Three days. Three small practices. One email each.

A 3-day mini-course on heart opening delivered by email. Hand-on-Heart, then Maitri (loving-kindness turned inward), then Sankalpa (your single-sentence intention). Heart capacity expanded one small practice at a time. Free.

3 days · 3 emails · free

Start the 3-Day Heart Opening

One short note each day for three days. Hand-on-Heart, then Maitri (loving-kindness turned inward), then Sankalpa (your single-sentence intention). Small enough to actually try.

Welcome email lands within minutes. Unsubscribe anytime.

01Day 1: Hand-on-Heart. The foundational 3-minute practice the heart recognizes within the first round. Anywhere, anytime.
02Day 2: Maitri, loving-kindness turned inward. The practice most adults find hardest, and the one that lands deepest once it does. Where Heartful Essence enters.
03Day 3: Sankalpa, a single-sentence intention written from the heart. Plus the rose flower essence ritual that anchors the opening into daily life.

Gaia Devi Stillwagon, clinical herbalist and founder of Gaia's Garden Organics, in her medicinal herb garden in Umpire, Arkansas

From the herbalist

“Heart opening is not an act of will; it's an act of safety. The walls are wise. The practice creates conditions where the inside of the protection becomes livable.”

Gaia Devi Stillwagon, Clinical Herbalist · Clinical Yoga Therapist

Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine · Founder, Gaia’s Garden Organics

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After the free practice, here's what's matched for you

The next step for the heart in transition

Heartful Essence

$36.00

Rose flower essence in Bach-method brandy + mountain water.

Or the full matched protocol

30-Day Heart Rhythm Reset Kit

$126.00

Heartful + Calm Spirit Tonic + Happy Heart Tea.

Matched 30-day protocol. Free shipping included at $75. 30-night guarantee on every order.

Read the full refund policy or email Gaia directly.

Questions, answered

What is this for, if not grief or heartbreak?+

This is for heart capacity. The pattern most adults bring is not acute heartbreak but a slow narrowing of the channel: less felt sense of love given or received, more guardedness, more living from the head than the heart. The mini-course is an invitation to widen the channel deliberately. If you ARE in acute grief, the practices are gentle enough to support that too, but they're not designed around loss.

When do the emails arrive?+

The Day 0 welcome lands within minutes of signup. Day 1 (Hand-on-Heart) arrives the next day, Day 2 (Maitri) the day after, Day 3 (Sankalpa + Heartful Essence) the day after that. Four short notes total.

Do I have to buy anything?+

No. The mini-course is free. The emails introduce Heartful Essence (our rose flower essence) on Day 2 and Day 3 because that is the matched plant medicine for heart-opening work, but the practices stand on their own. You can unsubscribe at any point and the practices are yours to keep.

How is this different from a meditation app?+

Meditation apps teach you to relax in general. The mini-course teaches three specific heart-centered practices with a long lineage in Yoga Therapy (Hand-on-Heart, Maitri, Sankalpa). Each practice has a specific outcome you can feel in three minutes. The body learns the practices because they're small and concrete; the practice compounds when you keep doing it.

What's a flower essence, and how is rose used in heart-centered work?+

Flower essences are sun-infused fresh blossoms preserved in brandy and mountain water using the original Bach method (developed in the 1930s by Dr. Edward Bach). They work at the emotional layer rather than the chemical one, four drops at a time. Rose specifically has been used across nearly every traditional healing system for heart-centered emotional work. We grow the roses in our medicine garden in Umpire, Arkansas, and Gaia sun-infuses each batch by hand.

What if I have a question?+

Reply to any of the four emails. The reply lands in Gaia's inbox and she reads every one personally.

Three days. Three small practices. The welcome email lands within minutes.