Hearth

A place to return throughout the seasons of life.

Seasonal studies in song, creativity, contemplation, and relationship.

What is Hearth?

There are many places to learn.

Few places invite us to return

Hearth is a year-long rhythm of seasonal studies that invites us into a life of practice through song, creativity, contemplation, and community.

Throughout the year, we open the door to the practices that are nourishing us in the present season. As the world changes around us, so too does our relationship to our voice, our creativity, our communities, and ourselves. Rather than following a fixed curriculum, we allow the season to shape our attention and guide our inquiry together.

Here, we gather not simply to acquire information, but to cultivate attention.

Together we learn to listen more deeply: to ourselves, to one another, to the natural world, to the unseen, and to the wisdom that continually unfolds through relationship.

Each season offers a different doorway, yet all belong to one shared rhythm.

You are welcome to begin wherever you are.

The Rhythm of the Seasons

At Hearth, the practices remain rooted while the season becomes our teacher.

Voice, song, creativity, contemplation, dialogue, instruments, and community weave through every gathering. What changes is the particular relationship we bring to them as the seasons turn.

Winter • Deepen

Winter invites us into stillness.

As the earth rests, we slow our pace. Our practices become companions for deeper listening, contemplation, and trust in the unseen work that continues beneath the surface.

Spring • Awaken

Spring invites us into emergence.

As life begins to stir, we bring our practices into relationship with beginnings—with curiosity and possibility. Together we listen for what is asking to awaken within us and around us.

Summer • Shine

Summer invites us into expression.

As the days grow fuller, we practice offering our authentic voice with greater confidence, generosity, and joy. Together we explore what it means to embody what has been taking root and to share it with the world in ways that feel true.

Autumn • Gather

Autumn invites us into harvest.

As the season turns inward, we gather the fruits of lived experience. Through reflection, song, conversation, creative exploration, and community, we integrate what has been learned while tending the relationships that continue to nourish us.

Our Culture

The way we gather matters as much as what we practice

Hearth is rooted in a culture of relationship—one that values curiosity over certainty, participation over performance, and practice over perfection. Together we cultivate a space where each person contributes to the life of the whole.

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Relationship

We understand learning as something that happens through relationship—with ourselves, one another, the natural world, the unseen, and the wisdom that continually teaches us. Transformation is less something we achieve than something that emerges through sustained relationship.

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Practice

We gather to practice, not to perform. Through returning to simple rhythms again and again, we cultivate presence, attention, confidence, and care. Growth unfolds through consistency rather than urgency.

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Stewardship

Each of us shares responsibility for tending the spaces we inhabit. Stewardship is not self-appointed, but continually discerned through listening, reciprocity, and service.

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Belonging

Belonging is not earned through expertise or experience. It grows through participation, generosity, vulnerability, and the willingness to learn alongside others.

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Curiosity

Questions are welcomed here. We believe wisdom often unfolds through returning to the same questions in different seasons of life, discovering that we have changed as much as the answers themselves.

What We Practice

Throughout the year we share the practices that are nourishing us and invite you to practice alongside us.

These may include:

  • Voice & Song

  • Musical Instruments (all experience levels welcome)

  • Mindfulness & Contemplative Practice

  • Creative Expression

  • Embodied Movement

  • Reflection & Dialogue

  • Seasonal Living

  • Relationship with the Natural World

  • Personal Home Practice

  • Community Practice

  • Rest & Integration

While the season shapes our attention, these practices become companions that support us in meeting life with greater presence, authenticity, and care.

Who Hearth is For

Hearth welcomes people of all ages and stages of life.

At present, our community includes participants as young as 8 and as seasoned as 67, each bringing their own perspective to the circle.

  • Feel more at home in your own voice

  • Sing with greater confidence, freedom, and authenticity

  • Explore or deepen a relationship with music through voice and instruments

  • Cultivate a meaningful rhythm of practice

  • Explore creativity without the pressure to perform

  • Deepen your relationship with yourself, others, the natural world, and the unseen

  • Move at the pace of relationship rather than urgency

  • Participate in a community rooted in generosity, reciprocity, and care

  • Practice curiosity alongside others

  • Return to practices that nourish you season after season

  • Belong to something you can continue returning to throughout the year

Hearth is for those who long to...

No prior musical experience is required.

Whether singing is completely new to you, you’ve been wanting to reclaim your voice, or music has accompanied you throughout your life, you are welcome here.

Testimonials

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  • Hearth initiated in me a musical practice that I had been craving for a while but didn’t know where to start. Helped me to shift focus from “do I sound good” to

    “am I creating and expressing myself authentically?”

  • Ala and Dalani are incredible space holders, teachers, sisters and friends. Their presence is palpable in the containers they hold and they make learning interesting, fun and desirable.

    I have a profound sense of gratitude for the opportunity to study with them.

  • This music cohort was a beautiful experience that came at just the right time to spark a creative awakening for me.

    I’m so grateful to Dalani and Ala for creating this space and tending this hearth.

  • What I thought would simply be learning songs turned into something much deeper. Through yoga breathing, vocal exercises and intentional practice,

    I began to open my voice in ways I didn’t know were possible.

  • I took Ala & Dalani's last music course, and it genuinely impacted me. It helped me grow as a singer not just technically, but emotionally and spiritually.

    I learned how to open my voice instead of forcing it. One of the biggest gifts for me was reconnecting to prayer through singing. My voice stopped feeling like performance and started feeling like devotion.

  • Beyond the music, it brought so many of us closer as a community.

    There was something powerful about gathering around shared intention and creativity.

    You could feel it.

  • I love how everyone is at a different level either vocally or with their instruments sharing from the heart.

    I also enjoy how you guys changed the program to make it more friendly, the yoga breathing and welcoming.

  • I loved connecting with amazing people through prayer and music 🎶

    I highly recommend this journey.

  • This experience inspired me to purchase a guitar

    and actually want to play!

Choose Your Rhythm

Choose the path that feels most aligned with where you are.

Whether you join for a single season or the full annual rhythm, you'll be welcomed into a community of practice rooted in relationship, consistency, and thoughtful attention.

Dalani holds up peace fingers in a beanie as Ala sweeps fallen leaves on a wooded pathway

Gather

Autumn: Oct - Dec

A three-month journey through Autumn beginning in October and completing just before the Winter Solstice in December.

Includes:

  • 6 live group gatherings via Zoom
    (1st & 3rd Tuesdays at 7:00 PM Eastern)

  • 3 private 1:1 sessions

  • Recordings of every live group gathering

  • Seasonal resources & home practices

  • A community in practice together throughout the season

Alongside our group gatherings, you'll meet individually once each month. These private sessions offer space to deepen your personal practice, ask questions arising from the season, receive individualized guidance, and integrate what is unfolding in your own life.

Tuition: $650

Returning Hearth Member Tuition: $600

Returning Hearth Members receive $50 off each additional seasonal study as a way of honoring continued practice and relationship.

Register for this Season
Register for this Season

Future Seasons

Already know when you'd like to begin?

You're welcome to reserve your place in any upcoming 2027 seasonal study.

Winter • Deepen
Winter • Deepen
Spring • Awaken
Spring • Awaken
Summer • Shine
Summer • Shine

Full Hearth Year

Enter Hearth with the season of your choice and walk the complete rhythm of Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter.

Includes:

  • 24 live group gatherings via Zoom

  • 12 private 1:1 sessions

  • Recordings of every live group gathering

  • Seasonal resources & home practices

  • A community in practice together throughout the year

Monthly private sessions create space for personalized guidance, integration, and support as your practice evolves through each season. This also allows us to get to know each other and grow our relationship in this community.

Tuition: $2,222

Returning Hearth Member Tuition: $2,000

Returning Hearth Members receive $222 off the full annual rhythm as an expression of our gratitude for their continued commitment to the community.

Join the Full Year

Come to the Hearth

Every home has a hearth.

A place where stories are shared, songs are remembered, meals are prepared, and people return after long journeys.

It is not simply a place of warmth, but a place that is tended.

Our hope is that Hearth becomes one of those places in your life : a place to return, to practice, to listen, and to remember that none of us were meant to walk this path alone.

Whenever you're ready,

come to the Hearth.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Yes. Every season is a welcoming place to begin. We simply ask that you join by the second group gathering of the season so we have time to anchor together as a community and build a shared current for the journey ahead.

  • Our live group gatherings currently meet via Zoom on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month at 7:00 PM Eastern.

  • Not at all. Whether you're rediscovering your voice, picking up an instrument for the first time, or have been making music for years, the invitation is the same: come with curiosity and a willingness to practice.

  • Yes. All live group gatherings are recorded and shared with participants. Private sessions are intentionally held live and ask your presence, as they are designed to support your unique journey within the season.

  • Yes. Hearth is an online community that welcomes participants from wherever they call home.

  • Yes. We believe meaningful study should be as accessible as possible.

    Each season, we reserve a limited number of scholarship and reduced-tuition opportunities for those experiencing financial hardship, with priority given to BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ community members.

    If Hearth feels like a genuine "yes" but finances are a barrier, we invite you to reach out. We'll do our best to find a path forward together.

  • Yes. Payment plans are available for both seasonal and full-year tuition.

    You'll be able to indicate your preference during registration, and we'll follow up with options that support both your needs and the sustainability of Hearth.

  • We'd love to hear from you.

    If there's something you're wondering that isn't answered here, please reach out. Hearth begins with relationship, and we're always happy to connect before you decide whether this is the right fit.

    Contact Us!