מעגל פנימה הוא מרחב שירה משותף
שפועם בערבי חמישי ביפו 

ההקלטה הזו נעשתה במכשיר זום
היא עדות לדרך שאנחנו עושים
כדי שנקשיב לעצמינו ונתפתח

כולם מוזמנים להצטרף
המעגל הבא בסלון של נופי
חנינא בן דוסא 19, יפו

20:00-23:00
55-100₪

Pnima

Pnima, inward, is a shared singing space gathering on Thursday evenings in Jaffa.

This recording of the circle, by Zoom, is a testimony to our experience in the circle. It is here for us to listen and deepen our connection to ourselves.

Everyone is welcome to join
The next circle is in Nofi’s living room
Hanina Ben Dosa 19, Jaffa

20:00-23:00
55-100 NIS

אום סיום - פנימה

Blessed - Peia

‏Blessed we are to dance on this ground
‏With the rhythm of saints to carry the sound
‏We hold a prayer for the Earth
‏For the ones yet to come
‏May you walk in beauty
‏And remember your song

‏Blessed we are to dance on this ground
‏With the rhythm of saints to carry the sound
‏We hold a prayer for all life
‏For the days yet to come
‏May you walk in beauty
‏And remember your song

‏Remember why you came here
‏Remember your life is sacred
‏Remember why you came here
‏Remember your life is sacred


מעגל פנימה הוא מרחב שירה משותף
שפועם בערבי חמישי ביפו 

ההקלטה הזו נעשתה במכשיר זום
היא עדות לדרך שאנחנו עושים
כדי שנקשיב לעצמינו ונתפתח

כולם מוזמנים להצטרף
המעגל הבא בסלון של נופי
חנינא בן דוסא 19, יפו

20:00-23:00
55-100₪

Pnima

Pnima, inward, is a shared singing space gathering on Thursday evenings in Jaffa.

This recording of the circle, by Zoom, is a testimony to our experience in the circle. It is here for us to listen and deepen our connection to ourselves.

Everyone is welcome to join
The next circle is in Nofi’s living room
Hanina Ben Dosa 19, Jaffa

20:00-23:00
55-100 NIS

Blessed - Pnima

Altar of love - Wil Nolan

All that I am, 
I offer at that altar of love. 
In sweet surrender.  
Sat Nam Sat Nam Sat nam ji 
Wahe Guru Wahe Guru Wahe Guru ji ~ 

Mantra meaning: 
Sat (Truth) 
Nam (nature, name, identity)
 Ji (soul) 
Wahe Guru (Ecstacy of oneness or great Guru) 

מעגל פנימה הוא מרחב שירה משותף
שפועם בערבי חמישי ביפו 

ההקלטה הזו נעשתה במכשיר זום
היא עדות לדרך שאנחנו עושים
כדי שנקשיב לעצמינו ונתפתח

כולם מוזמנים להצטרף
המעגל הבא בסלון של נופי
חנינא בן דוסא 19, יפו

20:00-23:00
55-100₪

Pnima

Pnima, inward, is a shared singing space gathering on Thursday evenings in Jaffa.

This recording of the circle, by Zoom, is a testimony to our experience in the circle. It is here for us to listen and deepen our connection to ourselves.

Everyone is welcome to join
The next circle is in Nofi’s living room
Hanina Ben Dosa 19, Jaffa

20:00-23:00
55-100 NIS

Altar Of Love - Pnima

Inspired by gentle vocal warm ups with a shruti box (a common practice for myself as well as my friend Heather Houston when she warms up her choirs.) I sang this alone on my looper for the first time, as an improv and gift for my own Living Room Choir members, during pandemic isolation times. Please feel free to play with the layers and use it as an opportunity to stretch, warm up, and greet each other. It's easier to end it in person; I usually end taking out layer by layer until the last phrase heard is "It's the best." Visit https://thelivingroomchoir.com/its-the-best/ for more.

It's The Best (blend Live Looper And Recorded)

I made this on my phone with office chair drums on a free multitrack app. #cathartic👂with 🎧 

🙏🏻 to my friend Anna Lemler (@unfurlandrewild on Instagram) for encouraging me to flesh out this song, and for adding it to the Ceasefire Chorus Toolkit — a political ed. resource that includes songs to support direct actions and move us through our grief.

Bit.ly/ceasefirechorustoolkit

*@unfurlandrewild and @roottorisesomatics also just released a Somatic (body based) zine/resource to support the student encampment mvmt* 

Now! by Samantha Cooper

1st Vocal Loop: (1st note: Ab)
16 beat vocal/inst melody 

2nd Vocal Loop: (Bb, B, Db, Bb)
“mm mm mm mmmm” 

A Part Lyrics: (1st note B)
We need - a ceasefire now!
We need - divestment now!
We need - boycotts and sanctions now!
You need - to let the aid in now!

B Part ooo’s: (1st note B)
ooo’s X4

#songcircle #ceasefirechorus #solidaritysongs #stoptheoccupation

Follow @sammacooper, @solidaritysongs and @ceasefirechorus on Instagram for more songs like this!

Now!

This song was commissioned by the Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery playlist project. https://dismantlediscovery.org/sacred-lands-playlist/

I love a song that asks a question. This one asks three.

I hope you don't just sing these questions; I hope you and your community are continually experimenting towards the answers together. 

Lyrics: (I've updated the call and echo section slightly since this recording: Let's tell the story, Let's learn the story, Let's live the story...)

What would being in right relationship look like
With this land?

What's the old story? (What's the old story....)
Extraction and greed...
But let's tell the story...
Of Reciprocity...
Reciprocity...

What would being in right relationship look like
With these hands? (lower harmony)

What's the old story? (What's the old story....)
Extraction and greed... 
But let's learn the story...
Of Mutuality...
Mutuality...

What would being in right relationship look like
With the people on whose land we stand? (higher harmony)

What's the old story? (What's the old story....)
Extraction and greed... 
But let's live the story...
Of Interdependency...
Interdependency...


Teaching notes for songleaders: If you decide not to teach the harmonies that's fine! I would still teach all three questions and tell folx they can sing them right on top of one another. 


Thanks to Conie, Doe, Kat, Emily, and Katrin for singing with me (and to Doe for finessing the end of the call and echo section!)

Right Relationship

Let The Earth Live (group)

I have found resilience in the idea that my body is an extension of the Earth’s body (just as the microbes and antibodies that make up the human body are both distinct and integral to human existence) and that my life is an expression of the Earth’s animacy. 
The A-part of this song invites the liberation of our voices, our grief, our action: how do I live in service to our larger Earth body and tend to the wounds of this time? 
The B-part can be reverent, a plea, or a rejoicing:  “let the Earth live!” and may that include all beings suffering in the mass extinction and great unraveling of our times. Let her breathe and have the right to her rainforest lungs and river arteries. Let her grieve and love the heartbreaking beauty of this time. As a zipper song, you can swap in your own words. This lends itself to the work of seeking wholeness: find the words that feel potent, the doors that feel closed and invite them to open.

Let The Earth Live Through Me

I wrote this song to honor all the stories my body holds, especially around my gender. I wanted to uplift and celebrate that untangling of invisible threads. The threads I've been caught in that I am learning how to see more clearly every day. 

I teach this in community singing circles and invite anyone who sings it to consider their own bodies. What stories hold your body? Where might you direct your attention and curiosity?

My Body Holds Many Stories

How to Grieve

I write songs for community singing. They're songs for the streets, to keep us going in the struggle for justice, songs to remind us another world is possible and carry us through to liberation. I hope you'll find some friends and sing these together.

Samantha Cooper’s voice is a gentle force. Her songs speak for their sound; from contemplative respites to keen PSA’s. Her latest singles include a divestment song for Gaza "Now!", and a love note to the rights of manoomin (wild rice) called "Let The Wave". Sam's voice and violin appear on over 75 Midwestern albums and she's one half of Hearth & Hymn. She works for Youth Arts Alliance and co-organizes grassroots water rights initiatives throughout Michigan. 

Genre: Songwriter and organizer; a gentle force

“Wit and wisdom wrapped in a blanket" 
- Will Thomas, WNMC Radio

https://youtube.com/@-thetfilharmonic6568

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