What's on the other side of surrendering?
Last Soft Power Choir 🌟 call of 2024 is this Monday, 11/25!
This e-mail includes an invitation to the last choir call of the year. Register here 🌟
I remember the day (in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic) I woke up and found out that there had been a fatal community choir rehearsal.
As many of you know, I have been navigating an unknown path since graduating with my doctorate in choral music education and conducting. When COVID hit the U.S., I was in my last year and half of my program, and it became clear that singing in choirs was one of the most dangerous activities to engage in. We were learning together in real time what this virus was capable of.
So, I began imagining a life and a world where in-person singing was banned.
It was terrifying. I had just invested the last decade of my life and all of my savings to studying this art form, and all of a sudden, I wasn’t sure what the future of that art form was going to be. But I was starting to see that I needed to re-think my vocal practice and career, if, in fact, singing in community was going to be off the table for the unforeseen future. Now, today, the risk of singing in a choir is not the same as it was when we were first learning about COVID-19, but the virtual world has expanded greatly to make long-distance music making possible.
I began coaching with online entrepreneurs & coaches, sharing more of my story online, and started seeing a new pathway emerge. I moved away from focusing on the constraints and leaned into the advantages of virtual learning & teaching.
I surrendered my dream of being a college choir professor and began listening to the voice inside…
And soon I was being gently guided to research new topics and study from new teachers, which then over time, I developed a nervous system-informed framework for virtual music lessons that led me to a community of visionaries who have changed the course of my life.
“Soft Power has helped me connect with my unique frequency—my inner power has been re-charged, harmonized, and amplified.”
Online acquaintances turned into friendships that eventually turned into dream collaborators, co-facilitators, and now, co-founders of the lay-led secular church of Soft Power. If you missed our official announcement, check it out here! 🤲🏼
Don’t miss the last Soft Power Choir 🌟 call of 2024!
Join us on Monday, November 25th at 5:30pm PT for our final choir gathering of the year! We will journey through the music and lessons we have learned during this season of surrender that led us to transition from an LLC to lay-led secular church. We will also be announcing our visions for Soft Power Choir in 2025 and you won’t want to miss it!!!
Moving forward as a non-profit secular church, Soft Power Choir 🌟 calls are now fully open to the public.
From now on, you can register to add our gatherings to your virtual calendar, or simply save the link to The Village Sanctuary here.