Forge a Singing Bowl in the Highlands of Scotland
Sound Alchemy & Living Co-Creation – a Residential Immersion
Be with us for a fully residential three and a half day immersion into forging sound.
Feed your whole being through a creative act as you open to a deeper sense of attunement with your own life and a wider sense of connection with the world around you.
. . . an invitation to meet the wonders of alchemy as you engage in a truly co-creative process of bringing a beautiful and unique sound being into form.
Days and nights with a land that is informed by ancient stone beings, the pure deep water channels of Loch Ness and the atmosphere of the sea beings from our close proximity of the waters of the Moray Firth.
Forging Sound is a Co-Creative Process
These days and nights will offer you an immersion into the world of sound from the beautiful perspective of living in co-creation with Nature.
Through our own hand crafted instruments, sound sessions and stories, skilled and sensitive guidance we will take you into a making process that comes to us through a lineage of sound forging as a sacred art – an act that can support life in every way.
To craft your own singing bowl is a rich and expansive experience of immersion into an ancient process of forging, working closely with the elements and the tools whilst bringing a new consciousness to every moment. You will scribe, cut, shape, fire and sink your own small singing bowl, made of copper, brass or bronze.
At the end of the workshop you will not only have a beautiful, fine frequency sound companion and ally, you will have gone through an embodied experience of personal and alchemical change yourself.
Please note that this is not a blacksmithing process but a ‘softer’ engagement with metal and fire through copper-smithing techniques developed over many years and honed to a fine level of expertise and always with acknowledgment of a sacred lineage and connection to sound as a fine healing pathway for assisting consciousness and greater wellbeing.
The instruments, singing bowls or bells are finely tuned through the process itself – one that invites both you, the maker, and the metal instrument to become a harmonic and coherent being. Working together with the fire, the tools and the metal, together you forge a relationship as you bring forward your own beautiful sound frequencies . . . An instrument that may not only support and assist your own life but that of others, from now and for our collective ongoing futures.
The workshop is suitable for people of all ages from as young as 12 and the older ageless. A level of fitness that allows you to use your hands with some dexterity and strength is helpful. Please get in touch with us if you have questions or concerns about the suitability of the work for yourself.
Our Venue – Anam Cara
Anam Cara is a beautiful rustic retreat centre on a hill above the Highland town Inverness- overlooking both the town and the countryside beyond.
Anam Cara offers us an optimum environment for the kind of deep and easeful listening and engagement with Sound and Nature and a beautiful sound space for entering into the mysteries of sound through our group attunements and Sound Weavings.
It provides a spaciousness for the work throughout that allows releasing and deepening: both qualities are essential components in the forging process itself.
It’s a most beautiful time of the year with the garden and the trees vibrant and lush, morning light rising through the sea mists below and a quietude only interrupted by early birdsong bringing in each new day.
Cosy Accommodation
Single accommodation in wooden cabins with shared bathrooms.
The guest living space is comprised of three large wooden clad cabins, which are set into the hillside, with south facing views towards the mountains.
Rowan and Willow each accommodates up to five people with three single rooms and one twin room with shared toilet & shower room.
The Bothy can accommodate up to five people with one single room and two twin rooms with shared toilet/shower room.
The Blue Lagoon offers an additional toilet/shower facility.
Nourishment & Extra Comforts
Nutritious, wholesome, vegetarian meals will be provided with special diets catered for on request.
When availability allows the produce will be organic, grown in the garden at Anam Cara or within the region.
There is an onsite wood fired sauna available for us to use and enjoy throughout our stay.
Communal spaces are available in the Pavillion as well as many pockets of woodland and paths that reveal soft landing places for your own down time.
Financial Contribution
EARLY BIRD PRICE AVAILABLE
Full board and lodging:
Single accommodation in wooden cabins with shared bathrooms and all meals from supper 13th until lunch 16th August.
Use of the tools, tuition and personal support through the midwifing of your new frequency carrier and refreshments throughout the workshop.
The metal disc for your bowl. Every person will choose a different size and type of metal so this price does not include the material cost for the instrument itself. Depending upon size and type of metal you choose you could reasonably allow the price to be from £15 – 60.
recommendation from a five day bowl and bell residential
Beautiful instruments, beautiful people and I can’t recommend the workshops enough, such a therapeutic thing to do, and a lovely sound instrument at the end of it.
small bowl acknowledgment after three day non-residential
We are enjoying so much our baby singing bowl. We named it “Raia Dourada” which means “Golden Ray”.
3 days of transformation
This, my friends, was a life-enhancing transformational 3 days with two sacred bowl whisperers, and their collaboration, Resounding Earth. Their singing bowls are a choir of pure resonant tones.
More about our environment
Anam Cara lies 600 feet above sea level and overlooks the city of Inverness with stunning southerly views towards the Monadhliath Mountains. Only three miles from the city centre yet surrounded by farm and woodland. The scope for walking is endless. The centre is set in seven acres of land which offers a delightful network of paths through a rich and varied landscape with extensive wooded areas and a sheltered fruit and vegetable garden.
The site itself has been reforested, regenerated and run by the current team for the last 20 years – transforming a bare hill into a beautiful lush woodland site, in which the project is now nestled.
It is one of the earlier small initiatives of regeneration and reforestation on a land whose natural whose natural forested hill were stripped bare over many generations – leaving only scrub, heathers and cashcrop conifer plantations.
As a beacon, Anam Cara nurtures a small flame for other regenerative processes.
Not far from the coast rising above the inlet of the Moray Firth and within close proximity of Findhorn Bay, it is well connected with land, sea and human endeavours.
