Chanting Together as a Spiritual Practice (Online)

Find your people, Find your practice. We are a place where community and contemplation meet. No more trying to be mindful alone.The Hive exists to develop creative, compassionate, and mindfully-engaged citizens in the Cincinnati region through small group classes and workshops. We have curated a collective of proven teachers, facilitators, and spiritual directors to help guide your learning in mindfulness, contemplation, art and action. We hope you'll try a class and like it enough to become a regular member. Your partnership helps make this nonprofit possible.(As a social enterprise, the Hive shares our story with photos of classes and events. If you are opposed to sharing your lovely face let is know and we'll do our best to avoid that. But by using an event ticket you agree to let The Hive share your image in photo, audio, and video.)

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Join the Hive for this 4 week small group experience facilitated by Paulette Meier!

<p><a href="https://www.cincyhive.org/membership" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Annual memberships range from $45 to $125 a month and include admission to 8 or more courses a year (including Pay What You Can options). Why not save on this class, and be a part of sustaining the Hive in our work online and in the greater Cincinnati community? Click here to join today.</a></p><h2>Chanting Together as a Spiritual Practice</h2><h3>Domains: Contemplative Practice, Healing Work</h3><p><em> &quot;Chanting moves us out of our head and into our heart.&quot;</em> - Cynthia Bourgeault</p><p>Sufi wisdom says that chant is the bridge between sound and silence. In our time together, we will learn and sing chants and simple songs from various traditions. Singing in a repetitive style makes it easy to learn the songs without reading words or notes, allowing us to have a more embodied experience. Science has shown that chanting triggers the release of endorphins and hormones responsible for feelings of joy and love, and communal chanting even synchronizes our heartbeats, so that they beat as one!</p><p>We are made to sing – the way wolves and whales and frogs are made to sing. Together we will create musical vibrations to nourish and connect our spirits – with each other and with the divine within us.</p><p>With Covid precautions, we will meet over Zoom to sing. While Zoom technology prevents hearing each other simultaneously, use of recordings with multiple voices will simulate the effect of joint live singing.</p><p>Each session will end with a time of silent meditation.</p><p><em>“Chanting is at the heart of all sacred traditions worldwide…. It is fundamentally a deep-immersion experience in the creative power of the universe itself. Because to make music, you must engage those three core elements out of which the earth was fashioned and through which all spiritual transformation happens: Breath – Vibration – Intentionality.”</em> - Cynthia Bourgeault</p><p>Paulette is a recording artist and long-time singer/songwriter for peace, justice and the earth. She is a member of MUSE, Cincinnati Women’s Choir, and has sung with Shelley Graff&#x27;s group, &quot;Women Singing in Sacred Circle” as well as the local Threshold Choir. She has taught and led chanting at Quaker centers throughout the US and Great Britain, as well as at Wisdom School retreats with Cynthia Bourgeault, author and teacher of the contemplative Christian and Wisdom traditions. Paulette has recorded two Quaker chant albums: Timeless Quaker Wisdom in Plainsong and Wellsprings of Life: Quaker Wisdom in Chant. </p><h3>Your Zoom link will be sent with your registration confirmation. You can email any questions to chris@cincyhive.org </h3>

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