song anchors ritual and a welcome hymn

Y’all, I love opening rituals and ritual containers with hymns/songs/orin.
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In ways that only a loving universe could design, for almost a decade, I’ve been rooted in communities that continue to gift me the opportunity to study the ways that song anchors ritual.
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Often when I co-weave rituals outside of these spaces, song remains at the center of what I offer.
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My experience has been that when we offer songs/hymns/orin communally, the ase of our rituals are amplified exponentially.
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For me,songs/hymns/orin retain and transmit memory and energy. The practices of engaging them are rooted in the lineages of ring shouts, call and response, and potent diasporic rituals of connection, communion, and healing.
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Engaging with song is a multidimensional practice with ancestral and cultural roots. This practice orients me toward liberated realities, connects me with the past, and supports me in visioning liberated futures.
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Engaging with song is an ancient tool for locating one’s self. It is how I locate myself within the ancestral ecosystems of love that support my life. It is how my ancestors practiced locating themselves amid systems that attempted to strip them of their cultural memories, humanity, and their embodied sense of love and deep belonging. When I offer songs they are a call, and there is always a loving response.
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The more I practice, the more I learn that anchoring songs/hymns/orin is a practice of humility. It becomes less and less about one’s personality and sound. It becomes more and more about being solid, soft, grounded, and open so that one becomes a vessel for transmitting energy and memory through sound. All of this requires deep listening.
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🎶: Welcome Song a gift from my ancestors.
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