What relationship do you have with your breathing? How does the rhythm of your breathing articulate your thoughts, your feelings, your life? What use do you make of the capacity to direct this mostly autonomous and essential function of your body? Have you considered that the plants around your are transforming the energy of the sun into something you take into your body by breathing? How do you feel the connection, the multiple rhythm between your breathing and your heart beating?

These are some of the questions that we will explore in a meeting where we will listen with our minds, our breath and our hearts. Ideas about the breath will be woven through and into facilitated breathing supported by sound, inside our bodies, present in the space and played by my instruments and loudspeakers. Somewhere between a presentation, a meditation and a listening session, we will stroke and gently push at the boundaries of what listening means, how breath can support or be a listening state, and how listening to breath can promote ease, comfort and peace. Throughout the experience, I will share different aspects of my work as a sonic explorer, performer and facilitator, as well as the Conchologie project I'll be working on during my residency on Salt Spring Island.