Listening, Meditation & Laughter with Laraaji

CAMP is a residential arts facility in the French Pyrenees. It's a place where great art is made, new movements are formed, new ideas are explored and groundbreaking people are nurtured. CAMP is located in Aulus les Bains, the last village before the France/Spain Pyrenean frontier chain. The location is spectacular - we are nestled at 750m above sea level, surrounded by snowcapped peaks over 3000m high, ancient forests and cascading waterfalls. There are eagles, lammergeiers, vultures, ibex and bears. Walk out of the residency, and within ten minutes you are completely alone in one of the most beautiful mountain landscapes in Europe. Aulus les Bains is also a spa village - there are hot water springs, and a thermal spa in the village to take advantage of the healing and relaxing properties of the water.
    
Workshop dates: 15/03/2021 - 19/03/2021
    
Laraaji is synonymous with ambient music, meditation and cosmic energy - his Laughter workshops, deep listening performances and yoga tours have become a program highlight at some of the worlds finest arts institutions, festivals and clubs. Awakened to mysticism in the 70's, Laraaji bought a second hand zither and began busking around Manhattan and Brooklyn - he was playing in Washington Square Park when Brian Eno heard him, resulting in Laraaji recording the third release of Eno's seminal "Ambient" series. Forty years and almost fifty albums later, Laraaji is at the forefront of deep listening and ambient music - he has collaborated with Bee Mask, Ela Orleans, Motion Sickness Of Time Travel, Blues Control and Sun Araw, released on Stones Throw subsidiary Leaving Records, produced Boiler Room sessions and toured worldwide.

Laraaji's course at CAMP will be an idyllic immersion into ambient music, meditation, laughter and deep listening. Participants will enjoy a variety of activities including:

Nada Yoga, live sound and inward contemplation.Laughter and relaxation, guided mindful toning and laughter for releasing tension and harmonization of subconscious stress patterns.I am Dance - guided movement meditation for inner stillness and outer celebrationRainbow colour meditation with sound, visualizing the seven colors of the rainbow in a musical setting for enhanced colour healing consciousnessImmersive call and response chanting - guided new age intuitive language channeling to facilitate playful, liberating breathwork and spontaneous meditation.