Sound Sangha is an invitation to explore and celebrate Pauline Oliveros’ Deep Listening®—attention, awareness, embodiment, and the cultivation of sonic imagination.
Together, we engage in practices that expand perception: listening to the environment, listening to each other, and listening to our own inner resonances.
In this weekly community, we listen—with the whole body, with dreams, with memory, with imagination, and with the shifting acoustic field in which we’re embedded.
This is a space for inquiry, experimentation, and shared reflection in community.
In the spirit of Pauline Oliveros’ work, each session blends:
Listening Scores — instructions, prompts, or invitations that tune awareness and shift perceptual boundaries.
Attention Strategies — playing with focal, global, and inclusive listening.
Embodied & Environmental Listening — sensing sound as vibration, resonance, and movement.
Shared Reflection — discussing what we heard, how we heard, and how listening changes consciousness.
The emphasis is on practice, not performance; awareness, not achievement; curiosity, not perfection.
📆 Every Friday on Zoom
⏰ 12:00–12:45pm ET
🌬️ 10 minutes: Opening framing + a listening score or concept from the Deep Listening lineage
👂 20 minutes: Guided listening practice (sometimes with live sonic materials)
🌀 15+ minutes: Collective reflection, discourse, and perceptual unpacking
This is a space for anyone interested in:
Deep Listening® (experienced practitioners or newcomers)
The pedagogy of Pauline Oliveros
Sonic awareness and auditory perception
Creative arts + somatic practices
The study of sound, consciousness, and embodiment
No prior meditation or musical experience is required—only a willingness to listen.
Michael Reiley is a composer, sound artist, and certified Deep Listening® facilitator trained in the lineage of Pauline Oliveros through the Center for Deep Listening.
His work encompasses listening in dreams, environmental field recording, sonic attention strategies, and music for liminal states.
Michael’s approach integrates:
Deep Listening® exercises from the foundational text
Sonic meditations
Embodied listening
Field recordings and live acoustic materials
Research into perception, resonance, and auditory imagination
He has facilitated Deep Listening workshops internationally and currently teaches Listening Dreams with the Center for Deep Listening, exploring how sound shapes our unconscious and dreamworlds.
Engage with a lineage: Honor Pauline Oliveros’ legacy through active practice, inquiry, and community.
Expand perception: Explore the edges of hearing, sensation, and imagination.
Cultivate sonic awareness: Deepen your sensitivity to internal and external soundscapes.
Practice in community: Listen together, reflect together, and support each other’s growth.
Live the work: Bring Deep Listening into movement, communication, dreaming, and daily life.
“Listening is a lifetime practice. It is the opening through which perception expands and consciousness transforms.”
— Michael Reiley
In this session, we explored how the heart’s electromagnetic field responds to sound, breath, and focused attention — and how cultivating coherence creates a state of calm alertness and open awareness. We connected Pauline Oliveros’ Deep Listening practice with HeartMath research, looking at how attention and awareness shape our inner and outer listening field. Listening from a coherent heart is not just a way of perceiving — it’s an energetic offering that can bring harmony to ourselves and to those around us. In the meditation, we explore the spacious “room” or “field” of the heart, ending with Pauline Oliveros’ Sonic Meditation “The Heart Chant” (2001)
