charlie gates
sound. deep listening. somatics
Charlie loves to listen.
A queer sound maker, Deep Listener, and somatic facilitator, Charlie holds embodied offerings that combine somatic movement, poetry, queer ecology, Deep Listening® practices, imagination work, and soundscape creation. Charlie has been leading immersive sound experiences since 2012, and has been leading trainings in the art of sound meditation creation since 2015. As an artist they work inside the mediums of movement, performance poetry, photography, and sound/sonic art.
Charlie is in their second year of a Clinical Somatic Educator / Somatic Movement Therapist program with homebody healing, and is completing their Deep Listening certification with the Center for Deep Listening. They hold a diploma in Performance Arts.
They are an uninvited settler residing on the stolen, ancestral territories of the lək̓ʷəŋən speaking peoples, colonially known today as Victoria, BC.
UPCOMING OFFERINGS
Monday, May 12th
Moon Day Sound Journey at Ashtanga Yoga Centre
May 30th - June 4th, 2025
Resonance: A Deep Listening + Somatic Retreat
with Charlie + Kiko @ Hollyhock, Cortes Island
October 23-26th, 2025
Somatic Sound Training / Certification
Copenhagen, Denmark (scroll down for more information)
Resonance
30 hr somatic sound certification
October 23-26th | Copenhagen, Denmark
This comprehensive, 4 day training will support you in offering sound
experiences that are interactive, non-prescriptive, joyful, and deeply
creative. Using guidelines of somatic work and Deep Listening®, we will
learn practical and compassionate ways of using instruments, voice, and
guided meditations to create sound baths that support our nervous
systems, delight our ears, and move us into dream-like states.
No previous experience is required.
Training topics include:
✺ The history of sound’s use as devotional practice + for altered states
✺ The science of sound: brainwaves and nervous system states
✺ Healing-centered / trauma-informed sound making
✺ Deep Listening® practices
✺ Voice work + sounding
✺ Somatic / embodiment work
✺ Instruments + playing techniques
✺ Creating listening questions + guided meditations,
meditative scores + sound maps
✺ Storytelling through sound
and more!
Included in your training:
✺ Daily sound meditations by seasoned professionals
✺ Snacks and beverages
✺ 3 pre-recorded video workshops
✺ Training manual
✺ 30-hour Somatic Sound certification upon completion
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600 euros
150 non-refundable deposit to secure your spot
Payment plans available
soundsbycharlie@gmail.com to register
Ways to work / collaborate with Me
SOUND
· Public and private sound meditations (house-calls, hospitals, jails, psychedelic ceremonies, retreats, wellness studios, art galleries).
· Original soundscapes for your online offering (yoga nidras, yoga classes, etc). Please see available albums on my Bandcamp.
· Sound Meditation Weekend Trainings (15 hour certification) and Sound Practitioner mentorships.
· Sound art collaborations: field recordings, sound walks,
Deep Listening practices, multidisciplinary creation, etc.
INCLUSIVITY TRAININGS
Creating Spaces of Care is a workshop for studios, companies, or organizations who are looking for tools to foster greater understanding and empathy for transgender, gender non-conforming folks through language and conversation.
This workshop has been offered since 2021.
SOMATIC SESSIONS and FACILITATION
Slow River Somatics is a newborn, a fawn finding their legs. I am in the beginning stages of working with folks and that is reflected in exchange. May we learn together!
Somatics (of body, in wholeness) can be a powerful tool for mending and tending to ourselves slowly, with curiosity. We develop listening skills and fluency for the language of our bodies and nervous systems to find safety and ease in our day to day. In our sessions together use a weave of practices: movement, creative + imaginative practices, working with possibility, sounding, somatic awareness, building capacity for feeling, Somatic Dreaming, and more. Somatics as a practice and paradigm is a tool of liberation; the ripple effect of supported nervous systems absolutely makes deep change possible in the world around us.
We are it for one another.
Online 1:1 Clients - $30-50 sliding scale
Group Sessions - Please email me about rates.