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What happens when we stop expecting other species to communicate on human terms?

What if listening isn't something we do only with our ears, but with our entire bodies—and with one another?

In this episode of Listening with China Blue, I speak with dancer and choreographer Andrea Nann about embodied listening: the ways we perceive through breath, movement, energy, sensation, space, and our awareness of other people. Andrea describes listening as the foundational capacity of improvisation: the practice that allows us to enter uncertainty without already knowing what comes next. We explore how movement can emerge from attention rather than instruction, how our bodies carry the archives of our lived experience, and how listening together can transform separate individuals into participants in something being created collectively.

If you've ever wondered what becomes possible when we listen with our whole bodies and allow our response to emerge from what is happening now, this episode is for you.