Song Courses
Song classes are all currently in the form of password protected course pages and you may sign up anytime. There are past virtual song classes that ran for 4 weeks, learning 4 to 8 songs. Once you have joined a song class, the songs, videos and lyrics will be available to access until the end of the year. See course descriptions below, learn which songs are included and purchase by visiting our Page: Song Shop.
Essential Ceremonial Song Courses
Description:
Currently we are only offering access to our online Private Course Pages. We will notify you via email if you’d like to join the next online song class. While in person and zoom song classes connect you with our song community, both are a perfect fit for those who love to feel the magic of song! We honor those who have helped to preserve earth based traditions so that people may live richer spiritual lives. We connect to Spirits of an ancient lineage such as the elemental Beings of the earth, thunders, and 6 directions. Beginners and experienced singers, join our global song community and unleash your voice in prayer!
Rea Beaubien guides in an open hearted, fun, and safe space where participants learn essential songs to sing in the Lakota language. Practical guidance on songs and ceremonies will offer an opportunity to support North American ceremonies. These may include sweat lodge, vision quest, sacred pipe, sundance, and yuwipi/lowanpi. A deepened connection is established by way of prayer through songs so that you can make direct connection to the Great Mystery in your own personal ceremony.
In the Zoom classes (45 minutes to 1 hour long) we focus on one song per week. Each week representing a round, one song per week will be taught for students to integrate over one month. These essential songs will be presented in the order that they would be sung in a ceremony: 1.) call upon the Spirit helpers, 2.) pray for what is needing attention, 3.) allow the healing to take place, and 4.) finally we say thank you and invite the Spirits to return home. This format helps us to best sink in with the format of ritual, melodies, meanings, and overall energies created.
Along with the song classes, our private online "Song Community" page will grant you access to printable song lyrics, private songs, and teachings. Recorded Zoom classes are available if any are missed and students may practice upcoming songs prior to song class. Connect with our amazing community and have FUN stepping into this heart opening path in a new and powerful way.
You will learn to:
~ sing 4 traditional ceremonial songs in the Lakota language.
~ gain a deeper understanding of the philosophies and meanings behind each song.
~ honor song & ceremony etiquette while supporting ceremonies in various circles.
~ create your own private song ceremony. *
~ execute the two basic drum beats (hand drum is helpful but not required).
~ articulate basic pronunciation in Lakota necessary to sing songs.
~ have SO MUCH fun while rewiring those neural pathways resulting in improved emotional health!
* Note: This course is not to give students the go ahead to lead public ceremonies. For one to step up in this way they would need to go through proper channels with specific ceremonies.
With online support available, in one month participants will be able to not only sing along with others but may also be able to recall and lead songs. This course is designed for those to learn who are new to this path as well as those who have more experience. Participants are welcomed to reach out with questions.
Learning songs in the Lakota language is a much needed way to support traditional ceremonials taking place around the world. The White Buffalo Calf Woman brought seven sacred ceremonies to a starving Lakota Nation. Hunkapi (making relatives) was one of the seven sacred ceremonies brought to the people by the White Buffalo Calf Woman. Because of this belief among Lakota spiritual families, many non-Lakotas are adopted. This is one of the reasons why Lakota ceremonies are the most practiced of all Native American traditions. People of all races and walks of life are welcomed as relatives to become a part of the tribal ways. Lakota means "friends or allies" and the basis of all teachings go back to the Creation story: Mitakuye Oyasin, "we are all related".
Contributions
The cost for this 4 week intensive course is $80, as it takes time and effort for to make songs and teachings available.
After you have signed up then you will receive an email with details to access our online private course page. Questions? Email us!
These songs are for everyone to learn. Cannot put forth energy in the form requested below to join? Questions? Email us!
Peyote Song Courses
Description:
Currently we are only offering access to our online Private Course Pages. We will notify you via email if you’d like to join the next online song class. While in person and zoom song classes connect you with our song community, both are a perfect fit for who are new to Half Moon Ceremonies (Peyote) and wish to share one song or more for upcoming gatherings. These chants may be utilized to pray on your own. If the sound and quality resonates for you, that may be reason to consider participating in a future ceremony. Beginners and experienced singers, join our global song community and unleash your voice in prayer!
Rea Beaubien guides in an open hearted, fun, and safe space where participants learn a set of four songs in the tradition of the Half Moon Ceremony. Each week the chosen chant will increase in complexity so that new participants may ease into this path. Practical guidance on songs and ceremonies will offer a basic knowledge to be able to sit up in any tipi circle. A deepened connection is established with the medicine, Great Mystery, and community by way of prayer through songs.
In weekly Zoom classes (45 min to 1 hr long) we focus on one song per week. Each class we will begin with a group prayer to the medicine, receive teachings, then dive into learning. This format helps us to remember our spiritual connection, as well as get comfortable with our own voice.
Along with weekly song classes, our private online "Song Community" page will grant you access to printable song lyrics, private songs, and teachings. Recorded Zoom classes are available if any are missed and students may practice upcoming songs prior to song class. Connect with our amazing community and have FUN stepping into this heart opening path in a new and powerful way.
You will learn to:
~ sing a set of 4 peyote songs to potentially share in ceremony.
~ gain a deeper sense for how to coordinate with the rattle and drum.
~ honor song & ceremony etiquette while supporting ceremonies in various circles.
~ write your own songs.
~ recall songs with secret tricks.
~ articulate basic pronunciation for songs with words in Lakota.
~ have SO MUCH fun while rewiring those neural pathways resulting in improved emotional health!
With online support available, in one month participants will be comfortable to not only sing along with others but may be able to recall and share songs for ceremonies. This course is designed for those to learn who are new to this path as well as those who have more experience. Participants are welcomed to reach out with questions.
Learning peyote songs is a much needed way to support Half Moon Ceremonies taking place around the world. After someone has attended a ceremony and wishes to participate again, it is time to start practicing! It has been an unspoken assumption amongst tipi communities that people should learn one song or more if they are going to keep coming. I think it's time that this is spoken here! Singers are needed for ceremonies. Your voice is important not only to the flow in the tipi but for you to connect with the medicine and communicate with the Spirits.
Contributions
The cost for this 4 week intensive course is $80, as it takes time and effort for to make songs and teachings available.
After you have signed up then you will receive an email with details to access our online private course page. Questions? Email us!
These songs are for everyone to learn. Cannot put forth energy in the form requested below to join? Questions? Email us!
About Rea Beaubien
As a Pipe Carrier, Sundancer, Dream Dance Leader, and Road Woman with the Native American Church, Rea Beaubien is committed to following this sacred path in a mature and socially responsible way for the community at large.
For 15 years, Rea led and co-led ceremonies with Christopher Long and The Singing Stone. In recent years she has traveled within the U.S. as well as around the globe sharing ceremonies on her own. She has led, co-led, and supported Vision Quest, Dream Dance, Bear Dance, Yuwipi, Half Moon Ceremonies, Sweat lodges, Pipe Ceremonies, as well as workshops including: connecting with Spirit animals, and numerous song workshops. For 5 years she co-led song and drum circle in the Lakota Language every Sunday.
Teachers and mentors include: James Crow Dog, Aurelio Tekpankalli Diaz, and Christopher Long, among others. Rea has been authorized to share these sacred ceremonies. She has been supporting through song, prayer, presence, and as needed with various medicine people for nearly 20 years.
What people are saying:
“Rea Beaubien is a phenomenal facilitator and deeply inspiring woman. With incredible skill, grace, and humility, she creates a container of safety and support for the people she works with, and she truly inspires and empowers those around her to connect deeply with Native teachings. Our community is so blessed to know her.”
“Rea has a true gift- the ability to hold space for others to heal, unfold, and weave themselves together again. She possess an innate warmth, presence, strength, and grace. Entering into powerful spiritual experiences feels safe and inviting with Rea. She welcomes all into her circle with an open hand and heart. I am so grateful to have her as a guide, teacher, and warrior woman in my life. I could not recommend her more highly to anyone craving a deeper experience of themselves, community, our Earth, and spirit. Working with Rea guarantees you will be welcomed into a new wave of consciousness feeling supported, held, and authentically loved.”
“Doing ceremony with Rea has been an incredible learning experience for me. I have found her presence to be warm yet firm, appropriately honoring the magnitude of the work while allowing participants to be themselves and feel welcome. The depth of knowledge and experience she holds about these ceremonies is assuring. She has helped me to understand the intention of these rites in more depth than I have known them before, allowing me to feel safe and able to progress in my own healing journey. I’m grateful to have found Rea’s work and look forward to many more experiences with her.”
“Rea holds ceremony space with skill, tenderness, power, and obvious love for the work. Every time I’ve been in ceremony with her - sweat lodges, all-night prayer, and even just conversation - I learn something from Rea about how to live more authentically. I have always felt like my whole self and all my questions were welcome in her ceremonies, and have been gently reminded to return to joy and aliveness. Rea helps me remember to live from my heart because that is how she lives and I can’t wait to continue working with her in all the workshops and ceremonies she has to offer. ”
“Rea is a kind, attentive, and knowledgeable practitioner working to rekindle an ancient fire once known to all people. A deep reverence and commitment to her practices combines with humor and years of experience to create an incredibly helpful guide along the path to our own sacred nature. From ceremony to integration everything she offers is straight from the heart and layered with loving intention. A true cultural revolutionary, the corrective space that she makes for women at the close of ceremony has forever changed the way I listen to and relate with the feminine spirit. It’s a direct-action subversion of dominator culture that would make Terrence McKenna weep tears of hope.”