Heartland Gathering Inspiration
Links to Music, Guides & Initiatives for those Shifting Education, Commerce, Consciousness.
Dear friends,
I’m coming home from the beauty of the Heartland Gathering and sharing some links below, in the hope you find something magical and helpful in this deep community of artists and creators.
I’d also love to invite you to the Second Spring Summit, which starts today (9/28/26) and runs all week. Tilly Storm has gathered a superlative lineup of teachers, doctors and coaches on female sexuality and pleasure after 40.
This week’s offerings also include a gentle, tender episode of The Rose Woman with Astrid Brinck, a deeply attuned facilitator who trains others to hold space with integrity. Enjoy this one in the quiet.
We are mid-session in the fall units on Tantra on: Beauty, Death, Shadow, Shakti. Its an intense concentrated body of material. We often begin and end the sessions with a meditation. The death practices are, like most death practices, meant to keep us aware of the preciousness, urgency, beauty and opportunity in life. I have put up the death meditations for anyone interested in exploring that daily practice.
In love and endless possibility,
Christine
Heartland Gathering Inspirations
If you’re seeking inspired music:
Experience Ayla Nereo‘s frequency weaving. She is mystical and deep, of earth and cosmos, and she brought such an exquisite feminine potency to the gathering. Follow her to catch her new album, out in a couple of weeks. For keeping people in movement, the beloved Marques Wyatt, Dirtwire and Lemurian, and Andrei Matorin who is exquisitely attuned.
If you’re working on tapping into your deepest wisdom and intention:
Consider hypnotherapist Paige Clark, who hosted a session guiding people to discover their own wisdom council. Or transformative breathwork, manifestation and intentionality support from Finnian Kelly and Shaboomi. The team from Sanctum Aspen was there, a very high integrity psychedelic retreat and support program for leaders and changemakers.
Personally, I had the joy of offering the essence of classical tantra applied to parenting. It was a gift to be with such attentive and curious Heartlanders, exploring how we hold the relationships to our lineage, ancestors and descendants, with clearer seeing, and how we serve life by serving the unfolding of each child’s unique essence. I do these sessions when requested, you can join me here.
If you’re looking for weaving consciousness into the world:
Andrew Freeman, who is pioneering Coherence Education, an accredited online school built around every child’s unique Genius Zone and Path of Purpose. If you’re a parent open to non-traditional schooling, this is a beautiful invitation to follow the essence of your child’s gifts.
Gagan Levy, who in addition to bringing his own unique lens on conscious leadership to incredible brands, sits on the board of the Love Serve Remember Foundation. Their new initiative, Soul Land Music, weaves Ram Dass’ oral teachings into inspired music from artists ranging from East Forest to Ke$ha.
A group of Nebraskan men embarking on a new model of brotherhood, awakening to their wholeness together: Conduit Collectives.
The first couple of days were muddy, with hard rain. Most of us were sleeping in tenty things called Shiftpods, which weep and hold the moisture, so I was doing the tantra practices hard: feeling every sensation without making it wrong, doing Wim Hof breathing in the cold shower trailer, and taking pouches of Cymbiotika Vitamin C to compensate. On the third day the sun came out, and everything that had been hidden in the gloom went on full display: the incredible art, the small groves of delight, the projection lighting and animation on giant landscape sculptures, including this incredible projection mapping by Pats Saucedo.
The Lakota Family and the Souls of Source church held the energetics of the space with such grace. Big props to Pink Cactus Productions, an incredible group out of Mexico who spent a month building, and to Omani Carson and Omya Ranch for the vision of this event.
Like all gatherings, it came down to the intentionality, the atmosphere and the mood of the people, and the magic of many old and new friends.
Also, several past podcast guests were there, women who keep expanding into new levels of potency and power, and I’m reminded to share them with you.
Maria Sipka: Telling Stories that Matter: Enchantments for Inspired Change
Lisa Kalfus: The Return of Pilgrimage: Walking the Soul into the Body, the Heart into the Earth
Meghan Elfsten: The Magic of Enclosure: Dark Retreats
Jess Magic: Life as a Daily Ceremony
You’ll hear from a few more of the people I met at Heartland on future episodes of the podcast.
