Music
Download or stream Soyinka’s music on Bandcamp.
Photo by Jocelyn Horne Photo
DIVINE: The People’s Video
BIBOLOVE.Us in collaboration with the InterPlay community.
Black Madonna
The Black Madonna song in the video was commissioned by AbbeyoftheArts.com and produced by Betsey Beckman of TheDancingWord.com with videography by Sharie Bowman. Soyinka choreographed and collaborated with Friends of Hope Community Arts Center in Uganda. The song can be found on the album Birthing the Holy: Singing with Mary and the Sacred Feminine.
Sending You Light
The video for Sending You Light by Melanie DeMore was commissioned by AbbeyoftheArts.com and Betsey Beckman of TheDancingWord.com who produced this video. Soyinka choreographed and collaborated with the same community in Uganda who danced in The Black Madonna. The song can be found on the album The Love of Thousands: Singing with Angels, Saints, and Ancestors.
Photo by Jocelyn Horne Photo
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 Loveflesh (all bodies) hearts and souls to remember and honor SPIRITLOVE that moves through us and around all things, all the time, celebrating our connection to our ancestors, our connection to each other through earth, wind, fire, water, birth, living, dying, and death. She supports and celebrates moments for collective Breaths, Chants, Movements, 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, exploring Afrocentric, power to the people, world religions, holistic thinking, and many other 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 Loveflesh (all bodies).
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 and celebrate life (YUMM YUMM). 5: To quiet your spirit or silence a room (Shhhh). [English]
BIBOLOVE.US is a philosophy to honor A LOVESUPREME and SPIRITLOVE that moves through and around LOVEFLESH (all bodies) by chanting, “YA-YA-YA-YA-YAAA, THANK YOU, SPIRITLOVE. YA-YA-YA-YA-YAAAA, THANK YOU saying your name” in celebration of A LOVESUPREME reminding us and guiding us, allowing our GSP – “Grassroots Spiritual Practitioner – Loveflesh spirits to move our GPS - Global Positioning Systems - to reactivate peace, love, joy, happiness, health, grace, and ease in all of our relations.
BIBOLOVE.US practice is to “breathe in, breathe out love.us.” Using meditation, affirmation, visualization, and movement giving ourselves permission to overflow with peace, love, joy, happiness, health, grace, and ease. We understand that Love has the power to conjure up our lights, our Loveflesh, our hearts and souls, to keep remembering that emotions and feelings are fleeting and that Love’s power is winning. Breathing in love and breathing out love is spirituality, BIBILOVE.US.
BIBOLOVE.US focuses breath
BIBOROAR to release and to give thanks to A LOVESUPREME.
BIBOSIGH with a wiggle and a giggle
BIBOHMMM thoughts, words, actions
BIBOYUMM YUMM to celebrate life
BIBOSHHHH to listen to SPIRITLOVE
BIBOLOVE with sound to bring ease to our nervous systems.
YA-YA-YA-YA-YAAA, THANK YOU SPIRITLOVE.
CELEBRATING
💙❤️💚💛❤️❤️❤️❤️
💙 Blue our breath
❤️ Red our self love
💚 Green our earth
💛 Gold our highest selves, A LOVESUPREME
❤️ Red our LOVEFLESH (all bodies)
💙❤️💚💛❤️❤️❤️❤️.US
BOOKINGS
Soyinka Rahim, gsp, offers intergenerational, interactive performances and workshops, that will energize, inspire, celebrate, 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 visualizing celebration of our connection to A LOVESUPREME. Conference weaving provides a playful, interactive experience that people can carry with them.
Soyinka is also available for workshops, keynotes, and meeting energizers.
New Movement Sing Along
For one hour, Soyinka will teach and lead your group in BIBOLOVE.US practices and the creation of new chants, songs, and movements to use in your activism that celebrates love and global connection. They will renew your courage and fortitude for the hard work ahead to ignite self-love, liberation, reparation, conservation, transformation, and freedom for all LOVEFLESH (all bodies)!
Let Your Light Shine workshop
We are the lights of SPIRITLOVE, LOVEFLESH (all bodies) made up of special, unique talents, thoughts, actions, and experiences. This workshop incorporates collective breaths, chants, movements, songs, and play to celebrate our lights, igniting our confidence to support collaboration and let our LOVELIGHTS shine.
BIBOLOVE.US WORKSHOP
BIBOLOVE.US workshop offers participants an opportunity to dive deeper into the philosophy and spiritual practices of BIBOLOVE.US. Through collective, focused breathing, chanting, singing, movement, and storytelling we celebrate and honor SPIRITLOVE that moves through us, and around all things, all the time, our LOVEFLESH (all bodies) and reminding us of our connection to a LOVESUPREME. We will engage in the BIBOLOVE.Us pocket deck - a micro deck for A MACRO LOVE. This workshop will provide an opportunity to be certified as a grassroots spiritual practitioner (gsp).
SPIRITual direction
Soyinka Rahim, gsp, 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 LOVESUPREME. Soyinka offers space to collaborate using breath, song, wisdom, movement, and awakening innate spiritual intelligence 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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Your energy is so bountiful and catchy. I have caught some love.
Jackie Herbach, Program Participant
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Such joy-filled reminders of our connection on this planet and beyond.
Heidi Van Ert, Program participant
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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
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Soyinka brings her whole heart to every program she leads. Her powerful presence grounds and uplifts participants in Love. This is not a pie-in-the-sky kind of love, it is a Divine Love that calls forth relationship, justice, healing, and Grace.
Melinda Thomas, Author of “Sacred Balance” and Program Coordinator for Abbey of the Arts
CONTACT SOYINKA
Get in touch with Soyinka for bookings, music or art. You can also email BIBOLOVEUS@gmail.com.