Heart Journeys

Image Credit: Anh Nguyen.

From Mine to Yours, From Debbie Rosas.

There was something magical that happened to me when I stopped imagining my heart as a small fist-sized organ tucked into my chest and began to sense it as an extraordinary communication system. A living and listening “field.” An interpreter of emotion and an organ deeply attuned not only to what I personally feel, but to the emotional spaces that surround me. This shift from seeing the heart as a single fixed point to experiencing it as “everywhere,” from my fingertips to my toes, pulsing in all fifty trillion cells of my body, was nothing short of a revelation to me

As I give and receive heart energy through movement, each step transforms into tender surrender. My feet became not just instruments of motion, but vessels of devotion. I don’t just dance as a body. I dance as a “heart body.” It changes how I teach, move, breathe, and live. It helps me become a whole-body heart communicator. A listener. A translator. A feeler of other energy fields. It helps me arrive at understanding and at validating a philosophical belief: my heart is a true human assemblage point and the center from which coherence, connection, and consciousness flows.

And what I love most is when I isolate a single part of my body, like the heart, and I discover what I always long for: new learning, deeper intimacy, and unexpected healing. With every revelation comes an invitation to sense and feel more. To release what’s stuck. To soften what’s been held. As I connect more fully with my “everywhere” heart, it begins to speak and say; “Give it to me,” “Let me help you carry it,” “Let me help you soften,” and “Let me help you heal.” Emotional tension not sensed before began to surface in my spine, in my hip, in my feet and in my breath.

Movement and energy adhesions and stories in my tissues begin to release, removing physical blocks and the residue of a life lived, spiritual knots, emotional echoes, places where life-force energy has become restricted. The more I practice living and moving as a “heart body,” the more my tissues soften. The more my breath deepens and the more my perception of love’s presence expands beyond the borders of my skin and beyond the illusion of a self-contained “me.” I begin to sense moving by light, emotion, gravity, starlight, and sound; a sacred field where my body is held.

Where movement, at its essence, is love responding to love. This is the miracle of my heart as a “field.” As a home. As the true meeting point where body, emotion, and consciousness commune. Body education, true body wisdom is never just about anatomy. It is about intimacy with life. With my body and with the pulse of the Universe that beats beneath my skin and far beyond my knowing. What I’ve discovered is this: when I walk as a “heart body,” I don’t just move better, I live better and I belong deeper.

When I return home to myself and to the tissues of my body, it whispers, “Love is not something to reach for; it’s something you’re made of.” That truth lives in the pull of my blood. The tilt of my pelvis. The echo of my heel to the Earth. The sway of my spine. The song of my fascia. The forgiveness of my foot. This is Whole Being “heart consciousness.” This is walking with the kind of knowing that changes everything from the way I move, love, and inhabit my one-of-a-kind, living, breathing body. And while I can’t always be next to you to guide you step by step, I do my best.

I offer what I can through words, imagery, metaphors, and language that invites you to sense and feel your body’s truth, where science meets spirit and anatomy becomes intimacy. In this, your body becomes your wisest and most trustworthy guide. And, sensing “heart” energy as truth means welcoming both light and shadow. It means lovingly embracing the darker, hidden aspects of ourselves and turning lived lessons into realignment. Shifting dysfunction into flow and turning miscommunication into clarity, so we can live as a heart body, from the ground up, from the inside out, and the outside in.

To this, I would add that the awakened body is Whole Being “heart consciousness.” It doesn’t just beat. It leads. It anchors and orients us in a knowing that rises from the inside out and the ground up. It’s a pulse we can sense and feel rising up through our soles, into our bones, and along our breath that shapes the tilt of our pelvis, the arc of our spine, and the spiral of each step. This is the body’s whispering wisdom—what I call in The Nia Technique, the “smile line.” A flowing wave that connects heart to foot to crown. A current of trust that lifts, centers, and softens us and a lifeline.

It is a flow of motion that reminds us how to live in and move with our body. A healthy relationship with our base, feet, legs, pelvis is essential for stability and mobility. But a love infused base? That’s where grace lives. That’s where power meets poetry. When we move from this kind of embodied “heart wisdom,” then function and feeling merge. Shifting our perception of the heart from a single point in the chest to a field of Whole Being intelligence is how I’ve come to see my feet not just as instruments of motion, but as intelligent, heart-filled fabric. Sensing. Expressing. Receiving. Giving.

My feet, my bones, my legs, and my pelvic girdle are not separate from my heart. They are my heart. They carry its rhythm. They move me from inside, underneath, and behind—where truth lives and love flows. Feeling grounded is not about being still or standing strong. It’s about having a relaxed, ready, and responsive nervous system. My heart is that regulator. It tells me I am safe and I belong. With my heart as a field in my body, my sensory nerves become messengers of tenderness broadcasting love into the world. My bare feet don’t just touch the Earth, they listen to it.

And the Earth listens back.

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