Welcome to The Heart Roars a space where we explore what is in the depths and layers of our hearts.
A place where we tap into what we have learnt about love & about ourselves as lovable beings. A place where you are welcome with all of your experience... where you can just be & connect to what you may have not wanted to feel. There is nothing wrong, broken or damaged in you. You are whole, complete and limitless in essence.
Love is the pulse of so many things that we do. We search for love in other people, in things, in experiences, often forgetting to look in one place the closest to our being. Ourselves. We give the love that we want to receive, the love that we are.
In this session, I invite you to come back to that love that you are and to bring it to your whole being and the totality of all of your experience. In all of your emotions. Love is the magical ingredient in which real transformation can happen.
We will be connecting to ourselves through our felt sense. With consistent practice, it's actually possible to turn imprinting that feels unloving into the radiance of love.
The felt sense is something vague, often complex, and ever-changing. It moves, shifts, and transforms constantly. It can vary in intensity and clarity, enabling us to shift our perceptions. It does this by giving us the process as well as what it needed for change. Through the felt sense we are able to move, to acquire new information, to interrelate with one another and, ultimately, to know who we are. Dr. Peter Levine
We will be connecting to our primal & limbic brain along with our cortex.
Embracing the wholeness and totality of our experience.
What are our imprints of Love?
I welcome you to take a moment to journal and answer a few questions on what is love for you. Feel into the following questions and allow whatever comes to you, without thinking too much.. allow
What did your childhood teach you about love? What did you learn about love from your parents? From their relationship? From how they showed and expressed love? What did you learn about your own lovability?
What did you learn from your mother about love? What did you learn from your father about love?What did you learn from your peers about love?
How would you choose to see and express love now? How would you love women? How would you love men? How would you love yourself?
If you need more time, you can always take extra time to journal about this. This is a story of a lifetime.
Let us dive deep into the layers of your heart.
Step 1 Orienting & Connecting to Your Resources
Look around your room and let your nervous system receive the imprint of safety. Scan your body as you look around the room, look for sensations that feel calming, expansive and grounding.
Step 2 Body Scan
This allows you to tap deeper into the felt sense. Continue to scan for any sensations in your heart, chest and breasts. You may feel: tingles, softness, pressure, expansiveness, contraction, coolness, numbness (this is also a sensation).
Just be curious and without judgement connect to what is most present. As you continue to scan your sensations speak them out loud. This helps to connect the cortex (your thinking mind) with the feelings and sensations (the primal and limbic brain), permitting you to address the wholeness of your experience & allowing full body and brain integration.
Stay anchored in the felt sense as much as you can throughout the practice. You are restoring a present and loving experience with yourself no matter what the experience is.
If you can't connect to the felt sense, it may mean you don't feel safe. Bring yourself back to safety through resourcing and orienting, and validating your experience. Keep holding yourself, keep loving yourself... safety will build over time.
Step 3 Connected Breath
As you breathe you become more sensitised and will have more access to your primal and limbic brain, more access to the depths of your nervous system. Allow your heart to show you what it wants.
We invite a gentle connected breath, in through the nose and out through the mouth. 30 breaths in and out without pause. After one round take a long deep inhale and hold your breath, bring your awareness to your chest and heart centre and come back to your felt sense.
What are you feeling? What is under that? Feel the TRUTH of your heart.
Continue this process for 2 more rounds (3x 30 breaths + holding in total). Remember to focus specifically on your chest and heart area. Counter indicators for connected breath: pregnancy, epilepsy, seizures or cardiovascular issues.
Step 4 Diamond or 8 Directions Breath
As you breathe expand your chest in all 8 directions. This helps to release tensions and patterns around your heart. On each inhale, connect to the expansion of your own love and on each exhale send the love out to every cell of your being.
Step 5 Sounding the Felt Sense & Free Flow Movement
Liberate your sound, allow for the uncontrolled experience. This process gives your heart a voice. So often we have been told not to sound, not to move and we hold back our truth. Whatever comes up move it with sound. Now, this can be as gentle or as intense as is true in your heart. Don't think about how to sound but tap into your sensations and sound from there.
Through this process you are welcoming integration of the deep layers of your heart... maybe old memories of heartbreak, abandonment, blockages, ancestral pain or other stored memories may come. If you feel sensations that are pleasant also allow this flow. Very often we don't allow ourselves pleasure.
As you sound & continue tapping into your sensations, you may notice natural movements of your body. Allow that. Again don't think how something may look. Just let it. Your body is an infinite vessel of wisdom, when we allow it.. it does it's own magic to support us.
During this process bring in safety. Welcome yourself in all that you are and say out loud to yourself "Safety, Safety, Safety... I am safe to feel this... and Softness, Softness, Softness.. I can soften into all that is coming up..." even if it's anger, shame or guilt.
Step 6 Experience Universal Love
Invoke the image that represents Universal love of the Feminine, Masculine and Non Binary and envision the love pouring into you as you inhale and then give that love back through your chest, breasts and nipples... creating a pathway of love between you, your heart and the Universal Love.
This process give a deeper imprint that Divine Love is always available to you. It can also support to heal wounds, and receive the love from the feminine & masculine that you may have never been able to feel.
Step 7 Breast Massage
At this end of this process we ground ourselves into our body through a nourishing breast massage. Using the traditional Daoist Directions
Begin with circling your hands over your breasts, down on the outside and up on the inside. This releases energy.
Next, change direction and massage up on the outside and down on the inside. This builds energy.
Imagine yourself releasing old energy from your heart and then building it back with freshness.
This process helps to release oxytocin, which nourishes and supports the body. It also helps to sooth and regulate the nervous system. If you don't have physical breasts you can work with your energetic breasts.
Love Meditation
You are invited to create a 15 min recording where you shower yourself with love, words of appreciation, gratitude and awe.
Begin with yourself as a little Baby. Share what. you wish you would have received as a little baby.
Then, connect to your inner toddler, child. Shower yourself with all that you would have wished to hear as a child.
Bring in your inner teenager and tell her/them all the things you love about them. Maybe it's her/their quirkiness and shyness, their creativity and joy?
And then see yourself in your current phase of life. Speak to yourself as this Divine Universal love. Compliment yourself on your character, physicality, emotions, mission, magic, creativity, sense of style.. anything that comes to you.
This can be a very powerful process. Hold yourself gently. You may want to record a few times. Sometimes nothing will flow and thats alright. Be with it.
"You can re-write your timeline with the story of love." - L. Martin
After you have finished the recording, re-listen to it. Maybe, you'd like to re-listen to it 3x over the next week?
When I did this, I listened to it for a whole month 3x per week. It was a deeply healing process.
Integrate this Practice
Celebrate yourself for showing up and taking this time for yourself and your heart.
Share out loud with yourself
3 Celebrations from this Practice, 3 things you have learnt , 3 things that you are grateful for
You can also note it down in your journal.
I welcome you to share with me.. I would love to know how this process has been for you.
I welcome you to connect and ground to the nurturing essence of the Earth as you imagine yourself as a tree that is spreading its roots deep deep into the Earth, feeling held, nourished and connected.
Hello, my love.
I'm Sylwia Savitā
As a healer, therapist & coach, I’ve had the honor of supporting hundreds of clients reclaiming their inner fire, aliveness & pleasure as I mirror their wholeness.
My work focuses on somatic trauma therapy, pleasure embodiment, and healing your relationship with your power, body, sexuality, and creative passion.
Together, we create a safe, supportive space for nervous system regulation and exploration of the layers of your being, softening and opening to your natural state of vitality and connection.
Through this sacred work, you’ll learn to embrace pleasure without shame, find safety in your body, and cultivate deeply fulfilling relationships—with yourself and others.
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