Of The Heart · Walking each other home
You already are what you seek.
Your true self existed before anyone told you who to be. We hold retreats and gatherings where you can slow down enough to hear it again, and be seen as you are.
165 days until the gathering begins.
Intention
The distance between who you are and who you learned to be.
Before the roles, before the responsibilities, before you learned which parts of yourself received acceptance and love from the world around you and which parts received judgment, that version of you didn’t disappear. It’s just been waiting, patiently, underneath everything you’ve built to create feelings of safety and worthiness.
Most of us spend our lives moving further from that place: busier, more accomplished, more certain of what we’re supposed to want, and quietly further from what our hearts truly desire. You can build an entire life this way and never feel truly yourself.
Of The Heart exists to close that distance. Not through more striving, but through the opposite: slowing down enough to hear and embody something you already know, that you are whole, worthy, and loved as you are. There’s a state called heart coherence, where the noise in your head finally quiets enough for your heart to lead.
The mind thinks. Your heart knows.
Most of us have simply never been shown how to listen.
That’s what a gathering here actually is: a retreat, a circle, an evening around a fire, whatever form it takes. Different container, same purpose: a space where you are seen and accepted as you are, where old beliefs you’ve carried since childhood get to be heard instead of managed in silence.
We’re building this with reverence, with care, and with so much love. We hope you’ll come and let it move you.
Vision
Community, treated like the medicine it actually is.
We’re working toward a world where being truly seen, heard, and held isn’t rare. Where people don’t spend decades managing the distance between who they are and who they learned to be. One gathering, one circle, one honest connection at a time, Of The Heart is building toward more people living from their heart.
Mission
We hold spaces where people can come back into their hearts.
Retreats and gatherings where you can quiet the noise and remember who you were before the world told you who to be. We do this by:
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Creating real containers
Held with clear principles, so what’s shared is respected, and no one has to manage anyone’s perception, including their own.
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Working through the heart, on purpose
Using heart coherence and intuition to reach what the mind alone can’t.
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Making every offering different in form, same in purpose
Retreats and gatherings, each built to hold the same depth of presence.
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Treating community as medicine
Because being truly seen, even briefly, can shift something that’s been waiting a long time to be shifted.
The land
Held at Heram Al Noor, in the Texas Hill Country.
Our gatherings take place at Heram Al Noor, a retreat center about 15 minutes outside Wimberley, in the Texas Hill Country: cedar and live oak, a pyramid for ceremony, a natural stone pool, a wood-fired sauna, and hilltops made for sunrise.
Who holds the circle
Mani & Ben
With each gathering, we walk each other home.
Tell us a little about where you are, and we’ll share everything you need to know about the next gathering, and answer whatever’s still on your mind before you decide.