Offerings
a flute can
be made of a man
nothing is explained
— Ross Gay, “Ode to the Flute”
Standard Sessions
For individuals & couples on thresholds. I’m your song doula. Together, we find the song that holds the thread you need to hold right now. Bring what’s stretching you. Emerge with your integration spell, your seed for what’s next, your homing signal.
This container is for those longing to embody an insight received through traditional therapy, adult development, loss, altered states of consciousness (including psychedelic journeys), or life thresholds such as new parenthood & birth, death, marriage, gender transition, career change, etc. What needs to change? There’s a song for that. It’s yours.
In this intimate container, I will guide you through an arc of breath & sound work to open your voice, energize the central channel of your body, hone in on the seed of your song, & play with textures such as rhythm, body percussion, harmony, & words.
This is deep nervous system work that vibrates the entire vagus nerve, releases endorphins, & moves a lot of energy. It can sometimes be quite challenging. Schedule your session when you have space for deep work & nourishing rest. In-person sessions include broth and a snack & are held in a physical dome whenever possible.
Sing to Change
For parents, students, teachers, & (lifelong) embodied learners. I’m your hedge bard. Together, we craft songs that carry & transmit Life lessons for your family, your camp or place-based classroom, your learning community.
Inspired by the underground hedge schools of bardic Ireland, we weave words, tunes, dialogue, & gesture to enhance our embodied knowing of the truths, stories, ways, relationships & orientations that matter for preserving & co-creating worlds.
If that sounds a bit audacious, well, singing is a fun way to memorize things, too!
This container is detail-oriented, attuned to your place and context, & often quite playful. Imagine: a song outlining your local water cycle; a song that follows a beloved tree through its expression across the year; a mushroom-hunt march; a lullaby to remind your baby of all she knows she needs.
Book a one-time session, or reach out to explore possibilities for ongoing collaboration with your learning community.
Sing to Learn
“The session began with acknowledging
the four directions, & calling in &
thanking beings important to me.
CdV led & participated with me in a variety
of expressions, using my voice & breath & some body movement to create sensations and open up space, allowing sound to flow freely.
We then added on movements & more sounds that led to a thread of a song to build upon.
By the end of the session, I had the beginnings
of a song to bring away with me, to remember,
re-sing, & celebrate with.
This was a mind/body/soul/spirit experience.
I highly recommend Hum Dome to anyone
in search of freedom of expression & emotional balancing/healing through sound.”
— Joella, Song Catcher
Welcome Home Dome
Sit in the dome with other curious seekers & embody the energies of the season, together
Come one, come all—right here. We are always already immersed in a great, dynamic song cycle made of breaths, moons, winds, birdcalls, & seasonal shifts. Circle up for co-created sound immersions to embody the energies of land & season at power points around the wheel of the year.
In person in Enterprise, Oregon & on land around the PNW. Protected & adorned container, supportive scaffolding, bone broth or adaptogenic mushroom broth, & something nourishing from the land are always provided.
In-person events on land and in Enterprise, Oregon. Subscribe to our ~twice-moonly newsletter & Podcast, Kinward Moves, to listen for opportunities.
If you would like to bring this seasonal medicine to a place near you, please reach out.
Custom offerings
For groups. I work with your circle, organization, gathering, congregation, or company to facilitate an embodied experience of coherence. Bring your purpose, your growth edge, your big questions, your good work of trust or repair. Step into the dome together. Hum. Listen. Step out in tune.
This offering is for those who see that the entangled crises of our time are not being adequately met with strategic plans, balance sheets, & intellect alone. We also need to trust each other.
We are making futures as we go, & the more beautiful worlds we are striving for are emerging from “islands of coherence”—spaces where people are cultivating co-regulation, imagination, breadth, & adaptive capacity—& developing the embodied solidarity we need to go the distance, together.
Singing together is being in it together, for a while. When you engage Hum Dome for your group’s retreat, summit, accountability process, or strategy session, we will not bring ideas (though you can be sure we’ve got a few). We will bring a grounded, held experience of somatic solidarity, developed alongside you to suit your context & intentions.
I lean on many years of professional facilitation experience—cross-cultural, trauma-informed, reflective, & collaborative—to customize Hum Dome for your context. Reach out to get started.
Sing Coherence
For land stewards, hearth keepers, & caretakers of sacred sites. Gather your people & bless your place. Together, we attune deeply to the particular energies & expressions of your site & explore the web of relationships that hold & shape it. When we’re ready, we commune with craft, ritual, & song.
This is deep, big, intense work that wakes places up & binds community-in-place. The word bless comes from the Proto-Germanic blōdisōn—to consecrate with blood. The reciprocity we are cultivating in this container is real and sometimes comes with a cost. All places long to hear us singing back to them. All places hold long and often difficult history, too. A sturdy container & good scaffolding are essential. And you must be prepared: you may learn that a place you love needs you to change.
For this offering, I travel to you (usually with my family), listen to your site, & work with you & your community (honoring your particular relationship with your place) to protect & vitalize the container.
I only offer site blessings a few times a year, as the time & travel commitment is substantial.
This is a powerful custom offering. Please reach out to start a conversation.
Bless a Place
“I’ve been humming this old song
from the French Revolution. Part of it is like:
we’re gonna be okay. And then another part
is like: down with the bourgeoise!!!
Heh. What I understand now is,
these people weren’t, like, trained singers.
They weren’t performing. They were using
the technology of song to gather themselves,
to say to each other: “we’re in this together.”
And to feel that.
That’s what Hum Dome is, really. You might
think you’re bringing your own material, some individual problem, & that may be true—but you won’t be alone in the container. You’ll be in it together. And then whenever you sing
that song, you’ll be in it together, again.”
— Genevieve, Song Catcher
Ready to Feel It?
Reach out with inquiries.