HEARTH

studios.

embodied skills for worldbuilding

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embodied skills for worldbuilding *

  • Hearth Studios is a creative and exploratory space where we commit to daily practices of embodiment that are rooted in our relationships to the land and our ancestral power. Our practice becomes a loving and accountable container for the cultivation of more aligned, integrated, and dignified lives.

HEARTH/härTH/(n.): refers to a fireplace and the area around it; used as a symbol for one’s home.

The word HEARTH has been a powerful consecrating force for our practice in that it beautifully unites three key themes: heart, earth, and fire. Our Indigenous worldview is one that understands fire as an Abuelo/elder and powerful spirit. Fire is the primordial source of creation and a nurturer of life, creativity, and community.

HEARTH is both an incantation and a pathway calling us to cultivate, harness, and tend to our creative fires and capacities, in a heart-open, land-honoring way towards the cultivation of the liberated lives and worlds we deserve. We hope HEARTH studios can feel like this warm, vibrant, and loving practice home you return to to be resourced and held in your journey.

OUR APPROACH

Our body-lands* hold the roadmaps to our healing, well-being, and pleasure. HEARTH studios offers an approach that:

  1. Invites us to develop and sustain a range of somatic and comtemplative healing practices aimed at connecting with our ancestral sources of wisdom and power and cultivating present moment awareness, compassion, and acceptance for things as they are witnessed.

  2. Supports us in fortifying a sense of resilience (individual, cultural, and systemic) so that we may sustain our capacities to be accountable for tending to and transmuting our traumas, blockages, and stressors into wisdom (we focus on the work that is within our agency without ever placing blame on the individual). This work is meant to nourish our active commitment towards creating life-affirming ways of being and cultures.

  3. Guides us to deepen our attunement for all that is already good, holy, and precious in our lives. Returning to rest and finding pleasure in our already inherently loving, wise, and perfectly complex bodies, we support you in remembering that transformation is not something outside of ourselves but rather a deepening with the most expansive and loving parts of our being— we already have everything we need.

  4. Resources us to be able to skillfully engage with the word by claiming our inherent power AND working to leverage our relative skills, access, and privilege to contribute to the cultivation of the conditions for collective freedom in our communities.

*Body-lands is a term coined by Cherríe Moraga and further framed by my Abuela Ana Maurine Lara Nanichi Tlahuicoatl

In order for us to sustain the work of transforming our current conditions into life-affirming, accountable, and dignified lives and communities, we need to address the health of the whole body and each of its parts. This calls for a multi-level approach in which we are aligning towards wellness on every level of relationship, from our internal worlds, to our physical bodies, to our relationships and systems.

We offer 1) a variety of 1:1 and small group life-coaching packages 2) personal training, and 3) organizational consulting, and community education. This work is all interconnected and rooted in spiritual practice, liberatory world-building frameworks, and ancestral and land connection.

How is this approach embodied at HEARTH?

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