A four-hour evening designed to open the heart and restore inner trust — through guided somatic embodiment, Yoga Nidra, cacao, meditation, and the deep vibrations of the gongs.
Why it matters
When the heart closes, life becomes something to manage.
When the heart opens, life begins to flow.
This initiation helps you reconnect with the intelligence of the heart so that trust — in yourself, in others,
and in life — becomes a lived experience.
What you’ll experience
Heart-Opening Cacao Ceremony
Somatic Embodiment practices guided by Elena Mironov
Yoga Nidra for the Heart for deep relaxation and directed focus
Heart Initiation Practice: Trust — exploring inner trust through presence
Heart-Opening Gong Bath with Alan Steinborn
Integration, reflection, and quiet connection
Duration: 4 hours
No preparation needed: Simply bring yourself and your heart, however it feels.
Facilitators
Alan Steinborn – Gong player and meditation guide based in Zurich. Known for spacious, powerful, and deeply human gong baths that invite stillness and self-connection.
Elena Mironov – Therapist and meditation teacher based in Zurich.
Trained in psychology, Somatic Experiencing, and hypnotherapy, she bridges psychological insight, Yoga Nidra, and embodied awareness to reconnect you with the innate wisdom of the body.
Together, Alan and Elena create a field where sound, embodiment, cacao, and meditative awareness meet — a space where trust can be felt, not just understood.
For Those Who Wish to Read More
The Longest Journey Known to Man
The longest journey known to man is not geographical.
It is the journey from the head to the heart.
All our lives, we’ve been told to follow our hearts. But the real education has been to follow our heads — to think our way into better situations, and then to use thought again to control them.
The result is a daily life of perseverance through effort, control, and quiet dissatisfaction.
The Heart Initiation invites us to take that longest journey — to cross from the mind’s constant management of life into the direct knowing of the heart.
This journey is not symbolic. It’s energetic, psychological, and physical. It’s a shift in where we live from — where the heart becomes primary, and the head takes its rightful place as the servant of the heart.
When the Ordinary Ways of Living Are No Longer Enough, the Heart Calls for More.
There are moments in life when the ordinary ways of living are no longer enough.
The mind can’t give us what we long for.
Our hearts call for more.
The Heart Initiation marks this crossing — a movement from living with a guarded, partial heart to stepping into the fullness of what the heart can offer.
Most of us know this difference: when the heart is open, life flows; when it closes, everything tightens.
The invitation is not to seek more ideas, but to listen — to what the heart is already asking for.
This first evening in the Heart Initiation Series is dedicated to Trust — not the outer kind that depends on others, but the inner kind that arises from deep connection with oneself. Because until you trust your own heart, no outer trust can truly hold.
What It Means to Develop Inner Trust
The essential question is not whether you trust this person, that system, or that belief.
The real question is: Do you trust yourself?
Do you trust your own inner wisdom — your ability to make decisions and stand by them?
Do you trust your sense of boundaries — knowing when to open and when to protect?
Do you trust your intuition — even when the world has other opinions?
When inner trust awakens, life organizes itself naturally.
The nervous system settles.
Calm replaces uncertainty.
And the heart opens to guide the mind, instead of the other way around.
How the Evening Unfolds
The time is spacious by design — long enough for real change, yet carried with ease through deep relaxation, natural breaks,
and moments of stillness, movement, and sound.
Each part builds upon the last, guiding you gradually from outer awareness to inner awakening.
Heart-Opening Cacao Ceremony – gentle sharing of pure cacao to awaken presence, receptivity, and connection.
Somatic Embodiment Practices – guided by Elena, to reconnect body and awareness, creating a felt sense of safety and grounding.
Yoga Nidra for the Heart – deep relaxation and directed focus to access the state in which trust naturally arises.
Heart Initiation Practice: Trust – experiential exploration of inner trust through presence and awareness.
Heart-Opening Gong Bath – immersive vibrations that soften the grip of the mind and nourish the heart’s innate intelligence.
Shared Integration – space for rest, silence, and connection.
Why Trust Matters
Trust is not an idea — it’s a lived state where heart, body, and awareness move together.
When trust is absent, everything becomes effortful; life feels guarded and uncertain.
When trust returns, decisions simplify, relationships soften, and the heart regains its natural rhythm.
To trust yourself is to know that whatever arises, you can meet it.
It’s to realize that the guidance you seek has been there all along — quiet, steady, and waiting to be heard.
This is what we are awakening together.
The Invitation
Trust is not something you learn — it’s something you remember.
When you re-establish trust within yourself, life begins to move differently.
You listen more clearly.
You act more honestly.
You live with less tension and more flow.
This evening is an initiation — a return to the inner trust that has always been there,
quietly waiting beneath the noise of the mind.
Come as you are.
Leave with a heart that trusts.
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