Charlie Gates

Charlie loves to listen. A queer sound maker, certified Deep Listening® practitioner, 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 finishing their 500hr Clinical Somatic Educator / Somatic Movement Therapist program with homebody healing, and certified Deep Listening facilitator with the Center for Deep Listening. They hold a diploma in Performance Arts. Charlie is an uninvited settler residing on the stolen, ancestral territories of the lək̓ʷəŋən speaking peoples, colonially known today as Victoria, BC.