WisconSing Community Singing Adventures
Singing raises your vibration,
and is restorative medicine for your mind, body and soul.
Community Singing raises the whole group up,
it is a medicinal salve that restores us to each other and the Web of Life.
We are creating new community together.
Singing Together: More Than Meets the Eye​
All voices are welcome regardless of creed, color, background, gender or identity. We are an intergenerational community building gathering.
"The main mission of Community Singing is to re-acquaint people with their birthright and natural ability to make beautiful and meaningful sound together. Most of the songs... are short, easy to learn, chant-like
songs with several layers that fit over and around each other in interesting and pleasurable rhythmic and harmonic challenges that make them fun to sing.
Group singing is one of the most ancient and primal “technologies of belonging” that we
humans have been using since our earliest times, possibly before speech itself. When
we make joyous and passionate song together, it nourishes our souls and offers an
enlivening gift back to the natural world that made us and gives us our sustenance and
our very being. When such an exchange is genuinely made, and the song finds its
natural ending, often there is a sweet, lively silence in which we simply stand and hold
the “enchantment,” the sense of deep and genuine communion amongst each other and
with the whole living world.”
Song leading in this context is sacred work, reuniting people who have lost their voices
in our culture with the simple pleasure of giving voice to their soul."
Laurence Cole - Community Song Leader, Song Writer, Grief Tender, Wise Elder
WisconSing!
Welcome to the
Community Song Leader/Song Sharing Workshop with Kva
Thursday, March 20 to Sunday March 23, 2025
and/or
Singing Spring Equinox Celebration
& World Water Day Ceremony
Saturday March 22 & 23, 2025
at Bethel Horizons Retreat Center
SAVE THE DATE!
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Facilitated Song Circles
for all occasions.​
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What is more natural and heart centered than singing together to celebrate and hold any occasion or life transition?
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Kva leads easy, call and response heart centered song to facilitate connection and belonging at any occasion.
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Communal Song
Call Kva @ 608-606-6372
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VIROQUA COMMUNITY SONG CIRCLES
2nd & 4th Sundays of each month
2:00pm - 3:30pm @
The Commons in Viroqua
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THE HEALING HEARTS
THRESHOLD CHOIR
Choir rehearsals are currently on hold but we are taking requests for song sessions of comfort and healing.
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Threshold Singing​
We affirm the beauty, dignity, and wholeness of all people and believe that everyone deserves to be treated with kindness from their first to their last breath.
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Why We Sing
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Our choir honors the ancient tradition of singing at the bedsides of people who are struggling: some with living, some with dying.
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Song is a calming medicine communicating care, belonging and love at the deepest level. Every mother who has sung to her child when distressed and every child who has rested in that mother’s arms knows the power and remembers the feeling of being held in this way.
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What We Do
When we are invited to a bedside, we will visit in groups of 2 to 4 singers. We invite families and caregivers to join us in song or to participate by listening. Most of the songs we offer communicate ease, comfort, sacredness and presence. Other pieces may include rounds, chants, lullabies, hymns, spirituals, and choral music. We know that many communities of faith surround their members with this kind of circle of comfort; because our songs are not religiously oriented, we hope our singing can be equally available to those who might be deeply spiritual but not necessarily religious.
A session typically lasts about 20 minutes; if there appears to be benefit, we might sing longer. Using soft, lullaby voices, we blend in harmony or sometimes in unison, if that provides the most comfort. We offer our singing as a gentle blessing, not as entertainment, and we are honored when a client falls asleep as we are singing.
The service is our dana/gift offering.
It is a great honor to be of service to community members, their families and caregivers during a tender stage of life. The opportunity to provide comfort and peace is a great motivation for the Healing Hearts Care Choir. The singers are healed by our songs before the vibrations ever leave our bodies. We are blessed first and then we send out blessings.
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WisconSing24
Event Timing: August 10-13th, 2024
Location: Bethal Horizons Camp & Retreat Center
Address: 4651 Co Rd ZZ, Dodgeville, WI 53533
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Registration closes July 15.
Link to Registration: www.https://forms.gle/aHGCDiUfyMirts5y6
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We are excited to host WisconSing: A Community Singing Adventure! This summer we have the entire Bethel Horizons Retreat Center in Dodgeville, WI, located on more than 548 acres bordering Governor Dodge State Park. Oh what a glorious sound we will make!
Our intention is to bring the medicine of song to each other, therein creating a place of harmonious community. We'll spend most of our time outside singing and playing in nature. We are making a special effort to weave ease and rest into our daily schedule.
We are so pleased you will be joining us for this 4 day community singing journey. The transformative healing power of singing in community, of harmonizing together in close proximity over time, increases exponentially over the days we spend together. We have added an extra day this year so that we may sink in even deeper.
We look forward to connecting with you in song. The medicine of song reconnects us to the living world, to ourselves and each other. In addition to singing, there will be time to rest, create artistically, relax deeply, wander in nature, swim, connect to Self, connect to each other and connect to all that is. We celebrate our lives in song.
We have slowed our schedule down and made more space for deeper connection in the Community Offerings part of our days together.
We have an amazing team of song leaders this year: Laurence Cole, Karly Loveling and Kira Seto from the Pacific Northwest, Liz Rog from Decorah Iowa, Lia Falls from Dresser, WI, Pam Peterson from Chicago, Tatiana Berindei, Sarah Burgess, Abby Rose Wolf, and Lucas Malson from the Madison area, Dodie Whitaker and Kva Mary Wajer from Viroqua, WI and Sarah Moore and Emma Koeppel from the Milwaukee area.
All voices are welcome! WisconSing is a family friendly event. We welcome people of all ages, races, backgrounds, genders and identities. We are intentionally an intergenerational community.
The children's programming is in creation. It's all about play, imagination, nature and song (just like the adult programming). We have many special and engaging plans cooking for children of all ages. We provide youth programming during all song circles from 9 am to 5 pm.
We are offering a sliding scale payment in the hope that no one will be turned away for a lack of funds. There are also limited scholarships available.
The price is dependent on your lodging choice. Please choose what is affordable and generous for you. Your generosity in choosing the highest amount possible on the sliding scale helps enable others to attend and supports WisconSing as a whole. Some lodging options are filled, register a.s.a.p.
Registration, which includes 10 delicious meals, lodging and programming for the 4 day event starting at ($250-320) for an adult camping to $625+ for a private room in the modern Prairie Center with multiple options in-between. All information is in the registration form, link below.
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Link to WisconSing Registration -https://forms.gle/aHGCDiUfyMirts5y6