Heart of Touch Training
Heart of Touch
A Relational Presence Touch Training
Rest in the living stillness of your heart, feel your hands as an extension of your heart, and connect with a gentle, non-doing touch from a state of inner presence. This is the foundation of Presence Touch - a path of healing, awakening, and the remembrance of wholeness.
Heart of Touch - Level 1
A four-day training process facilitated by Miriam Kislak and Adam Sippola. The Heart of Touch training teaches participants to cultivate body awareness and inner stillness through Inner Presence meditation, practice heart-centered, non-doing touch with Presence Touch, and deepen relational awareness and authentic connection through Relational Fielding. These practices offer a pathway to healing, transformation, and wholeness.
Designed for those committed to cultivating personal and communal health and harmony, this training welcomes caregivers, bodyworkers, healers, guides, and adults wishing to learn how to touch and relate from a grounded and embodied presence.
What will we explore in this training?
Cultivate Inner Presence through midline meditation, interoception practices, and inner union embodiment.
Learn the Presence Touch principles and skills of inner repose, neutral listening, non-doing touch, attunement, resonance, and entrainment, allowing Life Force to realign us with our inherent fluid patterns of well-being and wholeness.
Practice these principles and skills through self-touch, partnered touch, and group touch.
Apply our learning and practice to energetic contact through the heart coherence field.
Explore conscious dialogue, bringing more loving awareness and meta-awareness into connection.
Experience how Relational Fielding can enhance the healing potency of Life in the group Body.
Who is this training for?
Adults who are inspired to actively participate in the transformation, healing, and wholeness of themselves, their partnerships, family systems, and communities.
People ready to explore the depths of human relating.
Bodyworkers, therapists, midwives, doulas, death workers, guides, healers, and caregivers who want to learn new tools of non-doing touch and relational presence.
Activists and community leaders wishing to empower their communities with skills and tools in the relational and healing arts that will support a more sustainable approach to systemic change.
Those wishing to learn to touch and relate from an embodied and grounded presence.
This training will involve being seated at a massage table and making a variety of contacts for prolonged periods of time. It will also require laying on the back to receive sessions. This training requires some capacity for self-regulation as a baseline.
Personal and collective themes may arise that will invite us into co-regulation processes. Please consult with us if you’re unsure if the training is appropriate for you.
In these times of extreme polarization and collective unrest, stress, and activation, the medicine of grounded and embodied presence is exactly what is needed to meet each moment. This training invites us to slow down, tune in, and bring more compassion, awareness, and resilience to how we interact with ourselves, each other, and the wider collective.
We believe these practices are so potent and important that if they became a regular part of any society or culture, they would help bring about a more healed, whole, and harmonious world.
What are the practices?
Inner Presence: Conscious devotion to be with the movements of life and creation within. Rest inward, open awareness to sense and feel, allow what is present to be as it is, and deepen into steadfast awareness with what unfolds. This devotion supports the embodiment of inner union and wholeness as we expand our capacity to host, witness, digest, and integrate our inner experience. Inner Presence meditation is the daily fundamental inner orientation we practice in preparation to offer Presence Touch and for becoming sensitive, skilled, and attuned in Relational Fielding.
Presence Touch: A gentle, non-doing, heart-centered touch that honors the body’s inherent health and intelligence. A holistic approach to healing, awakening, and remembered wholeness. We orient to inner presence, rest in the living stillness of the heart, and touch without agenda. Presence Touch is informed by the wisdom of our bodies and ancestors as we’ve walked our paths of healing and wholeness, and is influenced by our training in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy and Stillness Touch.
Relational Fielding: An emergent group process of tending the relational field with presence and loving awareness, cultivating the capacity to meet and integrate what arises. This framework supports embodiment, awakening, healing, and growth across personal, interpersonal, collective, and transpersonal dimensions. As the group co-digests what appears, coherence deepens and relational capacity expands, allowing more complex layers of individual, ancestral, and collective experience to be held. Relational Fielding provides the ground from which Presence Touch is offered and received, and within which the learning, integration, and insight of the Heart of Touch training unfold.
Why are we offering this training?
When we cultivate presence in our lives, growth, transformation, and healing happen, soul gifts are discovered, a deeper sense of purpose and service opens up, and we relax into our inherent belonging in (and as) the wider Earth community.
The practices of Inner Presence, Presence Touch, and Relational Fielding have radically transformed and improved our lives individually and as a couple. We believe they are the most potent practices and ways of being to support the healing and remembered wholeness of the individual and collective.
Upcoming Heart of Touch Trainings
Coming soon…
Heart of Touch Orientation Video
Presence Touch Sessions
Meet the Instructors
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Adam Sippola
Adam Sippola is a Presence Touch Practitioner, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist, Professional Relateful Facilitator, Men's Group Leader, Singer, and Crossover Guide, accompanying people through processes of presencing, healing, transformation, and integration on the journey of remembered wholeness.
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Miriam Kislak
Miriam Kislak is a Presence Touch Practitioner, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Professional Relateful Facilitator, Women’s Group Leader, and Artist. In her leadership she listens from her heart, bringing her attuned witnessing, embodied aliveness and expression from her depth.