The Way of the Heart

The Way of the Heart 4-week Online Community Practice Gathering

is an opportunity to come together in a community of practice, to learn and develop essential, embodied skills of heart-based living. 

Weekly gatherings, focussed practice, daily prompts and timely contemplations will provide us with a trustworthy container and gentle structure to support our individual explorations. 

You will receive skilled guidance and support for your practice and unique life circumstances. You will also be part of a community of wholehearted practitioners, each one of us committed to developing our capacities and contributing to a harmonious, wise, and peaceful world. 

We will be exploring universal heart-based practices from a thoroughly embodied perspective. These are skilful and compassionate practices that allow us to build our capacity and confidence gradually and consistently, by plugging into profound levels of support both inner and outer.

We will be building foundations, developing skills, and deepening our capacities to commit to ourselves and our inner lives, in the midst of our work and worldly responsibilities. We will be exploring the relationship between our inner and outer life experiences, and the power of our wholesome intention to fuel our growth and unfolding.  

This course is suitable for both beginners and experienced practitioners. There will be an emphasis on learning and refining skilful methods that we will be able to apply in our every day lives and in any meditative work we might do in the future.

Most importantly, this course is about developing our capacity and our humanity, to bring the best of ourselves forth for the benefit of all.

Please continue reading for the course schedule, and considerations before registering. 

You may wish to read the full course description on https://movementfromtheheart.c...

If you have any questions before registering, please get in touch with me. 

I am looking forward to your company in The Way of the Heart!

Warm wishes,

Chani

chani@movementfromtheheart.com

+64 204 1537 356

Course Schedule : 

The course commences on Sunday 13th October with our first live gathering,

7pm - 8pm NZT. Find your time zone here

We will practice together for 4 weeks.

Live gatherings will happen each Sunday at the same time, on October 13th, 20th, 27th, November 3rd, with a closing gathering on Sunday November 10th.

Once you register for the course, you will receive an email with further information including the Zoom link that will be the same for each of our weekly meetings.

10 days before the course begins, you will also receive an invitation to our dedicated online community space, where you can connect with other members of the community to share your questions and experiences.

The Way of the Heart consists of : 

Weekly Live Sessions : A 1-hour session to begin and end each week. We will set up the theme for the coming week, reflect on and learn from our week, and have time to share observations and answer some of the questions from people's practice. 

You are not required to attend all the live sessions, although it is strongly encouraged, as this will be where we answer questions, and plug into the potency and support of the group container of people practicing together.

All the live sessions and Q and A will be recorded.

Daily Practice Prompts : These daily prompts will provide you with support, continuity and inspiration. They will serve to remind you of the process you are in, and will help orient your heart and mind in the direction of your deepening practice. Each week we will illuminate a particular theme or emphasis of our unfolding heart practice. If you only have 10 minutes a day to practice, these are for you!

Longer Guided Practices on the weekly theme : For those who have the time and inclination, there will be longer recordings of both movement and meditation practices (from 20-50mins) offered to deepen your understanding and experience of each of the weekly themes.

Online Community Space : a dedicated space for people to connect with one another, ask questions, share insights, discoveries and challenges. This is an optional aspect of the course to offer and enjoy support from those sharing the journey.

Open Q and A : You can send in your questions and observations at any time during the week, and these will be woven into and addressed in the Weekly Live Sessions.

Practice Commitments - Considering your intention before registering : 

Registering for this event is a commitment. To honour the intention of the course, and the people who will be participating in it, you are requested to please only register if you are willing to commit to the program to the fullest extent of your capacity. Imagine that we are entering a retreat together, where we make every effort to put down what is extraneous and unnecessary, and we endeavour to take up what is wholesome, supportive, and most fruitful. You are requested to commit to some degree of daily practice - either the brief daily prompts and contemplations, or one of the longer practices that are offered. This course is designed to be undertaken in the context of our daily lives, and so we make room for all the complexity and surfing the waves of what arises in the process. 

The main purpose here is to orient the mind in the direction of your depth unfolding (what you most deeply aspire to or yearn for). As with any journey, our commitment invites us to set a course, and then make effort to stay the course, using the practice and the community as a steady anchor. 

Cost : 

This program is offered on a sliding scale to ensure equity of access. A suggested sliding scale for the 4 weeks is from $100- $200NZD. However, you will not be turned away for lack of funds, so there is also an option to offer whatever you can. Your generosity is deeply appreciated to enable this work to flourish.