Communitas.
Song, Vision, Stories
15% off your first Month. ~
15% off your first Month. ~
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SONG, VISION, STORIES *** We PRACTICE being community beside each other in song, story and visioning. If you're able to sign up for the year, you get one complimentary month! Hope to sing with you soon!
Come,
Let’s gather.
Formally the PRACTICE membership, COMMUNITAS is a space to practice being community beside each other as peers, all valued as teachers of experience.
The resources and community of the COMMUNITAS container bring us more in touch with the inner life material that informs how we do what we do, and acquaints us more and more with our why.
As we practice, we move the ineffable into the practical. We bring Source into form.
So many of us yearn to re-member community. In the years we have been gathering for Chant, we have found seeds to practice BESIDE each other about what it means to be community in these times, prayer and what it means to pray, vision and the importance of practicing HOPE beside others, and the soul’s need to sing with others.
It’s a little odd to sing together in virtual spaces, as we can’t hear everyone, but somehow we’ve truly created an intimate, supportive, companioning, uplifting space.
We gather in the LIMINAL.
We revel in JOY in being in each other’s presence.
We hold space for both the SHIMMERS and the SHADOWS of life.
We cultivate PRESENCE and POTENCY in practicing sharing our stories, teachings, requests.
It’s naked and empty. We come as we are and share in what’s revealed.
And, it’s sweeter to be in practice with friends!
What’s included in COMMUNITAS membership?
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Weekly Chant
This INTERSPIRITUAL chant gathering is the hearth heart of COMMUNITAS. Meg has written over 40 chants that drop in about presence, agency, ancestors, embodiment, love and more. We sing, vision, pray, co-weave a sermon, and sing some more while practicing being beloved community.
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Community Visioning Council Meeting
Once a month, usually on the third Sunday of the month after our chant service we’ll extend our gathering for an hour to practice visioning together. Vision, voice and witness generates energy that we can practice directing with potency.
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Quarterly PRACTICE journal + Archive
The journal is ripe with invitations and stories of experience to support you in creating and sustaining a daily or regular practice. Members also have access to the archive of all journals created and other courses that support practice.
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PRACTICE LIVE + Archive
PRACTICE LIVE is a monthly live broadcast where folx from all over the world come and share their practice and stories of experience. Members have the option of joining the broadcast live and submitting questions to the featured artist - along with access to the archive of LIVES from 2022-2024.
Through practice, and the practice of community, we weave a web that holds the preciousness of our dreams, visions and hope (vision with expectation of that vision being possible).
Each small step matters.
Community is something to be re-membered.
It’s not quick. It’s not a sitcom about besties that all live on one city block. It cannot just be with human. It’s not even about liking each other!
We nor I have the whole answer, but we have found that there is SO much potency in spending time together in the direction of practicing being community beside each other. I, Meg, facilitate this container, and WE fill it with our teachings, our joys and sorrows, our DREAMS!
Each small step we have taken as a group of folks from many walks of life from all over the country has mattered. We evolve, and more is revealed.
Might you be called to walk the way beside us?
We become what we practice.
We become what we draw our time, energy, attention, and actions towards.
It therefore matters that what we practice is of fine quality.
What’s with your obsession with practice, Meg?
A big call in this life for me is daily practice, which I began exploring when I was 17 as a way to be more with myself and in the world. It all began with the Sound Of Music, when I became curious about Maria being a nun! I started studying what I could about world religions and monastic traditions, and became curious about applying monastic principles to my life. A Benedictine principle that shimmers for me is Stability. I did not have a lot of stability growing up, so my devotion wasn’t with a place until my husband and I landed in Eastern Washington at our 40 acre off-grid, WILD homestead. What I did have was my journal, sketchbook or mat, so I made that those the home of my practice.
In December of 2015 I practiced making 30 faces in 30 days, and that launched me into my current exploration of painting every day. For 2740 days I made a painting every day — and now, over 3000 days in, I’m following the call to simply paint everyday and to practice working on longer arc visitations with my inner life.
My daily practice by all appearances is about painting — but it’s really MORE than that. It’s about staying present to myself through visiting the blank page. After 15 years of “messing around” with a variety of things ranging from yoga, meditation and journaling to writing a pantoum poem, I landed in it with paint and have since come more alive.
For many years my practice was about trusting the process — and now there’s an additional quality of savoring the process. To trust the process, I needed to make decisions and witness myself work it out when things didn’t go as planned. I needed to witness myself follow through with a vision even if it didn’t perfectly match what was in my mind or turn out in a way I liked. Making a painting every day for nearly 8 years supported me in developing trust and confidence in myself and the process.
The shift towards savoring the process is bringing me to unexpected depths because I trust the process. Savoring the process has brought a dropping of urgency, which is reaching into all areas of my life. There is no static right size of my practice each day, it’s a living agreement.
Practice has revolutionized my inner and creative life.
Here’s some of the gold I’ve found in daily practice:
Tending my callings and desires each day with devotion.
Reclaiming some time each day to go in my own direction. Much of my work and natural way leads me to tend others, and my practice gives me time and soul food to tend myself.
Transformation through small acts that cultivated trust and confidence from within.
Encountering more of myself than previously imagined. I am So Much More than the too small stories of who I think I am.
Developing resiliency and welcoming more of myself to the deliciously full banquet table of my life.
More presence in the process, which is deeply human - versus exaggerated emphasis on product, which divorces us from belonging, earth, and being fully human.
What gold might you find in practice?
This inquiry is what drives me in creating space that is safe enough for us to explore being in practice beside each other.
A place safe enough to imperfectly return to.
A place to “f*ck around and find out!”
Within the COMMUNITAS community there are rich and deep resources (The Practice Journal, and self study courses) and conversations about what it means to have spiritual and creative discipline and pathways to one's interior within our current spiritual context without exterior pressure or coercion while still offering right size influence as we walk beside each other. We practice being in community — and practice re-membering what that really is through opportunities to be in vulnerability, play and deep talks with each other. We breathe a lot, and laugh and pause and really listen to each other.
All are welcome: creatives, mystics, contemplatives, generative disruptors and wild ones. Let’s see what we can make beside each other!
If this lights you up, know you’re always welcome.
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Chant, Council Meeting, Journal, PRACTICE LIVE and MORE!
What they’re saying:
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"can community, alchemy, and wisdom be harnessed in a zoom? Yes! Meg's chant gatherings and other offerings are an integral part of my creative and spiritual life."
Kay Kay
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"They say when the student is ready the teacher appears. I certainly found that to be the case with Meg and PRACTICE. I could never get started with daily creative practice but Meg showed a way forward. Her book Don't Just Do Something, Be Here has also been integral to my daily practice and wellbeing. I am so glad that PRACTICE is part of my life!"
Jacqueline Manni
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"I find (this community) to be a good space to connect to practices that are more than for, or about the individual. The pressure to have a practice conforms to the predominant individualist narrative that stymies most people I meet. Engaging with others to explore, develop, and create, expands what practice can mean and leaves plenty of room for mistakes, missteps, and nopes! Practice welcomes people from so many different backgrounds, I really appreciate the expansiveness and generative possibilities that get sparked by participating in this community."
Hank Meadow
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“Meg’s the perfect guide for anyone who wants or seeks an artistic practice at any stage of their practice journey from beginner to professional. She inspires not only through her own practice and experiences but also through her speaker series every month. Her unique holistic and gentle approach nourishes anyone who in interested a creative practice whether it be personal or professional.”
Desiree Duell
Join us for PRACTICE LIVE
Are you curious about this month’s featured artist for PRACTICE LIVE? Watch the stream or playback on my YouTube Channel. We usually go LIVE on the Third Friday of the month at 11 am PST.