160. (O Spirit) Guide Me to Those I Need with guest Aimée Ringle

A Breath of Song

Song: (O Spirit) Guide Me to Those I Need
Music by: Aimée Ringle

Notes: If you've run across Aimée Ringle's work, you know her wicked musical skills, her exuberant, high-energy presence, her huge heart and desire to be of service... and you may not yet know how she grew into her voice, the questions she asks herself around how best to contribute to songcircles, her deep desire for village community, and questions about how to make that real in the here and now. We dig a little into one of the hard conversations in songcircles or any group situation where people bring varying skill levels -- how can people of varying skill levels feel welcome and find space and satisfaction as they are? We talk about what Aimée finds she needs to be able to let songs come through and more! Aimée shares the story of how O Spirit came through and we sing it both with guitar and in an up-close and personal way. It's a big episode because we let our conversation spread out, enjoying the end of summer and a sense of expansiveness. I hope you, too, find that pleasure of connection when you join us.

Songwriter Info: Aimée Ringle is a singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, song-leader, and storyteller. She has an invigorating teaching style that is enriched by her capable percussion and guitar skills. Aimée’s work as a song-leader and storyteller have woven her into an ever widening community of cultural shifters around the country in the realms of sustainable agriculture, alternative education, community living, healing, creativity, and spiritual exploration ~ all of which are reflected in the songs she carries. As a song-leader, Aimée’s work and example have become a valued part of several Ancestral skills gatherings including Winter Count, Spirit Weavers and Sharpening Stone.

Sharing Info: The song is free to share in oral tradition groups, but please contact Aimée for recording and/or performing permission. She says: "For now, the song is just the chorus, but I am paying attention to its evolution and leaving space for the possibility of verses, etc. But this will not be a group process and I'm not inviting unsolicited creative ideas in this process."

Song Learning Time Stamps:
Start time of teaching: 00:03:53
Start time of reprise: 01:34:28

Links:

Aimée's website: www.aimeeringlemusic.com

Aimée's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/AiméeRingle

Aimée's O Spirit video on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/C8wzISTpTsh

Aimée's Bandcamp: https://aimeeringle.bandcamp.com

Earth Practice: https://www.instagram.com/earthpracticemusic/

Tone Home by Elijah Ray: https://soundcloud.com/entheo/tone-home?in=l29rjc61w9os/sets/the-upload-1

I'm My Own Walkman by Bobby McFerrin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8DUi9RCTiQ

Samara Jade: https://www.instagram.com/samara_jade_music/

Three Wheels Turning: https://threewheelsturning.com/

"We are what we repeatedly do." Aristotle interpreted by Will Durant: https://blogs.umb.edu/quoteunquote/2012/05/08/its-a-much-more-effective-quotation-to-attribute-it-to-aristotle-rather-than-to-will-durant/

The Sharpening Stone: https://www.instagram.com/thesharpeningstone/

Laurence Cole: https://www.laurencecole.com/

Liz Rog: https://www.facebook.com/liz.rog1/

Shireen Amini: https://shireenamini.com/music

Song Village: https://www.songvillage.net/

Emergent Strategy and Holding Change by Adrienne Maree Brown: https://adriennemareebrown.net/book/emergent-strategy/, https://adriennemareebrown.net/book/holding-change-2/

Billie Eilish: https://www.instagram.com/billieeilish/

Ganavya: https://www.instagram.com/ganavya

Nuts & Bolts: 4:4, Aeolian, unison chant

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