Heartfield in the Moor

“All things have the capacity for speech influencing and informing our breathing bodies. Not just animals and plants, but tumbling waterfalls and dry riverbeds, gusts of wind, compost piles and cumulus clouds, freshly painted houses (as well as houses abandoned), rusting automobiles, feathers, granite cliffs and grains of sand, dormant volcanoes and shed antlers are all expressive, sometimes eloquent and hence participant in the mystery of language. Our own chatter erupts in response to the abundant articulations of the world: human speech is simply our part of a much broader conversation.”
David Abram.

This retreat creates a heartfield for our unfolding time together as we listen to the land and the wisdom of our bodies. The Procession of the Heart, an ancient self-healing practice originating from the high Mongolian and Tibetan plains, becomes a doorway into our deeper listening and knowing. Beneath vast, rolling skies The Procession of the Heart was passed on from horse-backed travelling Shaman, to the remote communities they encountered, as a way for the people to help each other, and to keep the people united.

Through the cycle of the weekend, the presence of the Moor and our practices ground and unfold us into our natural internal rhythm - rather than society’s rhythm or the rapid beat of our conditioning. As mycelium weave a forest, we enter the collective heartfield and explore the ever-unfolding conversation between our human bodies, the mystery and our vaster body, Moor, this animate earth. Mingling breath and movement with the clouds, granite, hawthorns, horses and some ancient, once remembered presence calling us home.

Our movements, our multi-layered presence, happens as part of the unfolding pattern of aliveness of the landscapes and cityscapes we inhabit and move among. Through creating simple earth-based ceremony, letting the imagination shepherd, meditation in stillness and movement, sharing silence, reflections and insights, we awaken the ecological body. On the Moor and inside the meditation hall we sensitively meet the layers and shaping of our human beingness. Turning inwards we meet the song of ourself and outwards, rooting back into the broader conversation of the mystery, and our vaster body of sky-stream-hoof-stone-wind-bark-feather-soil-bone, the beating heart of Earth.

The Speech of Earth gathering is for you if:-

Your heart and spirit are calling you to listen more deeply.

You feel a longing to heal your sense of separation, find your way home and know your belonging.

You are moving through transitions and thresholds in your life.

You have an interest in Earth-based spiritualities, meditation and movement.

You have a therapeutic or healing practice and are called to explore an embodied, relational approach in collaboration with the natural rhythms and cycles and the wider than human world.

You are curious about how you can be in service to regenerative thriving life

and the unfolding new dream of humanity.

Your soul is trying to show you how the health and wellbeing of the web of life and all her creatures is interwoven with the state of human consciousness and our actions.

During this weekend we reflect on how a conscious, embodied participation in the shape-shifting dialogue of the Speech of Earth may be a portal to; something once known, a new insight, a moment of myth, the song of your heart, a deeper release, healing our sense of separation. We explore how what has been shown to us, what we have tasted, can become lived in daily life and work, and become a way of being in service to a world in balance and wholeness and regenerative thriving life.

The practices and explorations during the Speech of Earth gatherings happen both outside in collaboration with the Moor and inside the training room.

To attend this gathering you need to be able to stay for the whole weekend, walk on uneven, wet, slippy earth and participate in practices on the Moor in a range of unpredictable weather conditions.

Permission has been given to share the Procession of the Heart self-healing practice.