How It Works

The Practice & Traditions

The Heart Gym began inspired by a practice called Let Your Heart Speak that came from a Fear Club held by Anne-Chloé Destremau. It has been evolved and adapted into the practice it is today.

The Heart Gym meets online via Zoom every Monday through Friday at 12:00 BRT for 30-45 minutes.

The main spaceholder shares the daily practice with the group at the beginning of the session, and then breakout rooms of two to three people are created that they enter for 20 minutes. In the breakout room, one person will start the practice, and the other person(s) will Hold Space for them, collectively bringing each other deeper into Inner Navigation and exploratory research of the given prompt. You are continuously encouraged to go deeper into letting your Heart speak, and be on each other's team to do so. When it has been 10 minutes for the first person to speak, you are notified to bring it to a close, thank your partner, and switch roles.

After the 20 minutes are up, the collective group returns to the main room to share discoveries, Feelings, and Aliveness. At times, a secondary practice is added at the end, such as the "I Hate It Practice," at which point participants can choose to leave the space, or stay for the next round that follows a similar format as the first round.

The Context

The Heart Gym is a space for:

• Researching what skills are necessary to Inner Navigate
• Using the 4 Feelings distinctions from Possibility Management
• Learning how to feel and connecting with your Emotional Body
• Coming to Experiential Reality by feeling instead of speaking from Verbal Reality
• Developing Intimacy and Emotional-Body communication skills by feeling and speaking about what is happening inside of you while being witnessed by someone
• Developing the basic Inner Navigation skills (BINS) necessary to get in contact with and communicate from your feelings, may you be new to the Gameworld of Possibility Management or an experienced spaceholder
• Practicing speaking from the Heart
• Practicing the basics of communicating from your feelings in the Small Now
• Meeting each other in the village
• Opening a doorway for people with any level of Matrix to learn how to feel
• Being a doorway for Archiarchy to unfold
• Valuing Nonmaterial Value first
  

What the Heart Gym Is Not

• An Emotional Healing Process space
• A Bi-Directional Scanning space
• A Rescuing space
• A Neurotic Listening space
• A Neurotic Speaking space
  

The Bright Principles of the Heart Gym

• Love
• Integrity
• Being With
• Simplicity
• Possibility
  

What skills are practiced in the Heart Gym?

• Inner navigating your 4 Feelings and Emotions
• Speaking from Experiential Reality
• Adult and Possibility listening
• Minimizing your Now
• Staying in connection with another Being while feeling
• Becoming a listening space for someone to speak into
• Giving feedback and coaching
• Being With what is
• Deepening Intimacy in relating with another Being
• Basics of Spaceholding
• Distinguishing the 5 Bodies

Some Practices We Have Explored Thus Far in the Heart Gym...

• Speak from your anger about what you hate saying “I hate that…”
• Use your energetic body to communicate without words the thoughts about the person in front of you, and as the recipient use your emotional body to receive the communication. Check out with your partner the energetic communications you receive and what feelings it brings up in you.
• Start from inside of what is already happening in your heart and let yourself speak from there
• Speak with your friend, and enjoy connecting with them from your heart
• Stop trying to “catch up” with someone, and rather discover what you want in this unique space with the person in front of you with your heart
• Let all of your parts be present and speak what is alive in you, and your coach helps you to create spaciousness to be with all of the parts without trying to change for fix anything
• Practice being vulnerable in a way you haven’t been before when connecting with your feelings about your weekend experiences and let your Heart Speak about it. From a naked place with your feelings in front of someone holding space for you to be there.
• Practice Being With, with your heart, and not being alone
• Practice discovering the person in front of you as if you were meeting them for the first time. Use your heart to speak and to reveal yourself to the other person and invite them in to do the same. You are discovering each other, together.
• Look at the person in front of you with a new set of eyes. Scan them and fall in love with the Being in front of you. What is the doorway that this Being opens? Connect with your feelings and engage in an extraordinary conversation with them from this point.
• Connect with your physical body and use its sensations as the gateway to let your heart speak
• Let your heart speak for what it longs for to be nourished
• Navigate the through the whole Four Feelings cycle
• Navigate to feel your Joy
• Practice consciously using your survival strategies to avoid feeling
• Practice not naming the feeling, rather speak from the feeling to get the experiential distinction of the markers of the feeling in your 5 Bodies
• Navigate to Reality by using your fear to find the next layer
• Let your heart grow and speak from this space
• Navigate to feeling the feeling that you typically avoid
• Feel and speak from what is alive in you today
• Bring your Being forward to meet the person in front of you and let your heart speak to them
• Share why you feel fear to connect with the person in front of you
• Let your heart speak to another person as if this was the last conversation you will have with them
• Practice speaking from an unconscious feeling and then use that information to shift into speaking from that same feeling consciously
• Give your center to the other person and try letting your heart speak
• Discover which ego state you speak from with feedback and coaching from your partner
• Discover what you are committed to by speaking from your heart with feedback and coaching from your partner; coach is a yes to what you are a yes for
• Get distinction between your Box and Being as your partner gives you feedback and coaching about what they see
• Practice appreciating another Being by letting your heart speak to them
• Use your fear to navigate to something that you avoid experiencing, such as fear of rejection, feeling your anger
• Practice you negotiating what you want
• Speak from your feelings as if you are speaking about the weather  

To join the Heart Gym Spaceholder Team, inquire with Sónia Gonçalves.