Listening Bodies + Giving Tuesday
Hello, thank you for opening and reading this email. I know the amount of end-of-year-holiday emails can be overwhelming!
TLDR
Click this link:
https://igg.me/at/listeningbodies
watch and donate!
Today is Giving Tuesday. I wanted to tell you about an Indiegogo campaign I just started with my collaborator from Listening Bodies.
As I developed more and more as an artist and practitioner of
meditation, I found a natural calling for teaching and that people were
interested in my life experiences and what I was sharing.
After I completed my Deep Listening certification I found a
synthesis of my music and meditation practice where they were no longer
separate. However, one section of my practice and teaching that was
missing was body practices… until I met Monica Gentile.
Her teaching style and areas of expertise (somatic, movement, dance,
yoga (Hatha and Laughter)) fit perfectly with what I was teaching. Very
organically and effortlessly, we planted the seeds of what is a holistic
and integral practice called Listening Bodies.
We’ve taught in Philadelphia and Berlin this year and the response has
been overwhelmingly positive. We taught classes for dancers, a sound
walking class, an ASMR class and will lead a 2-day workshop in a few
weeks here in Berlin.
We have been invited to bring Listening Bodies to Mexico. We
will teach our workshop at residencies, schools and project spaces in
six locations in Mexico and two in Costa Rica. We will be paid small
fees and offered a place to stay. However, we need to pay our own travel
costs… thus the Indiegogo. A grant we were applying for did not work
out, so we’re asking for your help!
If you’ve read this far you are a dedicated and supportive person! We
need to raise $2500 for our flights from Europe and back and flights,
buses, and taxis around Mexico and Costa Rica.
If you are reading this email you may have supported my work in the
past. So now during this time of giving we are asking for more support
to help grow our family of Listening Bodies to include artists and communities in Mexico and Costa Rica.
At a minimum check out our Indiegogo page and video (the end is funny 🙂
https://igg.me/at/listeningbodies
Have a safe, peaceful and light holiday.
With love from Christmassy Berlin,
Michael and Monica
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