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*Dec 4*: Retrain Your Lizard Brain

What: Retrain Your Lizard Brain: Somatic Singing for Trauma Awareness and Resilience When: Thu, Sept 25, Nov 11, *Dec 4*, 6:30-8:30 p.m. ...

Tuesday, October 5, 2021

Moving to 4th Sundays: Spirit of Peace Public Meditation Practice

Life is a dance that is constantly listening and adjusting to its partners.  

One thing we're paying attention to here at Points Of Light Music is the viability of doing a ongoing public meditation that we call the Spirit of Peace.  If you haven't heard about it before, you can read about it here.  

Making space for this in the middle of the week in the middle of the day has not been easy.  Nor has it drawn folks probably because this timing is hard for many.  So we're gonna try something different...

New time:  4th Sunday of the month, 2 p.m. in the afternoon

Location:  Minnesota State Capitol Grounds, St. Paul

We'll try this for a bit and review.   

In the reflection for this change, we wanted to name why this practice of coming together still feels important.  

  • It allows us an opportunity to reflect on the inherent worth of every person we meet and practice seeing that in each person.  (because if we're honest, it's hard to do that sometimes ... er, a lot of times)
  • Coordinating our breath to sing and our bodies in movement is a practice of settling our bodies together.  In Resmaa Menakem's book My Grandmother's Hands, these actions describe the weaving of time and space that creates trust and a container for feeling safer in our bodies and in spaces to be able to heal past trauma.  We believe healing is slow and incremental, creating huge shifts in tiny movements.  
As the seasons shift into winter, we'll review if the location is good or if we'll migrate to zoom or find other places to practice this.  

In the new year, we'll check-in about the time.  

Thanks for reading along.  

Thursday, September 30, 2021

Oct 7: MGH community convening

What:  A gathering for folks who have read My Grandmother's Hands (MGH) with Conie and PLM or Music that Makes Community (MMC) over the last year.  To check-in and support each other's journey's, grow community.

When:  Thursday, October 7, 2021, 1 p.m. EDT.   
(10 a.m. PDT // 11 a.m. MDT // 12 noon CDT)

Length: 90 minutes

Where:  online via zoom.  To get the link, send a note via the Contact Us form or reply to the email you received.



Saturday, September 4, 2021

Help Wanted: Advisory Board Members

 

Help Wanted:

Creating new  

Biracial & Rural* culture 

through storytelling events & retreats.

Do you fit the description of 

being black, indigenous, person of color 
who experienced otherness 
in predominantly white rural spaces. 

AND 
(pick one or several)

- desire to create more community and care 
for and with others like yourself?

- want to dig into the Mixed Bill of Rights and 
the Oath of Responsibility by Maria P.P. Root

- want to explore the somatic practices 
within Resmaa Menakem's My Grandmother's Hands book
with other mixed folks?

- love to share your artistic practice with others?  
Or accompany folks on their artistic explorations?

- have space and interest to plan and implement logistics 
for an arts-centered retreat for next summer?
 


* Read more about our thoughts on inclusion, 
the limitations of names, 
and what we're doing about it here.

Help Wanted: Spreading the Word

Help Wanted:

Spread the Word of 

Biracial & Rural* 

to those that fit the description of 

being black, indigenous, person of color 
who experienced otherness 
in predominantly white rural spaces. 


* Read more about our thoughts on inclusion, 
the limitations of names, 
and what we're doing about it here.