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Mystical Heart Song

Is there a longing in you that has never quite found its voice?

Across the mystical traditions, the voice is a doorway. The mystical heart is where devotion springs forth, and through the voice we can contact our longing with fervor. That longing is an expression of love itself, and love is the embodied way the divine touches our humanity. It is how we connect, and how we taste the sweetness of being alive. You are made for this love.

When we swallow our own voice, we swallow our longing with it, and we can live a life of estrangement from our own essence. By consciously peeling back the layers that keep us from the love already surrounding us, and by giving that longing a voice, we return to what we are.

In this gathering, we move between teaching, practice, and stillness, exploring the mystical dimensions of the heart through silence, listening, voice, writing, and movement. We begin by finding the rhythm of the heart itself, then turn to the human voice as the most beautiful of instruments, tracing devotion through the Bhakti tradition and its longing for reunification. We practice sama, the mystical art of listening in the Islamic tradition, and sit together in silence to contact our own mystical heart song.

From there we turn toward the deeper ache underneath all of this. Our longing for love. The separation many of us perceive from our original unity with the divine. And the way we relate to the divine so often mirrors the way we attach to each other. We sing, we chant, and we let the wisdom ways remind us that the longing itself is holy.

When our hearts awaken to love, we feel the ache for the heartbreaks of this world and know that another way is possible. In our final movement together, we turn that ache toward vision, exploring what embodied love could look like, not only in our own hearts but in the world we long to help heal.

What to Expect

Everything offered is an invitation, not a requirement. No singing experience is necessary, and you are always welcome to participate in your own way and at your own pace, including resting, listening, or simply being present. You need only an openness to listen and to be touched by your own longing.

This Gathering Is For You If...

You are drawn to devotional practice 

You sense that the ache you carry for this world and the ache you carry for love are somehow the same ache

You carry a longing you have never quite been able to name

You want to embody in your voice

You are curious about song as a spiritual practice, whatever your relationship to singing

Through Our Time Together, You Will...

Discover the voice as an instrument of devotion, not performance

Trace the thread of longing through the Bhakti tradition and the mystical art of listening in Islam

Explore silence as a muse

Get curious about how the ways you relate to the divine mirror the ways you love the people closest to you

Turn your ache for this world toward vision, and glimpse what embodied love could look like

Your Guide

Willow Brook

Willow Brook is a love coach, devotional singer, and interspiritual companion who supports people in awakening to sacred intimacy, embodied aliveness, and the love that has been waiting within them all along. As co-founder of Wild Heart, she weaves sacred song into every space she holds.

With a lifetime on an interspiritual path devoted to the mystical heart of Islam, a decade teaching in classrooms and yoga studios across the world, and a background in embodiment and creative ritual, Willow helps people reconnect with their voice and body as vehicles for healing and joy. She has led retreats and gatherings alongside Mirabai Starr since 2021.

“Since I was a young girl, my longing has drawn me close to the melodies of the mystics singing the same song in many languages. I’ve always had a hungry heart and devotional song gives voice to my yearning that is beyond words.”

Willow invites those she walks with to return to their bodies as vessels of wisdom, prayer, and song, and to let their longing be heard.

Learn more about her 1:1 love coaching and sacred embodiment coaching and schedule a complimentary 60 minute connection call at willowbrook.love and @willow__brook. 

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