Jane Rigler, Ph.D.

Jane Rigler is a flutist, composer, and organizer of events whose interdisciplinary work draws inspiration from nature, movement, languages, and neuroscience. She is a certified Deep Listening® facilitator (Center for Deep Listening at RPI, Troy, NY), who offers inclusive and engaging multi-sensorial listening experiences worldwide (i.e., Spain, Germany, Ireland, France, Finland, Italy, Japan, etc.). 

As a performer/composer, she thrives at artist residencies like Civitella Ranieri, Montalvo, Ucross, and Harvestworks which promote her collaborative nature. During her US-Japan Friendship Creative Artist Fellowship (2009-2010), she studied Noh theatre and performed over 15 concerts in Japan. She explored Ireland on a Fulbright Award (2019-20) teaching, studying, and composing. Her music is performed and recorded by other musicians around the world and you can find her music on labels such as Neuma, Tzadik, Porter, DewDrop, Sachimay, etc. 

As an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado (UCCS), she taught flute, computer music, sound art, and contemporary performance practice while organizing numerous interactive well-being events for her community, such as the “Arts & Resiliency Gathering” for which she was awarded an Arts Projects Grant from the NEA in 2023 through the Lyda Hill Institute for Human Resilience. This journey has now led to collaborative ventures with cultural entrepreneurs, neuroscientists, and therapists, culminating in innovative programming that resonates with diverse audiences and communities alike. 

No longer at UCCS, she resides in upstate New York, expanding Deep Listening through a post- trauma-growth lens with her certification in Organic Intelligence©. Currently, she is collaborating with neuroscientists and therapists to develop restorative and nervous system regulation techniques in all her work with sound, composing, coaching, and facilitation practices. Her research welcomes collaborations with other scientists and therapists who are eager to explore the effects of sound and rest as an integral tool for resetting neural pathways towards integration.

1. Deep Listening© (DL) as an individual and communal act of healing and wellbeing
2. I integrate DL in all my courses at UCCS and I also offer workshops to a variety of institutions (i.e., universities, museums, galleries, conservatories, etc.) globally. This is an on-going project started in 2014. I would like to organize an event at UCCS that brings together neuroscientists, therapists, medical practitioners, artists and other wellbeing specialists to invite the community to learn more about their ability to creativity attune and harmonize as a society.
3. I have been a certified Deep Listening© facilitator since 2015 and since then, I have offered workshops to a variety of people around the world, both in-person and online. My list is long. If you want to a CV I'm happy to provide it! (the DL certification is offered by the Rensselaer Institute of Technology, Center for Deep Listening)
4. I have been inviting faculty across UCCS to join me in several ways: my Deep Listening workshops (held at the Heller Center and across campus since 2015); to be guests in my VAPA "Sound, Listening & Imagination" courses and a new HUM course that intersects a variety of disciplines and how listening is multi-sensorial.
 

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