This mantra is for those moments in our lives when we know something needs to change, we need to change, and we need support through that transformation. It's both a request and a statement. An opportunity to transmute that discomfort into something beautiful. May it hold you and open you.

Lyrics:

I let go of all that no longer serves me
And I invite in something new

© Laura Sera
09/2021
All rights reserved
https://sistersinharmony.net/circles/laura-sera/

Something New

This chant was inspired by an answer Ayla Nereo gave to a question asked during her Living Song course. A student inquired about situations where we feel we need to protect ourselves and our energy, to put up a shield so we don't take in someone else's anger, jealousy, or worse. Ayla responded that the desire to shield ourselves often comes from a place of fear, and when we create our protection from fear, it may still let fear through. When we consciously create a field of love around us, only love can get through. 

This story is a paraphrase of the exchange from memory, long after the moment. It's how I remembered what I needed to learn. 

I offer this chant to you now, as my assimilation of this message into an active practice.

Lyrics:

When I emanate light, I receive light
When I emanate love, I receive love
When I emanate peace, I receive peace
When I emanate joy, I receive joy

© Laura Sera
10/2021
All rights reserved
https://sistersinharmony.net/circles/laura-sera/

When I Emanate Light

This song is a powerful meditation. You can sing the melody (the first part) as a chant, with your own timing, allowing your heart to set the tempo. Or you can keep it in rhythm and add the harmonies.

Tracks of the individual parts are available, reach out if you'd like them.

Lyrics:
There is only this moment
No future no past
There is only this moment
Forgive yourself at last

https://sistersinharmony.net/circles/laura-sera/

© Laura Sera
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Only This Moment

This song arose in 2021 out of personal grief and collective grief (covid loss of connection), as well as out of a much deeper grieving for what we've done to our Mother Earth. May these words offer hope for her, and our, resilience.

This can be taught in community song circles by using only the first three lyric parts.

Also, this is an old recording, check with me if you're interested in carrying this song as a few small things have changed ;)

Lyrics:

Part One:

Let the rain fall
Let your tears fall
You can’t control the rain
You can’t control the sun
You can only trust
That each dawn will come

Part Two: 

No matter what we’ve done
No matter what you’ve done
The dawn will always come

Part Three:

You are always home
You are the star
If you only know
You are a star

Part Four (Bridge):

Look to the brilliant blue sky
And the stars at night
Find your place there
The stars will always turn
And you will always learn
To find your place there

Part Five (Bridge):

Trust
The way you trust the sun to rise
Trust 
Trust yourself to rise

Part Six (ENDING):

Let the rain fall
Let the plants grow
Let the sun shine
Let the rivers flow

Let your soul fall
Let your soul grow
Let your soul shine
Your soul will always flow

© Laura Sera 
2021
All rights reserved
https://sistersinharmony.net/circles/laura-sera/

Trust the Dawn

This chant is deeply soothing and healing. I call it an "affirmation zipper" because, while the recorded words are "I am loved," you may sing (zip in!) many possible phrases here: I am held, I am safe, I can trust, etc. Sing what you need!

Tracks of the individual harmony parts are available, reach out if you'd like them:

https://sistersinharmony.net/circles/laura-sera/

© Laura Sera
9/2022
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I Am Loved

medicine song of the grandmother
in the photo: my grandma tsipora 104 years
lyrics- unknown
voc- sheffy oren bach 

this is a call & request to all women , for healing and balancing 
gaining the natural power again on earth
and by that to hold and balance the male energy
let our energies combine with love and compassion every day on this planet

lyrics:

i hear the voice of my grandmothercalling i hear the voice of my grandmothers song 
she say: stand in your power wemen stand in your power listen listen
 i hear the voice of my grandmother calling i hear the voice of my grandmothers song 
she say: give birth give life , mothers ,give birth give life listen listen
 i hear the voice of my grandmother calling i hear the voice of my grandmothers song 
she say: teach them , be wise , mothers , teach them be wise listen listen
 i hear the voice of my grandmother calling i hear the voice of my grandmothers song
she say: wake u wake up child wake up wake up listen listen
Recoded at beleza Pura , Ran Gerson

Grandmother Song-Sheffy Oren Bach

You can purchase the Elul album, which was compiled, recorded & edited by Anat Hochberg & Matt Goldfield here:
https://elulmusicproject.bandcamp.com/releases
This album features a beautiful collection of original songs for Elul by various contemporary Jewish musicians.

This song came through in the forests of the Blue Hills, which is on the land of the Massachusett tribe. Sometimes it may seem that all of our leaves fall down, onto the forest floor, and our branches lie bare & exposed in the cold wind. Shedding tears and the things that no longer serve us, we are stripped down to our most basic selves. This leaves us vulnerable, and it naturally opens up a space for teshuva, a return to self. Because we are the water, earth, fire and wind, and we can call on these powers, to help us through.

LYRICS:
all the leaves have fallen down, have fallen down
all the leaves have fallen down, have fallen down

i am the water, earth, fire & wind
dig deep my roots and return again
i am the water, earth, fire & wind
return again

CREDITS:
from Elul: Songs for Turning, released September 7, 2017
Batya Levine: vocals
Anat Hochberg: vocals
Micah Shapiro: djembe, vocals
Album Art: Roz Freeman

Elul: Songs for Turning

All The Leaves

Hey folks!  This little ditty came to me a couple weeks ago watching a sunset. 
We just might sing it this uproming Fall season of Hark! 

info at www.weringlikebells.com

These are the lyrics I ended up settling on:
Part 1: Autumn Light fading right into the end of day; Autumn air lead me where I'm home, home to stay,
Part 2: The day is leaving, the stars have come.
Part 3: The color of dreams, the color of dusk; the color of peach, the color of rust.
Part 4: Fading into all my dreaming.

Autumn Light

Artist: Kate Sutherland

I learned this song at Let My People Sing 2019.

Sung at a song circle on September 15, 2019 on Chinook land/Portland, OR.

Part 1:
When I am waiting out a storm
I come back to my breath
When I am waiting out a storm
I come back to my heartbeat

Part 2:
Mmm, madeo, madeo
Mmm, madeo, madeo-o

**Photo credit: Sarah Snyder!

Waiting Out A Storm (Kate Sutherland)

An elegant, mystical, circular song flowed through me for the Winter Solstice of 2020, inviting us to trust the wisdom of our own hearts. Enjoy! 

Sung here in the Key of B flat (if you use a Shruti) The singing bowl is in D

You are welcome to share this song with others. Recording is not permitted. Thank you. 

Lyrics:

The answer lies within me
Deep within my heart
The wisdom I am seeking
Divine love will impart
Listen
Listen
Listen
Listen

© Heather Houston
12/20/2020
All rights reserved 

www.heatherhoustonmusic.com

Heather Houston's Album

Listen — Heather Houston - Key of B flat

Laura's original songs restore our connection to ourselves, to each other, to nature, and to love. Her compositions range from simple chants to multi-part layers and harmonies for use in both song circles and choral groups.

Laura leads women's singing circles in Santa Cruz, California and is passionately committed to the healing and transformative power of song — it has beautifully awakened and expanded her life and her greatest wish is for it to awaken and expand your life, too!

Something New

Laura Sera

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