The Land That Holds Us

We recognize and honor ourselves as nature and nature as divine. This understanding is the source of all that we do on the land.

Our work is based in land-entrainment, the process of synchronizing one’s personal rhythms with the rhythms of nature. We engage in entrainment through such practices as unplugging, earthing, and resetting circadian rhythms. By harmonizing with the tempo of the earth, we find the time, quiet, stillness, disterment, (manifestation, generative-power,) to move forward.

Heartsong’s land offers a grounded, sacred container for cultivating this intimate interconnection. The land’s generous, generative ways nourish while nourishing, give while receiving, and leave the land richer with every encounter.

The History of the Land

Heartsong Sanctuary is located on the former territory of the First Nations Algonquian people, specifically the Lenape Munsee tribe, who stewarded this land for generations.

In the mid-1700s, increasing European colonization drew the Lenape west of the Hudson (Mahicantuck) further south to the Delaware river. Eventually, a combination of the fraudulent Walking Treaty of 1737 and the Easton Treaty of 1758 displaced the Lenape to the Susquehanna and Ohio River valleys.

As people of European descent, we strive to acknowledge this complicated and, at times, violent history with humility and grace. We honor the Lenape’s strength and resilience in protecting this land, and aspire to uphold our responsibilities as its current Guardians. We strive to uphold the spirit of living in a Matriarchal society, by continually awakening our senses and sensibilities toward feminine-centered truths and practices. As their sentiments state, " In our society, women are the center of all things. Nature, we believe has given women the ability to create, therefore it is only natural that women be in positions of power to protect this function." -Source link