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.
An Open Letter of Gratitude to Cynthia Bourgeault
Saying yes to accompanying my dying mother-in-law, "beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing." A letter of gratitude to Cynthia Bourgeault.
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.
And here it is, unbound
A whole world exists on the underside, showing us something different, hidden in the dark. An audio poetry reading by Kirsten Harrison.
Recognition: An Invitation to Now
Gratitude surges as I realize the only word my lips remember is the only key that unlocks this door.
Presents: An Audio Reading of Norman MacCaig’s Poem
“This is a call from your soul, awakening your life to new possibilities.” —John O’Donohue. Listen to Kirsten read Norman MacCaig’s poem, Presents.
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.
There Was No Contradiction in His Soul
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin bore in his being what others might consider contradictions. Though it was not easy, he tuned the instrument of his life to the bass note sounding within him.
Montana Sky Time, An Audio Reading
Kirsten reads Montana Sky Time by Rob Baker in a voice memo.
Wisdom: A Knowing in Darkness
An Audio Read-Aloud on Wisdom Knowing. Listen from the inside, noticing what is stirred in sensation, feeling, and/or cognition.
Re-Member Yourself: A Note From Kirsten + A Poem About Holding Obscurity
When obscurity rises, and
you cannot see where to step next,
your gaze turns ever-so-slightly outward.
Oh, how humbling it is to be human!