Heart of a Child: The Heart Meditation in Action

By CC Treadway

I have enjoyed practicing the Unity Breath and Sacred Space of the Heart meditations, as taught by Drunvalo, for several years now. After completing the book, Living in the Heart, I was a junky. I had read the two Flower of Life books, but the Heart book is what connected with me. I first experienced the heart meditation in my own home, and then decided to start traveling with Drunvalo and the One Heart Productions family around the world to experience it with a group. After taking his Earth/Sky workshop I knew that I wanted to bring the work out into the world. I wanted to do what he was asking of us, to live in the heart, out in nature with other people. Since I live in a big city, there are fewer opportunities to have this experience. Establishing a direct connection and relationship with nature takes a little planning!

One thing I have learned from hangin' with Indigenous people around the world is that they are in direct relationship with nature. More often than not, they can talk to the plants and animals, read signals, and in general, vibrate at the same level as the Earth. This always strikes me when I enter into an indigenous community. To me, their innate ability to ground is powerful and comforting. It is my experience that the Sacred Space of the Heart meditation is a great tool to teach modern people to connect in this way with nature, to further ground and resonate with the heart of the Earth. It just works.

I envisioned doing the meditation repeatedly over a short period of time with a group. I wanted to explore more, be in the magic and have a lot of space for the unexpected to unfold. Sweetness, softness and sacredness would be evoked within the deepest levels of our psyche and spirit. Instinct, intuition and a still mind would be brought to light while we naturally experienced the laws of nature through our bodies. I believe our heart is the heart of the world, and our heart beats with the rhythm of the earth.

After getting Drunvalo's permission, I created a workshop that centered on the meditation and communing with nature. I rounded up a group of people, took them up to a llama farm in Massachusetts and basically said, "Lets see what happens." I wanted to look like the authority on the subject, but truthfully, I didn't know what would happen, if people would really get the whole concept or just stare at me blankly. I wasn't pretending I was Drunvalo, and I wasn't going to give them several days of instruction or storytelling to support the practice. I had an idea that we would enter a coagulated, non linear energy field of love, a group torroidal field, that we would operate as one heart, effortlessly moving from one thing to the next, magnetizing our intentions to life.

What I wanted to evoke in this workshop was a sense of the sacred. To be living in the heart in a sacred manner, and allowing room for playing and laughing. The mind was ordered to take a three-day vacation. We arrived late Thursday evening and did the opening introductions and ceremony. The intention was for all of us to explore with innocence that weekend, and to link up the torroidal fields emanating from our hearts creating one, enormous magnetic field to hold us through the weekend, help us explore and commune with nature, assist us in manifesting our intentions, and help us to play and connect with each other. Everyone also had their personal intentions. Mine was to enjoy leading, and enjoy fully being in my power, not holding back. Tired from our drives, we all went to bed.

After an early morning yoga and pranayama class and delicious breakfast, I led everyone through the Unity Breath into the heart space outside in the stone circle with a fire pit in the middle. With only a short lecture and a few exercises, they all got it. The majority of the group was healers, but there was one newbie who had no trouble with it, despite his complaints that he wasn't doing it right. He actually was. I told everyone to ask for a clue for the weekend in their sacred space. Their first clue in what I consider to be a treasure hunt. My clue was that even if I went into fear, I had to hold my intention line strong for my longings. In my training, we use a Hara line, the non-dualistic, non-emotional line of intention that connects our spiritual purpose, with our physical purpose. It is a laser line that runs from the heavens, through the center of our body, down to the core of the earth. It was my pattern to let go of my intention line, disconnecting it from the core of the earth when fear struck, so I took this as good advice. I was ready to break that pattern.

We got our clues, and then I instructed everyone to find a tree and connect with it, whether that be talking, feeling, hugging, whatever. People automatically became like children, hugging, climbing, and singing with the trees. Hearts began to open. When the time was right, we all gathered back in the stone circle and began singing to mother earth, just tones and sounds. The birds in the woods began to sing louder. I asked one person to sit in the middle, and told everyone to tone towards them. A whole new song emerged, it was beautiful. We each took turns sitting in the center while everyone sang the song of their soul to them. It was amazing. Each song was unique and so appropriate to the individual. The magic had begun, and was unfolding organically. After a spirited lunch with fresh asparagus from the garden we were ready for our llama hike.

Richard Cleaver, who owns the farm, has seven llamas and part of his business is taking people out for llama hikes. I have been on many hikes, but I have never seen the llamas as calm and loving as they were on this hike with us. Happy Jack, a flirtatious llama, even snuck in a few llama kisses with me. It was working! We were vibrating with nature, and had become irresistible to llamas! Plenty of ancestors walked with us, as reflected in the orbs in the picture.

It began to rain, so after some rest, we gathered that evening around the woodstove and once again went into our heart space. This time we went even deeper. In this circle, the vibration of the heart was stronger than I had ever experienced. I was taken through tunnels, able to see every little chakra within my heart, and clear out any obstructions. My body shuttered as I gave myself a healing. I then went to my "heart flame", which is the sacred space of the heart. The vibration of this flame is intense; it took me awhile to be able to bring my consciousness there. Each time I got closer, I could feel my own torroidal field pulsate, growing more powerful. I had never entered my heart space in this way, and it felt like a deeper, more physical level to me. Once my full consciousness was absorbed, I instantly went into outer (inner) space in my merkaba light body. I fell deeper and deeper into the vibration. Exploring tentatively in space, marveling at planet Earth. When we came back into the group consciousness, almost everyone had had a similar experience. We were becoming one heart, dreaming the same dream.

Music effortlessly poured out of us. We began singing together, drums, guitar, and voices joining in harmony. I then instructed one of our members to come into the circle. He had been suffering from severe hay fever and I offered to give him a healing while the group was singing his soul song. As I entered into the field of the song, I automatically knew what to do. I went into a musical trance as I worked on him, continuing to sing, lifting out the congestion and heaviness. His allergies instantly got better. I realized I had stumbled upon something unexpected. When you add sound to the group torroidal field, you have immediate access to the information that the soul of the person in the center wants to present. This information was received on an intuitive level, totally bypassing the mind. As a healer, working in this sound field was an unexplainable bliss and power. We closed the healing and were like, "Whoa."

We hung out and talked as much as we could before bedtime, I was so excited I could barely sleep.

It poured rain all night, but began to clear by morning. The activity that day was to plant in Richards garden. Richard grows all of his own vegetables, sharing the garden space with his neighbors. Part of this workshop was learning how to be close to the land, and learning how to work a garden. I hadn't done any gardening since I was a toddler. The experience of planting only brought us closer to Mother Earth and her magical gifts. We were laughing and playing as we planted. In the afternoon we hiked into the woods to do another meditation. The birds never stopped singing, which signaled us that we were still vibrating with nature. The bugs, unfortunately, were vibrating faster than our torroidal fields could spiral. It was really impossible to go in, so we went back to our stone circle and gave it a whirl. Not too successful this time for anyone, I guess it was a group decision, but the birds once again grew very loud. Tired from the day, we rested up before the big ceremony that night.

I felt my insecurities rise. No one had made it into the heart that afternoon, including me! "I must be a failure," I thought, "How would I pull of the ceremony? Everyone is expecting me to be all powerful and I am freakin'!" Luckily, I remembered my clue and made sure to keep my intention line connected to the center of the earth through my fear. After only a short time of doing this, the fear passed.

Since the torroidal field is a magnetic, manifesting powerhouse, the intention of the ceremony was to let go of the old, bring in the new. Standard ceremony stuff, but amped up by the heart space! It was raining again, so we were inside with the wood stove. No matter, we whipped out our drums and raised the energy. I grabbed the shamanic drum, stepped into my power and never looked back. We called in the directions and linked up our whole chakra system with the directions, finally going up to the eighth chakra to merge with the heart energy, generating even more power, vibration and self confidence. We blew into sticks that we had found what we wanted to release, and also what we wanted to bring in. Then we put them in the fire.

It was soul song healing time, how could we not with all that energy? The group was so open and in the flow, and naturally sang the song of the soul of the person in the center, coming together effortlessly. Once again I found myself automatically going right to the place that needed to be healed in each person. I began singing people's lifetimes that needed to be heard and healed, singing entity's songs while they were sent back home, singing love songs from future soulmates, singing the sound of love from people's guides, singing people's longings and desires. My energy was limitless. All the while a chorus of angels, the workshop participants, sang to the soul of the person in the center. There was healing happening on so many levels, too many to track. One participant said, "We were the guides tonight." It was true.

While we hadn't spoken our intentions aloud, when I gave feedback to everyone afterwards, the healings I had given directly addressed each person's intention, confirming the accuracy of the instant download. To me, this shows that the power of the heart, the magnetic field of the torus indeed creates instant manifestations. Everyone received what they asked for immediately in the healing. I also got what I asked for because I'm not gonna lie, it takes cojones to pull something like that off. I loved being in my power and not for a second did I drop my intention line or go into fear.

We stayed peacefully meditating in the heart space for awhile, closed the directions and completed the ceremony. Totally giddy, we stayed up as long as we could, eating cookies and laughing.

On Sunday we were pretty cooked. Instead of doing more, we just relaxed and allowed time for integration. We were filled to the brim with our experience and content to bask in it. I felt that we had accomplished the vision I'd had, and in fact more magic was created than I could have foreseen. We moved as a coagulated field of love, very little discussion was needed to accomplish anything. We knew when it was time to go, we knew when it was time to sleep, eat, and do our next activity. It all happened effortlessly. This is such a contrast from most modern people's daily life, and I can't stress the importance of learning how to operate in this way, how to live in the heart. Healing, loving, creating and exploring are the natural results of this lifestyle and it feels great. Competition dissolves into co-creation. Everyone is supported by the energy and things happen naturally, without having to figure it all out.

Keeping this in mind, I will continue facilitating these nature immersion workshops, experiencing the bliss of living in the heart. A new workshop will also be taught on full moon weekends: Soul Song Healing, my favorite new healing skill! The gifts of the heart will continue to reveal themselves.

Photos by Samantha Ibarguen

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About CC Treadway

CC has a private energy healing and channeling practice in New York City (www.cctreadway.com). Her specialties include artistic development and performance, spiritual connection and relational therapy. She also teaches workshops on healing, channeling and the arts and has a successful documentary film-editing career. She is a graduate of the Barbara Brennan School of Healing and The Rhode Island School of Design, has traveled the world with Drunvalo, and is continually dedicated to her own path of healing and learning.