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FRIDAYS, 12 – 12:45 pm ET 
ZOOM (CAMERAS OFF)

Sound Sangha: A Community Space for Deep Listening

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What IS SOUND SANGHA

A free weekly gathering to pause, listen, and sit together in sound.

Audio only. Screens off. Forty-five minutes. Free. Every Friday. 

❋ Who it is for

Anyone willing to sit and listen. You do not need to be a musician or a meditator.

❋ Who it is not for

It is not a performance, not a sound bath, and not content to half-watch while you do something else. It asks for forty-five minutes of real attention, once a week.

❋ Facilitation

Led by Michael Reiley, a 20+ year meditation practitioner, musician and teacher at the Center for Deep Listening founded by Pauline Oliveros.

❋ A Supportive Space

Sangha is the ancient word for ‘Community’. The structure of the sessions are around a welcoming community where you can share and get support on your listening, music and meditation practices.

Michael Reiley meditating at the ocean's edge

“Listening as meditation is a doorway to the present moment. Sound exists only here, only now — when we listen deeply, we step fully into life, awake and alive to the unfolding now.” — Michael Reiley

Sound Sangha Zoom Session

Sound Sangha Session

Everyone can enter the Zoom room up to 15-minutes early to ground and connect.

START

FRIDAYS @ 12:00pm ET

DHARMA TALK

12:00pm ET

GUIDED MEDITATION

12:10pm ET

OPEN LISTENING

12:15pm ET

GROUP DISCUSSION

12:30pm ET

*Sometimes discussion can carryover past the end time, but we usually end by 12:45 ET.

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A man with tattoos, short gray hair, and a necklace, sitting cross-legged outdoors on grass, smiling with eyes closed in front of a large tree and blue sky.

Meet Michael Reiley

Michael Reiley is a composer, ceremonial musician, and contemplative teacher based in rural Tuscany. For 30 years he has worked at the intersection of sound, silence, and the threshold moments of human life — birth, death, grief, healing, and the ordinary practice of staying awake.

He is a certified Deep Listening® facilitator trained in the lineage of Pauline Oliveros, a trained therapeutic musician (MHTP), and a certified mindfulness teacher. His music has accompanied hospice care, psychedelic-assisted therapy research, maternity wards, and grief work across the US and Europe.

Sound Sangha is the contemplative community he founded in 2021. The core teaching: listening is meditation.

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  • "Sound Sangha, with Michael’s guidance, an hour of our precious lives devoted to listening and its revealing treasures."

    — David K

  • “I love being in this circle and I feel so grateful. It is opening portals that I would not be otherwise journeying through.”

    — Cynthia P.

  • "I feel more even-keeled and clear throughout the day."

    — William F.

  • "Sound Sangha helps me react more compassionately to life in general and maintain a composure that is beneficial to pretty much all aspects of my life."

    — Camilla P.

  • "Sound Sangha has helped me expand into new understanding and watch old notions fall away. My sense of non-duality has changed most of all. I am still in the marketplace, not on the mountaintop. But the sound of the marketplace is wonderful. I am the listening."

    — Robert K.

Join a Session for Free

You will receive the Zoom link for our next session and then an email every Thursday with that week’s Zoom link as well as an overview of the upcoming class with resource, links, etc.

Unsubscribe at any time if Sound Sangha is not for you.

Supporting the Sangha

Sound Sangha is free and always will be. It is kept alive by a small circle of Patrons. If it means something to you and you would like to help it continue, you are warmly welcome to join them.

Patrons receive a weekly piece of music designed to help aid in your Deep Listening and recordings of all Sound Sangha sessions.

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