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Dream Trails @ Squawk Boat

Deep Listening Workshops at Global Breath

Discover the sounds that compose your world. The practice of Deep Listening, developed by composer Pauline Oliveros (1932­–2016),
explores the difference between the involuntary nature of hearing and the voluntary, selective nature of listening. The practice includes
“Sonic Meditations” (a term coined by Oliveros), body awareness, and listening to the sounds of daily life, nature, one’s own thoughts,
imagination, and dreams. It cultivates a heightened awareness of the sonic environment, both external and internal, and promotes
experimentation, improvisation, collaboration, playfulness and other creative skills vital to personal and community growth.
L. Cooper received her Deep Listening certificate from the Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She studied closely with Pauline Oliveros, IONE (author of listening in dreams) and Heloise Gold (author of Deeply Listening Body). Her workshops have a
particular focus on listening in dreams.  All are welcome, no previous experience needed.
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Deep Listening ~ Dream Incubation Workshops

What do you hear in your dreams? Dreams contain valuable information about our emotional landscape, connections with ancestors, and answers we are seeking. Deep Listening, developed by composer Pauline Oliveros, helps us explore the difference between involuntary hearing and the voluntary, selective nature of listening.
In this workshop, guided by Lindsay, a certified Deep Listening facilitator, we relax into dream space using Deep Listening techniques, and create a fertile environment to receive and remember dream information. Upon returning to waking life, we record our dreams, or if sleep did not arrive, our thoughts and insights. Through recording and sharing, we accumulate dream records and a better sense of ourselves. We make requests of our dreams and incubate healing in specific ways.

Our dreaming state affects our waking state. Come rest, heal and dream. Please bring additional comfort items such as pillows and eye masks as desired.  

Global Breath. February 19, March 19 & April 23. You can drop into one, two or all three sessions.

Day of Listening ~ May 6, Troy, NY

"Deep Listening, is a way of listening in every possible way to everything possible to hear, no matter what you are doing."
- Pauline Oliveros
Deep Listening, developed by composer Pauline Oliveros, explores the difference between the involuntary nature of hearing and the voluntary, selective nature of listening.
The practice includes bodywork, sonic meditations, interactive performance, listening to the sounds of daily life, nature, one’s own thoughts, imagination and dreams. It cultivates a heightened awareness of the sonic environment, both external and internal, and promotes experimentation, improvisation, collaboration, playfulness and other creative skills vital to personal and community growth.
Workshops will run throughout the day, each will be 30-40 minutes long and range from mindful, relaxing activities, to more improvisatory and playful ones. Drop in any time. Here is the schedule for the day:
10am – Opening excitement!
10:15-11:00  “Tuning the Imminent Shift: A Participatory Performance” with Jennifer Wilsey, Sharon Stewart, Ximena Alarcón Diaz.
11:15-12:15  Deep Listening Workshop with Pauline Oliveros and Ione
12:15-1:00    “Ancestral Voicings” with Björn Eriksson, Noam Lemish, Jane Rigler
1:00 – 2:00     Lunch
2:15-3:00      “Spontaneity Workshop” with William Dickie, Lindsay Cooper, Keith Lay
3:15-4:00     “DIY Scores for Listening” with Stephanie Loveless
4:15-5:00    “Audient” with Vivienne Corringham
5:15-6:00    “The 150 Million Year-Old Symphony” Outdoor soundwalk with David Arner

10am - 6pm, Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Studio 2, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.  

Deep Listening Conference

L. Cooper, along with the rest of the Squawk Boat Deep Listeners are presenting at the upcoming Deep Listening Art/ Science conference in Troy, NY.  We have posed the question: ‘Why is Deep Listening a valuable workplace practice?’