Music
Download or stream Soyinka’s music on Bandcamp.
Black Madonna
The Black Madonna song in the video was commissioned by AbbeyoftheArts.com and Betsey Beckman of TheDancingWord.com who produced this video. Betsey and I worked with a community in Uganda to teach them the dance as well. The result is the interweaving of this footage through this beautiful and potent video. The song can be found on the album Birthing the Holy: Singing with Mary and the Sacred Feminine.
About Soyinka
Soyinka Rahim, GSP, is a Grassroots Spiritual Practitioner, and the creator of BIBOLOVE.US, which stands for “Breathe In, Breathe Out LOVE.US.” She is a BIBOLOVE practitioner, performing artist, Conference Weaver, and an InterPlay Leader-Collaborator from Oakland, California.
An energizing and engaging artist, facilitator and collaborator, Soyinka guides all hearts and souls to remember and honor SPIRITLOVE moving through us in our connection to earth, wind, fire, water, birth and dying, our ancestors, and each other. She supports and celebrates moments for collective Breaths, Chants, Movements, and Storytelling. Soyinka is dedicated to leading intergenerational gatherings, as well as working with youth and adults seeking spiritual direction, (one-on-one or in groups.)
Soyinka is an artist by any means necessary: dancer, choreographer, found-objects artist, poet, singer, songwriter, and musician. Check out her music and videos at YouTube. She was raised by a visionary, artistic mother in low-income communities, and in an Afrocentric family that explored holistic thinking, power to the people, world religions, and many art forms.
She brings all her gifts in celebration of A LOVESUPREME across religious, cultural, racial, and economic divides. She has been a Conference Weaver, Facilitator, and Collaborator at the Facing Race conference and the Parliament of World Religions, among many other events.
Soyinka is also a certified leader of InterPlay, an active, creative way to unlock the wisdom of the body.
BIBOLOVE Philosophy & Practice
BIBO (bee-bo) abbr. 1: Breathe in, breathe out, (best used with sound: roar, sigh, hmmm, yumm, or shhhh). 2: To release tension (roar or sigh). 3: To think (hmmm). 4: To appreciate the good stuff (yumm). 5: To quiet your spirit or silence a room (Shhhh). [English]
BIBOLOVE.US is a philosophy to honor Flesh and Bones by chanting, “YA-YA-YA-YA-YA-YAAA, THANK YOU, SPIRITLOVE. YA-YA-YA-YA-YAAAA, THANK YOU,” and celebrating SPIRITLOVE reminding and guiding us all. We allow our GSP – “Grassroots Spiritual Practitioner – spirits to guide our GPS - Global Positioning Systems - to reactivate peace, love, joy, health, happiness, grace, and ease.
BIBOLOVE.US practice is to “breathe in, breathe out love.us” using meditation, affirmation, visualization and movement we allow our bodies to overflow with peace, love, joy, health, happiness, grace, and ease, knowing Love has the power to conjure up our light, aligning our seven chakras, connecting hearts and souls in all our relations. Every act is a spiritual act when we breathe in, breathe out love, BIBILOVE.US.
BIBOLOVE.US is a focused breath with sound - YA-YA-YA-YA-YA-YAAA, THANK YOU - roar, sigh, hmmm, yumm, shhh – to bring more ease to the nervous system while loving and living.
CELEBRATING
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💙 Blue as our breath
❤️ Red as our self love
💚 Green as our earth
💛 Gold as our highest self
❤️ Red as our blood
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BOOKINGS
Soyinka offers performances and facilitations that will energize, inspire and unite your group.
Conference WEAVing, workshops & keynotes
Soyinka will collaborate with you to open or close your plenary sessions with breathing, chanting, singing, movement, meditations, affirmations, and visualizations, that will connect your group to our LOVESUPREME. Conference weaving provides a common creative experience that your people can carry throughout the entire event.
Soyinka is also available for workshops, keynotes, and meeting energizers.
New Movement Sing Along
Every gathering needs it artistic voice. For one hour, Soyinka will teach and lead your group in learning new songs and chants that will renew your courage and fortitude for the hard work ahead. “Liberation, reparation, conservation, transformation, freedom!”
Let Your Light Shine workshop
We are the light made up of our special talents, thoughts, actions, and experiences. This workshop incorporates sound, movement, breathing, and play to celebrate SPIRITLOVE and reignite our confidence to let our LOVELIGHTS shine. “I let my light shine!”B
BIBOLOVE WORKSHOP
Focused breathing, chanting, singing, movement, and storytelling to better understand self-love, A SUPREMELOVE in our bodies and in the community for emotional, psychological, physical, and spiritual intelligence. “Yumm is the sound of the heart.”
SPIRITual direction
Soyinka Rahim coaches all who seek self-love and want to collaborate to move through life’s full spectrum of fleeting feelings and emotions, while learning, teaching, and practicing how to love and be loved; to breathe, think, speak move – changing all the ways we dance with the “isms” that separate us from A LOVE SUPREME. Soyinka offers space to collaborate with breath, wisdom, movement, and spirituality for children and adults, practicing how to engage A SUPREMELOVE, A SELF-LOVE to change poison into medicine. (One time sessions or ongoing appointments.)
TESTIMONIALS
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Soyinka Rahim is a unique treasure. She both embodies and promotes a powerful life/justice approach rooted in love. Her voice is rich, her songs and chants are memorable and clear, and she is excellent at helping groups of people large and small find their embodied joy. She has had a profound effect on the InterPlay community, and I count her as one of my teachers. She is someone to pay attention to!
Phil Porter, Co-founder and Co-Director of InterPlay/Body Wisdom, inc
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In October 2017, Soyinka was the co-keynoter, facilitated an Intergenerational InterPlay workshop entitled "Changing the Race Dance," and led the gathered in an energetic closing of the second annual Racial Awareness and Mindfulness 2017: A Mini-Festival of the Arts, Awareness, and Healing. Her work in the Intergenerational InterPlay workshop, uniting children and older adults, creating an environment where children and youth were comfortable telling their stories, and allowing them to be themselves and let their lights shine, was one of the most memorable and impactful results of the Racial Awareness Festival in 2017. She is still talked about and admired by those in attendance.
Terese Taylor-Stinson, Washington DC
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Soyinka has served as Conference Weaver for Facing Race almost since the beginning, leading us in movement and song at all our plenaries. We are a diverse, often traumatized, fast-moving crowd, and her calming spirit has been invaluable. She helps us breathe and sing together so we can also make change together.
Rinku Sen, Former President of Race Forward & host of Facing Race
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At our InterPlay performance at the Parliament of World Religions, I was so profoundly moved and impressed by how Soyinka was able to galvanize and lift up our entire audience with her lyrics “isms, religious can’t keep us apart, so the next time we meet let it be with L – G- E; Love, Grace and Ease.” The simple refrain had the whole room of multi-ethnic and inter-faith peoples standing up, dancing, singing, smiling and connecting with each other. Truly a moment of communal bliss.
Bobbie Wynn Bolden, InterPlay
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The Bravery Conference brought together advocates and activists from sexual and domestic violence agencies across Virginia to address how we do this work and take care of ourselves. At times the conversations were difficult and radical as we talked about doing this through anti-racism lenses. Soyinka was our Conference Weaver who brought us to a place of one accord as we began each day, bringing inspiration, energy and excitement with participatory music and movement that attendees reported over and over as highlights of our time together.
Angela Blount, Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance
CONTACT SOYINKA
Get in touch with Soyinka for bookings, music or art. You can also email BIBOLOVEUS@gmail.com.