HeatherAsh Amara – The Warrior Heart Practice

In this opening session, you’ll discover the foundations of the Warrior Heart Practice — and exactly how you’ll apply it to your daily life, bringing more clarity, creativity, and courage to your messy or challenging situations.

You’ll discover how it takes both the courage of a warrior and the vulnerability of an open heart to step into each of the “rooms” of your heart and witness all of yourself.

You’ll get clear on:

• What it truly means to be a warrior of the heart
• The power of unconditional (vs. conditional) living and loving
• Your map of inner healing — your big soul and your little soul
• What a “tangled story” really is, and how it’s causing you pain in your emotions, health, and relationships
• The process of getting to truth — 4 steps to release your story, suffering, and fear
• An overview of HeatherAsh’s powerful method, “The Four Chambers”
• A powerful closing sequence that includes a 10-minute visualization, 10-minute trio sharing circle/writing exercise, 20-minute Q&A, and an optional final share of action steps

In this session, you’ll enter into the Warrior Heart practice by learning to gently sit with emotional triggers, fears, or pain that arises within you…

As you’ll discover, these reactions are often completely separate from the story you believe is causing the emotion.

In the Feeling Chamber, you learn to be present with discomfort and become curious about what is actually happening in your physical and emotional body rather than just thinking about the upset, trying to repress emotions, or cycling stories endlessly.

In the Feeling Chamber, the goal is not to fix, understand, or explain emotions but to simply be with them consciously.

In this session, you’ll discover:

• How to put down the weight of your past to reclaim your present
• How to courageously face your emotions — and free up energy and joy
• The art of moving beyond repressing, cycling, or exiting your emotions
• How to separate out the feeling from your story — and why this is absolutely critical
• How to explain YOUR feelings, describe your Feeling Chamber, and what it means to exit your feelings
• The power of discussing your relationship with feelings — before and after your Warrior Heart practice
• Five healing ways to be with your emotions
• A powerful closing visualization to help you embody a feeling

In this session, you’ll discover the all-important Story Chamber.

It’s a deep dive into where you got your stories from — and how you can quickly clear out many of your stories by realizing which ones aren’t yours, which stories you are responsible for… and how to clean those stories up.

HeatherAsh will guide you to investigate and explore:

• The reasons why everyone tells themselves stories
• How your stories become tangled together
• How to begin the process of being more honest with yourself about your stories
• The details of your stories from key parts of your life: what HeatherAsh calls your domestication, your culture, from the dream that you’re in that may have gotten tangled up
• Elements you’ve always assumed are part of your story — but actually aren’t (you might be surprised!)
• An awareness practice that HeatherAsh calls stalking yourself — witnessing your thoughts, energy, emotions, and physical body without judgment

The Story Chamber gave you new information on the multifaceted, noisy layers of your internal dialogue…

In this session, the Truth Chamber will open up space for stillness.

You’ll focus on crossing a threshold between Story and Truth, where you must leave behind being right, being wrong, being understood, or any other desire….

In this session, you’ll explore:

• Why, as Heather Ash says, most people enter the Truth Chamber dragging their story with them like a familiar blanket
• How to name the truth — and identify how it feels as the truth lands in YOUR body
• The real definition of what truth is and how it’s different from story
• The difference between ultimate truth and subjective truth
• The beauty of the Truth Chamber in all its simplicity — HeatherAsh will share plenty of powerful examples of how it plays out in real life
• How to move toward what is real in THIS moment
• A powerful practice to sit in stillness to prepare yourself for what’s to come

Your study of the Truth Chamber opened up space for you to step into the Intent Chamber…

In this session, you’ll discover how the Intent Chamber helps you get clear on what you truly want in any given situation.

Your intent is reflected in your focus and commitment — without it, you’re at the mercy of outside forces, even when you’re clear about the truth.

You’ll discover why having clarity about your truth is like patching the holes in your sails after they’ve been torn in the storm of a story; your intent is your steady hand on the ropes, allowing you to catch the wind and consciously navigate where you want to go.

In this session, you’ll discover how to:

• Get clear on YOUR inner intent — and exactly how it guides the actions you haven’t taken yet
• Link your intent with your desire — and explore what you want to put your energy into
• Tap into the larger force of how intent works within the Universe
• Meld your personal intent with Universal intent
• Go back through ALL the chambers and apply them to your life, now that you’ve studied each one
• Engage in a ritual that keeps you connected to the truth and your intent

In this session, HeatherAsh will walk you through the practice of stalking yourself — and connecting it to the Toltec practice of self-intimacy.

To help you get to know yourself, HeatherAsh will give you a number of tools around how to break habits and patterns in your life in a playful way. She’ll show you how to witness yourself, your feelings, your story, and your reactions so that you can transform them as a warrior rather than being buried by them.

As you first started exploring back in Module Three, stalking is an awareness practice of witnessing your thoughts, energy, emotions, and physical body — without judgment, comparison, repulsion, or fear.

And when you stalk yourself, you cultivate the qualities of a hunter: perseverance, patience, and presence.

HeatherAsh will guide you to:

• Discover that, once you set your intent in the Warrior Heart practice, you must stalk how you will bring it into your day
• Patiently, actively, and openly watch where you’re able to stay in line with your intent — and where you get knocked out of it
• Name where you can hold your intent and where you struggle — so you can creatively support yourself as you take new actions based on your intent
• Create solid, small, doable steps for yourself
• Build your own moral code — 3 (or more) agreements you commit to following in your own life
• Deeply understand the 7 new agreements of your Warrior Heart
• Come from a place of love and non-judgment when working with yourself and others

Sometimes absorbing the perspective of somebody else who’s also working through these practices can help inspire and catalyze change within YOU…

In this pivotal integration, HeatherAsh will feature two of her top students, who’ve been teaching the Warrior Heart practice.

These facilitators will lead you through some powerful questions and experiential exercises to help examine your life and story with fresh eyes.

In this session, you’ll review your story, truth, and intent as you discover:

• How to play and find humor in your story
• Ways to creatively bring more intent to your story
• Whether you’re still quietly wishing someone in your life would change — and how you can let go of this limiting belief
• A more empowering and healing way to look at your story
• How your choice of intent affects your perception of your story
• How the tone of your emotional body feels when you step back into your Feeling Chamber
• Powerful practices to illuminate your journey — including Integrating the Chambers and a Journaling Freewrite exercise

Sarina Harz, LMSW, is a Professor of Social Work in Fort Worth, Texas. She has spent the last decade serving clients with chronic medical conditions, facilitating trauma-informed care, and assisting her people in getting free in their lives. Sarina works as a therapist and is currently studying wilderness behavioral health modalities with the Rites of Passage Council so she can facilitate therapy in the wilderness. Sarina, who’s been studying with HeatherAsh Amara for the last five years, is a Warrior Heart Facilitator and a member of the Warrior Goddess Leadership Team.

Mary Nicosia is an acupuncturist and energetic coach in Austin, Texas. She earned a Bachelor of Social Work in 2004, then spent the next five years as a case manager and supervisor of volunteers at the Court Appointed Special Advocates in Austin. Mary completed a Masters Program at AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine, receiving her Master of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Degree in 2013. Following her years as a social worker and during her studies in Oriental Medicine, Mary began to deepen her studies into spirituality after reading the book The Four Agreements. Mary founded The Toltec Center of Creative Intent with HeatherAsh Amara in 2009, becoming a student of the Mysteries and an apprentice to HeatherAsh. Mary has gone on to incorporate Tarot and Astrology into her Toltec training, and into understanding the human nervous and energy systems through energetic coaching sessions and natal chart readings. She is passionate about helping others become free.

She’ll also walk you through the power of the Three Attentions as a framework for relating to your stories throughout your life.

As you’ll discover, the first attention is where you create your reality — your foundational perception of the world.

The second attention is when you start to capture your own energy and find yourself saying, “I want to see the world in this way!”

And the third attention is when you’re experiencing life directly.

In this closing module, you’ll explore:

• Hidden pitfalls of these 3 Attentions — if not implemented carefully, you can create a lot of harm for yourself and others by “redoing the story”
• How to avoid slanting your stories in favor of personal importance or self-effacement (not claiming the attention you deserve)
• Why the transformations you’ll experience aren’t all-at-once processes, but instead are spiral, back-and-forth practices, unique to each of us
• Why some stories will be easy to dislodge from your psyche simply by bringing your attention to them — while others are, as HeatherAsh puts it, tenacious as a barnacle on a boat
• What happens when what HeatherAsh calls your Little Soul feels threatened or afraid, and why it often grips even more tightly to what it knows