My deepest intention with The Musical Body Camps is fostering the emerging creature self, spontaneity, vitality, and creative interrelationship with people- belonging and heart-to-heart connection. I’m realising this can’t exist fully without relationship to land.
Over the years, The Musical Body has emerged through a weaving of the Singing Shack studio (a shed my mum built and gifted), granite boulders, trees, movement, interpersonal spaces, responsive scores and studio practice, born through the five-year-old me singing with seen & unseen beings of this land, and the teen who longed to facilitate social change.
This recent camp met me in a real moment of stretch…solo parenting a three-year-old, shared living, and camp life - reminding me how easily I drift from the ground of it all, and how essential it is to return.
In this camp, the depth of attention to land was exquisitely shaped through
@moeclark ‘s tender & radiant presence as our guest facilitator, whose relationship with land brought a strong current of listening and becoming for us all.
These camps weave nature connection, shared living, chores, NVC, sociometry, studio play, and responsive rituals - alongside life with my son and community threads that continue to unfold.
In the final days, we listened deeply…to dew, wind, stone, trees, and memory…walking in relationship with land.
We played on the land of the Wurundjeri, Djadja Wurrung and Taungurong people. And many questions are emerging in belonging and fostering play and connection- I loved when Moe wondered about what the old trees and plants might say of what they saw over thousands of years...amongst so many other offerings…
Thank you, Moe, for supporting this tender unfolding.
I’m remembering that land and human relationship cannot be separated - and I am still learning this. As we explore our creature selves in The Musical Body… where is our home and how do we want to relate to it?
Grateful for what unfolded, and for the ongoing Musical Body gatherings.
Returning, again and again, to listening…to our curious hearts, and land- as collaborators.