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Music as Medicine Community Sing
With Ríomas
$25
Place: Online (Zoom)
Date: Sunday, Sep 6
Time: 10:00 am - 11:15 am PST
The Music As Medicine Sunday Community Sing is a morning of song & sanctuary, this time with special guest Ríomas!
For many millennia, music, and specifically music made together in community, has been a crucial way we bolster ourselves in hard times. Music can mend our bones and pour in the grace. It can transform our exhaustion and help us feel more held as a part of the choir.
Just as it feels good to act in the companionship of others on behalf of life, so too is the homecoming of singing together.
All are welcome! No music experience necessary.
Ríomas (RiYo or Río for short, they/them), previously known as Shireen Amini, is a queer, trans masculine, Puerto Rican-Iranian artist and immigrant settler based in Portland, Oregon creating at the intersection of music, healing, and cultural change.
Drawing upon pop and folk soul textures, gratefully and respectfully from Black and Afro-Latin lineages, they craft artful, participatory songs that invite realness and transformative energy. Bridging contemporary music mediums with ceremonial ways and resistance efforts, Ríomas creates soulful and joyful community singing experiences that reconnect people to their power and place.
In spring 2026, they released their first community song album, Gather Your Resilience: Medicine for Liberation.
https://shireenamini.com/
Work That Reconnects
Community Practice
With Lydia Violet
$25
Place: Online (Zoom)
Date: Wednesday, Sep 23
Time: 5:00 pm - 6:15 pm PST
The "Work That Reconnects" (WTR) is a framework and set of practices developed by Joanna Macy, a scholar, environmental activist, and Buddhist practitioner. It is a holistic approach to personal and collective transformation that aims to address the ecological and social challenges facing humanity.
The Work That Reconnects is rooted in the belief that in order to create meaningful change in the world, we must first acknowledge and confront the pain and despair that arise from our current environmental and social crises. It provides a safe and supportive space for individuals to explore and express their emotions about the state of the world, while also fostering a sense of connection and empowerment.
Elder and Buddhist scholar Joanna Macy for the past 12 years, learning how we can metabolize climate despair, eco-anxiety, and community traumas into energy for resilience, action, and community healing. She founded and runs School for The Great Turning, in dedication to the work of Joanna Macy, and to create access to an education that supports the societal shift from an Industrial Growth Society to a Life-Sustaining Society. For 4 years Lydia has also run the Music As Medicine Project, combining traditions of community singing with Macy's "Work That Reconnects."
Lydia has lead hundreds of groups in this work internationally, as well as conducted facilitator trainings and offered keynote addresses at conferences and festivals. Lydia is also an accomplished Iranian-Armenian-American multi-instrumentalist weaving together American roots and Iranian folk music traditions. With her live band she combines fiddle, banjo, and luscious harmonies to offer a soul-folk revival experience, bringing in a fresh wave of protest music. In the past year she has collaborated with world-renowned artists Climbing PoeTree, Rising Appalachia, and Lyla June. ♬
Thought Partnership
with Lydia Violet
$40
Duration: 30 minutes
Deep Dive
with Lydia Violet
$200
Duration: 60 minutes
In these sessions, you can meet one-on-one with school founder Lydia Violet Harutoonian. Feel free to bring in any questions you have about the "Work That Reconnects," projects you are working on, or anything else that feels relevant to seek thought partnership from Lydia about.
Starts with a short intake questionnaire, so Lydia is already holding your context before the session begins. This is the space for the bigger, harder-to-untangle stuff, including:
• Leadership and community empowerment: working through a specific leadership challenge, such as conflict mediation, confidence in your role, support with decision making etc.
• Holding group spaces: the particulars of facilitating politically and socially attuned groups, towards learning and healing.
• WTR-specific framing: applying the Work That Reconnects lens to personal and collective situations.
• New role support: the leap and recalibration of stepping into something you haven't done before.
• WTR-specific work: going deeper on your own practice, teaching, or facilitation within the framework itself.
Want to keep going? Ongoing sessions are $170/hr. Book a package of 3.
Thought Partnership
with Lydia Violet
$40
Duration: 30 minutes
In these sessions, you can meet one-on-one with school founder Lydia Violet Harutoonian. Feel free to bring in any questions you have about the "Work That Reconnects," projects you are working on, or anything else that feels relevant to seek thought partnership from Lydia about.
Deep Dive
with Lydia Violet
$200
Duration: 60 minutes
Starts with a short intake questionnaire, so Lydia is already holding your context before the session begins. This is the space for the bigger, harder-to-untangle stuff, including:
• Leadership and community empowerment: working through a specific leadership challenge, such as conflict mediation, confidence in your role, support with decision making etc.
• Holding group spaces: the particulars of facilitating politically and socially attuned groups, towards learning and healing.
• WTR-specific framing: applying the Work That Reconnects lens to personal and collective situations.
• New role support: the leap and recalibration of stepping into something you haven't done before.
• WTR-specific work: going deeper on your own practice, teaching, or facilitation within the framework itself.
Want to keep going? Ongoing sessions are $170/hr. Book a package of 3.
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As Above, So Below
Lydia Violet & Verana Faye
Online Free
Date: August 23
Time: 5 - 6:30 pm PT
