Hear from Michael Reiley, a meditation teacher, a Sound Songha producer and a Deep Listening professor speak about listening as a mindfulness tool.

Michael Reiley is a producer, therapeutic musician, and meditation teacher focused on helping others to awaken their innate capacity to listen and resonate with the interconnected web of inner and outer soundscapes. Michael Reiley has dedicated more than two decades to a prolific career as a musician, producer, and collaborative artist. His extensive body of work includes crafting music for dance, film, and diverse applications for esteemed clients such as Alchemy of Breath, Wavepaths and IKI Health. His creative talents have extended to sound installations, performances around the globe, and the production of over 20 albums, showcasing his multifaceted contributions to the arts. Deep Listening®, following the lineage of the visionary Pauline Oliveros, has profoundly shaped Michael’s artistic trajectory since his first project working with Pauline in 2007.

Hear from Heloise Gold about her contribution of movement in the development of Deep Listening. She states: "When people are in a safe place beauty arises."

Heloise Gold is a performing artist, dancer, choreographer and T’ai Chi/Qi Gong instructor. She was inducted into the Austin Arts Hall of Fame in 2015, for recognition of her extensive and continuous career as a performer and creator. Additionally, she is the co-founder of “Art From The Streets” a highly regarded program for artists who are unhoused. She runs a move-ment arts studio in Austin; conducts annual T'ai Chi retreats in New Mexico; and has co-led Deep Listening retreats with Pauline Oliveros and Ione over a span of 25+ years, traveling throughout the U.S. and Europe. She has developed the curriculum for the “Deeply Listening Body” work as part of the Deep Listening online certification program that is being taught currently. Heloise has created a myriad of performance works since 1978. She continues to collaborate, perform and teach with many artistic visionaries and colleagues. Her love of collaboration, experimentation, improvisation, and comedy always play a big part in her works.

Tiokasin Ghosthorse is a member of the Cheyenne River Lakota Nation of South Dakota. He is an educator, musician and international speaker on peace and the global issues facing Native peoples. Tiokasin has a long history in Indigenous activism and advocacy. As a 15 year old he spoke at the United Nations in Lake Geneva, Switzerland. Tiokasin is the Founder, Host and Executive Producer of the internationally syndicated “First Voices Radio,” now in its 30th year of broadcasting. He describes himself as “a perfectly flawed human being” and is most importantly, a Sundancer in the cosmology of the Lakota Nation.

Want to hear from Kingston, NY's Mayor Noble about how listening is a Kingston culture, how it inspired the creation of a mental health ambulance and the city's development of an art plaza for people to reflect and create a community? The Pauline Oliveros Plaza will include 70 units of housing, commercial space, retail storefronts and a courtyard for people to come together and enjoy the beauty of art with 70 families living around it.

Mayor Noble stays: "To be a good politician you have to be a good listener."

Want to hear from the the Director of the Center for Deep Listening, Stephanie Loveless and what listening means to her?

Professor Stephanie Loveless is also the Director of the Center for Deep Listening. She is also a sound and media artist whose research centers on listening and vocal embodiment. Her recent projects include a mobile web-app for geo-located listening, and sound works that channel the voices of plants, animals, and musical divas.

In this episode China Blue speaks with the neurobiologist, Dr. Nina Kraus about how the hearing brain is vast and integrated with our other senses.

Nina Kraus, Ph.D., heads the auditory Neuroscience Lab Brainvolts and is a professor at Northwestern University. She is a scientist, inventor, and amateur musician who studies the biology of auditory learning. She began her career measuring responses from single auditory neurons and was one of the first to show that the adult nervous system has the potential for reorganization following learning; these insights in basic biology galvanized her to investigate auditory learning in humans.

In this episode China Blue speaks with the Spoleto Festival Orchestra conductor Timothy Myers about his job listening and communicating without words to an orchestra.

Timothy Myers is one of America’s most versatile conductors, engaging collaborators, and innovative purveyors of ideas. A frequent collaborator with leading opera companies and orchestras, he is internationally acclaimed for his eloquence, energy, command, and unbridled curiosity across a wide range of repertoire and projects.

Myers also serves as the Sarah and Ernest Butler Music Director at Austin Opera. A leading voice on the topics of leadership and innovation, Myers has made recent speaking appearances at the SXSW Festival, Harvard Business School, The University of Texas at Austin, and Miami Dade College. Myers is also the host of the “Listening on Purpose” podcast, an exploration of listening and connection through the lenses of notable guests such as authors Seth Godin and Chip Conley, neuroscientist Dr. Nina Kraus, and top TEDx contributor Julian Treasure.

Myers champions the next generation of conductors, instrumentalists, and composers of today and as an orchestral conductor, he collaborates internationally.

In this episode I speak with Adam Schartoff of FilmWax Radio. Filmwax Radio is a podcast that features luminaries from the indie film community. His guests include actors, filmmakers, festival programmers, journalists and just about anyone else with a stake in the game. It captivates listeners because they are treated to engaging and nuanced conversations from his guests.

Hosted by Adam Schartoff, Filmwax Radio began in 2011 and has had thousands of guests over the years, many who have returned over and over again. His guiding principle is to champion independent cinema.