A Free Elemental Song Series:
Songs for the Elements:
Fire, Water, Earth & Air
Learn the elemental songs we sing in circle and ceremony. Including a short elemental meditation and lyrics to each song to follow along.
Your voice wants to open.
You just need songs to guide you.
Maybe you’ve felt it: that quiet urge in your chest, that moment when your breath wants to turn into melody. Singing is a natural human instinct, and with these few guided songs, it becomes easier to let your voice rise as you connect with the elements.
These 4-elemental songs will help you to:
Bring song into your daily life: the garden, while you’re making medicine, in ritual, group ceremony, the temazcal, or anytime you want to use your voice to connect.
Work with each element intentionally through your voice.
Strengthen presence and attunement. Let rhythm and melody shift your state, soften your mind, and orient you toward a deeper sense of connection.
Welcome to the song circle…
You’re in the right place if you:
Want to sing but were never taught simple, accessible songs.
Feel a longing to open your voice and let it be heard.
Crave practices that bring more presence, ease, and connection into your days.
Are looking for songs you can actually use in your home, garden, rituals, or moments of stillness.
Peek into the element of Fire with Ashley:
Herbalist, Natural Builder, Full-Spectrum Doula (with the voice of an angel)
Songs have been tools in the toolkit of humanity since the beginning of time, since the beginning of speech. Some linguists actually believe that song could have come before language itself, long before we used words we used songs to convey meaning. I feel this as a truth in my bones.
The songs that we share with you here are songs that I have carried for more than a decade. These songs were taught to me by song keepers from the Moon Dance linage, a women's ceremonial tradition which brings women from all nations together in ceremony to grieve, celebrate, and give thanks. This tradition is deeply elemental and thus we are blessed with so many songs that dance around each of the elements.
These songs I hold dear like an old friend or a beloved who helps me to come home to myself when I've gotten lost along the path, as we all do. They help us navigate the Great Forgetting, this time when humans are often living lives so distant from that of our ancestors—lives lived far from the elemental rhythms that once shaped every aspect of being human.
Each time we return to this practice, we honor the Indigenous communities whose tireless efforts have held this path open for humanity to remember its true nature. The more we sing, the more we clear the path for those who will come after us to have access to these tools with more ease and grace than we had. With that gratitude, we make it all the more possible for us to find our way home through song—to its own elemental nature and to the truth of our human lineage, the lineage of love.
With love,
Ashley
Meet Ashley, Casa Curativa’s Director of Education…
Meet Lindsay, Herbal Educator at Casa Curativa…
Herbalist, Powerhouse Vocalist, Singer & Songwriter
Our song is our prayer and our voice is the wings that we give that prayer, so it may visit all the flowers and hearts around us, pollinating our ecosystem with the prayers we wish to give to our world.
Working with song as prayer is not about sounding beautiful, it is about connecting to the parts of ourselves that are devoted to being a unique part of the web of creation, and allowing those parts to ring out like a gong, subtly influencing all that is surrounding us. Song is a tool for connection to self, to nature, to the cosmos.
To sing from the heart is to remember the sound of our soul, and to sing from our womb is to connect to the cosmos within us. Song draws out our intuitive feelings, it activates our subtle bodies, and in that way it prepares us to connect with some of the most subtly powerful creatures on Earth - the plants.
The plants speak without words, they influence us with their spirits, and when we sing to the plants we allow our spirits to dance with theirs. We tune into our subtle parts through song, opening our senses up to perceive the subtle nature of the plants.
Sing to your plants - living or dried - and when you've imbibed a plant, ask them to sing through you and listen for their spirit to move through you. A subtle world of deep connection awaits you on the other side of each song.
In love,
Linds
A loving note about the songs shared:
We do not claim ownership of these songs. Many of these songs have been passed down through teachers, community circles, ceremony, and years of practice. We share them in gratitude and respect for the lineages, traditions, and carriers who have kept them alive.