Grounding + Becoming
A Soulspace Wisdom Cross-Pollination
Listen for what is already in you, the seed within reaching toward sunlight
What I need for the terrain ahead seems to be mysteriously sprinkled around me days, weeks, months, or even years before I need it. There is an inexplicable resonance—a knowing that doesn’t conform to my linear timeline and context.
I recognize it.
Wisdom cannot be known with the mind alone; it animates within me. I am known, and I know.
And still, I forget.
Practices draw me back to the center. I return. I drink deeply. I remember.
There is spaciousness inside to keep going.
Follow what draws you.
Notice what stirs.
What is recognition like for you?
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Icons of the Inner Life, An Audio Read-Aloud
The peculiar and timely wisdom streaming in from worlds beyond, for such a time as this. An audio reading and invitation for deep heart listening.
Your Magnetic Heart
A contemplative reflection on bearing obscurity with kindness, staying present to sorrow, and discovering how outer suffering and inner pain meet in one great heart.
Physics + Chemistry at the Heart of the Heart of the World
A wisdom collage on love’s gravity, bearing the human condition, and the practice of return.
Three, An Audio Collage + The Sound of Yellow
Experience "Three," an audio collage weaving Bruno Barnhart's meditation with Kandinsky's art and Audrey Assad's "Yellow” | An invitation to presence and deep heart listening.
Hidden Silver: Why have I not come to know it?
A spacious audio reading of Bruno Barnhart’s meditation, "One." paired with abstract art and music that express states of the soul. An invitation to presence, deep heart listening.
You'll Know: A Guided Felt Sense Practice
This 17-minute guided felt-sense practice is an invitation to listen for the quiet wisdom of your body.
A Spacious Audio Meditation: Bruno Barnhart + “Home” by Sara Bareilles
A spacious audio meditation pairing Bruno Barnhart and Sara Bareilles’ “Home.” An invitation to presence and deep heart listening.
Two: A Meditation by Bruno Barnhart
A Wisdom Collage: Bruno Barnhart meditation read-aloud by Kirsten, an evocative image, and a cover of Everyday Life by Audrey Assad and Moda Spira. What catches your heart’s eye?
The Maximum: An Audio Meditation
A contemplative audio invitation to the now. Kirsten Harrison reads “The Maximum” from Bruno Barnhart’s Second Simplicity as a spacious practice for presence and deep listening.
Somewhere Along the Way
Somewhere along the way, I started relating to myself compassionately. And it shows.
Montana Sky Time, An Audio Reading
Kirsten reads Montana Sky Time by Rob Baker in a voice memo.
Can’t go under it. Can’t go over it. We’ve got to go through it.
My heart is magnetized to keep returning to the felt sense of these paradoxes, and so I do, over and over. In twenty-minute increments of silence, I climb into dissonance and breathe with it.
What My Soul Already Knows: A Simple Poetry Practice for a Dark Night of the Soul
A simple practice for drawing on wisdom beyond rational thinking and pro-con lists — a steadying anchor for the disorientation of a dark night of the soul.
Strong Winds Pose No Threat
Vibrant beauty that once took away breath is a backdrop now; you search for novel sacraments.
Practicing Presence with Abstract Art
Contemplating abstract artwork is a way to wake up our hearts and find a doorway into the inner landscape. It offers us something quieter, deeper: a wordless language.
Glimmering Landscape Time: Spacious Spiritual Practices for Disorienting Times
Spiritual practices for holding uncertainty, grief, disorientation, restlessness, and dark night seasons with presence, compassion, and deep listening.