Yelala and LMPS present
Seeds of Longing
7.30-9pm West Hampstead, Thursday 8th May
We invite you to join us in a practice of singing from the depths of our longings.
Each of us carries a landscape of people, places, and histories we have lost and carry longing for; we long to return, to remember, to feel close again.
Each of us longs for abundant connection, care, community, belonging and spiritual nourishment in the present.
We are in the season of counting the Omer, anticipating Shavuot, and cherishing the waves of the arrival of Spring. Together, through a container of song, we will find the seeds that will grow into our visions for these times and beyond.
Participants will be led in song and embodiment practices, and invited to share reflections if they wish.This event is Jewishly-rooted, and open to people of all faiths and none.
Accessibility note: This event is hosted in a private venue, and there is a staircase to climb.
About LMPS and Yelala
Let My People Sing! (LMPS) is a US based cultural project expanding the ancient and transformative practice of Jewish communal singing through offering immersive singing retreats, educational programming, and curated collections of original and traditional songs. From May 1st - 13th 2025, LMPS is running their first ever Peer 2 Peer Fundraiser to help sustain this important cultural work for the long haul. This event - co-led by LMPS co-founder Margot and cultural worker Lila Sarene alongside Kohenet Rachel from Yelala - is one of many song circles happening as part of this fundraiser!
Yelala is a UK-based constellation of projects founded and co-created by Kohenet Yael Tischler and Kohenet Rachel Rose Reid. Through rituals, retreats, song circles and more, we help those who come into our circle connect with their women/femme/folk Jewish ancestors, as well as the Earth and the Divine Feminine in Jewish tradition.
About Margot, Lila and Rachel
Margot Seigle (they/them) is a community builder, cultural organizer and music maker who believes in the power of song to heal and transform. Margot is a co-founder of Linke Fligl and Let My People Sing! who loves Shabbos, direct communication and slow cooking meat. They come from a lineage of Ashkenazi Jews who assimilated into whiteness in the Chicago suburbs. After a decade of living in the Hudson Valley on occupied Schagticoke / Mohican land they are now based in Minneapolis, MN. They are thrilled to be visiting London for the first time this May!
Lila Sarene is a Minneapolis based writer, bodyworker, cultural organizer, ritualist and mystic. She is a student of many bodywork modalities, lineages of Jewish tradition, as well as lineages of healing justice, cultural and ancestral health and liberatory practice. Her writing has grown from and with community rituals, services, workshops, and demonstrations and has been a response to her own and her communities’ need for words to hold and make sense of our experiences as well as to open to something more when we feel most scared and alone, devastated and lost.
Kohenet Rachel Rose Reid (she/her) is a ritualist, singer, & storyteller, shining new light on lost narratives. She was ordained by the Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute which was created to revive comprehensive knowledge of Jewish women & femme spiritual practice from antiquity to the present day. As co-founder of Yelala, she continues that work, and empowers Jewish and other people to create meaningful rituals for grief, love, transition, birth, & beyond. In addition to a diverse variety of Jewish spaces, she has co-led combined Islamic and Jewish devotional chant with Fahad Khalid, and led workshops for Medicine and Greenbelt Festivals, OneSpirit Interfaith Foundation, the Inayati Sufi Order and Rumi's Cave.
Rachel is an award-winning artist who has worked with Billy Bragg, BBC Radio and the London Symphony Orchestra, and is part of the Three Acres and a Cow collective.
Songs for
Healing and Wholeness
6-8pm West Hampstead, Sunday 25th May
Kohenet Yael and Kohenet Rachel invite you to a soothing evening of devotional chant and song in ancient Hebrew and English. This event, open to all, is part of Yelala's work of weaving rituals, learning experiences, and song circles. Accessibility note: there is a staircase to climb to reach the event. To be notified of future dates, sign up for their mailing list.
This event is Jewishly-rooted, and open to people of all faiths and none.
Yelala is a UK-based constellation of projects founded and co-created by Kohenet Yael Tischler and Kohenet Rachel Rose Reid. Through rituals, retreats, song circles and more, we help those who come into our circle connect with their women/femme/folk Jewish ancestors, as well as the Earth and the Divine Feminine in Jewish tradition.
