Friday 13th November and Saturday 14th November
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Lie Down & Listen:
Deep Hypnotic Resonance
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A blissful sound healing and lying down classical concert experience with cellist Naomi Watts with session led by Catarina Carvalho
Location:
Catte Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG
Sessions sell out fast, so book ahead to avoid missing your blissful experience!
Friday 13th November
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​6.00pm - 7.30pm
8.00pm - 9.30pm
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Saturday 14th November ​
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​6.00pm - 7.30pm
8.00pm - 9.30pm
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You're welcomed to experience Lie Down and Listen in the peaceful surroundings of the historic Oxford Bodleian.​
In your state of deep relaxation, you'll then be carried by joyful and dance music by Bach and hypnotic, trance inducing looping pieces by Naomi to gently guide you into a deep calm and restorative state.
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You won’t just hear the music, you’ll feel it.
When you attend a Lie Down and Listen session, you open yourself up to receiving inner peace, freedom and light.
What to expect:
One of the oldest libraries in Europe, the Bodleian has been a place of quiet contemplation for over four centuries, its breathtaking vaulted ceilings and hushed historic reading rooms creating a setting of rare beauty and stillness
You'll be guided through deep relaxation, Tibetan bowl sound healing and a live lying down classical concert experience with Catarina Carvalho and leading cellist Naomi Watts.
As you lie down on soft mattresses, cushions and blankets, you'll receive the powerful healing vibrations of the deep C string on the cello filling the space, along with deep gong and Tibetan bowl vibrations. In your state of deep relaxation, you'll then be carried by joyful and dance music by Bach and hypnotic, trance inducing looping pieces by Naomi to gently guide you into a deep calm and restorative state.
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Meet Naomi Watts
Naomi Watts is a cellist whose playing brings warmth, depth and a rare sense of stillness to everything she performs. She began her studies at the Purcell School of Music, where she won a scholarship at the age of fourteen, before going on to the Royal College of Music to study with Amanda Truelove, Hélène Dautry and Thomas Carroll. While at the College she was loaned a beautiful Gofriller cello and performed at some of London's most treasured halls, including Wigmore Hall and Cadogan Hall.
Music was woven into Naomi's life from the very beginning. Growing up in a family of musicians, she recalls hearing Monteverdi on the radio as a small child and exclaiming that the music made her want to dance. It is this instinctive, embodied response to sound, the sense that music is something we feel as much as hear, that continues to shape her playing today.
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A trained yoga teacher as well as a musician, Naomi has a natural affinity with the spirit of Lie Down and Listen, where deep listening, rest and the healing resonance of the cello come together.
Meet Your Host: Catarina Carvalho
Catarina is a classical singer and sound artist with a strong passion for embodied sound.
Catarina’s journey with her voice whilst studying opera led her to yoga and she has specialised in using sound and voice to encourage people to feel, embrace and process all emotions that arise with no judgement; to be present and accept themselves as they are.
Adding to her work in yoga studios and schools, Catarina also runs community choirs and singing groups for people living with dementia.
Catarina creates an extremely empowering space, aiming to build practitioners’ confidence in themselves by listening to their physical, mental and emotional bodies. She strongly believes that music and sound are universal languages and they have the power to bring us back to ourselves, but also to connect with each other, empowering communities and society.
