The Green Heartwood Writing Prompts
Writing prompts culled from the Landscape of the Heart Chakra class and Journey. Deepen your Inner Territory work by writing from the Soul of Poetry, not worrying about being ‘technically’ good. Write from the green Heartwood in your soul.
The Landscape of the Chakras: The Heart Chakra
This class is heart work that asks something of you. This is not a gentle concept of love. This is the wild, regenerative force that lives in the body and insists on risk, repair, and participation in something larger than the self. The heart here is a bridge between the underworld and the world we return to, where everything we uncovered below begins to reshape how we relate, create, and belong. This class moves through grief, memory, love, and rupture, and invites you to stay open anyway. To feel. To risk again. To let love become something that reorganizes your life and your relationship to the collective
Inner Territory Journey: Root Chakra
This Journey takes us back to the moment a limiting belief first took root. We don’t rush it or override it. We witness the origin story with steadiness, noticing what was formed in response to fear, survival, or misunderstanding. A guide steps in, not to rescue, but to interrupt the old script and shift the trajectory. We stay long enough to feel the belief loosen, to watch the limits begin to melt off the body and psyche. This is reclamation through witnessing. This is manifestation through unbinding.
Inner Territory Journey: The First Mapline
In this Journey we enter the terrain of our first mapline and ask the question - am I asking big enough? We listen for the quietest current of desire and follow it to where our manifestation lives. There we witness its condition with honesty, meeting the old beliefs and protective parts that have kept our longing small. Gently, we begin unpinning what has been lodged in the body and allow this first mapline to breathe again.
Inner Territory Journey: Dragoning
This is a transformation journey rooted in rage, grief, and emergence as sacred forces of change. The work centers the moment when an old skin can no longer hold what the self has become, and the body knows it is time to crack, shed, and come through. Anger, sensuality, and ferocity are not treated as problems to regulate, but as living energies that carry wisdom, protection, and forward motion.
Wyrd Changer: Your Oracular Sight
This class restores trust in ways of knowing that were trained out of us. It situates intuition inside lineage, ethics, and responsibility, not prediction or performance. Oracular sight is remembered here as collective, relational, and wise enough to alter direction with care.
Inner Territory Journey: Rebirth
This class sits at the friction point between decay and emergence. It does not promise renewal or improvement. It honors rebirth as a cycle older than choice, arriving only after something has truly decomposed.
Inner Territory Journey: Feeling Good Is Feeling God
This journey treats pleasure, goodness, and aliveness as vulnerable states rather than indulgences. It challenges spiritual traditions that equate holiness with deprivation and restores sensation as a doorway to the sacred.
Inner Territory Journey: Embodied
This journey pulls the soul back into form. It rejects disembodied transcendence and instead roots inner work in gravity, sensation, and presence. The body leads here, not the mind, carrying us deeper and recalibrating to the womb of the Earth. Inner Territory work sees the body not as something separate from the soul, but one part of a complex soul system. To recover our exiled parts, our agency, our most central Self, we move deeper into the body.
Self Reclamation: Beyond the Wall
This journey follows on from the Cord Cutting: Invasive Roots. Here, we listen to defenses instead of tearing them down. We ask what the wall has been protecting and whether it still needs to stand. Reclamation happens through respect for survival intelligence. As always, we move slowly, with intention, and on behalf of all our parts of Self. There is no rush, no need to force or conjure an outcome.
Cord Cutting: Invasive Roots
Cord cutting is held here as a gardening practice rather than a severing, guided by relationship with land, body, and the wisdom of what is native.
If you can, try to spend some time in Nature before this cord cutting. Watch the way plants, animals, and elements interact with one another. Observe how the interconnectedness of Nature feels in your own body. Take note of what is native to your part of the world and what is not.
Inner Territory Journey: Below The Deep
In this unique Inner Territory journey we travel through bioluminescent waters, diving all the way to the floor of our inner great sea.
We encounter whale graveyards, the libraries of all of our lifetimes, and we connect to the threads that link us to ourselves and to one another - beyond language and time. We move into depth without urgency, and encounter vast, quiet, connective landscapes. We are reminded of the long story of our souls, that we are made of many lifetimes, stories, and shared threads that persist even in the deepest dark.
Self Reclamation: The Living Altar
We begin building an altar of our energy bodies in the wildest part of our being. This journey is about cultivating relationship with the self as something alive and responsive. The altar is not symbolic or fixed. It moves, shifts, and answers back. What emerges here comes from listening to the energy body in its wild state, and following what calls from beyond reason or plan.
Self Reclamation: Largeness
This journey makes space instead of seeking change. It softens the inner landscape to make room for feral, jagged, grieving, fire breathing parts to lie down without being managed or improved. In this meditation, we offer all parts of ourselves haven rather than transformation, trusting that rest holds its own kind of intelligence.
Self Reclamation: Island of Joy
This is a unique meditation that leads us to the island of our joy. What we find there is likely to be complicated. It may feel full, distant, guarded, or unfamiliar, and grief is allowed to move alongside it. We approach joy with curiosity rather than expectation. Nothing is asked to resolve or brighten. Our attention stays with listening, learning how joy actually lives in the inner landscape when it’s given time and room.
Cord Cutting: Uproot
This journey moves directly to what is tangled beneath the surface. We recognize when a bond has grown too entwined to tend, and when release is needed for life to keep moving. The letting go here is clear and steady, meeting deep attachment and trauma bonds without drama, and trusting that honesty can be enough to create freedom.
Cord Cutting: Life Raft
Rather than cutting the cords this time, we untie the rope, toss it into the water, and watch that person/that connection float over the horizon. Instead of severing, we allow distance to form gently and naturally. The release here is quiet and buoyant, offering space to float, recalibrate, and breathe again. It trusts that safety and separation can coexist, and that letting go does not have to be abrupt in order to be real.
Wyrd Changer: The Way Changer Journey Archetype
This journey introduces the Way Changer as an Inner Territory archetype. Here, we soften was has felt fixed, letting our grooves and ruts become fluid again. We liberate ourselves from the inside - still delicately and patiently - and then we watch as that change ripples outward into our lives in its own time.
Cord Cutting: Eras
This journey moves through time as a living landscape. It allows past eras of the self to be witnessed, honored, and released without collapsing them into a single story. The cord we cut here is temporal, loosening identification with who we were so who we are becoming has room to arrive.
Inner Territory Journey: Trickster
This journey moves through the part of the self that disrupts in order to wake things up. Trickster shows up here as clever, subversive, boundary-testing, and deeply necessary. As we follows this energy through the inner territory, it became clear that this isn’t about chaos for its own sake. It’s about thawing what’s been frozen, slipping through thin places, and nudging us into growth we might not have chosen consciously. What gets integrated here doesn’t stay personal. This journey carries collective impact, reminding us that small acts of disruption, humor, and courage ripple outward, loosening stuck systems and opening new pathways.