Category: Workshops

In this transformative workshop, we will explore the science behind love – how the brain, heart and body create a deep, intimate connection with other people – and practice science-backed techniques for entering loving states at will, and as a daily practice.

What we will explore:

💡 The science of love. How the brain and neurotransmitters, heart rhythm variability, vagus nerve and nervous system conspire for or against your ability to give and receive love.

💓 The role of the heart. Anchoring yourself in this powerful, multifaceted organ, a social, emotional and spiritual center capable of producing intuition, ternderness, calm and compassion.

🌀 Meditation, breathing and visualization practices to cultivate warmth, trust and openness.

🌍 Beyond romance; love as an evolutionary engine. How love evolved in mammals and humans to shape our relationships, communities and social justice movements.

🦎 Transcending the narrow scope of the reptilian brain, and activating the calming and binding circuits of the limbic brain.

🤸🏻‍♂️ The role of positive emotions to open your sight, change your physiology and help you create community.

All in all, you will receive practical tools to activate a loving attitude in your relationships, your work, and with yourself.

Here’s hoping you’ll join us for this adventure of the heart! 💗

Format

Virtual, by Zoom. Video, audio and visual presentation will be delivered after the class. It’s yours to keep for life!

When

March 29th, 10 AM PST / 1 PM EDT / 5 PM GMT

Tuition

U$D 30 to $ 50. Choose your donation according to your possibility, and in accordance with the value you feel you receive. Please make your contribution via Paypal to the following address: alfredo.berge@gmail.com

Questions: info@fabianafondevila.com

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For centuries, poets, mystics and philosophers have spoken of the heart as the center of wisdom, love and connection. Until recently, science considered this a mere metaphor. But in recent years, research has revealed that the heart is an organ of perception of the highest order, with a deep connection to our emotions, and a direct line to the larger consciousness of which we are all a part.

The heart forms an essential part of the anatomy of love, along with the right hemisphere of the brain (with its holistic, sensitive and intimate mode of attention, which we learn to activate); oxytocin (the “love hormone” that creates a sense of openness and trust); the vagus nerve (which regulates our nervous system and brings us calm and empathy).

But here’s the interesting point: we cannot activate this delicate living system on our own, as if swallowing some self-prescribed pill. We can only create true resilience, purpose and joy together, creating and sustaining life-giving bonds with each other.

Whe we do so, love becomes medicine indeed. Let’s look at some of its gifts.

Living from the heart:

✅ Regulate the nervous system

✅ Develops emotional resilience.

✅ Molds the brain for openness and creativity.

✅ Protects against distress and anxiety.

✅ Expands our meaning and purpose in life.

How will we achieve this?

Here’s my invitation!

“Anatomy of love. Folliowing the Path of Heart”. A spiral journey.

I conceived this course as an organic journey, like so many we engage in throughout our lives. In other words, it’s not a linear movement from A to B, but a cyclical, spiraling, living one. More a pilgrimage than a race.

As if following a line of glittering seashells along the shore, we will explore:

• The Body of Love. Awakening the intelligence of the heart, the holistic view of the right hemisphere.
• The Ecology of Love. Connecting with Nature, and with the universe, not as a spectator but as a fully engaged participant. Being a force of Love in the world.
• The Emotions of Love. Cultivating and practicing the states that transform us: gratitude, awe, kindness, compassion.
• The Courage of Love. Exploring personal and relational shadow.
• The Psychology of Love. Transforming conflicts into opportunities; combining intimacy with differentiation.
• The Creativity of Love. Recreating our bonds with curiosity and imagination.
• The Spirituality of Love. Transmuting loss into transcendence; growing from vulnerability.
• The Wisdom of Love. Bringing clarity to our relationships, balancing compassion with discernment.
• The Presence of Love. Discovering the radiant silence within.

Poets have always beckoned us to this path of seashells and echoes from the deep.

Here is David Whyte, with his luminous invitation:

“You know that the antidote to exhaustion is not necessarily rest? … The antidote to exhaustion is wholeheartedness.”

Let us walk this path together, opening our hearts wide with each step.

Format

Virtual, by Zoom. Video, audio and visual presentation will be delivered after each class. The material will be available without time limit.

Schedule

Every last Saturday of each month.

Opening session

March 29th, 10 AM PST / 1 PM EDT / 5 PM GMT

Tuition

U$D 30 to $ 50. Choose your donation according to your possibility, and in accordance with the value you feel you receive. Please make your contribution via Paypal to the following address: alfredo.berge@gmail.com

Questions: info@fabianafondevila.com

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What does it say about a society that calling someone ‘childish’ is an insult?

We might conclude that our culture demands that adults be serious, productive, responsible and, let’s say it, conform to the norm. As children, we were unique, one-of-a-kind beings. But as we grew up, some of that shine and authenticity went underground, in order to accepted and fit in.

Many of us must go back to our earliest years to find our full, undiluted essence. Not because childhood was a pristine and perfect time, but because it is, perhaps, the last time we allowed ourselves to be so fully ourselves.

Fortunately, the children we were are alive and kicking, anxiously waiting for us to call them out to express themselves, feel fully, and play to their hearts’ content!

In this Saturday’s session, we’ll explore the qualities of this vital archetype. Among them, the capacity for enjoyment, simplicity, spontaneity, authenticity, creativity, vulnerability, awe, and also, of course, magic!

Roald Dahl writes: ‘”And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”

Here’s find that magic together!

When

August 31st, 10 AM PST / 1 PM EDT / 5 PM GMT

Format

One monthly online session, via Zoom. You will receive the audio, video and notes to keep for a lifetime.

Tuition

U$D 30 to $ 50. Choose your donation according to your possibility, and in accordance with the value you feel you receive. Please make your contribution via Paypal to the following address: alfredo.berge@gmail.com

Questions: info@fabianafondevila.com

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Do you love to travel more than anything else? Do you dream of climbing mountains, crossing deserts, visiting the world’s most impressive museums? Do you dream of exploring uncharted lands and learning the language of the locals? Would you love to have a time machine and travel back to 1800, or 2080?

If any of these scenarios light up your soul, chances are the Adventurer archetype describes you, and you live for the opportunity to embark on a new exploration of body or soul.

The question is: Is there only adventure when we go far from home?

The answer is: no!

To be adventurous we don’t need to use a compass, we need to change the way we think, look and live. Says author and entrepreneur Eliot Peper: “Everything important is uncertain. Sitting with the discomfort of that uncertainty is the hard part, the wedge that can move the world.”

We look forward to “travelling with you” into wild new, undiscovered terrain!

When

May 25th, 9 AM PST / 12 PM EDT / 4 PM GMT

Format

One monthly online session, via Zoom. You will receive the audio, video and notes to keep for a lifetime.

Tuition

U$D 30 to $ 50. Choose your donation according to your possibility, and in accordance with the value you feel you receive. Please make your contribution via Paypal to the following address: alfredo.berge@gmail.com

Questions: info@fabianafondevila.com

Sign up here!