And yet— we can also unconsciously fear and avoid this intimacy and connection with ourselves, others and Life itself, the most. Due to early developmental trauma, ancestral trauma and our cultural context at large, many of us hold complex layers of armor that block us from the intimacy that deep down we crave. Unconscious defenses against the fulfillment of our core human needs, as well as our hearts innocent desires often seem to win. For to move towards what brings us most alive can feel very threatening to the status quo of our familiar safety and control mechanism's. And so... our innocent longing for belonging as well as our essential need for freedom can be clouded and marooned by a myriad of mis-perceptions. Making it seem impossible to simply embody and express who we know ourselves to be at a core level.
In these online small group facilitation sessions we create our own culture, by individuating from our conditioned habits of mind, body and emotion. Taking refuge instead, within the gold of our true hearts nature. The more that we discover how to relax into this natural space of the heart, at home in the truth of who we are; the more we can allow the paradox of all that it is to be human. Our unresolved traumas, unbearable losses, haunting insecurities, core deficiencies, insidious fears, raging fires, secret escapes, inner wars and dark pleasures can all be re-framed as the alchemical cauldron that is necessary to open the heart.
Kindness arises as 'not-knowing' as we discover more and more safety in letting go of our previous forms of disassociation and head dominated control. All the while recognizing this undertaking is a choice. We can give ourselves permission to explore the contours of our most direct and intimate experience within the mystery of being human. Rather than trying to figure out, fix, judge or otherwise control our experience. This takes practice to unlearn, to un-fixate and undo these old habits that were once so seemingly safe and yet enmeshed with an addictive quality of suffering simultaneously.
Once we have a direct experience of our true heart's capacity to feel, to open and to receive from our most divinely human center of Love, there is no going backwards. For the Heart is the Home of our greatest aliveness, honesty, vulnerability and fulfillment. Living a partial half- hearted life any longer, simply won't do.
We do not and cannot grow in isolation. For genuine transformation to take place, we need the warmth of aspiring companions also devoted to the path of opening the heart. In the safety and honesty of our shared field together we can allow the ripe and raw materials of our human experience (the base metals, aka the habitual emotional/mental reactivity & patterns of suffering) to be metabolized and integrated. As we open to an embodied intimate relatedness with ourselves, one another, nature and Life Itself.
In these online small group facilitation sessions we create our own culture, by individuating from our conditioned habits of mind, body and emotion. Taking refuge instead, within the gold of our true hearts nature. The more that we discover how to relax into this natural space of the heart, at home in the truth of who we are; the more we can allow the paradox of all that it is to be human. Our unresolved traumas, unbearable losses, haunting insecurities, core deficiencies, insidious fears, raging fires, secret escapes, inner wars and dark pleasures can all be re-framed as the alchemical cauldron that is necessary to open the heart.
Kindness arises as 'not-knowing' as we discover more and more safety in letting go of our previous forms of disassociation and head dominated control. All the while recognizing this undertaking is a choice. We can give ourselves permission to explore the contours of our most direct and intimate experience within the mystery of being human. Rather than trying to figure out, fix, judge or otherwise control our experience. This takes practice to unlearn, to un-fixate and undo these old habits that were once so seemingly safe and yet enmeshed with an addictive quality of suffering simultaneously.
Once we have a direct experience of our true heart's capacity to feel, to open and to receive from our most divinely human center of Love, there is no going backwards. For the Heart is the Home of our greatest aliveness, honesty, vulnerability and fulfillment. Living a partial half- hearted life any longer, simply won't do.
We do not and cannot grow in isolation. For genuine transformation to take place, we need the warmth of aspiring companions also devoted to the path of opening the heart. In the safety and honesty of our shared field together we can allow the ripe and raw materials of our human experience (the base metals, aka the habitual emotional/mental reactivity & patterns of suffering) to be metabolized and integrated. As we open to an embodied intimate relatedness with ourselves, one another, nature and Life Itself.
