Song Carriers Immersion

OVERVIEW

The Song Carriers Immersion is an initiatory experience for women called to awaken their natural wild essence and vitality through song and sisterhood. The immersion brings participants deeply into the way of the Song Carrier and provides guidance about how to gather, learn, hold, and offer sacred Earth Songs. Through a rich mix of communal singing, dancing and ritual along with solo visioning and wandering, women uncover the unique gifts of their voice and remember their original role as caretakers of life and dreamers of the mystery. The setting is the pristine wilds of Apache Canyon, NM where the music and medicine of nature powerfully present themselves and root the overall experience. 

**The Song Carriers Immersion is a pre-requisite for the

Song Carriers Leadership Training.**

DATES & LOCATION:

Fall 2019 Song Carriers Immersion is

Tuesday September 24, 2:00 pm through

Sunday September 29, 1:00 pm at

Apache Creek Ranch near Santa Fe, NM

CORE ELEMENTS

1. Nature Immersion
2. Ancestral and New Song Lineages
3. Dance as Prayer
4. Earth-based Ritual
5. Rhythm Making
6. Solo Time in the Forest
7. Sisterhood Weaving
8. Conscious Visioning 

THE HARVEST

1. Enliven your wild essence
2. Receive earth songs in original languages
3. Awaken the gift of listening for and shaping songs from nature’s music
4. Increase fluency with rhythm
5. Deepen embodiment
6. Develop ritual practices
7. Cultivate relations with Mother Earth and beyond-human entities
8. Enter a community of sisterhood

THE SETTING & ACCOMMODATIONS

Apache Creek Ranch is located 30 minutes from downtown Santa Fe and is surrounded by 400 acres of forest with a small creek that runs through the canyon. The breathtaking ranch has two sweet adobe casitas with loft spaces containing individual beds to share with two or more women and there is one room available with a king size bed to share with another woman. (This room is reserved for two women who are unable to climb a ladder into the loft spaces). Camping is also available for those that want more privacy. Each casita contains communal bathrooms with a shower. There is also a luxurious heated outdoor swimming pool. The retreat includes 3 nourishing meals a day, using locally grown and organic foods by our personal chef, Brigita Lacovara. (http://brigitaskitchen.com)

THE SESSIONS & SCHEDULE

The Song Carriers Immersion sessions will mainly take place outdoors with evening sessions indoors. Most days require an easy twenty minute walk to the forest for our gatherings. There will be one day devoted to a longer hike up the sacred mountain to make offerings and listen for nature’s songs. 

Tuesday, Sept. 24 

2pm-3pm Arrival & Registration

4pm-6pm Session

6pm Dinner

Wednesday, Sept. 25

8am Breakfast

10am Opening Ceremony

1pm Lunch

2pm-5pm Session

6pm Dinner

7pm-9pm Session

Thursday, Sept. 26 

8am Breakfast

9am-4pm Pilgrimage to sacred mountain

6pm Dinner

7pm-9pm Session

Friday, Sept. 27

8am Breakfast

9am-1pm Session

1pm Lunch

2pm-5pm Session

6pm Dinner

7pm-9pm Session

Saturday, Sept. 28

8am Breakfast

9am-1pm Session

1pm Lunch

2pm-4pm Session

5pm-7pm Closing Water Lodge

7:30pm Feast

Sunday, Sept. 29

8am Breakfast

9am Check-out

10am-12:30pm Song Carriers Women’s Community Circle in Santa Fe

GUIDE

Madi Sato is a singer and women’s community leader of Japanese Ainu and Celtic roots. She is devoted to raising women’s voices for the benefit of all life. Madi has guided hundreds of women in awakening and empowering their authentic voices through the self-designed Song Carrier method of gathering in community. From a young age, she was immersed in indigenous ceremony and drawn to the feet of traditional grandmothers. She continues to compose original songs & chants consonant with nature’s music and is a lifelong dancer versed in an array of traditions and styles, both old and new. 

Madi and her husband, poet Timothy P. McLaughlin, are co-founders of PRAISING EARTH, an organization devoted to rewilding the human heart through the traditions of song, story, dance and ritual to enliven all people’s essential belonging to Earth. She is the creative mother of the organization’s Singing Waters programs, which include Song Carriers Women’s Circles, Basket of Seeds Grandmother’s Alliance, Song Carriers Immersion, Song Carriers Leadership Training, and the 13 Moons Song Archive. She lives in Santa Fe with Timothy and their three children.

TheSingingWaters.org

PraisingEarth.org

COST

$1600, includes all meals and shared lodging 

$1475, includes all meals and camping

Song Carrier Immersion

Application 

Thank you for your interest in the Song Carrier Immersion! This application allows you to articulate your desires and intentions for this program and helps us get to know you.

Before applying, please ensure you are able to commit to living on-site and fully engaging in every day of the immersion.

(Type into the spaces beside/beneath each question. Use whatever space you need. When complete, save and send to: Info@TheSingingWaters.org)

Name:

Address, Telephone, Email Address:

DOB:

Heritage(s):

Languages spoken or sung: 

Health/Fitness Condition:

Express what draws your soul to the path of the Song Carrier.

Describe your connection and experience with song & wilderness.

What is your ceremonial background?

Are you comfortable in the elements and with hiking and spending solo time in the wild?

Please state your lodging preference. Loft bed, shared king bed, or camping?

Please list any food preferences or restrictions—