Heart of Presence Principles

These principles serve as foundations for our work, and as guiding orientations to support your practice and engagement with our work. They have emerged through our partnership as a lived exploration of relational presence, embodiment, and healing. They are not fixed rules, but invitations into ways of being, presencing, and relating that support deeper connection with ourselves, one another, and the wider field of Life.

Heart Presence

Rest into your heart, open into your body, allow what arises, ground in the Earth.

Conscious devotion to be with the movements of life within us as we align with the essence of Love. We practice inner presence by resting inward to the heart and midline, softening the body and attention, and opening awareness to notice, sense, and feel what is arising. Rooted in the Earth and relaxing into the living stillness of the heart, we meet the full range of our humanness with loving awareness. Without trying to fix or change what appears, we allow our inner experience to unfold, letting go into non-doing and not-knowing, trusting the inherent intelligence within.

As we attune to the inner rhythms and intelligence of our body, we expand our capacity to host, witness, digest, and integrate what appears. Inner presence is the foundation for relational presence, supporting grounded, spacious, aware relating. We rest in the heart as a center point of intelligence in the body and a bridge of compassionate connection with others.

Relational Attunement

Listen with your whole being and become space to host the other and the connection in yourself.

Practicing whole-being listening - sensing, feeling, and tuning in to the experiences of others from a foundation of inner presence. We balance spacious and focused awareness, cultivating sensitivity to the subtle movements in the other, while also remaining aware of our own experience as we listen and respond. We relate with open curiosity to the physical, emotional, mental, energetic, and spiritual dimensions of being, allowing space for resonance and difference to be revealed.

As we attune, we allow our inner state to resonate with the inner state of others, deepening insight, clarity, and understanding in connection. Awareness of projection, misattunement, and the impact of our expression are part of practicing relational attunement.

Field Awareness

Expand your awareness to the group field while staying connected to yourself.

Awareness of the relational field as a dynamic space of resource, connection, information flow, and intelligence. Supported by the field of Life, we remain attentive and engaged with what is arising within ourselves, between one another, and in the group. As our awareness moves across personal, interpersonal, collective, and transpersonal dimensions, we notice how our way of sensing shifts as we attune to these different relational perspectives. We consciously include the wider systemic, ancestral, historical, ecological, and environmental contexts we are embedded in and shaped by.

As we rest in and as presence together, distinctions between self, other, and the whole may soften and become more fluid. The expansion of consciousness illuminates possibilities for collaboration and innovation. We begin to sense how individual and collective experience co-arise, and how coherence, insight, transformation, and integration emerge through the relational field.

Emergent Truth and Mystery

Share from presence, move toward more truth, and remain open to what is emerging.

Meeting the moment as it is with curiosity, and sharing our words, voices, movements, and other creative expressions from presence. We practice moving toward more truth in connection, while remaining open to what unfolds in the field. We participate in the ongoing emergence of life, allowing intuition, insight, clarity, and direction to arise through personal experience, relational attunement, and collective intelligence. 

We learn to be with seeming paradoxes: isolation and belonging, fragmentation and wholeness, resistance and surrender. Including the tension of opposites expands our capacity to be with complexity and makes our relating more wholesome. With gratitude for the seen and unseen, we recognize that all forms of experience arise and return to the formless mystery.

Creative Agency

Claim your experience, expand choice, and express with discernment.

Embracing and taking responsibility for our present experience and recognizing our power to shape it. Moving toward more choice, freedom, and sovereignty while acknowledging the interdependent, complex nature of our lives and how we are impacted by the relationships and fields we are part of. 

Creative Agency includes claiming our experience, awareness of impact, meta-awareness, checking assumptions and projections, and constructive explorations of conflict and boundaries. We practice engaging in conscious dialogue, honest expression, and meaningful repair when needed. We develop the capacity to discern, feel, and choose how we respond and express in ways aligned with truth, integrity, and caring participation in the world.

Remembering Wholeness

Allow yourself to be witnessed, soften into love, and make space for new insights.

We see healing as the ongoing, progressive restoration and remembrance of an already present wholeness of being. Through relational presence, attunement, and compassionate witnessing, experiences of fragmentation, absencing, reactivity, and disconnection can be met, held, and co-digested. As we integrate trauma, shadow, and habitual patterns, we incarnate more fully, and our embodied transmission and heart presence deepen.

When we stay with what arises in the field personally, relationally, ancestrally, and collectively, we support the natural movements of healing, growth, and development. We transcend and include, allowing what has been lived and experienced to be integrated into an ever-deepening, embodied wholeness. We are invited into a way of active being, where presence informs conscious action, with purpose and service emerging as generative offerings of love.