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background & approach



My exposure to facilitation, care & intuitive work, and somatic/attention practice began when I was very young. Many of my family members are practitioners of one sort or another — psychologists, psychics, social workers, writers, devoted meditators, guardians and caretakers — and my curiosity and inquiry into their vocational and personal work has been a consistent force throughout my life. With their support and guidance, I began to engage directly with a wide range of therapeutic and somatic modalities, and approaches to body and energy work from childhood onward.

Throughout late childhood, adolescence, and into my early 20s, I was also absorbed in ballet and contemporary dance training, as well as rigorous instruction in Iyengar and Ashtanga yoga practice and Pilates. Later on, I encountered Gaga, Alexander Technique, Klein Technique, and Feldenkrais, and felt deep resonance in their focus on subtlety, integration, and self-study, as I began to untangle my embodied experience from my earlier movement training.

After receiving a BA in philosophy as an undergraduate, in 2011, writing became my central focus, and alongside my own practice, I began to combine elements of experiment, procedure, movement, ritual, collaboration, chance, attention, reflection, and presence in generative workshops geared towards dancers and writers. Alongside these explorations and my own experiential study, I completed an MFA in poetry, then started Sema, an experiment in shared attention and community-making across time, form, and place. Since 2018, Sema has comprised a poetry-focused reading & workshop series, a group of micro-interviews, and a podcast.

In the years after my MFA, I began receiving intensive intuitive mentorship from a family member, as well as training in death care, and continued facilitating group workshops and consulting with individual writers on their work. As these various areas of experience and education continued to weave together, and a more synthesized approach to facilitation began to emerge for me. Named for Pauline Oliveros’ “Tuning Meditation,” Named for Pauline Oliveros’ “Tuning Meditation” and informed by numerous contemplative, somatic, and therapeutic approaches, as well as the work of Hilma af Klint, Ana Mendieta, CA Conrad, Hildegard von Bingen, and others, TUNING is a somatic, intuitive, creative, and spatial modality that works to support presence, ease, and attention in embodied experience.

TUNING‘s primary objective is to open and deepen attention, invite somatic experiment and connection with and beyond the body, and encourage making practices rooted in rest and care. TUNING began in 2021 as group workshops in a virtual space, offered with the hope of offering care, support, and pathways to nervous system regulation during a time of collective difficulty, and has since comprised in-person workshops that facilitate expansion of creative process, engagement with environment, and connection between individuals. 

1:1 somatic|intuitive work developed in tandem with these workshops, individualizing the group approach to support and deepen individual embodied experience through somatic balancing and release, subtle body work, creative visualization, breath practice, deep rest, and intuitive insight. Work with spaces applies these lenses to rooms, homes, and other areas of inhabitation, and creative facilitation provides somatically rooted entry points into writing, making, and collaborative + community work. I continue to learn and evolve my practice through work with clients and ongoing study with mentors and fellow intuitives.

More information about current TUNING offerings can be found here. 

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BIO

CL Young (b.1988) is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and facilitator based in Hailey, Idaho. Through experiment with writing, performance, objects, attention, location, installation, sound, text, and the body, CL works to record being-in-time and to facilitate experiences where the material and nonmaterial meet.

CL’s work has appeared in public and performance spaces in Boise, Garden City, Seattle, Oakland, and Portland, OR, as well as in publications from The Poetry Project, Belladonna* Collaborative, Fonograf Editions, Lana Turner, The Volta, Poetry Northwest, and others.

Awarded a Literature Fellowship by the Idaho Commission on the Arts in 2019, Young holds an MFA in poetry from Colorado State University and has received support and time from Vermont Studio Center, Tin House, Naropa University, the Alexa Rose Foundation, Surel‘s Place, and The Common Well.  




TUNING participant + client reflection



from workshop participants:
The TUNING workshop reverberated within me months after its completion. After a year bogged down by depression, CL's process gave me the permission to start each day by tuning into my body and the creativity within. Healing. Regenerative. CL facilitated the virtual space in a way that invited ease, and a collectivity so hard to create over distance. I've shaped the vibrations of the workshop into my own daily practice to feel more embodied and engaged with the day-to-day stuff of living.

TUNING was exactly what I needed at exactly the right time. Because of the workshop I feel that I was able to reconnect with my body in a positive way after all the medical trauma I've been through and create space for an attention/meditation/creative practice in my life again. I know I will take the things we worked on as a group and in our 1:1 session forward into my day to day. Working with CL has contributed greatly to my healing and recovery.


from an in-person 1:1 somatic|intuitive client:
 I have had the privilege of experiencing several 1:1 TUNING sessions with CL. I initially approached this work with a bit of scientific skepticism, and I wasn’t sure what to expect. However, I came out of each session feeling truly seen, and with a deep sensation of peace. CL is an intuitive healer who is in touch with human emotions and our connection to the greater natural world. The remarkable thing about these sessions is how CL is able to help others experience these beautiful connections.


from a creative mentorship client:
It was a joy having CL as a creative coach. We worked together when I was just getting started on the seeds of a project that would turn into my memoir. CL gave me insightful writing prompts and gentle guidance on where I might dig deeper, and helped me learn to trust my own voice. My book filled out in a meaningful way because of CL’s guidance, and I feel like a more thoughtful writer after our time together.