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TUNING is a somatic, intuitive, creative, and spatial modality that works to support presence, ease, and relief in embodied experience through opening attention, deepening awareness and connection with and beyond the body, and encouraging making practices rooted in curiosity and care.
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, group TUNING incorporates gentle movement, structured breathing, and creative visualization with opportunity for reflection and generative work to invite personal inquiry, mental/emotional processing, making practice, and somatic balancing and release. Each participant is encouraged to adapt TUNING so that it serves them; no experience needed.
Upcoming workshops, events, & offerings can be found below, as well as information about custom group sessions. Sign up here to stay in the loop about future TUNING.
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Sundays | December 21, December 28, January 44 - 5:30 pm MST
This three-part remote workshop will invite participants to work with their present thresholds by developing pathways for clearing, receiving, and moving contemplation into action. Each session will offer a gentle TUNING sequence and somatic/creative/processing experiments and considerations for participants to adapt and carry forward, as well as some additional [optional] time for connection and discussion.
commitment:
Please register by December 17. Participants are asked to make time for all three sessions, whether with the group or on their own; if you can't attend in real time, a recording will be available following each meeting. The suggested commitment for this 3-part series is $90. However, participants are welcome to choose an exchange from $0 - $90 that works for them.
TUNING at The Common Well
02.22.20252-4 pm
Through gently guided somatic & generative practice, this session will consider the role of the body, intentionality, & repetition in grief & creative processes, & invite experiment with building individual & place-based ritual.
Participants can expect to move & rest their bodies in ways that work for them & to engage with writing/drawing/expression forms that resonate. Please wear comfortable clothes & socks/shoes that allow you to move. Bring a blanket, a notebook/utensils/other preferred creative tools, as well as a water bottle/anything else you might need. TCW is ADA accessible.
This workshop is offered free of charge thanks to support from the Alexa Rose Foundation and The Common Well; donations to PODER of Idaho and Boise Mutual Aid Collective are encouraged.
Grief Release
01.11.20251 - 3pm
A gently guided somatic experience that will invite participants to locate grief of any form that is ready to be let go, and tend to & release that grief to make space for the new. With equal focus on the physical body & outer surroundings, this walk is an opportunity to be in deep attention alongside others while regulating the nervous system & is intended to be clearing, steadying, & uplifting for those who attend.
We’ll meet at the parking lot just before crossing the river on Curtis/Veterans Memorial (left on Stilson Road if moving north to south, then immediate right into the first parking lot), & then slowly make our way to the bridge near the wave in Garden City. We’ll move along the river on a wide, well-maintained dirt path for about a mile with stops along the way (plus another mile to return to the meeting spot). Anyone who would like to continue on to The Common Well afterward is welcome.
This event is offered free of charge thanks to support from the Alexa Rose Foundation and The Common Well; donations to Indigenous Idaho Alliance, The Community Center, and Idaho Crisis & Suicide Hotline are encouraged.
TUNING Outside
TUNING Outside provides space for individual processing and release within a group experience of deep attention. We begin by moving through a gentle physical practice that combines breath, movement, and visualization to encourage regulation and rest, inviting individual and collective receptivity, then turn listening outward, toward one another and the surrounding environment.
Summer 2023
Absolute Listening
TUNING Outside w/ Others
Walking as Engagement w/ Kevin Huelsmann
Summer 2022
TUNING Outside
TUNING Outside w/ Others
TUNING Sequence (virtual)
Through somatic practice, creation experiments, ongoing correspondence, resources, group observation, and a 1:1 intuitive session, the TUNING Sequence is designed to open participants to their own process of inquiry with and beyond the body. A multi-week arc adapted uniquely by each individual, the sequence provides a gentle container for estabilshing a regular somatic practice, nurturing internal exploration and curiosity, cultivating creative work, finding pathways to self-regulation, and supporting growth, change, and healing/release processes.
Fall 2022
Spring 2022
Winter 2022
Fall 2021
OPEN TUNING
A gentle weekly practice to slow down, listen in, and clear out. Through intentional movement, internal visualization, attention to breath, and gently guided experiments, OPEN TUNING supports participants in finding pathways for embodied connection, deep relaxation and release, and renewed engagement with creative/intuitive/personal work.
Winter 2023
Spring 2022
reflections from past 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.
- R.V.
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.
- R.P.
custom group work
Custom group TUNING provides a unique pathway to collective listening, community-making, & creative practice through deep attention, generative approaches, and shared curiosity. A session or sequence of sessions can bring insight, clarity, & renewal to collaborative environments, assist groups in building shared frameworks & creative approaches, support organizational evolution, and grow interpersonal connection. As with 1:1 creative facilitation, custom group work can fit into a variety of contexts; I have facilitated sessions for a dance company, a group of friends celebrating a birthday, and a college class, to name a few.RATES
Group rates vary by project and are offered on a sliding scale with openness to alternative payment structures. I offer a 20-minute phone consultation to all new clients free of charge, where we can address questions, discuss objectives for our work together, and establish format and pricing.
LOCATIONS
Custom group work is currently available remotely and in the Wood River Valley. I make regular trips to Boise and Seattle, and am open to work in other locations.