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Experience a Heart-Centered Approach to Well-Being

Who We Are

Heart Based Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization providing educational content and experiential learning to enjoy the profound benefits of heart-centered living.

Our Approach

Our approach helps participants connect to their spiritual heart, enhancing gratitude, peace, joy, and personal and spiritual growth.

Groundbreaking Research

We have partnered with universities, healthcare providers, and corporations to assess the positive impact and unique benefits of the Open Heart state.

Open Heart for Everyone - Free Zoom Program

This simple, yet profound free Zoom series helps participants naturally experience their heart, reducing stress and enhancing True Heart Feelings.

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New Study Shows Meditation Just as Impactful As Drug Therapies

Fill Your Day with Heart

Explore the latest in heart based living, education and research…and much more!

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LEARNING TO CULTIVATE KINDNESS IN A DISCONNECTED WORLD - Part 2

Read Part 2 of Steve Ray’s hopeful multipart series on Cultivating Kindness. Learn the importance of being a foundation stone and the impact each of us can have on those around us when we let our innate kindness flow freely.

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Cultivating Kindness - Staying on the Side of Love is an urgent matter - Part 1

Read Part 1 of our multipart series on Cultivating Kindness written by Steve Ray, an HBI Advisory Board member. In this hopeful series, Steve writes that kindness is not only an innate gift, but it may just be the antidote to healing the brokenness of our planet.

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A Love Like This

Writer, entrepreneur and mother of three young girls, Sarah Roos-Essl shares her honest and inspiring experience with Open Heart Meditation as part of her multilayered healing journey after her breast cancer diagnosis. Sarah writes, “After several online meditation sessions, I began to feel something inside me slowly begin to thaw…”

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EMOTIONAL MANAGEMENT: HEART-CENTERED VS. MIND-BASED APPROACHES

Learn the clear differences between regulating our emotions through mind-based approaches – such as emotional intelligence, mindfulness, or cognitive-behavioral strategies – and learning to open our spiritual heart and live a heart-centered life. 

Experience the Simple, Enjoyable and Profound Open Heart Meditation®

Experience a guided Open Heart Meditation accompanied by heartfelt music to help you let go more easily, bringing you deeper into the gentle feelings and improving the benefits for mind,  body and spirit. Just relax, smile and enjoy!

How Having an open heart helps to Enhance & elevate mindfulness

In this insightful video, Ed Rubenstein, Ph.D., a psychologist with 40 years of extensive experience integrating meditation into therapeutic approaches, explains the profound interrelationship between mindfulness and “heartfulness.”

Our Programs

Through proven-effective training programs, we help individuals and organizations discover the profound and lasting benefits that living and working in heart-mind alignment brings.

Learn About Our Unique Approach

From striving to thriving, resistance to resilience, and disconnection to wholeness, our heart based approach naturally promotes happiness, health and well-being.

Resiliency Training for Organizations

During these challenging times, we are serving organizations providing front-line services with meditation, resiliency and stress reduction training free of charge.

A Fundamentally Different Meditation Practice

Rather than relying on the mind, Open Heart Meditation® naturally cleanses negative emotions and stress by connecting with our spiritual heart.

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Participants Share from the Heart

Heart Based Institute has proven to be an invaluable partner in delivering uniquely effective training programs and the model for integrating the spiritual heart into Whole Person Care.
Christina Dupuch, MSWCOO, Vaya Health
Your workshop presented a new understanding and approach to stress management and positive well-being that is unique, refreshing, practical and effective.
Martiza Tennassee, MD, M.P.H., MHSc.PAHO/World Health Organization Senior Advisor, Workers’ and Consumers’ Health Sustainable Development and Environmental Health
These workshops provide a pathway to inner peace and calmness, not matter what your religious background might be (if any). It is a concise but detailed step-by-step guide to living life from the very core of your being.
Johan PetersProgram Coordinator, Contemporary Family Services
This training is awesome. The specific training in this course has been implemented with several clients where I am employed in Texas. The results for just one of my clients is worth my 17 hour drive one way.
HBI Certification Program GraduateHeart Based Therapeutics Therapist
A profound approach to help you understand, realize and experience the differences between a dominant mind, emotions and the heart. With continued daily practice one can begin to feel and experience the beautiful heart feelings at a deeper level than one can possibly imagine.
Esmée RotmansDip Couns & Psych, Registered MBACP
I am practicing the provided meditation daily and it seems to be increasing my resiliency and ability to work effectively with clients while maintaining healthy boundaries.
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Heart Based Research

Read about our groundbreaking research and explore partnership and training opportunities across a wide range of fields.

Effect of Open Heart Sate on Cancer Cells

Our 4-year trial demonstrated how a 15-minute heart based intervention reduced the spread of cancer cells up to 44%.

Comparing Mindfulness and Open Heart State

Our preliminary research showed the differences between resting, mindfulness and Open Heart states.

Stress Reduction via the Spiritual Heart

Numerous studies show the significant impact a heart-centered practice can have on burnout, stress and resilience.

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