“My heart…your heart…our hearts, together!”

     We sang these moving words to each other at a shamanic conference in British Columbia a few years ago. The song has come back to me as I focus more and more on heart as essential to being resilient and courageous in these challenging times.

     The word courage comes from French for heart (coeur): when your heart is full and radiant, your courage and compassion flow. Doesn’t that sound better than the rage and dysfunction that dominate public discourse?

     Shamanism is about seeing from the heart: seeing with your whole being, your essence, rather than just your mind. It means seeing beyond the ordinary, beyond the veils, into the mystery. So it’s been natural for me to keep returning to heart. Remembering heart. Focusing on open heartedness as I, like you, struggle to step out of despair and back into active hope.

How Does Open Heartedness Help?

     Being open hearted changes your experience of the world. As you radiate your own love you open the hearts of others. As you show compassion you also become receptive to it.  The more you open, the more you will experience gratitude. Others will respond and open to you. This collective reciprocity will feed you and keep you going.

     When you are in your heart you can’t be angry or judgmental. 

     It’s easier to soothe yourself and others when you’re in your heart. 

     When you are in your heart your inner radiance shines. You can hold everyone in love. 

     Being in your heart lets you feel your grief and compassion. It lets your tears flow. 

     Being open-hearted is a portal to presence, and witnessing all that is.

Open the Portal Sept 10-11

     Open the portal of your heart into deepest purpose and radiance.

     At Leading with Heart: Bringing Light and Coherence to the World, we’ll share our wisdom. We’ll explore an experiential medicine bag of tools, inquiry, meditations, and practices together. We’ll find our shared resonance and build ongoing connections with other heart-centered women. We’ll practice ways to shed our self-imposed limits, shift attention, and dream a new dream. We’ll create a relational field to hold and embrace our work together.

     We’ll support each other in shining our light in this troubled world. 

     Let your heart be a bridge to a sustainable planet and a life of joy and presence. The Old Ones tell me “We love it when the earth is lit with your inner lights.” Empower yourself! 

     Explore a worldview of connection and joy. Live from the biggest space possible as you walk your path. 

     Join us Sept 10-11 in Sonoma to experience your radiance and those mystical experiences of awe, joy, and union. 

                                                         Join Us!