Experiencing Collective Walks

My notes from two collective walks with the energy of love. 

A collective walk involves two or more people walking at the same time in different parts of the world.

While we walk we connect with the Earth where we are, we connect with the other person or group of people walking at the same time elsewhere and we bring a question to this space, listening deeply for an answer from nature or the inner realms.

On two consecutive Saturdays, small groups of two to five people ‘met’ to walk with the question ‘How does love want to flow through us?’.

On the first Saturday, I felt love flow through me so powerfully that my (energetic) heart naturally expanded. In my imagination, my heart became bigger than I was. For a while I walked with this big heart around me. Then another surge of love energy flowed through me and expanded this already huge heart into an even bigger one stretching halfway across our planet. It seemed to reach from Berlin, where I was walking, to the person ‘walking with me’ in British Columbia, on the other side of our planet. 

It is wonderful to feel that this kind of expansion is possible when I allow the energy of love to flow through me as abundantly as it is available. This experience had a beautiful, softening effect on how I could be in the world. For a few days following the walk, I found myself gracefully able to be with people and situations that I might have found difficult at other times. 

On our second collective walk with love, I had another beautiful, though different experience. I walked along a street in the city. Suddenly and unexpectedly, I became aware of sweet peas growing through a fence on the left side of the pavement. Sweet peas remind me of my mother, who loved them and sometimes sent me into the garden to collect a bunch, when visitors announced themselves.

Somehow through her love for sweet peas, I am able to sense her soft heart which I feel now calling after many years of not being able to connect to her on this level. 

My newly expanded heart is happily taking her in. 

The other collective walkers who joined me had different, though equally beautiful experiences which we shared and wove together during a Zoom call after the walk. 

We will be walking with the energy of love a third time this coming Saturday. And, my heart is already excited about what will be revealed to us then. 

Photo by Eugenia Romanova on Unsplash