Align in Acoustic Meditation
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Sound Observer grows out of a continuity of care, and we care to be part of your radical transformation. We facilitate acoustic meditations in this ground of care, nurturing the seed of deep listening into the fruit of personal transformation. Like great nature, caring and carefree, we care to be in community, self-liberated, and at play.
We curate our community around commitment to self-love, engagement with practice, and kindness to the core. We center the wisdom of gathering, while illumining individual uniqueness. We make an offering of our own process transparently at each of our meditations. We participate as much as we facilitate.
We integrate our practice of deep listening into every facet of our lives. In the privacy of our morning meditations and the depths of communal ceremonies, we seek the love behind it all, and work to embody its primordial rhythm into the dance of our being, until all that is left is this swirling.
We engage in the active discourse of dharma, renouncing hierarchy while holding reverence for harmonious order. We reject techniques to cultivate, to manicure, to progress, to yield any ideal image, for there is none. Our facilitation transmits a sincere yet playful contemporary cosmology centering the way of nature. We steward an ecosystem of practice, ensuring no growth becomes monoculture, careful to tend to our diversity, bringing that compassion and celebration to bear in our offerings.
We love each other and you all fiercely, and hold our hearts forward, trusting the light of feeling awareness. We take ourselves lightly, the work in its full gravity, and you as your unique self. We want to share in the expansion of your bloom. There is no greater pleasure than being present with your radical transformation.
- Adrian and Yiming
Acoustic Meditation is
the practice of using intentional sound and music to help access expanded states of consciousness. It is a contemporary modality with ancient roots, integrating western psychoacoustic science and eastern wisdom in a meditative setting. The practice is supported by a suite of overtone-rich instruments like symphonic gongs, antique singing bowls, and monochords.
The judicious and equanimous observation of these acoustics becomes a powerful tool to disengage from discursive thought and experience a state of wordless transcendence. The practice empowers participants to decouple from their unwanted habituated patterns and supports beneficial cognitive transformation.
Simply, acoustic meditation is an impactful tool uniquely tailored to the challenges of the current era of stress and chronically fragmented thinking. It is suitable for beginner and experienced meditators alike, as the sound facilitates an easeful dropping in without the need of a complex intellectual technique.
