Offerings for Individuals

Greetings,

I am opening my calendar to more paid 1:1 clients/mentees in these realms:

• spiritual direction/companioning
• full voice coaching
• song leading mentoring
• dances of universal peace leader mentoring

If you would like to explore the elements of your voice or take time to check in with your inner world or strengthen your leadership skills as a song and/or dance leader, I would be honored to walk with you. Send me an email at pointsoflightmusic@pm.me.

My ideal clients are folks doing movement work, folks interested in healing wounds, and the intersections therein.

Aug 28: Songs for Tending Our Hearts

When:  Fri, Aug 28, 7:30-9p
Location: Yess Yoga, near 26th + Nicollet, Mpls.
With Good Trouble.
Register: https://www.yessyogastudio.com/yoga-workshops/

Aug 25: Retrain Your Lizard Brain

 

When:  Mon, Aug 25, 6:30-8:30p
Location: New City Center, near 31st + Bloomington, Mpls.
With Good Trouble.
😷 (Masks up pls!)

Aug 11: PoLiMu recommends Karly Loveling

Stoking the Inner Spark with Karly Loveling

Visiting song catcher/carrier Karly from Eugene, OR will be leading an evening of community singing before heading to WisconSing next weekend.  After you vote in the primary, come and sing with Karly! 

When:  Tuesday, August 11, Arrive after 6p; Singing, 6:30-8:30p

Where:  Was New City Center >> San Pablo Lutheran Church, S. Mpls

Register here:  https://storage.corsizio.com/uploads/65ed4b2ea32a3da9cbf0c766/events/6a4827406879da6e4b0cbb1d/photo-_3-vzsJk3rER.webp

Closing Chapters: Heart Songs

The pandemic experiment that was Heart Songs is now complete as of the summer of 2026.  

To everything there is a season ... turn, turn, turn.

We're so grateful for everyone's loving and graceful presence as we have lamented and longed on zoom together over the last six plus years.  We remember many of the faces and voices who have dropped by in the past.  We believe you are in the right place wherever you are. 

If you're interested in continuing to sing with others online/on Zoom, please check out the following!

• Fellow regular Heart Songs attendee Nancy is willing to organize some future Heart Songs like gatherings.  Please email her at nancyjw@aol.com.
• Monday Morning Grounding - Music that Makes Community's weekly community song and poetry space.  10a Eastern/7a Pacific
• This Google doc of online song circle spaces shows us you could sing every day of the week!  Last updated in 2024

If you'd like to relive songs through past songlists, you can see a short archive of follow up emails here or by following this tag on the PLM blog.  

If Heart Songs has been a benefit to you, you are invited to make a donation to Music that Makes Community.  

Aug 17: Singing from the Sacred Lands Playlist online

Want to learn more songs from the Songs for Sacred Lands playlist?  We're going to start a new monthly series to help singers and song leaders learn these songs!  

Our first will be Monday, August 17, 2026, from 6:30-8 p.m. Central Time.  The featured song and song catcher/leader will be Calling by Doe Hoyer, the Organizing Director for the Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery.  

Register for the Zoom link here.  

We imagine this will happen monthly, though we're in the process of figuring out if they will be the same time of the month or vary from month to month. Stay tuned!  

Sum 2026: Dances of Universal Peace in Twin Cities

What: Dances of Universal Peace

(also known as Sufi Dancing)

When:  1st Sundays, 6:30-8:45 p.m.

• July 5
• August 2
• September 6
• October 4
• November 1
• December 6

Where:   Friends Meetinghouse, 1725 Grand Ave, St. Paul

More details at http://www.meetup.com/The-Minnesota-Dances-of-Universal-Peace/

Jun 22-29: Song Smorgasbord!

Here's a buffet of song possibilities this week.  Join us for one or all!   

• Mon, Jun 22 - Retrain Your Lizard Brain
• Wed, Jun 24 - Protecting Sacred Lands
• Thu, Jun 25 - Online* Song Leader Training 101: For Social Action
• Fri, Jun 26 - Songs for Tending Our Hearts
• Mon, Jun 29 - Singing for Liberation

More details about each under each image.  

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Retrain Your Lizard Brain:  Somatic Singing for Trauma Awareness + Resilience

Mon, Jun 22, 6:30-8:30p (not Jun 25 🤦)
Location: New City Center, near 31st + Bloomington, Mpls.
With Good Trouble.  

😷

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Protecting Sacred Lands:  Song Circle + Meeting

Wed, Jun 24, 6:30-8:30p 

Location: Creekside UCC, I-35W + Diamond Lake Rd, Mpls.

With The Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery, Music That Makes Community, Center for Sustainable Justice, and Singing Resistance TC. 

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Online Songleader Training 101: for Social Action

Thu, Jun 25, 6-8p CT 

Location:  Online

with Music That Makes Community. 

Register: https://www.musicthatmakescommunity.org/virtual_101_20260625

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Songs for Tending Our Hearts: a song circle for grief and the weight of the weary world

Fri, Jun 26, 7:30-9p 

Location: Yess Yoga, near 26th + Nicollet, Mpls. 

With Good Trouble. 

Register: https://www.yessyogastudio.com/yoga-workshops/

 

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Bonus!!!

Singing for Liberation: Monthly Songleader Incubator Circle

Mon, Jun 29, 6:30-8:30p 

Location: CTUL, near George Floyd Square, Mpls. 

Open to new/experienced songleaders, drummers, and all singers!

With Good Trouble. 

 

Summer 2026 Heart Songs (Jun 15, Jul 6, Aug 3)

What: Heart Songs: Lament, Longing, & Love

(an online community space for you to bring your heart and your voice)

When: 6:30-8p CDT 

(05-UTC until Daylight Savings Time ends)

Dates for Summer 2025:

• June 15
• July 6
• August 3

Where: Online: 

https://zoom.us/j/431161455 

(see call-in options on Heart Songs' main page)

Gather for an informal singing time to re-center our hearts in community. Simple songs will be led paperlessly/taught by ear by C. Onyx Li, Nancy W, Sarah M, other song leaders, and you, if you have a song to share.

Join us. Bring friends. (Signup for the email reminder here; select Heart Songs)

Songs will be about the human experience and in that way, spiritual in nature, but not specifically religious.

This is a space intended for self-care, however that shifts for you in every moment. Bring water. Come and go. Sit in a chair, lie on the floor, or stand as you need to.