Transcendent Musical Experiences are Available to Everyone

Close your eyes…
Open yourself to the music

Amoeba Sing is a contemplative musical journey, designed to foster deep creative flow and personal breakthroughs. Through awareness of breath, body and listening, we stabilize our connection to self, and prepare ourselves to connect with music. With closed eyes, we explore freely making tones with our voice, becoming a single, shape-shifting organism. After guiding the opening with words, Nate’s transcendent piano playing accompanies the choir of voices for the rest – leading the expansive journey through music alone. 

No prior experience is needed. Great for meditators dipping into music, musicians trying something new, and anyone desiring a safe place to find freedom in singing.

Next Session: Wednesday September 17th, 7-9pm.
Please consider arriving as early as 6:45, to get settled so we can start on time. Doors will close at 7:10pm

Please be ready to be without shoes and bring something to sit comfortably (a pillow, yoga block, or blanket). Chairs will be available. We begin promptly at 7pm, closing by 9pm, with time for reflection and sharing.

To reserve your spot, send $10-20 before Wednesday Sept 17th, with Amoeba as the memo.

$20-25 if paying on the day of the event.

Venmo: @Nateshaffer (Display name Nathaniel Shaffer)
— contact Nate, howdoyouspellthis@gmail.com if you desire to pay in another form

From where did this practice originate?

Nate has been leading group improvisation experiences since 2015. This practice came in part from his work at Improv Boston: introducing students of improv comedy to musical improv comedy. There he discovered that music isn’t about putting new ideas into people… but about creating a space where people can unmask, and allow their natural musicality to flow. Routinely, students who closed their eyes and simply sang with their classmates brought them to tears.

The Amoeba Sing has been a staple as a warm-up at the Songbuilder Soiree, a unique celebratory night of spontaneous music, happening bi-monthly at his studio & the Lilypad.

Nate’s Bio:
Nate is a pianist, composer, and facilitator whose work bridges music, meditation, and communities of practice. Through Inner&Outer Music, he creates spaces where sound becomes a pathway for grounding, listening, and connection – to yourself, others and to the heart of music itself. His gatherings blend improvisation, contemplation, and liberatory play: where participants express freely, without judgment or expectation. With a background spanning many instruments, genres, and modalities, Nate’s uses his wisdom of experience to music accessible to aesthetic seekers rich embodied experience: part practice, part play, part mystery. He has lectured at Tufts & Harvard, earned degrees in music from Tufts and Brandeis, and mentored hundreds of students in improvisation, music, songwriting and more.