Song; a connective practice
Sharing songs to celebrate and connect more deeply with trees.
There is a great power in music which moves and uplifts us and has the ability to open our hearts and connect us. Singing together creates a field of unity through harmony and resonance that may be one our most ancient languages.
Song can help us feel, heal, and connect with community, with nature and to ourselves.
Human music and song is as old as language, perhaps even older, and can impart knowledge and understanding. Song has been an important part of all cultures throughout the ages. Long ago, the indigenous people of these lands had special songs, passed down from generation to generation, that helped to share gratitude and love for the world around them and helped everyone to tend the relationships well so that balance could be maintained.
At Children’s Forest, we really value the human superpowers of music, song, poetry, dance, art and story to connect us with the living world around us and within us. Singing together creates a field of unity and sense of wellbeing. Songs are sung when we gather, light the fire, share food and plant the trees.
As part of the Children’s Forest project, songs have been created for the trees, to be sung to, for and with them as we gather food and seeds and for when we plant them. The songs contain lore and information about the trees which builds knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the different trees and some unique qualities they imbue. This collection of tree songs are called the Song Forest ( link).
The vision of the Song Forest is to plant songs back into our culture, as we plant trees with our wishes into the ground. We would love to sew the seeds of inspiration for children and people of all ages to write and share songs for the land. We would love to see this Song Forest grow over the years to come and bring joy and connection to many. Please receive this invitation and share widely with others.
Here are a selection of songs you might hear us singing around the campfire, written to be sung to and for the trees, to celebrate and honour their many gifts, and to offer our blessings to them. These song was sung amongst the birds and the trees in a beautiful British woodland by Anna Richardson and Jack Durtnall, recorded by Nicholas O’Brien. https://www.upcycledsounds.co.uk
“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.”
~ Plato
