20th Annual DEEP LISTENING RETREAT
July 6-10, 2010
Nau Côclea Camallera Girona Spain
With Pauline Oliveros, Ione, Heloise Gold
Deep Listening Retreats founded in 1991 by Pauline Oliveros are for ear minded people.
Deep Listening® is a form of meditation based on experiencing heightened awareness of sound, silence and sounding. Deep Listening practice evolved and developed from Sonic Meditations (Smith Publications, 1971) an earlier body of work by Oliveros now performed in many parts of the world. Daily Retreat 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 Qi Gong movement practices, practicing, journeying for expanded creative resources, listening through dreams, tracking listening with sound journals, interaction, discoveries, exploration strategies for creating and performing, scoring, writing, drawing, creative movement sessions in the open air, listening for creative opportunities, free time, exchange and lively conversation.
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.
Retreat Schedule
Tuesday, July 6th
4-6 pm Welcome and accommodation of the participants
6 pm Beginning of the Retreat
8′30 pm Dinner
Wednesday July 7th - Saturday July 10th
Daily retreat activities are from 7-am to 1pm in the morning and from 4pm to 7pm in the evening. Picnic lunch will be served at 1pm and dinner at 9pm. During the retreat there will be special non-verbal periods, morning walking meditations and movement exercises. In addition there will be some evening sessions.
On Saturday July 10th at 7pm there will be a special closing performance with all the participants. This performance is an integral part of the workshop and will be open to the public.
Instructor profiles:
Pauline Oliveros is one of America’s most vital composers and improvisers. Deep Listening®, her lifetime practice is fundamental to her composing, performing and teaching. She is founder and president of Deep Listening Institute, Ltd. in Kingston NY; serves as Distinguished Research Professor of Music at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY; and Darius Milhaud Artist-in-residence at Mills College, Oakland CA. She is the recipient of the prestigious 2010 William Shuman Award from Columbia University.Ione is the Dream Keeper for the Deep Listening Retreats. A counselor specializing in the creative process, 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, Listening in Dreams & This is a Dream! and Nile Night; Remembered Texts from the Deep. Her works include Njinga the Queen King, the Lunar Opera; Deep Listening ForTunes, Io and Her and the Trouble with Him and the film Dreams of the Jungfrau. Ione is also an improvising spoken word artist who performs throughout the world.
Heloise Gold is a performing artist, choreographer, dancer, T’ai Chi/Qi Gong 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 Oliveros and Ione since their inception in 1991 and also runs week-long T’ai Chi Retreats annually in New Mexico. Her book Deeply Listening Body was published in 2008.
Deep Listening Institute, Ltd. 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.
Welcome and Accommodations
XXé Deep Listening Retreat will take place at the Contemporary Art Center Nau Côclea de Camallera, a beautiful natural place in Alt Empordà, Girona, Spain. People can reach us by car, train (Port Bou line Camallera station) or plane (Girona airport 30 km.)
Registration to the retreat includes accommodations and catering during 5 days.
- Basic accommodations will be at l’Hostal L’Avi Pep in Camallera, a very simple hotel with low prices. Students can walk from the hotel to Nau Côclea.
- We can also book higher priced Hotels for those who prefer this option. These hotels are 15km away from the retreat, so a car will be necessary should participants choose this option.
- Also 15 km far from Camallera there are many camp sites. You can book in any of them. For a comfortable (but naturally busy in July) camp site by the sea, check: El Càmping Almatà. For another camp-site with fewer conveniences (but quiet and farther from the sea) check: Càmping Esponellà
- It is also possible to register without accommodations.
Price and Registration
- Basic tuition 480 €
Retreat, informational materials and snacks (coffee, tea, juices, biscuits, etc) - Catering tuition 650 €
Retreat, mataerials and snacks (coffee, tea, juices, biscuits, etc). Picnic lunch and whole dinner. - Full tuition 750 €
Retreat, materials and snacks (coffee, tea, juices, biscuits, etc). Picnic lunch and whole dinner. Accommodation in double room at Hostal L’Avi Pep in Camallera. Extra for individual use of double room 100 € (if available).
Seats are limited
To register, fill out the attached document and send it to tallers@naucoclea.com before june 15th.
A deposit of 150 € is required to confirm your registration too (follow the instructions of the registration form). No registration will be closed before we have this information. The rest of the fees will be payed the first day of the Retreat.
More info
Clara Gari 34-669395984
clara@naucoclea.com