The Impact of Ten Years of Vox Peregrini

Since its inception in 2015, Vox Peregrini has embarked upon physical and musical pilgrimage to provide opportunities for personal transmutation. For ten years, pilgrims have returned to their communities and continued the pilgrimage as students, teachers, clergy, professionals, and singers, even years after their walk with Vox Peregini. Your support can help to make this opportunity financially viable for future pilgrims.


"Experiencing a Vox journey for the first time confirmed one thing that I most consistently share with my students: that some of the most rewarding, memorable experiences in life involve being a part of something greater than yourself. 

And whether my students are aware or not, my fervor for education is constantly renewed by all of the lessons that Vox has taught me. The same lessons of self-worth and resilience, the unfettered joy and gratitude that are the cornerstones of my teaching philosophy, were revitalized along the upward and the downward slopes of a Vox Peregrini pilgrimage.”

Logan Chaloupka, High School English Teacher, Vox Peregrini Pilgrim 2023


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“My journey with Vox Peregrini has been life changing. I have experienced deep healing, peace, connection and magic on this trail and in making music with my fellow travelers. The very essence and heart of this pilgrimage beckons you to lean in and be brave — truly, I have never felt more alive.”

Lauren, Mental Health Professional and Professional Organist/Singer, Vox Peregrini Pilgrim 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2024


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“I love singing with Vox because it reminds me that making music is about more than simply preparing for a concert. It is more than notes and rhythms. It is a time for self-discovery through music. It is an opportunity to learn more about myself through the process of making music in a completely unique and beautiful place.”

Chris, Ph. D Student, Vox Peregrini Pilgrim 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024


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“My first Vox pilgrimage transformed so much in my life. I would be honored to walk and sing again, and again. I welcome the opportunities for future reconciliation.”

“The continuing impact of Vox in my life is that the lessons I learn on the trail, with dear friends, through music and exhaustion and communion return to me again and again. They challenge me and evolve with me and through me on every continued step of my own path. I’m being changed and motivated by this group and its lessons even now.”

Katrina, Yoga Instructor and Professional Singer, Vox Peregrini Pilgrim 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024


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“The pilgrimage experience allowed me the chance to get in touch with God in a powerful way. The combination of spiritual, musical, and physical challenges that Vox provided helped me come to a deeper knowledge of self and the particular graces with which I’ve been blessed. The Vox Peregrini pilgrimage experience has continued to unfold new revelations that have proved valuable especially now in ministry.”

Michael, Priest, Vox 2015


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“Spending part of my sabbatical discovering the spiritual discipline of pilgrimage with Vox was transformative. I spent the following six weeks processing what I’d learned about community, discipline, overcoming obstacles, symbolism and metaphor. I discovered the importance of shared experience in spiritual formation as well as the sacredness of liminal places.”

Richard, Music Minister, Vox 2015

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People need wild places.  Whether or not we think we do, we do.  We need to be able to taste grace and know again that we desire it.  We need to experience a landscape that is timeless, whose agenda moves at the pace of speciation and glaciers.  To be surrounded by a singing, mating, howling commotion of other species, all of which love their lives as much as we do ours, and none of which could possibly care less about us in our place.  It reminds us that our plans are small and somewhat absurd.        BARBARA KINGSOLVER, Small Wonder