Episode 43: What is Contemplative Composing?

Hi all,

Welcome to solstice week! It’s a big week for many of us in this world, whatever our traditions may be. As many of us find ways to celebrate over the coming weeks during these most challenging, trying, and dare we say, dark days, it’s also a time that signifies rebirth, renewal, and the initiation of a new year, and maybe even a new you! For us? It’s a NEW season!

So what does this have to do with a practice called “contemplative composing”? Well, it’s our opportunity to tell you about some new-to-us thinking together we’ve been doing. Cheri refers to herself as a contemplative composer, someone who came to a contemplative practice from the world of composition. Paul, on the other hand, was introduced to composition as a part of a contemplative practice, wherein it represents yet another of the ways and means to uncover that which is within us. In this episode, the contemplator and the composer have a conversation about what contemplative composition is, what it looks like, and how any of us can get started on using composition as a door to contemplation, without too much of a lurking fear of a blank page. We’d love for you to give this one a listen and let us know what you think!

Enjoy! Thanks for listening, everybody! Happy Solstice!

P + C

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