The Great Pilgrimage from Head to Heart

We experientially explore the depths of the heart area with an intention to be intimate rather than to change our experience. Having an agenda to change our experience always engenders resistance. All of our frozen and exiled parts are waiting to be met with clear, affectionate attention, with love and understanding.

We explore a form of heart-felt meditative inquiry that I have refined over several decades of working one-on-one and in groups with students and clients and learn to sit with an essential question and/or to question our core limiting beliefs, not going to our conventional thinking for an answer. Instead, we tap into heart-wisdom that responds via subtle felt-sensing. By tapping into this different and essential “operating system” we catalyze a spontaneous transformative process characterized by an experience of melting, releasing, integrating, and opening up.

We learn to first attune with the sense of Presence–awake, loving, awareness–and then welcome the conditioned heart into it. As we allow both dimensions of the heart to consciously co-exist and feel ourselves held by something greater, we experience a natural unfolding. The light of awareness begins to saturate denser levels of body/mind conditioning. As this process deepens, the apparent gap between the great heart and the human heart gradually lessens and eventually dissolves and we come to recognize ourselves as the great heart–whole and undivided within ourselves and between ourselves and the totality of life.

As we learn to fall back into and as the field of infinite, loving, wakeful awareness, we discover that it is increasingly safe to express our true nature in intimate relationships as well as everyday life; we recognize that the deepest dimension of the heart does not need protection. We also explore the roles of the illumined mind (clarity) and hara (spacious groundedness) that support the full expression of the deep heart.