Sound Healing for Climate Feelings is an immersive and participatory meditation on the healing nature of sound, and how we can harness the power of listening to co-create more just and beautiful futures in the face of climate change. Combining mindfulness, vocalization, contemplative listening, and somatic exploration, Sound Healing for Climate Feelings is an opportunity for participants to reconnect to their inner world and to the environment in community. Caroline provides meditation guidance and prompts for contemplation, while Lisa uses her voice to guide participants through a series of harmonic, wordless vocals where surrender, somatic communication, contemplation and reflection feel safe, possible, and sacred. Together, Caroline and Lisa create a container for the experience of beauty and relaxation, allowing for reflection on our shared desires for our collective future. There will be guidance for making space for our feelings about climate change and to experience what those feelings might be communicating to us. Benefits of this experience include: reduced anxiety/stress, increased sense of calm, uplift in mood, access, awareness and release of emotional blocks, and a reconnection to self and self-expression.

Caroline Contillo is a disaster researcher who has been leading group contemplative work for over a decade. Her work combines mindfulness, listening practices, and somatic exercises for connection to nature. She has trained in Buddhist meditation at the Interdependence Project, sound healing at The Open Center, and holds two master’s degrees in social work and disaster resilience from Tulane University. Her research focuses on mutual aid, disaster equity, and climate emotions.

New York-based sound healing artist Lisa Darling works with the sacred power of song to foster emotional and energetic reconnection. Through a cappella vocalization and experimental, looped melody formation, Darling creates otherworldly compositions to aid in identifying and unlocking fossilized trauma and grief. Lisa’s simple yet deeply complex compositions are undeniably mesmerizing, soothing, and nurturing. Listeners will be pulled into a calming space where surrender, meditation, reflection, and contemplation feel safe, possible, and sacred. You can find Darling hosting soundscapes in the Hudson Valley area, livestream via zoom on the Insight Timer Meditation app, as well as Spotify, Bandcamp, SoundCloud, and YouTube.

www.Lisamariedarling.com