In Costa Rica . . Jan. 9 - 11th, 2009

SINGING ALIVE ~~ Cantando la Vida

@ Finca Amrta: organic farm and health center ~ http://www.fincaamrta.com ~ San Isidro, PZ. Costa Rica

For more info contact Rosie Kenny ~ cantandolavida@gmail.com

 

 

the following from the Cantando la vida focalizers ~~ Life is a creation of vibrations. Rising vibrations awaken the spirit and improve the health and well-being of all creatures. So, welcome fellow Hallow Bodies, for the time has come to join our Harmonies of Life for a weekend focusing vocal celebration of Life, Love and Light.

“When two or more are gathered in my Name, so too, am I”

Vision: The vision of Cantando la Vida, Costa Rica, is to raise the vibration of the planet through the empowerment of ancient and newborn sacred healing songs with the deep magic of the tropic Rain Forest.

Mission: The mission of Cantando la Vida, Costa Rica is to unite people from all over the globe for ceremonial song, dance and cleansing.

Story: Cantando la Vida is a sister celebration to Singing Alive, a sacred event birthed from the recent Human Flowering Creation-song tradition of the Pacific Northwest of North America, and the more established 'earth-repair' networks there, including barter faires, herbal gatherings, healing circles, and permaculture workshops. Vibrations are rising, and those tuned gather for ceremony of harmonizing, chanting, blending and elevating to enliven each other and the planet. Song and dance has been passed from generation to generation, from all over the globe and throughout time, imparting the message of healing, growth and unity. Songs of spirit gather to teach, protect and heal all the light beings that wish to be.

Cantando la Vida is the chrysalis in which participants can grow, rearrange and enlighten to enliven the sacred vessel that resonates the sound of universal love.

These songs, both ancient and new, will be sung during the Full Moon in Cancer, January 9-11th, 2009. This Moon honors the Mother and the Children. As we are all children of creation, we are all honored, celebrated and raised to our highest potential.

Please Join Us at Finca Amrta, www.fincaamrta.com

Finca Amrta is a wonderfully majestic land. Forests, planes and rivers, fruits, animals and flowers harmoniously create the space. We will circle, with or without fire, for songs and plant medicine walk. Time honored for a swim in the river and relaxing among the trees.

We will nourish our bodies as we nourish our souls with wholesome food.

~ Sunday will be a day for bartering natural and made goods ~

Interested in volunteering?

Song, Art, Dance, Drumming or Child songs leader?

Just as we work to raise the vibrations of this planet, so do we each create ceremony. This is a participant created celebration. All participants volunteer.

Participants need to secure:
Tent with rain fly and camping accessories; dishes and utensils; sticks, scoops or prongs; snack food; water bottle; Deet-free insect repellent; sunscreen; biodegradable soap; song Book/paper for creating your own; natural Healing items for barter or trade

Price
$60 U.S. for the Entire Weekend (3 days), $20 per day, Teens = ½ price, Children are Free (parents are in charge of their children). All are welcome. This fee supplies food, reimbursement for event organizers, full-time staff and preparation and restoration of Finca Amrta.

For registration or more information contact

Rose Kenny: Cantandolavida@gmail.com

Register by January 1st.  Remember, we need to purchase food in advance.

We will enjoy a satisfying Menu
Rice, beans & lentils, pasta, cheese, oats and vegetables and from the farm fruits, oranges and bananas, cob oven baked bread and yogurt. Please bring your own special treats and snacks or items to share.

We hope to sing you there!

 

Where to find us: When you land in San Jose, Costa Rica you can take a cab from the airport to the Musoc Bus station. All cab drivers know where to go. Buses from this station go ONLY to San Isidro, so don't worry that you will get on the wrong bus. You should not pay more than $15 for this taxi ride.

Make sure that you keep track of your belongings in San Jose. Always keep your money, passport and plane ticket on your body.

From San Jose to San Isidro:
Take the bus from the Musoc bus station to San Isidro. Buses leave every hour

(8:30~9:30 etc., with 5:30 being the last bus.) And the cost is around 2000 colones.

From San Isidro to the farm: you have two options:

1) Taxi: Tell the cab driver that you want to go to the entrance to Arizona on the road to San Ramon Sur: " Me gustaria ir dos km norte de Pedregoso a la entrada a Arizona por el camino a San Ramon Sur." Cost should be around 2000 colones.

2) Bus: Buses leave San Isidro from the Mercado Central - (Central market) for San Ramon Sur/Pedregoso leaves for the farm at the following times: 8:00 (sat-sun); 11:00; 2:30; 4:45

Get off at the Arizona stop. Don't worry; the bus always makes this stop but just to make sure you can tell the bus driver," la entrada de Arizona" so that he will know and then let you know when to get off. At the Mercado you will see many buses. The destination is written above the driver outside of the bus. Our bus says: San Ramon , Pedregoso and is blue and white. Cost is: 260 colones.

Across from the entrance to Arizona is a wooden fence and a long gate. This is the way to our farm. On the left hand side of the driveway, on the first large tree you will see a sign that says AMRTA. On the right just before going through the gate is a rock on the ground that is painted with the name AMRTA. Go down the hill. Follow the road all the way to the end and you will find the volunteer house.

Welcome to Finca Amrta!

PLEASE NOTE: If you arrive in San Isidro at dark (around 5:30-6:00) please plan on taking a room at the Hotel Chirripo (across from the central park) and come to the farm in the daylight hours.

Please bring a good flashlight, sunscreen and insect repellent THAT DOES NOT CONTAIN DEET.  The macrobiotic stores in town carry a very effective and non-toxic brand that is made here in Costa Rica.

 

 

 

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A teaching gathering for ceremonial singing circles, dancing, and music
We change the world as we transform ourselves with songs of blessings, devotion, and gratitude.
Lillebakke @ 1778 Northriver Rd, Cosmopolis, WA

 

WHAT IS SINGING ALIVE?
This event is about bringing people together to sing and dance in circular devotion to the regeneration of humanity and the earth. We focus on songs which embody the re-emerging consciousness of love for the planet and for world peace. The old paradigm of domination, exploitation, and war is gradually being replaced by cultural forms of peace, partnership, respect, and reverence for all life. Over the past 30 years a new genre of songs have (re)emerged that reflect and celebrate this new paradigm. Our intent is to invite singers and musicians who can share songs of this genre which work in the format of communal singing. This is not an entertainer / audience gathering; rather it is a participatory event where we all sing together, and work together to make this happen. Those who don't think they can sing are encouraged to come and claim the birthright of a singing species!

A Teaching and Sharing Gathering
Whole-Group Singing Circles & Small Song-Circles
Dances of Universal Peace,
Playing Musical Instruments,
Voice & Breathwork,
Midwiving New Languages & Reclaiming the Ancient Ones,
Bardic Legacies and Storytelling,
Creating & Sharing Songbooks & Songbook Art

Traditions (Song Tribes)
Rainbow, Rasta, Shamanic, Daime, Native American, Orisha, Osho, Amma, Sufi, Gospel, Kirtan, and omward . . .

Themes and Invocations
World Peace, Divine Mother, Planetary Acupuncture, the Devic Realms, Human Flowering, Harmonic Toning, and song on . . .

We aim to keep the event affordable and accessible to all who wish to attend. To this end, we ask everybody to volunteer their time and talents. Everyone is asked to bring food to contribute to the community kitchen. Everyone is requested to help cook, clean, and do the necessary tasks to keep our village running smoothly. There will be a vending period on Sunday in which all are invited to participate (Cd's. instruments, crafts).

The idea for this gathering was conceived on July 16, 2005 by Michael Pilarski (Skeeter) , & Morgan Brent (M.T. Xen).
Skeeter is an wildcrafter and farmer of medicinal plants, permaculturalist, educator, and the founder of many gatherings, such as the Okanagon Barter Faire, the Northwest Herbal Faire, and the Human & Fairy Relations Congress.
Morgan is an educator and organizer, who specializes in the prescriptive teachings of medicinal plants, aka Nature's plan to save the humans. He most often shares these teachings thru Creation-story styled sacred song circles

SCHEDULE:
Feel free to arrive anytime Thursday if you wish, as we shall start Friday morning with whoever has arrived. Everyday (Fri., Sat. & Sun.) begins with possible choices in yoga or morning song circles. At 9:30 am we all gather in a MORNING CIRCLE, to altar the day and introduce the events to come. Likely we will do one large theme circle (where we go around the circle and everyone has the opportunity to share a song on a single theme, such as Blessings, Peace, Gratitude, the Elements, Divine Mother, etc.), and 2 or 3 smaller specialty circles (those that are more 'taught', or led), both in the morning, (10:00 ~ 11:30/12), and in the afternoon (2:30 to 4/4:30). At 5:30 we gather again in an AFTERNOON CIRCLE, to close out the day and introduce dinner and the evening events, which are mostly free-form fire circles, though we do have some special things in the works.

COSTS:
$60 at gate, $50 pre-registered (send to Morgan Brent @ below address), $20 per day, ½ price for teens 13-17 with parents, children under 12 free.

for advanced tickets, please send a check to:
Morgan Brent
1631 NE Broadway, #426
Portland, OR 97232

LOCATION:
Lillebakke @ 1778 North River Road, Cosmopolis, WA. The land, 180 acres or so, is privately owned by a couple with two children, all of whom will be attending as well. Cosmopolis is located in SW Washington, not to far from the coast. We are a few miles outside of town in the coastal rain-forest. Coming into the land off the road, you will be ushered into a big meadow that you can camp in. From there, it is a walk across a bridge and down a trail, to another (main) meadow, which is where the Singing Alive event will take place.

RIDE SHARE:
if you need a ride, or can offer a ride, email me (xen@tribesofcreation.com), and I'll see what can manifest.

DIRECTIONS:
From Portland ~~ Travel on I-5 to exit 88B (if heading North), exit 88 (if heading South), the 'Tenino/Rochester/South Sound speedway' exit, which is 15 - 20 minutes S. of Olympia, 90 minutes N. or Portland; go West on Hwy 12
2) go West about 12 miles, thru and past Rochester until you come to BLOCKHOUSE RD. If you've come to Oakville the town you've gone to far.
3) take a LEFT on Blockhouse rd, go to intersection, then straight (slight rt actually) on CEMETARY Rd. It T's into another Rd. (SOUTH BANK RD.) take a LEFT
4) go a mile or so until crossing a big, big river, then take first LEFT onto GARRARD CREEK Rd
5) Follow it, and it will 'Y' after a couple miles, but go straight on it (don't go to Centralia!), and it becomes BROOKLYN Rd. Follow this thru the non-town of BROOKLYN (where by this time it becomes NORTH RIVER RD, and you will see 1778 NORTH RIVER RD. on your left. Be aware that there are a few miles of rough logging road on this route.

From Olympia or Seattle ~~
1) Take S. 101 N toward Aberdeen/Port Angeles
2) Continue on WA-8 West (signs for Aberdeen/WA-8 W/Montesano)
3) Continue on US-12 West
4) Take the Jct WA-107 ramp to Raymond/Montesano
5). Turn left at S Main St
6) Continue on WA-107
7) Turn left at US-101
8) Turn left at Artic Rd
9) Turn left at N River Rd to 1778 North River Road

ACCOMODATIONS:
Free Camping! Tents and some (limited) space for RVs. Early Sept. is about the driest time of the year – nevertheless, unexpected rains should always be expected!

FOOD:
The food vision for this event is to run it as a great potluck, with us, the focalizers/organizers, providing some staples, such as grains, condiments, cooking oils, and the kitchen infrastructure. Since it will be harvest season then, there should be much abundance out there. Bring what you can to feed the Family! At each large circle before the two meals a day, it would be good for those who brought something we are going to eat to introduce the food. Everything will be vegetarian, and as organic as possible. Bring your own bowls/plates/utensils!

VOLUNTEERING:
We would like everyone who is able, to contribute a few hours to the smooth running of the event. Tasks include childcare, regisration, firewood gathering, circle recording, food prep, washing dishes, clean up, errand running, etc. You'll find a board to sign up for such things when you come in . .

THINGS TO BRING:
First off, bring a lot of drinking water, as there is none at the site (though plenty of river water). Again, we ask that you bring your own plates. cups, and silverware and keep them for the duration. We'll have a dishwashing station set up. This is a camp-out, so come prepared with tent, bedding, flashlights, water bottle, etc. Bring your bathing suit since the site in on the North River. Bring songbooks and CDs for show and share. We wish to create lists of songs, singers, songbooks, CDs etc. CDs, songbooks, musical instruments and the like can be sold/traded throughout the weekend, and there will be a barter period on Sunday for people to trade and sell other types of wares. You can bring your dog, but keep her/him leashed in the main meadow areas. Bring warm clothes for the evening as it can get chilly. That and dew (and thistle) proof footware.

WISH LIST:
Remember this is a inexpensive gathering depending on communal, co-operative energies to make it happen well. We have drinking water down the road, but need some BIG plastic containers (food grade 5 gallon buckets with lids, carboys) to get an optimal amount into the site, and plastic tubs to wash dishes in. We'll have a tea kitchen set up in the evening, that could use donations of teas, chai's, coffees, etc. Also looking for a sweat lodge person(s). What else - we have both posters and flyers that I can send you either by email, or physical mail, if you ask me. Also bales of hay and outdoor or metal chairs to sit on, firewood, and LOTS of food bounty. As we will be recording most of the circles, we need a few more mp3 recorders, or even ipods with microphones.

WORK PARTY:
August 30, 31 at the site. We are going to do a few infrastructure things, such as build an outhouse or two, and do general site preparation. A little pre-Singing Alive gathering. If you've got the time and inclination, let us know . .

Sing You There!

 

 

Singing Alive Vision Statements:

Morgan Brent, 2007 ~~ 'This is really about creating a good-sized focal point of positive intention. We are gifted with many spiritual resources, among them many songs and prayers, to ride and transmute the often chaotic energies swirling about us for the collective good. When we engage with these resources, especially when there are a lot of us doing it together, we can more easily open our hearts, which gives space for our Higher selves to expand their presence into this world, to set another vibration, another story, another reality, into motion, into being. This is how we seize the opportunity of these times . . a way to do our human-sized part for the great spiritual forces to do theirs. The event is about supporting people who like to sing and pray in these ways, or who may want to but haven't had the encouragement or resources (those who don't think they can sing are urged to come!), and to network them/us and strengthen the web of beneficial visions which, as I like to say, 'is circling the world like pearled necklaces of evolutionary heat'.

Michael 'Skeeter' Pilarski, 2007~ "At this time of great changes we gather together for inspiration, empowerment and strength. We often feel separate, lonely and isolated in our work to help the world through these great changes. Singing Alive offers us a chance to be with a loving support group and at the same time do something useful for the world. Although humans obviously include an incredible range of consciousness there is a composite, planetary human mind. There are also national consciousnesses, cultures, tribes, etc. These group "psyches" are in the ethers, so to speak and they affect all of us to some degree or another. One influences all. The most conscious and illumined humans help set a template for others to tap into. They make the path easier for the rest of us. A group of people singing together with intent is a way to affect the group mind. Singing Alive is not only for the participants' joy and fun; Singing Alive can be a real contribution to world peace and love. We are helping sing into being a more loving way for humans to be in the world. We sing for freedom, for compassion, spiritual illumination, Earth-awareness, etc."

Morgan Brent, 2008 ~~ "The planetary situation of escalating crises is demanding that we humans recreate ourselves to a higher octave of possibilities, that we rapidly mature. To this beginning, many of us are initiating sanctuaries, or gathering in ceremonial spaces, where in we can go into a crysalis of held space to radically transform ourselves. Singing Alive provides such a space. It is intended to be a social container for our safe surrender, metamorphosis, and emergence. We want to allow our innate goodness and altruism, our inborn desire to care for others and see the spiritual light of ourselves in others, to surface and midwive this process. We want to invite songs that can guide us in this, that can give us safe passage thru pain and suffering, thru the Divine ecstacy and grace, the depths and heights of the hells and heavens that turn the wheels of karma for this world. We invite them from all eras, places, and cultures. We welcome the spiritual energies of the people and communities that birthed these songs, the Sufi's and Essenes, the Orisha communities and Native Americans. We welcome the experience and deep roots of the song lineages from our ancestors, the Psalms and Vedic mantras, the African chants and Gaelic prayers. We welcome the fresh teachings and flowering vibrations of the new songs from the new tribes, the Rainbow warriors and Gospel singers, the Daimistas and modern sannyasins. As the songs swirl together and do their magic, we feed the human bodies the highest vibrations of nectarous nourishment so that we may attune to their visions and thrivalize with their spiritual healing. We open in sweet surrender to become as hollow bamboo for the Goddess to play her tunes, as hollow bones for the Great Spirit to sound his whistle. Singing Alive gives us the opportunity to dance our lives to the songs, to experience wondrously re-knewed ways of being human. We can then 'heartstorm' together practical understandings of how to bring them into our everydays lives, to cultivate and nurture them, as they cultivate and nurture us. Singing Alive is boot camp for living life as ceremony in a temple Universe!"

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