untangling and embodying

I wrote this song in the wake of the Nepal earthquake in 2015. I spent time travelling and teaching English in Nepal in 2011 and felt a personal connection to the people and land there.

Words & melodies by Osprey. Guitar by Rich Glauber. Produced by Geoffrey Mays at SoaringHeart Studio in Eugene, OR.

© 2015 Osprey Huffsmith

03 Grief & Praise

Niggun Tishrei - Nava Tehila

There Is So Much Magnificence

From the events we run called the heart centered sound circle. This one was from the July 3rd sound circle. For more information on these events, feel free to visit www.eagletherapies.org

standing like a tree

A playlist of Israeli & jewish songs for CRB campers!

Thanks:
Jeff Weisz
Karen Segal
Miriam Hertzson
Cantor Carol Chesler
Mitch Mernick
Yaniv Morozovsky

Listen to our camp music all day long at http://KolRamah.US

CRB Playlist

Listen to Kol Ramah

Nava Tehila - Oseh Shalom (Prayer for Peace)

"We Rise" was inspired by the powerful, prayerful resistance Batya Levine witnessed and experienced at Standing Rock. This song is an attempt to remember and to hold that model of resistance in our hearts and in our minds. 

We Rise…  humbly hearted
Rise...   won’t be divided
Rise...     with spirit to guide us
Rise!
(Chorus) (x2)
In hope, in prayer, we find ourselves here
In hope, in prayer, we’re right here!
We Rise… all of the children
Rise...     elders with wisdom
Rise...     ancestors surround us
Rise!
(Chorus)
We Rise…   up from the wreckage
Rise...     with tears and with courage
Rise…    fighting for life
Rise!
(Chorus & Repeat verse 1)

More from Batya and Let My People Sing here: https://soundcloud.com/user-478813445

Voice Memos

We Rise

Oseh Shalom
recorded by Nomi Lerman, Batya Levine & Margot Seigle
tune by Nava Tehila

Oseh shalom bimromav 
Hu ya'aseh shalom aleinu 
V'al kol Yisrael 
V'imru, v'imru amen.

SIVAN - Oseh Shalom

lean in

Inspired by nomadic years, the wisdom of the body and nervous system, change, Somatic Reality: Bodily Experience and Emotional Truth by Stanley Kelemen, the Kohenet Hebrew Priestess community, and the Judaism of my ancestors. Received to the tune of Avinu Malkeinu, a traditional Jewish High Holidays prayer.

Deep gratitude to my teachers, community and bright and well ancestors: Taya Shere, Rabbi Jill Hammer, Ibrahim Baba, my parents, Zaide, Grandpa, the Romanian women, Kohenet and so many more. Thank you.

Lyrics:
Slow down, child, slow down
Slow down and listen to the wind
All comes together; all falls apart
Forming anew your beating heart

Slow down, child, slow down
Slow down and draw yourself near
The rocks are your keepers
Tell them your stories
Now it is safe to be here

A river flows from within you to where you will go
The current carries you home
Let your life unfold

Slow down, child, slow down
Slow down and you will receive
Life wants to meet you where you are
Not where you think you should be

A river flows from within you to where you will go
The current carries you home
Let your life unfold

Slow down, child, slow down
Slow down and you will be shown
The love that was always lifting you up
You are never alone

A river flows from within you to where you will go
The current carries you home
Let your life unfold

Slow down child, slow down (x4)

Slow down, child, slow down
Slow down and listen to the wind
All comes together; all falls apart
Forming anew your beating heart

Slow Down / The Mother's Response (Preview)

Song/prayer/meditation to heal personal and societal grief. For ordinary grief, extraordinary grief, the unbearable kind and the unseen kind and the enduring kind, in service of exhales and letting go of what is ours and not ours, of compassion, lightness, & becoming who we are after and through it all.

Aly Halpert's Album

Loosen Loosen

Chabad nigun named after it's author, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn who was also known as the "Tzemach Tzedek," which means "sprout of justice."

Tzemach Tzedek Nigun

Healing Song by Kestrel Feiner-Homer

Tu Bshvat Nigun by Batya Levine sung live at Let My People Sing! 2018.

LMPS 2018

Tu Bshvat Nigun - Batya Levine - LMPS 2018

Nigunim, Vol. IV: Brooklyn Spirituals

Mozi's Nigun / Ana B'choakh by Joey Weisenberg

Show Up

I Am Willing by Holly Near

Bobover Wedding Niggun

Origin: a person named Molly (we aren't sure of Molly's last name!), taught it on the first night of the Let My People Sing! 2019 retreat. Molly learned it at Urban Adamah, we're not sure where it originally came from - please comment if you know! This recording is from a Let My People Sing teach-back gathering in DC, in Sept 2019

Words:
I step into the flow
And then I let it go
I open my mind, my heart and my soul (x2)

I surrender, I surrender
I surrender, I open my mind, my heart and my soul

LMPS Teach Back

Step Into the Flow

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)

Nigunim, Vol. V: Songs from the City of Brotherly Love

L'chu N'ran'na by Joey Weisenberg

Origin:
Melody by Nava Tehila
Sung by Batya Levine
Art by Naomi Weintraub & Etai Rogers-Fett

untangling and embodying

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