The Listening Body
Your Music. Your Attention. Your Inner Voice.
Discover a different way of listening to music — one that invites you to reconnect with your inner voice, practise focused attention, and explore your experience with compassionate curiosity.
The Listening Body is a music-centred approach to awareness and reflection, offering opportunities to notice what resonates, what shifts, and what may be asking for your attention.
Start with a free guided listening experience, explore our interactive Listening Tool, or join a facilitated online session.
There's no right way to listen, no required outcome, and nothing you need to fix or change.
Start with a FREE guide:
Discover which Listening Map fits you right now.
Receive your complimentary The Listening Body guide, including a guided check-in and a simple, ten-minute music-listening experience.
Explore focused attention, compassionate curiosity, and your own inner voice — using music you choose.
The Interactive Listening Tool
Notice the moments that matter to you.
Music moves through time. Sometimes a lyric, melody, rhythm, or unexpected moment catches our attention before we know why.
The Listening Body's interactive Listening Tool gives you a way to capture those moments as they happen.
As you listen, you can:
- Tap to mark moments that catch your attention.
- Record words, images, thoughts, or body sensations that arise.
- Revisit your marked moments and notice what stands out.
- Organize your observations into a personal listening record.
- Practise focused attention and compassionate curiosity without pressure to interpret or change your experience.
You choose your own music and decide what, if anything, you want to explore further.
Keep your scribbles and doodles, too! Your handwritten observations can become part of your personal listening record.
Your music. Your experience. Your meaning.
Get the Interactive Listening Tool
Click the button below to access the Interactive Listening Tool.
Resonance Mapping
Explore the patterns and connections in your listening experience.
Resonance Mapping — Explore Your Listening Experience
Resonance Mapping offers a way to explore your written observations, listening moments, and reflections through a structured report.
Discover possible themes, connections, and questions that may invite further curiosity about your experience.
Your experience. Your interpretation. Your choice.
Explore Resonance Mapping
Click the button below to get your Resonance Map Report.
Live Online Workshop
Experience the art of listening together.
What happens when we give ourselves permission to truly listen?
Join Kristen Anderson, Music Therapist and Registered Psychotherapist, for a 90-minute guided music and awareness experience.
Through music you choose, focused attention, and compassionate curiosity, you'll have opportunities to notice what resonates, explore your inner experience, and discover how music can offer a different way of listening to yourself.
During this session, you can:
- Experience The Listening Body approach through guided music listening.
- Explore attention, body awareness, and your own responses to music.
- Use the interactive Listening Tool to mark moments that catch your attention.
- Reflect privately or participate in optional group conversation.
- Discover ways to continue your own listening practice.
No musical training is necessary. Personal sharing is always optional. This is a welcoming and inclusive environment where tolerance is practiced but disrespect is simply not tolerated.
Saturday, December 12, 2026
1:00–2:30 p.m. Eastern Time
$57 CAD per participant
Live online via Zoom | Small-group experience
This is a non-clinical educational and reflective workshop, not psychotherapy.
Register for the Online Workshop
Click the button below to register for the December 12, 2026 online workshop.
The Listening Body — Books & Guides
Explore the practice at your own pace.
Whether you're exploring music and awareness for yourself or bringing music-centred listening into your professional work, The Listening Body offers two companion books.
The Listening Body — Individual Listening Guide
A Music-Centred Practice in Attention, Compassionate Curiosity & The Art of Allowing
A self-guided introduction to listening with attention and curiosity. Explore your responses to music through reflection, observation, and personal listening exercises.
The Listening Body — A Practitioner's Guide
Facilitated Listening, Better Conversations & Creative Group Work
Designed for facilitators, educators, team leaders, and professionals interested in bringing structured, music-centred listening experiences into group settings.
Both books introduce an approach that values personal meaning, autonomy, and curiosity rather than prescribed interpretations.
Available in paperback through Amazon.
Explore the Listening Body Books
Explore both the Individual Listening Guide and the Practitioner's Guide on Amazon.ca.
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