Lydia Violet Harutoonian – The Convergence http://permacultureconvergence.com Building Resilient Communities Mon, 25 Sep 2017 02:12:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 http://permacultureconvergence.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/cropped-permaculture-convergence-norcal-logo-32x32.png Lydia Violet Harutoonian – The Convergence http://permacultureconvergence.com 32 32 Music As Medicine In Our Time http://permacultureconvergence.com/music-as-medicine/ Wed, 06 Sep 2017 23:55:14 +0000 http://permacultureconvergence.com/?p=5716 Lydia Violet (of Ayla Nereo band) will lead us through an intimate experience with Joanna Macy’s Work That Reconnects (WTR), a set of teachings and group exercises that help build inner resilience, fierce compassion, wisdom, and creative responses to challenging eco-socio-political times. As we move through both the dangers and awakenings we currently face as a people, we learn tools, meditations, and concepts that we can rest into, connecting to our desires to be effective allies to both planet and people. Hearts opened by grief and celebration want to sing their songs of longing, despair, reckoning, and gentle loving kindness. We bring in music of revolution, transformation, and celebration as we navigate our questions and our solutions for this time.

This work helps cultivate healing and resilience in our hearts and psyches as we continue to show up for the heartbreak and desecration of our world. Showing up in our time is inherently taxing on our empathy, our faith in humanity, and our energy to show up for our communities. When we acknowledge this, we can rest into this shared experience and that our pain is born out of our still giving a damn, which is a holy feeling in our time. The combination of Joanna’s work and music offer a beautiful set of tools for growing our inner resources to stay engaged in our world, and somatically experience our belonging in community and in the living body of Earth.

Saturday Oct 7| 11am| Willow Grove

Presented By: Lydia Violet Harutoonian

]]> Lydia Violet Harutoonian http://permacultureconvergence.com/lydia-violet-harutoonian/ Wed, 06 Sep 2017 23:36:44 +0000 http://permacultureconvergence.com/?p=5711 Lydia Violet Harutoonian, M.A, has a Masters in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness from CIIS. She has studied closely with deep ecology elder and Buddhist scholar Joanna Macy for the past 8 years, learning how we can metabolize our pain for the world into profound communion with our human and more-than-human communities. She is also an accomplished musician who is deeply inspired by folk, blues, and protest music traditions. In her solo project she combines fiddle, banjo, and her soulful voice to offer a soul-folk revival experience. In the past year she has collaborated with Rising Appalachia, Climbing Poetree, Ayla Nereo, and the wonderful women of MaMuse. Two years ago she pioneered, “Music As Medicine In Our Time” with Penny Livinghgston at the Regenerative Design Institute in Bolinas, CA. In this workshop she brings together facilitation of Joanna Macy’s “Work That Reconnects” with exploring movement music that nourishes resilience, promotes justice, and facilitates healing in our communities.

 

2017 Workshop:

Music As Medicine In Our Time

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