Welcome
THE HEART CENTER IS YOUR COMMUNITY GATHERING PLACE
FOR
HEALING, WHOLENESS AND EMBODIED WISDOM.
FOR
HEALING, WHOLENESS AND EMBODIED WISDOM.
WELCOME TO THE HEART CENTER
The Heart Center's vision is to create a connected community of friends across the Pacific West Coast that are oriented toward healing, wholeness and embodied wisdom. Our intent is to provide many paths of entry for folks new on this path or those that are looking to join with others, while finding access to guides, mentors, teachers and wise elders.
We all need support on this journey of life, yet we often are missing out on the simple life-giving practices that support us in remembering what matters most.
We all need support on this journey of life, yet we often are missing out on the simple life-giving practices that support us in remembering what matters most.
CORE PHILOSOPHY
The following pillars help guide the way we craft our spaces and design our offerings. We want to create experiences that give people of all backgrounds a chance to find communion with themselves, while in the company of the others. Through nature, art, music and informed by the wisdom traditions we practice in (Christian Mysticism, Tibetan Buddhism, Western Sufism, and Nature-wisdom), we hope to point others to the profound teachings that help to awaken the heart and transform us into more compassionate, loving and wise human beings.
NATURE
Nature invites us to rest in our bodies, to lay ourselves down on the grass and feel and listen. Perhaps through the birds song or the soft wind that passes through the trees, we remember our interconnectedness to all things.
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ART
When immersed in the creation of art, we find ourselves in appreciation of the way form and space, color and texture, composition and balance can give rise to inspiration and witness through our own hands the way beauty and creativity naturally pours out of our being.
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MUSIC
When in the company of others and we find our voice through shared song, we feel uplifted, quite literally through a biological shift, that helps provide a joyful buoy and again remember we are not separate.
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WISDOM TRADITIONS
Each of these doorways, may bring us into the interiority of our sacred body. Where we are guided to listen to its rhythms, continuous currents and the stillness of space. Here we may find we commune with a presence that is closer than our very breath. This presence is known by many names across various traditions and these traditions provide detailed systemic practices for coming into gradual awareness of this presence. Through our own body, we discover this and call it by whatever name that most resonates with our heart and we learn to recognize it as our own radiant Being.