Judith Tripp and Ruth Cunningham have enjoyed a decades long collaboration creating chants to accompany the spiritual labyrinth journey. Judith has been involved with Veriditas from its inception creating the Women's Dream Quest, Meeting Mary and other workshops and events. Chants are important in each of these workshops and she crafts their message to hold the meaning of each event.
Ruth is a renowned singer and harpist who is a founding member of Anonymous 4 and has produced albums of cross cultural chant as well as early music.
In their collaboration, Judith supplies the text and Ruth weaves melodies that express the qualities of the message. As simple chants or rounds, these melodies shape the essence of the text.
In this workshop, Judith and Ruth will present their series of chants. After a guided meditation, we will sing together to let the chants "enter our bones." Then we will have a labyrinth walk to integrate them into our spiritual practice. We will also have a sharing circle to express how each chant can be used for personal or group work.
The very first chant that Ruth and Judith created was for a Women's Dream Quest in the 1990s:Journey on, Heroine,
Journey on, Heroine,
Maiden of Spring,
Be protected, whole and cherished
See your truth arising.
May this springtime workshop empower our heroic selves to find our truth through the medium of chant!
Judith Tripp, MA, MFT has created a body of work, which she calls Circleway which encompasses her passions for individual healing work through psychotherapy and spiritual counseling, the Women’s Dream Quest, Pilgrimages to Avalon, retreats and workshops all over the world as well as flute and vocal recordings. Her book, Circleway, The Story of the Women’s Dream Quest, chronicles 25 years of her work with the Dream Quest. Trained in Transpersonal Psychology, Judith is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She began her work with the Women’s Dream Quest in 1987 at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. Today she leads Dream Quests all over the world. She has been involved with Veriditas since its inception and trained as a labyrinth facilitator in 1996. She began her work at Chartres and her Avalon pilgrimages in 2000. Judith's produced musical offerings Homage, Return Again, and To Bless the Walk. Integrating a healthy psychology with a robust spiritual practice is a mainstay of Judith’s life and work. Well versed and practiced in diverse spiritual traditions, Judith is equally at home in a Cathedral, a Yoga Ashram, a Buddhist Meditation retreat, and the temple of Nature. She loves to chant and dance, meditate and pray.
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http://www.circleway.com/
Ruth Cunningham is a founding member Anonymous 4 and a sound healing practitioner. She specializes in early music performance as well as improvisational sacred music from varied spiritual traditions in both liturgical and concert settings. She works with individuals and groups on using the voice and music as tools for healing. With Anonymous 4, Ruth performed in concerts and festivals throughout the United States, Europe and the Far East and made thirteen recordings. Ruth’s own CD releases are Light and Shadow: Chants, Prayers and Improvisations and Harpmodes: Journey for Voice and Harp. She has released two CDs of multi faith chants with colleague Ana Hernandez: Blessed by Light and HARC: Inside Chants. She was the musician for a number of summer courses for Ubiquity University in Chartres France. She has also performed and recorded renaissance music with Pomerium and has worked in a number of professional church choirs in New York City.
www.ruthcunningham.com
http://www.youtube.com/ruthreid
