Heart-Land Prayer

Simply feeling the heartbeat

Allow flow through the body movements

Finding a position that fits in

We leave the intensity and tyranny of vision

Moving bones and muscles

Making breathing deeper and slower

Despite all that we have to do, all the places we want to go, all the things we don't know ... we can just take a deep breath.

Feeling the air that surrounds and animates us

Air that brings space and activeness

You feel your Heart, getting your hands to your chest

For now, it will be the center of our topography

We take a few moments in this place

Simply feeling the heartbeat

Its profound significance, the wisdom of the Soul and the sacred wisdom of the blood

We honor the place of the Heart in this body, time and place

Allowing this ancient sacred rhythm to grow outward, vibrating with the ancient pulse of the land 

Letting it pass the threshold of the skin without dissipating but in an intimate and deep presence

Through the intuitive and sacred wisdom of the Heart, we remember to listen and feel

We recover the vibration that knows and dialogues with the topography of where we are

With place and its rich system that anchors the body and the intricate web of Life

An ancient pulse that touches the skeleton of the Earth, the one that sustains us

In the warp of where we are

The wisdom of the Heart, not spoken but felt, recognizes

Realize the elevations of heights, hills, mountains, hills, and mountains that may be around us

We realize the folds of the ground —as if they were the folds of our skin

We honor every concavity, every drop, every depth

We allow all this to resonate with the blood

Let the heart dialogue with the rocks, crags, boulders, cliffs, and Waters

Everything that runs under and above the Earth

We honor all of this with the life force of every beat of our Heart

All the transitions, all the thresholds, all the entrances, the portals

All passages and membranes

We allow this wisdom of the Soul to take hold and remember what it already knows about its own territory —how it has always been part of each other— the Heart and the ground.

We allow the hue and color of this very intimate and unique relationship to be revived.

We let every hill, hole, rise, and well activate us.

Let us relate to this Life and these voices that make up these highly dynamic territories, also pulsating in symbiosis and affection.

With gentle tenderness, we gather the Heart's energy in reverence for the place where we are, for all its wisdom.

The one we will never understand but that sustains us every moment.

We thank every recondite, every detail

Those that only the heart notices

Thanking this ground, we gather the wisdom of blood, vibration, and reciprocity.

Back to our skin, temperature and texture, at our own pace, keeping our hearts open.

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