About Heartmind

Heartmind is a not-for-profit social enterprise company set up by Hosshin in 2008 to promote the values of living a more mindful, compassionate and sustainable life. Since starting, Hosshin has run weekly yoga, qi gong and meditation groups, regular quarterly residential retreats, trained over 1500 people in the Heartfulness for Well Being course, and worked with a number of organisations from Chesterfield Borough Council, Derbyshire County Council, Stroke Association, SPODA and Derbyshire Benevolent Trust.

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The name Heartmind is derived from an understanding of an innately compassionate consciousness, found and developed within all the ancient spiritual and mystical traditions of the world, that has many parallels today in the exciting new breakthroughs being made in our scientific understanding of holistic health and planetary ecology. In Buddhism there is the term Bodhicitta, which literally translates as 'an awakening of the wisdom mind of compassion', an intrinsic quality of being that can be realised through meditation and a variety of spiritual practices. In the field of neuroscience, it is becoming increasingly well understood that the nature of mind is no longer just associated with the brain, but that the heart has a much greater, if not central role in all cognitive functions and behaviours.

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It is said that educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all, and that kind hearts lead to loving outcomes. Heartmind's aim then is about helping people find their own intrinsic heartful state of a compassionate mind, awakening qualities of peace and joy into their lives, through the spiritual, mystical and scientific understanding of our human condition. It is also about coming into wholeness in our relationship with the natural world, through learning how to access this heartful state in action, in regenerative practices of organic food production, sustainable housing and ecological healthy living.