MAKING FRIENDS WITH WHO YOU ARE
This workshop offers an in-depth experience of how connecting to your heart and center makes your awareness loving, open, and receptive—to yourself as you are and to the gifts life offers.
We explore the absence of loving awareness, which is the narrow, judgmental awareness of the mind that views life in terms of right or wrong, good or bad, with criticism and rejection.
Through loving awareness from the heart, you learn to be fully present in the moment and with yourself.
Forgiveness and letting go of the past become possible, self-acceptance grows, and you become more receptive to the richness life offers.
Often, we seek happiness outside ourselves—in achievements, relationships, or possessions—only to find these outer sources are unstable. In this workshop, you connect to the real source of love and happiness within your heart. Loving awareness allows you to enjoy life’s outer beauty while maintaining inner joy, regardless of circumstances.
Loving awareness deepens your meditation and transforms your life.
MAIN OBJECTIVES
By the end of the workshop, participants can expect to:
• Deepen their connection to the heart and center
• Be present with love and acceptance
• Befriend themselves as they are
• See themselves, others, and life with loving awareness rather than judgment or criticism
• Develop the ability to forgive and release past mistakes or regrets
• Live increasingly from the heart and center
• Find happiness in both small and significant moments
APPROACH AND METHODOLOGY
• Explanations on the energy of the heart, and the nature of center and awareness
• Heart and silent meditations to explore inner dimensions
• Exercises to recognize obstacles to loving awareness and reconnect to it
• Partner exercises, sharing, and playful practices like dancing and drawing to bring lightness
• Ample opportunity for group sharing and questions
BENEFITS
Participants leave with:
• The ability to connect to the loving awareness of the heart in everyday situations
• A deeper sense of presence, self-acceptance, and inner happiness
• Practical tools to cultivate love, forgiveness, and receptivity in daily life
WHO IS THIS WORKSHOP FOR?
• Suitable for both beginner and experienced meditators
• Deepens with prior heart meditation practice
• Group learning enriches the experience for everyone
WORKSHOP ATMOSPHERE
Relaxed, loving, accepting, welcoming, light
WORKSHOP ESSENCE
The question “What would make me really happy?” often arises in life. Many seek happiness outside—through work, relationships, possessions—but these are impermanent. True happiness lies in the heart, which holds love, trust, gratitude, forgiveness, and joy.
This workshop focuses on:
• Connecting to the heart through meditation and exercises
• Experiencing the qualities of the heart directly
• Opening the heart to harmony with life and radiating happiness into your own life and others’ lives
“WHAT IS THE MEANING OF ‘polishing the mirror of your heart’?
More and more, make your heart your center. Fall into your center more and more. Whenever you remember, move to the heart, come down from the head. Be watchful, be wakeful.
But your wakefulness has to be very loving… So when you are aware, be loving too. Let love and awareness meet and mingle; let your awareness be suffused with love. …Then it is polishing the heart. Love is the method of polishing the heart. Awareness helps you to reach the heart, and love helps you to polish it.” OSHO, Unio Mystica
