Deep Listening
Facilitated By: Katie Down & Jane Rigler
Thursdays 6-7:30pm
April 3 - May 29, 2025
Join Deep Listening® facilitators, Katie Down and Jane Rigler for this immersive, inclusive and fun 8-week series that offers specific Deep Listening® methods and practices cultivated by their mentor and friend, Pauline Oliveros.
Jane and Katie have been offering Deep Listening® workshops and experiences for over 2 decades and are excited to be collaborating to bring a sense of creative play, connection to the self, each other, and the world, opening awareness to enhance individual and community well-being that includes mindful listening, gentle movement, voicework, song, breath, silence, stillness, contemplative practices and more. Deep Listening® has helped people with emotion regulation, stress management, cultivating community, reducing anxiety, and enhancing the mind-body connection. Each week, the facilitators will invite in different approaches and playful engagement in Deep Listening® that include techniques drawn from Qigong, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, Embodied Voicework, and improvisation. All are welcome and encouraged to enter with an open heart and mind in this judgment-free and playful space of listening. You can sign up for all 8 classes or just drop in when you want! We are keeping this affordable and accessible. It is a sliding scale of $15-30 and if you sign up for all 8 classes the exchange is $10/class. We look forward to welcoming you into the heart of listening.
Who is this for?
This workshop is for veryone interested/curious about the art of listening.
Schedule:
Preview session for Deep Listening:
Apr 3 (by donation)
Series
Apr 10
Apr 17
Apr 24
May 1
May 8
May 15 at the Sound Barn in Marlboro (Katie’s space )
May 22
May 29
6-7:30pm
Option to stay overnight at WildHeart before or after – come early or stay late. Reach out to us at contact@wildheartcenter.art to confirm your stay.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. What is Deep Listening?
“The key to multi-level existence is Deep Listening – listening in as many ways as possible to everything that can possibly be heard all of the time. Deep Listening is exploring the relationships among any and all sounds whether natural or technological, intended or unintended, real, remembered or imaginary. Thought is included. Deep Listening includes all sounds expanding the boundaries of perception.” – from Center for Deep Listening
2. Do I have to have any meditation or music experience?
No, just curiosity and willingness
3. What kinds of clothes should I wear?
Loose fitting and comfortable
4. Will there be music played?
On occasion, yes and we will have instruments to use as well at times.
“Katie Down is doing important work in raising the level of training for sound healers. She is combining her knowledge of training and supervision as a music therapist with her teaching and practice as a sound healer. I heartily support her work and see her as an important ‘bridge’ integrating the knowledge base in these two areas of practice.”
– Dr. Alan Turry, Managing Director,
Nordoff-Robbins Center for Music Therapy
“In the sea of healing practitioners we have to choose from today, Katie holds a unique and vital place as she possesses a rare combination of scientific, evidence-based knowledge, solid foundations in both music and psychotherapy, and an undeniable personal talent for integrating a sense of creativity and warmth into everything she does. In all of the different settings I’ve worked with Katie, she consistently imparts knowledge, humor, increased inner strength, and a sense of both wonder and grounding. I highly recommend her offerings to anyone seeking a new perspective!”
– Karen Codd Fairchild, MPS, ATR-BC, LCAT, Licensed & Board Certified Creative Arts Psychotherapist
About Jane & Katie
Jane Rigler 
is a flutist and composer whose interdisciplinary music draws inspiration from nature, movement, languages, and dreaming. As a certified Deep Listening© facilitator, she offers inclusive, multi-sensorial listening experiences to audiences worldwide. After serving as Associate Professor at the University of Colorado (UCCS), where she taught flute, computer music, sound art, and contemporary performance practice, she now focuses on expanding Deep Listening through a post-trauma-growth lens, combining it with her Organic Intelligence© certification. She collaborates with neuroscientists and therapists to develop restorative and nervous system regulation techniques that she integrates into her sound work, compositions, coaching, and facilitation practices.
http://www.janerigler.com/
Katie Down, LCAT, MT-BC, MMT is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, sound artist, and flutist. She is a licensed creative arts therapist, board-certified music psychotherapist, and is certified in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Reiki II, EMDR, Heart Math, and Deep Listnening®. She received her master’s degrees in both composition from the New England Conservatory of Music, and in music therapy at NYU. Katie has been a member of the full time and adjunct faculty at SUNY New Paltz in their music department and is a regular guest lecturer at NYU and Vassar College. She runs her own private psychotherapy practice, Soundwell Creative Arts Therapy, PLLC based in the Hudson Valley and online and hosts workshops at her “Sound Barn” where there are multiple offerings, workshops, performances and classes focusing on healing through creativity.
http://www.soundwellcenter.com
IG: @theheartoflistening
Location
This workshop will take place in the Barn. If you’re coming to WildHeart for the first time, please visit our Directions page for arrival info.
Registration
Program Costs
Individual session – $15-30 (sliding scale) – no one turned away due to lack of funds
Series – $80 (for all 8 sessions)
No refunds. Classes are non-transferable.
Covid policy
Come if you’re healthy and if you’re feeling ill, please stay home and take care of yourself! We’ll see you when you’re better. : )
BIPOC spots
We are offering 2 free spots for BIPOC folx. Please email contact@wildheartcenter.art to get the registration code for one of these spots.