Listening Lounge in Hammocks | East Forest

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In We The Conscious®’s words

Sixty minutes for the long lost art of listening. What to expect Tea on arrival, low light, quadrophonic sound and our aerial relaxation hammocks, all there to wake up your senses and give you nothing else to do but listen. We start on the ground with some down-regulating breathwork and a short meditation, enough to drop your heart rate and bring your attention out of your head and back into your body. Once you’ve landed, you climb into your hammock and spend the rest of the hour with the words, sounds and music of East Forest. Who is East Forest East Forest is a musician, producer and ceremony guide who has been making music since 2008, weaving ambient, neoclassical and electronic into something Rolling Stone called lush and NPR called blissful. Thirty albums in, he has worked with Jon Hopkins, Laraaji, Nick Mulvey, Max Cooper and, most famously, Ram Dass, whose spoken word sits inside the music. So you get words as well as sound. He writes specifically for ceremony and inner journeying, improvising each piece until it finds its own shape. He teaches at the Esalen Institute, hosts the Ten Laws podcast and made the film Music for Mushrooms. Asked once where he’d most want people to hear his music, he didn’t mention a venue. He just wanted people to stop multitasking and listen “with all of your ears”. That is exactly what this hour is for. Why the hammocks The hammock takes your whole body weight, so there’s no load on your spine and nothing to hold up. The fabric wraps you from every side with the same steady pressure that makes a weighted blanket feel so good. And then there’s the sway. It’s why we rock babies to sleep, and why nobody in history has stayed awake in a garden hammock. It works just as well on grown adults. With all three doing their thing, your body has very little left to manage. The tension in your back, neck and shoulders lets go, and everything frees up for the music. Most people sleep beautifully that night. Details Wear something soft and laye

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