The Heart Medicine

Eco-project

“When I heal my heart I heal the Earth, when I heal the Earth I heal my heart.”

Hello, and welcome to The Heart Medicine!

The Heart Medicine is an eco-project thought of as an online research hub for healing through nature.

This project first started in October 2020 as a homemade brand offering healing products for wellbeing and emotional healing. It is now growing to become an eco-project space hosting workshops on sustainable emotional and physical health as well as eco-conscious artistic based practices.

The seed

The seed idea is that just the way we see ecology as a practice of caring for the environment we can as well apply this practice on our own internal landscapes and emotional wellbeing as means of building a more sustainable society in harmony with nature - that’s where it all starts.

The vision

My feeling is that ecology is part of a practice that integrates care as a constant dialogue with nature out and inside of us. Since 2018 I have developed an artistic and philosophical research on something we call “the ecology of emotions”. A term that was birthed in Iceland with my friend and artist Alisha Erao. I see this project as a centre holding space for sustainable ways of dealing with our emotions as well as a hub for art and the creative practice - a way of expressing who we truly are as a tool for deep ecology.

What is the heart medicine?

We all have a power to heal and it starts within us. The heart medicine is something we all possess. It is an infinite source of healing and we have access to it at all times. All we need to do is shine our awareness on it the way we turn on the light in a dark room.

Our heart organ has a lot more to it than just being a pump for the blood to circulate in the body. As well as being the center of our emotional processes its nervous system is also considered by science as another brain. In fact scientific experiments have shown that “the heart's electro-magnetic field is 5000 times more powerful than the one created by the brain” (Stephen Harrod Buhner). The role of the heart, if you study it, is to communicate through emotions, through its electromagnetic fields we receive the perceptions from the world. It’s a 6th sense, the heart sense.

Various spiritual world traditions such as Tibetan Buddhism place the mind in the heart. The heart is therefore not only the main organ keeping our life force alive but also has a key role in our wellbeing and the way we communicate with others and the environment. Research at the HeartMath institute has shown “that human emotion and attention has a measurable impact on the Earth's geo-magnetic field” (Howard Martin).

Combining our healing process with care for the environment can therefore become a transpersonal process, and as we heal bits of ourselves through learning how to live our life from heart centred consciousness we also have a deep impact on the people around us and on the Earth as a whole.

“Knowing that you love the earth changes you, activates you to defend and protect and celebrate.
But when you feel that the earth loves you in return, that feeling transforms the relationship from a one-way street into a sacred bond.”⁣⁣

— Robin Wall Kimmerer, “Braiding Sweetgrass”

Current offerings:

Sound healing with Wild Anima

sound healing videos and meditations on youtube
healing plant music
sound bath for groups and events merging art and music
soundbath concerts

Eco-sound studio

sound design and soundart
plant music
music for healing arts
music for yoga and meditation
music for film, animation and eco-conscious fashion
music for children
on demand projects - concept album and sound projects
artistic direction, consultation on management and mentoring

Workshops and courses we aspire to offer:

herbalism
wild foraging
shinrin yoku (forest bathing)
sustainable gardening
care for the land
eco-conscious consumption
sustainable finances
eco-psychology
etc
Feel free to contact us if you’d like to offer courses in any of these areas

Other offerings we are curently dreaming to share:

Earth healing ceremonies (for wedding, spiritual events and other special occasions)
Temple of the plants healing and performance space
Sacred Sea studio for recording and mixing