bali-Indonesia, Poland, France, Portugal and Italy among others.
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.
Elin Kåven
Through projects such as Elin & The Woods, Róhta and So Silvae, she explores everything from pulsating electronic rhythms, viking/sami music, to calm, nature-inspired ambient music.
Elin is deeply rooted in Sami tradition, and shares her knowledge and passion through yoiking courses, concerts and art projects.
More about Elin Kåven here: www.elinkaaven.com
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.
“…Within Elin Teilus’ music the Sámi tradition of storytelling is alive; Listen to her joik and you will meet the reindeers, the clear water of the cold well, the winds… It brings hope for the understanding and respect of the Sámi identity and history.”
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.
Jungle Svonni
Jungle Svonni is originally from Talma, a reindeer herding district in the north of Sápmi. The border between Norway and Sweden goes straight through the district. He grew up involved with reindeer hearding and as a hunter. He has traveled and lived in many places: Greenland, North America, Mongolia and 7 years in the Peruvian Amazon. The driving force behind these journeys has always been the same. The love of nature and to learn how us humans can coexist with nature.
Since childhood, Jungle knew he would become a shaman. After studying shamanism in the Amazonas five years, he worked as a shaman two years before he returned back to Sápmi. Later in 2014 he became the first Sámi shaman in history to win a legal case against one of the colonizing governments, after 400 years of oppression.
“Our true origin for all of us, is nature.”
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.
Micaiah Hambley
Micaiah is an earth mystic, energy healer, soul-guide, and relational bridge to the wilds. At 19, he began training in Buddhist Monasticism and embodiment-based healing modalities. At 23 he left the monastery to embark on a series of multi-month to year-long solo retreats in remote nature. Here the mountains became his primary teachers, guiding his journey of soul initiation and maturation. Now in his thirties, Micaiah serves Earthkeepers as an Earth-connection facilitator and all around assistant.
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.
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9 × 2 Hour LIVE Workshops with our Guest Teachers
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8 × 1 Hour LIVE Community Calls
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Downloadable morning meditations delivered each week
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9 × 2 Hour LIVE Workshops with our Guest Teachers
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Downloadable morning meditations delivered each week
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Connect in our private community space
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9 × 2 Hour LIVE Workshops with our Guest Teachers
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8 × 1 Hour LIVE Community Calls
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Downloadable morning meditations delivered each week
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Connect in our private community space
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Unlimited access to course content for 1 year
Please note that prices listed in GBP (£) are approximate and will be adjusted based on the exchange rate at the time of purchase.
Reparative Access for People of the Global Majority:
This work of singing the land belongs to all people, and yet we know that historically, containers like this one have underserved people of Black, Brown, Latinx, biracial & multiracial backgrounds. To contribute to reparative access of healing spaces like this, we offer a sliding scale of $175–$345 to People of the Global Majority who are called to Singing the Earth. For those who are able, paying the full tuition is a meaningful way to support the accessibility of this work for others.
To request access within the sliding scale range, email us at support@weavingremembrance.org.
the Journey Continues...
In-Person Retreat in Sápmi
Northern Norway | November 2026
More Details to Be Announceed
For those who feel called to deepen this connection in the lands of the North, we are planning a week-long, in-person journey to Sápmi (the traditional Sámi homeland) in November 2026.
This immersive retreat is an opportunity to walk the land, witness its sacred beauty firsthand, and learn directly from the source.
While the itinerary is still being co-created with our Sámi guides, the journey is envisioned to include Voice Work & Sound Healing and Joik, alongside visits to significant Sámi cultural sites and time connecting with holy rocks and ancient landscapes that hold the memory of the land. There will also be an opportunity to witness and learn about reindeer — a central part of Sámi life and spirituality — in a respectful and non-touristy setting.
This retreat is for participants of the “Singing with the Earth” course who wish to make a tangible pilgrimage of remembrance and reciprocity. More details will be shared with course participants during our 9 weeks together.
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Frequently Asked Questions
This offering is happening online through Zoom, with teachers joining us from several different countries.
Yes, the calls will be recorded and uploaded to our course & community platform. We strongly reccomend you keep up each week with the class recordings if you can’t attend live.
No. The nature of the content delivery is that you purchase the entire course.
You will have access to the recordings for one year from the start date of the course.
No. Due to the delivery of course content, all sales are final.