Pathways into the heart of being human begin any where. Every path leads inward.

Pathways at a Glance

Path	Essence Focus	Heart Qualities in Practice
Path of Safety & Bonding	Building trust, sensing safety, arriving in the body	Purity, Love
Path of Discovery	Curiosity, play, and embodied exploration	Clarity, Bliss
Path of Expression	Voice, boundary, and authentic communication	Kindness, Peace
Path of Identity	Individuation and integration of shadow and essence	Understanding, Unity
Path of Purpose	Direction, motivation, and meaning in action	Clarity, Harmony
Path of Belonging	Relationship, reciprocity, and safe community	Empathy, Kindness
Path of Creation	Fertility, joy, and bringing new work or life into form	Love, Bliss, Harmony
Path of Love & Partnership	Intimacy, reciprocity, and emotional maturity	Forgiveness, Peace, Compassion
Path of Leadership & Service	Responsibility, mentorship, and contribution	Unity, Understanding
Path of Loss & Forgiveness	Grief, surrender, and compassion through release	Purity, Forgiveness, Compassion
Path of Legacy	Reflection, storytelling, and generativity	Harmony, Unity
Path of Transition	Completion, death, and return to source	Peace, Clarity, Love

Path

Essence Focus

Heart Qualities in Practice

Path of Safety & Bonding

Building trust, sensing safety, arriving in the body

Purity, Love

Path of Discovery

Curiosity, play, and embodied exploration

Clarity, Bliss

Path of Expression

Voice, boundary, and authentic communication

Kindness, Peace

Path of Identity

Individuation and integration of shadow and essence

Understanding, Unity

Path of Purpose

Direction, motivation, and meaning in action

Clarity, Harmony

Path of Belonging

Relationship, reciprocity, and safe community

Empathy, Kindness

Path of Creation

Fertility, joy, and bringing new work or life into form

Love, Bliss, Harmony

Path of Love & Partnership

Intimacy, reciprocity, and emotional maturity

Forgiveness, Peace, Compassion

Path of Leadership & Service

Responsibility, mentorship, and contribution

Unity, Understanding

Path of Loss & Forgiveness

Grief, surrender, and compassion through release

Purity, Forgiveness, Compassion

Path of Legacy

Reflection, storytelling, and generativity

Harmony, Unity

Path of Transition

Completion, death, and return to source

Peace, Clarity, Love

This is the living heart of 12PL, the connective tissue that makes the whole framework coherent.

The Pathways

The 12 Core / Signature Pathways

Each pathway opens a facet of the heart’s learning: a petal of wisdom that moves through its own rhythm of practice from safety to service and from beginning to return.

The work unfolds through three interwoven rhythms:
exploration, expression, and community.

Exploration

The study in motion

The twelve Core and Signature Pathways are immersive 12-week journeys into the deeper architecture of the work. Each one opens a distinct heart-based quality - one of the twelve petals of the lotus (the heart chakra) and brings it into lived practice, always returning to the same centre with the heart as teacher.

Expressions of Learning

The ways the work meets the world.
For those drawn to engage through reflection, practice, or story, we offer many forms each extending the learning into every day life.

E-books + Downloadables (such as Coherence & the Heart Field, Field Meditations, Living Language of Compassion, all COMING SOON)

Weekend Immersives (scheduled throughout the year)

Intensive Workshops/specialized topics designed for focused learning to meet you where you are at/different stages of life

Guided Mentorship/Creative Projects

This Human Series (YouTube, Substack, Podcast, Shop, Community)

Community

The heart of it all.
Each month we gather around one of the 12 petal qualities such as compassion, clarity, peace, and more, to explore what it means to live them in daily life. This shared rhythm keeps the teachings alive, creating resonance and coherence between us.

Monthly focus on one petal quality, with community calls, reflection prompts, and member circles for open discussion and guided group practices. Online only (until our physical space is secured in 2026/27).

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Why We Study in the Path of the 12 Petalled Lotus

Anahata, the energetic heart centre of the human body is the ground from which all learning begins.

It teaches coherence: the rhythm between heart, mind, and body that allows wisdom to move through us, not just into us.

The 12 petals of the lotus (heart chakra) unfold as qualities or virtues, each one a path of becoming.

Through Exploration, we walk these paths in practice which is immersive study, guided reflection, and embodied learning that bring safety, trust, and awareness to life.

Through Expression, understanding moves outward. The teachings ripple through story, art, writing, conversation, and the everyday ways we live what we learn.

Through Community, the work completes its circle. We gather to listen and to be listened to, to witness and to be witnessed, staying in rhythm with one another as growth unfolds.

Transformation here is about integration, and embodiment and coherence - a felt sense of wholeness that grows through relationship, reflection, and the steady returning to the heart.

Choosing Your Pathway

There is no single doorway into this work. People find the Pathways at different moments of becoming such as those times when life asks them to grow, soften, or begin again.

You might be:

A young adult wanting to understand your patterns, choices, and inner landscape before stepping into deeper commitment.

Preparing for marriage or partnership and wanting a grounded foundation of emotional maturity and relational clarity.

Expecting a child or learning to parent with more presence, regulation, and secure connection.

Parenting children at any age or navigating the complexity of raising teenagers and seeking deeper understanding amid change.

Healing your own childhood patterns through re-parenting, nervous system repair, and developing a more spacious sense of self.

Moving through midlife transitions, rediscovering purpose, or reimagining how you want to love and live.

Facing loss of a parent, partner, identity, or season of life, and wanting to meet grief from a steadier, more compassionate centre.

Exploring end-of-life awareness and legacy with more courage, clarity, and tenderness.

Returning to your creativity, intuition, or inner knowing after years of disconnect or survival-mode living.

Stepping into mentorship, coaching, teaching, or care-based professions and wanting a heart-coherent framework for your work.

Deepening your emotional, spiritual, or personal growth journey in a way that feels grounded, real, and fully human.

Wherever you begin, each Pathway opens a way back to coherence; the steady rhythm of living from the heart.

Schedule & Prices

Find Your Starting Point

If you’re unsure where to begin, start where life has your attention. Each Pathway meets a human theme: safety, expression, love, creation, and service - and all return to the same centre: the heart as teacher.

You can:

Begin with one Pathway and see how it moves you.

Take multiple Pathways over time as many overlap and complement each other.

Reach out through the contact form for light guidance; we’ll point you toward a good first step.

You don’t need a discovery call to join — just curiosity, and the willingness to learn through your own experience.

Course Application Here

I learned this, at least, by my experience;
that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary;
new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him;

or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.

In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex,and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.

Now put the foundations under them.

~ Henry David Thoreau ~

I’d long known about the body’s subtle energy field through my work in body-based healing, but it was mostly conceptual. That changed after a relationship ended.

During one of our final conversations, I felt a powerful physical sensation in my chest, as if my ribs were widening and my heart were radiating outward. It was unmistakably somatic. I called it “my heart opening,” unaware that I was describing what many traditions know as the activation of Anahata.

Wanting to understand what had happened, I began studying the heart chakra and found the research of Joe Dispenza and the HeartMath Institute. Their work on heart coherence; the measurable alignment of heart, brain, and emotion gave language to what I had felt.

What I’d known intuitively through years of bodywork now had form: the heart is not just an emotional symbol, but a dynamic electromagnetic field and an intelligent centre of awareness. That realization grounded everything that followed.

Pathways into the heart of being human begin any where. Every path leads inward.

Pathways at a Glance

This is the living heart of 12PL, the connective tissue that makes the whole framework coherent.

The Pathways

The 12 Core / Signature Pathways

Exploration

Expressions of Learning

Community

Why We Study in the Path of the 12 Petalled Lotus

Choosing Your Pathway

There is no single doorway into this work. People find the Pathways at different moments of becoming such as those times when life asks them to grow, soften, or begin again.

You might be:

Wherever you begin, each Pathway opens a way back to coherence; the steady rhythm of living from the heart.

Find Your Starting Point

You don’t need a discovery call to join — just curiosity, and the willingness to learn through your own experience.

I learned this, at least, by my experience;
that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary;
new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him;

or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.

In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex,and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.

~ Henry David Thoreau ~

I’d long known about the body’s subtle energy field through my work in body-based healing, but it was mostly conceptual. That changed after a relationship ended.

Wanting to understand what had happened, I began studying the heart chakra and found the research of Joe Dispenza and the HeartMath Institute. Their work on heart coherence; the measurable alignment of heart, brain, and emotion gave language to what I had felt.

What I’d known intuitively through years of bodywork now had form: the heart is not just an emotional symbol, but a dynamic electromagnetic field and an intelligent centre of awareness. That realization grounded everything that followed.

That moment became the seed of the 12 Petalled Lotus, a way of studying the heart not as metaphor, but as living practice.

~ Cindy Butler ~

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Pathways into the heart of being human begin any where. Every path leads inward.

Pathways at a Glance

This is the living heart of 12PL, the connective tissue that makes the whole framework coherent.

The Pathways

The 12 Core / Signature Pathways

Exploration

Expressions of Learning

Community

Why We Study in the Path of the 12 Petalled Lotus

Choosing Your Pathway

There is no single doorway into this work. People find the Pathways at different moments of becoming such as those times when life asks them to grow, soften, or begin again.

You might be:

Wherever you begin, each Pathway opens a way back to coherence; the steady rhythm of living from the heart.

Find Your Starting Point

You don’t need a discovery call to join — just curiosity, and the willingness to learn through your own experience.

I learned this, at least, by my experience; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him;

or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.

In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex,and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.

~ Henry David Thoreau ~

I’d long known about the body’s subtle energy field through my work in body-based healing, but it was mostly conceptual. That changed after a relationship ended.

Wanting to understand what had happened, I began studying the heart chakra and found the research of Joe Dispenza and the HeartMath Institute. Their work on heart coherence; the measurable alignment of heart, brain, and emotion gave language to what I had felt.

What I’d known intuitively through years of bodywork now had form: the heart is not just an emotional symbol, but a dynamic electromagnetic field and an intelligent centre of awareness. That realization grounded everything that followed.

That moment became the seed of the 12 Petalled Lotus, a way of studying the heart not as metaphor, but as living practice.

~ Cindy Butler ~

Join Our Free Trial

I learned this, at least, by my experience;
that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary;
new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him;