Singing The Spirit Back Into The Body! is a bilingual song circle that occurs the third Wednesday of every month at Bancroft Community Garden in Berkeley, California facilitated by Ecopsychologist Reet (pronounced Rhett) Rannik.
This song circle is a seasonal offering; it awakens in the spring and hibernates during the winter wet season.
Drawing inspiration from The Singing Revolution, a revolution that was made possible through singing in Estonia, and all the songs Reet learned from sitting in women circles, temazcales and by singing with her mentor Tina Ashrae Fields, during her journey studying Ecopsychology, Reet felt inspired to reconnect with the medicine these songs carry and co-create ritual alongside the powerful allies that are fire, moon, stars, wind and earth. Together a ritual is born and all folx inclined to connect with the power and healing medicine of a song circle are invited to sing their spirits back into their bodies.
In the spirit of circular leadership you are invited to bring and teach us a song if you have one!
All ages & languages are welcome, being a native Spanish speaker Reet often brings in songs in Español.
Through song, our throat chakras are able to flow back into harmonization allowing for clear and authentic self-expression and allowing for us to use our voices to liberate ourselves, empower ourselves and heal ourselves.
After we sing, our spirits harmonize and we feel the healing medicine of resonance that we co-created, we will flow into a Fire Circle.
What is a FireCircle? A fire circle is a form of council; a heartfelt sharing circle guided by a prompt in which we each practice our deep listening skills as each of us takes turns expressing ourselves intentionally and authentically in regards to the prompted question. In this sharing circle we do not comment, or give advice, or speak over each other, we simply listen to each others answers and witness each other in our humanness with the intention of empowering authentic connection, allowing for intentional reflection and creating deeper connections within our community.
Bring warm clothes, water bottle, rattles, instruments, mug for cacao, a friend and a song!
7:00-8:00 pm Song Circle: Singing The Spirit Back Into The Body
8:00-9:00 pm Fire Circle: Agni’s HeartSpeak
Location: Bancroft Community Garden 1308 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94702
$10-20 slidescale donation to cover expenses for fire wood and cacao Venmo @ReetRannik
For questions or scholarships please email reetrannik@gmail.com