SOLEFUL

What if care is an act of radical imagination? What part of me wants to care—and be cared for? What if care is not just a task… but a portal into presence and deep listening… into the art of living—and dying—well. Drop into your senses with Micheline to spark imagination and renewal in complex times.  Credits: Written & Produced by Micheline Berry Soundscape & Sound Editing by Miguel River...

Michelle Woo and Tony Patrick continue their heartfelt conversations with Sonya Dolan, the COO and a co-founder of Mettle Health. Caring for the caretaker Art as a means of opening up difficult conversations The role of the senses, deep listening, play and spontaneity in palliative care Creativity as a space of being  About our guest: Sonya Dolan is the co-founder of Mettle Health, an online platf...

A recap of our conversatio with BJ Miller with Miguel Rivera. Compilation, Editing and Sound Design: Miguel Rivera Music: Domonic Dean Breaux

Welcome back to Season 2 of SOLEFUL: The Art of Care! In this opening episode, Michelle Woo and Tony Patrick sit down with BJ Miller, Co-Founder of Mettle Health. Together they explore: *How can art and imagination prepare us for life and death? *The role imagination plays in providing care and showing up in the world? *What is Death? If death is not the end, what remains after someone has died? ...

Welcome back to SOLEFUL - an immersive podcast brought to you by the School of Lived Experience (SOLE). Join Tony Patrick and Michelle Woo on a journey and exploration of renewal through art, conversation, and practice inspired by lived experiences. We’re so excited to embark on our 2nd season with our friends from Mettle Health - a team of artists, designers, clinicians, and caregivers dedicated...

This ambient soundscape is composed of original elemental recordings, music and sound design derived from Somatic Journey Episode 5 - Ether. Sound Design by Miguel Rivera & Micheline Berry with original music by Jordan Hansell / Geometrae.

SOLEFUL hosts Michelle Woo & Tony Patrick are joined by Season 1 collaborators Micheline Berry and Miguel Rivera to end the year in a moving reflection and conversation. Join us as we dive deep into: -Birth and Death as a ‘cycle of life’ continuum -Presencing death for the first time -Ether as an alive, sensitive space -The need to celebrate death as a ritual process of transformation -The cha...

Michelle Woo & Tony Patrick welcome back Miguel Rivera and Micheline Berry for our final episode of the Somatic Journey series.  Today in Part 1 we explore the ephemeral element, Ether, as the potent space and silence that radically includes the cosmos and our creativity alike.  Our meditation is an invitation to slow down and become the silence that is listening, creating space around the den...

I love you, Lillian (November 21, 1933-October 19, 2023) Words by Michelle Woo Sound design by Micheline Berry Music by Domonic Dean Breaux

Ambient soundscapes composed of original elemental recordings, music, and sound design derived from Somatic Journey Episode 4. Sound Design by Miguel Rivera.

Sometimes the only thing we can do to heal the human tangle of suffering is to just breathe.  That is the lesson of AIR.  Through the indigenous spirit story ‘The Hummingbird Pin’ and breathing meditation, Micheline Berry and Miguel Rivera guide you through an immersive journey into the intelligence of AIR and how air nurtures the interdependent template of exchange between our own bodies and ever...

Humberto Ak’abal is a poet that combines in his work the indigenous consciousness (its languages, its spirituality, and music) and the consciousness of new countries that for 500 years have been known in some parts as Peru, Chile, Bolivia, and in others as Guatemala or Mexico. Writers like Ak’abal that originate from that ancient world deeply guarded in the mountains, forests, and shorelines of ou...

A poetic invitation into the Macroverse -- for now. Written and Read by Tony Patrick.

Your 3 billion year-old elemental intelligence can be a source of refuge. With each breath, know you can metabolize and transform the effects of trauma, exhaustion and stress. A nugget Written and Read By Micheline Pierrette Berry. Music: "Movement 1 Ether" from the album Sound Tools for Sacred Movement by DJ Drez

Ambient soundscapes composed of original elemental recordings, music and sound design derived from Somatic Journey Episode 3. Sound Design by Miguel Rivera

At a time when much of the planet is on fire, literally, Miguel Rivera and Micheline Pierrette Berry continue their immersive journey into the elemental intelligence of FIRE, while also touching on the dire necessity for humans to learn how to tend to this metabolizing elemental force of nature. Through the origin story “The Gift of Fire” and following somatic fire meditation & breath work, yo...

Through an intimate account of a near death experience, Mingyur Rinpoche teaches us that flow is a way of life. Part 2 of an excerpt read by Michelle Woo Edited and sound design by Miguel Rivera Excerpt from  In Love with the World: What a Buddhist Monk can Teach you About Living from Nearly Dying  by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche with Helen Tworkov, 2019, page 43.

The poems of Deborah Miranda bypass the filters imposed by colonization and certain patterns in contemporary culture, open up paths for the reader to directly connect with primordial elemental energies of the world we live in. Allowing us to feel and express the sense of beauty and renewal when we are in direct relation to the land and its beings around us. “Raised by Humans” Tia Chucha Press. Rea...

Ambient soundscapes composed of original elemental recordings, music and sound design derived from Somatic Journey Episode 2. Sound Design by Miguel Rivera

Your guides Miguel Rivera and Micheline Pierrette Berry return to continue your immersive journey into regeneration and renewal. Through an earth-based origin story “In the Beginning” and bone meditation, instigate a deep sense of belonging and connection to the wild within and around you.  Following the journey, hosts Michelle Woo and Tony Patrick lead a heart centered conversation known as the R...

We are excited to introduce SOLESCAPES: ambient soundscapes composed of music and sound effects derived from each podcast episode for contemplation, deep listening and imagination. Edited by Miguel Rivera Sound Design by Miguel Rivera and Micheline Pierrette Berry Mixed and Mastered by John X Volaitis

A poem and call to remembrance. Written and spoken by Micheline Pierrette Berry Edited by Miguel Rivera Sound Design by Miguel Rivera and Micheline Pierrette Berry

Through an intimate account of a near death experience, Mingyur Rinpoche teaches us that flow is a way of life. Excerpt read by Michelle Woo Edited and sound design by Miguel Rivera Excerpt from In Love with the World: What a Buddhist Monk can Teach you About Living from Nearly Dying by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche with Helen Tworkov, 2019, page 43.

Born from dreams, from stones that speak, from ordinary words, from the wrinkles of a grandmother’s face, from the laughter of the rain, the poems of Humberto Ak’abal bring us to a different way of listening, feeling and understanding our world. Read by Miguel Rivera Edited and sound design by Miguel Rivera

Why work with difficult emotions?  Why work with difficult feelings? So that we can create space for fun, love, beauty, and real connection. Conceived and recorded at the end of 2022 as the Covid 19 pandemic was “winding down”, our inaugural SOLE Somatic Journey is dedicated to all who may be grappling with the dilemma of difficult emotions, grief or loss whether from the effect of the pandemic or...