On August 19^th I will be in Quito Ecuador getting ready for a ‘pilgrimage into the heart of everywhere’ as Lynn Twist the leader of the expedition calls it.

 I feel some trepidation as I am going to be the furthest away from ‘civilization’ I can be, in the middle of 2 million acres of rainforest. It has no road access; it’s only reachable via an airplane ride and canoe trip down the Amazon river.

On a conference call last week Lynn Twist (www.pachamama.org, www.fouryearsgo.com) was asking us why we wanted to go on this trip.

I had to think about it because I have felt I was supposed to go on this journey since I first heard about it a few years ago. http://www.pachamama.org/rainforest-journeys 

Beside the thrill of the gift of connecting with native people and learn from their intimate knowledge of mother earth (pachamama), I realize I also have a desire to deepen my connection to my heart.

The idea of being reminded how simple and fulfilling life really is at the core without all the modern amenities calls me. I was fortunate enough to have grown in a lower socio economic class and been a student for long enough to know that one does not need much to feel fulfilled.  But being so far away from cities, cars, internet and in the middle of pristine nature at this stage of my life will add to the intensity of the inner integration of what really matters to me I am certain.  

My hope is to deepen the connection to my heart and enable me to come back to Toronto wiser and with more energy to give and help more people live connected to their heart. The more I do my work, the more I see the importance of finding and dissolving the illusion of being unworthy of love that stand in the way of our heart. I am so inspired and in awe of the healing that happens so quickly once the stories get dissolved. The relief, the joy that I see in the sparkles in people’s eyes after a session with me, I want to find ways of giving that gift to more people. I hope to find ways to do that while on my ‘pilgrimage in the heart of everywhere’.