In our second session, we investigated what it means to pay attention through an exercise in listening. Lying on the floor of the cavernous atrium of Marshgate, we stretched our bodies like resonating chambers, listening to the sounds of our bodies, listening to the sounds around us, listening to the sounds of the entire earth, revolving on its axis. Hearing, listening, making ourselves receptive to sounds that otherwise go unnoticed and unremarked upon. Listening to what Georg Eliot calls ‘the roar on the other side of silence’.
