Heart of Presence

21/02/2025

This week, we’re diving into a 2-year journey with Thomas Hübl’s Timeless Wisdom Training (TWT) alongside 400+ people from Europe & the US. We’ll be in shared presence and widen our capacities for personal, ancestral and collective trauma healing.
We love being, learning, growing, changing and healing together.

That's such a foundation of generative love for us, that continues to make our relationship full of joy, play and meaningfulness. Because we found a language in the challenges of change we can also bring humor and lightness into these moments of becoming. We’re grateful to lean into the transformation of our relationship as we step into this communal setting.

Additionally we're eager to see how this training will expand our capacities to facilitate larger group offerings ourselves, and continue to co-create spaces for relational healing and collective change with presence, precision, and care. But of this we’re sure - the continued journey together will only deepen our connection, collaboration and service.

For a 2:2 or 2:1 Relational Presencing session check out the link in bio!

17/02/2025

Heart of Touch: A Relational Presence Touch Training 🤲🏼

🐦‍⬛ Scholarships available.

Over four days, you'll learn how to meditate, touch, and relate from a profoundly centering state of Inner Presence. We'll practice the healing art of non-doing, heart-centered Presence Touch and explore collective healing, awakening, and evolution through Relational Presencing.

In these times of extreme polarization and collective unrest, stress, and activation, the medicine of grounded and embodied presence is exactly what is needed to meet each moment.

This training invites us to slow down, tune in, and bring more compassion and awareness to how we interact with ourselves, each other, and the wider collective.

You will learn tools to begin transforming relational wounds and conflicts so that you can:

🌀 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐰 your somatic, emotional, and relational awareness through Inner Presence meditation.

🌀 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧 how to offer non-doing, heart-centered Presence Touch, resting into stillness, relaxation, and enhancing healing processes.

🌀 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐝 your capacity to stay grounded, relaxed, and present as you speak, listen, and relate to others, even in conflict.

🌀 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞 consciously, connect authentically, and heal collectively through Relational Presencing.

Learn to touch and relate in ways that support connection, healing, and coherence. This training is designed for adults committed to cultivating personal, relational, and communal healing, well-being, and resilience.

Facilitated by Miriam Kislak and Adam Sippola, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapists, Relateful facilitators, and trauma-informed guides.

𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬: May 22-25, 2025
𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞: Thursday - Saturday, 9:30 am - 5:00 pm. Sunday, 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm.
𝐋𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Benkenstrasse 58, Basel
𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲: Not wheelchair Accessible
𝐂𝐨𝐬𝐭: 800 CHF, Scholarships available.
𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬: If you have questions, contact us at connect@heartofpresence.org

Register here:

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20/01/2025

The Importance of Listening

Miriam explores how the skill of deep listening impacts our practice of Inner Presence, Relational Presencing, and Presence Touch.

In our Heart of Touch Training, we cultivate our ability to listen to ourselves, each other, and the wider relational field, informing how we become collaborators with Life.

11/01/2025

How have the wisdom and resilience of our ancestors influenced Presence Touch and the Heart of Touch Training?

Although we have a foundation of education in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy and Stillness Touch, Presence Touch transcends and includes some of the core teachings of these modalities while simultaneously letting go of their colonial remnants, simplifying and making more accessible the skills, ways, and wisdom that come from our pre-colonial ancestors, who knew how to get out of the way and let Life do the healing.

28/12/2024

Spending three days together, reviewing 2024 and previewing 2025 we’re full of gratitude, excitement and open hearts.

2024 was full of connection and creation. Our beautiful wedding. Magical online Bewithment sessions with mostly couples. Going to an impressive collective healing event in Germany with 500+ people with Thomas Hübl. Regular Relateful Gatherings in Basel.

Vacation at the beach in the Netherlands. Having friends visit us. Travelling to the US to be with Adam's family, give Heart of Touch workshops and attend a weeklong Relateful Camp, meeting friends from all over the world. POEM: Portal of Emerging Mystery online events. Profound 4-Hand Presence Touch Sessions.

Having our families meet for the first time, sharing laughter, food, curiosity, art and hikes through the Swiss mountains. Training in Stillness Touch with Charles Ridley. Loving deeply. Challenging each other.

Hosting a Women’s and Men’s Group and exploring the dynamics amongst us. Peaceful goodbyes to family members, who moved on. And a continued refining of our devotional services for more presence and compassion in the world.

Now with 2025 around the corner we want to warmly invite you to check out our continually evolving and newly shaped offers.
Check 🔗 to sign up for our mailing list, to know more about what’s to come! Including our free/donation-based Community Call on January 5th.

How do you want to connect with us in 2025?

With glowing eyes,
Miriam and Adam

#2025

10/12/2024

ROAD to Inner Presence

R: REST. RELAX. REPOSE. Rest Inward. Rest back and down into the body, into the heart, into the midline. Relax, soften, and settle inward to the core of your body and being. Come into a state of inner repose, resting in living stillness.

O: OPEN. Open awareness to your inner relationship with Life. Listen inside, feeling the subtle sensations, movements, aliveness, qualities, and changes happening in your body. Open your heart inward like a flower.

A: ALLOW. Allow what is. Don’t try to change what comes up as you relax and open your awareness inward. There's nothing to do. No naming, labeling, controlling, changing. Allow, and be with what is.

D: DEEPEN and DON’T KNOW. Deepen into a state of no-mind. When stories or meaning arise, let go and welcome not knowing.

©2024 Adam Sippola and Miriam Kislak

28/11/2024

Rest into the living stillness of your heart, feel your hands as an extension of your heart, and connect with a gentle, non-doing touch from that state of inner presence. This is the foundation of Presence Touch, a path of healing, awakening, and the remembrance of wholeness.

08/09/2024

"Wild witch

She did not watch herself burn
In the quietness of doubt and inhibition.
She stepped into the fire
And freed her innate power with her voice.

She called out to the angels of darkness
To burry the dead bodies of her withholding.
She breathed life into her full expression.
And the earth exhaled in relief
Of truth being undressed to the bones.

She's the witch, devoted to the underground web
Made from sweat, laughter, blood and birth.

She watches those who know when to remain upright
And when to bow to the ground in reverence
Of the waves of wildness, of the ocean of sorrow,
of the stillness of death and in the storm of anger.
The aliveness that lives here, is what she calls home.

And she's coming for you!

Enough with covered skin!

Walk barefoot, dance naked,
Sound your wild soul, roar your prayer,
Wash your wounds with soil
And tend to the fire of your hearts knowing!"

These lines emerged in a recent group event, that I co-hosted. I experienced the group to be in a particular flavour of enjoyment and flow and here I was, feeling the heat of anger. How easy it would have been not to speak my experience and contribute to the status quo of enjoyment and flow.

After having facilitated so many group events I knew that each of us holds a truth of the intelligent group field. To bring my experience would enrich the group by all of us knowing more of the "waters we are swimming in". So I shared how I was sitting with anger. And we discovered more of our truth, aliveness and clarity.

This is my invitation for When Men & Women Meet: A Nine Week Online Closed Group, a 9-week closed online groups for two separate women's* and men's* groups. In the women's group that will start on September 29th, we'll explore how we relate to other women, men and each other, how we connect to our bodies, wisdom, intelligence, feelings, and how we step into the fullness of our power.

If this speaks to you, DM me to schedule your application interview to find out, if this is a fit for you.

With fierce love,
Miriam

07/08/2024

We are so excited about the new training we are creating!

The training is called Heart of Touch: A Relational Presence Touch Training. Level 1 is a 4-day process where participants receive training in the foundations of Inner Presence, Presence Touch, and Relational Presencing.

When we cultivate presence in our lives, soul gifts are discovered, a deeper sense of purpose and service opens up, and we relax into our inherent belonging in (and as) the wider Earth community.

The practices of Inner Presence, Presence Touch, and Relational Presencing have radically transformed and improved our lives individually and as a couple. We believe they are the most potent practices and ways of being to support the healing and remembered wholeness of the individual and collective.

You can attend our first Level 1 training in Asheville, North Carolina, from April 10 to 13, 2025. More information coming soon!

04/08/2024

This is us after a week of saturation in a deep field of presence, being with incredibly powerful, touching, and transforming processes of individual, ancestral, and collective healing with over 500 others in Germany for the summer intensive hosted and facilitated by Thomas Hübl and his wonderful team.

We are refreshed.

We are changed.

We are inspired.

As we integrate this potent experience, we're excited to incorporate our learning into our Bewithment sessions with individuals and couples, our POEM monthly group process, and our emergent curriculum for the Heart of Touch Training.

Presence is the blossoming of loving awareness in the heart of the human Being.

Bewithment sessions are currently offered at a 20% discount when you book by the end of August.

23/07/2024

What a refreshing start of the day to dive into the river together! This is us, before and after our morning swim of a day of work-love-flow.

Sometimes our collaborative meetings feel slightly challenging, as we have different speeds and ways of expressing and creating.

Today is like being on vacation, as we allow ourselves enough time to slow down and find our shared pace, presencing whatever comes up in the moment. In the container of slowness and presence, what is tight can naturally expand and become a gateway into deeper layers of what’s here, allowing the organic unfolding of greater ease, love and inspiration for how we want to be in life.

This quality of presence is what we are bringing and inviting you into in Bewithment sessions.

Do you need guidance on the path of your self-healing? We’ll be with you.

Do you desire to be more embodied, have healthily boundaries and share your sovereign expression? We’ll explore how.

Do you want to learn to navigate conflict more constructively in your partnership? Let’s dive in together.

So many of life’s challenges originated in relationship and therefore require a space of relational presence to transform, heal and integrate.

For individual or couples Bewithment sessions booked prior to the 1st of September you get a 20% discount. Get in touch!

11/07/2024

We are spending the week in The Netherlands - a wedding gift from a friend of ours. The first half we were in Den Haag with gorgeous sunsets, swims in the sea, plenty of time to take strolls at the beach, work on the curriculum for our Heart of Touch Training and be in our love bubble. Now we are in Amsterdam, one day away from co-hosting the Amsterdam Relateful Immersion. The gratitude to offer what we love is great!