The living altar
A 6 week vocal alchemy training
July 23-August 27, 2025 || Wednesdays 6p-8p ET || Live Virtual via Zoom
Learn to navigate the unknown with your voice as your vehicle.
Over 6 weeks we will dive into the unseen world with Saturn, Chiron, and Venus as our celestial guides.
You’ll calibrate your internal compass, activate your voice in way that’s rooted in feeling good in your body, and develop the ability to connect with your own living altar to weave enchantment into your life.
Pt 1: SATURN | The Father Figure
Pt 2: CHIRON | The Mentor
Pt 3: VENUS | The Muse
THE JOURNEY
No matter where in the world you descend from, song has been ceremonially carried as a gateway for prayer, connection to self, and communion with the divine. For many of us, the bridge to sacred song has been silenced and forgotten. Through coming home to our song we rekindle the connection to our wisdom, power, ancestral medicine, and prayer.
Our song is a birthright that we all carry.
Over 6 weeks we’ll explore sound alchemy as a vehicle for reconnection to your living altar. Each week, you'll work with your voice to explore, ground into your body, and weave prayer into sound from a place of pleasure and play. This container is created for folks who want to repair your connection to your voice, empower your right to speak, and express your genius in service to your own innocence and to the freedom of all. This isn’t a workshop to learn how to perform—you’re going to fall in love with the genius of your body and song. Anchored in play and driven by inspiration, you’ll be excited to fully arrive.
What is a living altar?
The Living Altar is a relationship with life—not the poetic idea of it, but actual life: messy, gorgeous, wyrd, breathtaking, and a little off-kilter. It’s the breeze at sunset that makes you want to linger. The candle that flickers just right when you finally say the thing out loud. It’s our life talking back—and it’s been listening this whole time.
Sometimes, the altar shows up as a physical space you tend, something you build with what you’ve got: shells, bones, petals, stones, candles, copper, and things your ancestors might side-eye. Other times, it’s just the way you vocalize your yawn in the morning and say okay, let’s try again. Either way, you’re doing it on purpose.
You’ll be invited to make a physical altar, as simple or indulgent as you desire. It’s not about the aesthetics. It’s about connection, about remembering that you’re in conversation with something much older, wiser, wyrder… and it’s rooting for you. It'll also probably end up being way more powerful than you expected. Trust me on this one.
When we live this way something softens. Life starts speaking a little louder. Beauty stops being a someday thing. Enchantment returns... not because we’re escaping, but because we’re finally paying attention.
Somewhere amidst it all—grief, wonder, traffic on the way home from ceremony—you catch yourself thinking:
Oh, wow. This is exactly where I want to be.
This is for you if…
You’re lost amidst the constantly changing cultural landscape and need tools to know how to find your center so you can move with confidence and be an active collaborator in your life
You have a feeling that healing and growth doesn’t have to feel so lonely, painful, and intense and you’re ready for a new perspective
You feel deep in your body that you long to be singing as part of your healing journey but are stuck on how to start
You know how to sing but want to take it to the next level and learn how to wield your instrument shamanically
3 mentors.
6 weeks.
Learn to wield your original instrument.
Our Guides
SATURN: The Father Figure
Ruler of the Earth plane, Saturn’s teachings are those of time initiation, of maturity, sobriety, and of deep embodied human wisdom. As the final visible planet in our solar system, he stands at the threshold between the seen and unseen, ensuring that only the initiated gain access to the realms of the beyond.
Saturn is our first guide, teaching us to build the temple within which our channel opens—protected, practiced, and reverent.
CHIRON: The Mentor
Chiron is the wisdom keeper who walks us through the rites of passage necessary to obtain power by way of traversing the landscapes of our own primal wounds. Chiron holds for us the keys with which we unlock our genius, showing us that through initiating with our greatest wounds, our specialization is forged.
Our second mentor, Chiron will guide us in opening the worlds by first calibrating to our primal wisdom and tuning our ear to the song of the natural world.
VENUS: The Muse
Venus teaches us to evoke, inspire, and bemuse the realms we wish to see fertile in the world.
Our third and final guide in this trinity, our communion with Venus is where we foster our channel to liberated expression, divine reciprocity, and thriving creative force.
Venus shows us how our song becomes an instrument of pleasure & play, through which new worlds are born.
On the other side…
Your sense of guidance is fully calibrated, coming from within so you can navigate the unknown with a compass
Your voice feels open and accessible, giving you a built-in way to regulate your nervous system, find center when you feel thrown, and ritualize your life
Your perspective has shifted and your life feels both more hopeful & enchanted, in deep service to your own joy and as an instrument of collective healing
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If by sing you mean make sound, yes :) This is not a place where you’ll be required to perform. We will be spending time developing the skills needed to access your voice, no prior experience necessary.
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Definitely not. The way we’re working with the planetary guides will be archetypal, and I’ll be teaching you all you’ll need to know for the context of our container.
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Yes. You will gain access to the recordings of our sessions each week if you can’t make it live or would like to review.
PRICING
$666 $555
$244 $198 (3 monthly payments)
There are limited full & partial scholarships available for those who would otherwise not have access. Reach out to me if this is you.
Keiley Joy
Mentor, musical bard, and ceremonial guide, I am deeply devoted to finding the navigational tools we need to traverse ever-changing landscapes—both around us and within. My values and styles of teaching are rooted in de-colonial frameworks and queering our orientation to the natural world. Through apprenticing with indigenous lineages and with my own Celtic/Druidic ancestral lore, I continue to return to the belief that our liberated voices define where we’re going as a culture.
It’s my great passion and joy to share what I know so more people can hear the song of the natural world and awaken their own!