Deep Listening Retreat
with Pauline Oliveros, Heloise Gold and IoneAugust 2 - 7, 2009
Deep Listening Institute fosters a unique approach to music, literature, art and meditation, and promotes innovation among artists and audiences in creating, performing, recording and educating with a global perspective.
Deep Listening Retreats, founded in 1991 by Pauline Oliveros are for ear minded people. Deep Listening is a form of meditation based on experiencing heightned awareness of sound, silence and sounding.
Daily activities with instructors Pauline Oliveros, Heloise Gold and Ione, include seven hours of daily ritual, attention to breath, listening/sounding meditations, T'ai Chi and Chi Kung movement practices, practicing silence, journeying for expanded creative resources, listening through dreams, tracking listening with sound journals, exploration strategies for creating and performing, scoring, writing, drawing, and creative movement sessions in the magnificent mountain forest.
Among those who attend Deep Listening Retreats are musicians and artists interested in expanding their understanding of sound and its effects on the body, meditators interested in enhancing their depth of practice through listening, teachers who want to encourage appreciation for listening in their students, and people interested in creativity, well being, relaxation, excitement and connection with others and the environment.
Instructor Profiles:
Pauline Oliveros is a composer, improviser, accordionist, educator and consultant.
She is founder and president of Deep Listening Institute, Ltd., Distinguished Professor of Music at Renselear Institute in Troy, NY, and Darius Milhaud Artist in Residence at Mills College in Oakland, CA. http://paulineoliveros.us
Ione is the Dream Keeper for the Deep Listening Retreats. A counselor specializing in dream and memory, she is also a noted author, playwright and poet whose works include the critically acclaimed memoir, Pride of Family: Four Generations of American Women of Color. Ione is an improvisational spoken word artist and director.
http://ionedreams.us
Heloise Gold is a performing artist, choreographer, dancer, T'ai Chi and Chi Kung instructor, and co-founder of ART FROM THE STREETS, a project for homeless artists.
She has been teaching T'ai Chi since 1978 and runs a movement/arts studio in Austin Texas. She has been co-leading Deep Listening Retreats with Pauline and Ione since their inception in 1991, and leads week-long T'ai Chi retreats each summer at Rose Mountain. Her book Deep Listening Body was published in 2008. http://deeplistening.org/heloise/about.html
Registration information:
The cost for the retreat is $785. Enrollment is limited to 18.
Balance is due July 1.
Included are three excellent vegetarian meals daily, camping, indoor bathing facilities.
A deposit of $100 is requested to reserve a place in the retreat.
Letters will be provided for teachers or students applying for funding from their institutions to attend the retreat.
To register and for more information, contact: Lisa Bernard (845) 338-5984,
email: lisa@deeplistening.org
T'AI CHI / HEALING MOVEMENT: multi-level retreat
with Heloise Gold
August 16 - 21 **$635
T'ai Chi is an ancient Chinese form of movement meditation that benefits the whole person--physical, emotional, mental, spiritual. It is one of the leading techniques being used for stress related imbalances. All participants will be able to return home with a solid practice and tools for well being. Daily themes, Chi Gong exercises, practices for receiving energy from nature, and creative fun will complement the T'ai Chi,enhancing awareness,centeredness,serenity,and strength.
HELOISE is a dancer and performing artist, as well as a long established T'ai Chi / Chi Gong instructor. She teaches workshops worldwide, and runs a T'ai Chi studio in Austin. She studied T'ai Chi with Chinese master Da Liu, and Chi Gong with masters T.K.Shih and Li Jun Feng.
Heloise has been teaching various forms of healing movement for 30 years.
More info on webpage: http://deeplistening.org/heloise
**Fees listed include tuition, great vegetarian meals, and beautiful camping facilities.
bordering the Santa Fe National Forest at an elevation of 8000 feet
PO Box 355; Las Vegas, New Mexico 87701
Please note our new phone number:
(505) 982-9826