Voz: A Summer of Healing Sound and Soil Connection

June Dates: 11, 14, 18, 25, 28    \    July Dates: 2, 9, 12, 16, 23, 26

Wednesdays: 7:15 - 8:45 pm - for seasoned practitioners and regular meditators
Saturdays: 3:15 - 4:45 pm - an open invitation for newcomers and curious visitors

SWALE House, Governors Island, NYC

SWALE/USI artist-in-residence Gisela Sanders Alcántara is thrilled to invite you to a special summer series as part of my residency with the Urban Soils Institute at Swale House on Governor’s Island/Pagganuck.

This season, we’ll activate the space as a site for healing sound and collective grief-tending through Voz—our shared voice meditation practice. Through sound, breath, and intention, we will build a participatory altar using natural elements and gather in a circle to explore our relationship to the land, our inner rhythms, and the emotions that arise in this time of ecological transformation.

The site just next to Swale House (Nolan Park House 11) will serve as a meditative ground to listen, chant, and hold vibrational space, connecting our bodies to the soil as living archives of memory and resistance. As part of this project and if you want to share, I will also begin collecting reflections and stories shared by participants, recorded audio/video with the prompt: Listen to living entities around you and note who and what is communicating?  My interest lies in highlighting the intersections of disability, land-based healing, and environmental consciousness.

These sessions are open to all who feel called. Come as you are, and if you’d like, bring a small object or natural offering to contribute to the altar.

Let’s gather in community, attune to the Earth’s pulse, and offer our voices to the healing of ourselves and the planet.

Register Here