Easter 2026 · 4-day intensive
Awakening Heart Intelligence
A 4-day online Easter retreat to reconnect with your heart’s natural clarity, stability, and inner guidance.
Modern life pulls us into our heads.
This retreat brings you back to your heart.
Modern life pulls us upward into the head. We analyse, scroll, decide, and re-decide, while something quieter in the chest keeps calling. This retreat is an invitation to let that call finally become central.
Over four days at Easter, we will step away from the noise and sink into the oldest, most intimate center of knowing you have:
the heart as an organ of perception, courage, and truth.
Why the Heart, Why Now
We live in a culture overflowing with information and starving for clarity.
Brains are busier than ever, yet many feel more anxious, divided, and unsure of what matters.
It was not always like this. In ancient Egypt the ib was weighed against the feather of truth. In the Hebrew Bible the lev was the inner command center of memory, will, and moral choice. In Greece the kardia was the seat of courage and intelligence. In the Upanishads the hridaya was a secret cave of ultimate knowledge. Sufi mystics spoke of the qalb as the mirror of the divine, and Buddhist teachings trained the heart through loving-kindness and compassion.
Then, slowly, power shifted. The heart was redefined as a pump. Descartes lifted thinking into an abstract mind. Harvey mapped circulation and recast the heart in hydraulic terms. Neurology crowned the brain as the single ruler of intelligence. Reason was celebrated, the chest was quietly silenced.
We now inhabit a head-heavy world. We can measure almost anything, yet we struggle to sense what is worthy of devotion, where we truly belong, what deserves our loyalty.
At the same time, a new kind of intelligence grows around us. Machine systems learn, optimise, and simulate emotion. The more they imitate human thought, the more urgent the question becomes: what remains distinctly human?
Heart intelligence is one answer.
It is not sentiment. It is a way of knowing that unifies clarity, feeling, and moral sense. It remembers what is real when data, opinion, and fear collide.
This immersion is a response to that cultural moment.
What is heart intelligence?
The heart is more than a symbol for emotion. In lived experience it behaves as a center of discernment, choice, and meaning. You can feel it tightening in grief, swelling with love, steadying you in courage. This is not poetry alone; it is the body’s own language.
Across these four days we will explore the architecture of this intelligence through six central capacities:
Center of choice
The heart initiates direction. The mind can analyse options, yet the real decision arises in the chest as a quiet yes or no, a sense that something is truly mine to live.
Center of knowing
The heart does not argue itself into truth. It recognises. It remembers. Here, Plato’s anamnesis becomes visceral: a felt certainty that is calm, stable, and hard to explain, yet unmistakable.
Center of meaning
Meaning is not assembled like a theory. It is intuited. The heart senses what is worthy of commitment, what is trivial, what belongs to the deeper story of a life.
Center of love and compassion
Genuine empathy does not begin in concepts. It begins in the chest. Here we encounter the capacity to include, to accept, to soften, and to relate without constant self-protection.
Center of liberation
Forgiveness, letting go, and the release of hardened stories about self and others are movements of the heart. Calculation can explain why they are useful; only the heart can actually perform them.
Center of belonging
The heart dissolves the illusion of absolute separateness. It opens into connection with others, with the earth, with the more-than-human, and, for many, with the divine. This is the place where loneliness begins to loosen.
Heart intelligence does not replace the mind. It restores balance so that thought serves what the heart recognises as true.
The four movements of our journey
Rather than a schedule of techniques, this immersion unfolds as four deep movements that weave through the days.
1. Remembering what the heart once was
We begin with an inner archaeology: Egypt, the Bible, Greece, the Upanishads, Buddhism, Sufism. Not as a history lesson, but as a mirror for your own experience. You will recognise how closely these visions match what you already feel in your chest.
At the same time, we will trace how the heart was gradually dethroned in modern culture and reduced to metaphor or sentiment. This recognition softens self-doubt. Your sense that the heart knows something real is not naivety; it belongs to a very long human memory.
2. Hearing the voice beneath the noise
Thinking and knowing sound different inside us, yet most people no longer distinguish them. The mind produces arguments, counter-arguments, and loops. The heart recognises what is true without agitation.
Through guided explorations, you will learn to separate the heart’s quiet recognition from instinct, impulse, and emotional turbulence. A central practice here is the beginning of a personal “Book of Knowing”: written traces of the few things your heart knows with certainty. Even one sentence can become a lifelong anchor.
3. The flexible heart: easing the armor
Many of us carry a fist-like heart, clenched from past pain and disappointment. It feels like protection, yet it narrows perception and keeps old wounds frozen.
In this movement we explore what happens when the heart regains flexibility. You will work with inner images of walls, armor, and granthis, and learn how to soften them. Simple, deep practices show how the heart can remain open in the presence of memory, hurt, or fear without collapsing into them. This is where healing starts to move again after years of circling.
4. The inner compass in a machine-age world
Finally, we turn to the present moment: a civilisation that increasingly hands decisions to data-driven systems. Machine intelligence can simulate empathy, predict preferences, and optimise choices, yet something essential remains outside its reach.
We will clarify that “something”: felt truth, loyalty, dignity, tenderness, the capacity to stay in contact with reality rather than with simulations of it. You will learn a simple model for whole decision-making, where the mind maps the situation and the heart weighs what is real, meaningful, and growth-giving.
This last movement asks a quiet yet radical question: how does a life, a relationship, a community look when guided by heart intelligence rather than by fear, ideology, or efficiency alone?
FEEDBACK
What participants from previous programs say
Amy Elizabeth Fox
Chief Executive Officer, Mobius Executive Leadership
"Dr. Shai Tubali is one of the great master teachers of our generation."
Gabriele Thelen
Professor of Intercultural Communication, University of Konstanz
"Shai Tubali's teachings should be incorporated into all curricula internationally."
Ludwig Kramer-Klett
Entrepreneur and Investor
"Shai Tubali's teachings filled me with an inner peace and feeling of liberation."
“For me, a new door has opened where I have more power and use my energy purposefully and not just waste it in emotions that I misunderstood before. At the same time, I can now accompany clients and friends on this path as well, to feel in and discover this inner wisdom that is in all of us.
At one point I asked myself: why didn’t I learn about this earlier? Why didn’t I do this much earlier? Because I think that’s the foundation to really understanding what it means to be human.”
Viv Saf
Coach and facilitator of the Work
"His books, satsangs and courses are a great contribution to humanity."
Liliane Meier
Yoga Teacher
"My personal transformation process was an immense opening to the inner source."
This connectedness, from which I can draw at any time in order to give, is probably the most sacred thing I have realised. I have experienced so much peace in my being that emotions no longer take up so much space. I react much more calmly and clearly when a storm breaks in from the outside. Decisions are no longer based on offended ego, but in compassion and peace.
I would definitely recommend this training. This training is key and there is probably no one who could not use this kind of healing. Especially now in this time when there is a global awakening going on.”
Nadia D.
Coach & Yoga Teacher
"There are only tears running and in my heart there is a feeling of infinitely deep touch. How long have I longed for this connection, how long has my heart cried out for this realisation."
I don’t know what to say. There are only tears running and in my heart there is a feeling of infinitely deep touch.
How long have I longed for this connection, how long has my heart cried out for this realisation. What a challenging journey….
It obviously takes some time for a deep insight to slowly grow.
I am everything. I contain everything. I am full of fullness and at the same time “emptiness”. This realisation has revealed itself today on a very incisive and deep level in my heart and I am sure that this realisation may now deepen even further.
I would like to thank you, the team and all of life from the bottom of my heart.
A special thank you for your clear and honest words, thank you for your endless efforts, your support and your endless love. As I listened to your words today, I realised the dedication and love with which you share the messages with the world. At that moment I felt no separation and it seemed as if only the One was speaking to itself.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for this wonderful challenge and I wish you endless and liberating insights for the road ahead.
From my heart”
Meet the Team
Shai Tubali, Ph.D.
Dr. Shai Tubali, Ph.D., is a philosopher, author, and teacher whose work bridges academic rigor with direct mystical insight. With a doctorate in the philosophy of religion from the University of Leeds and postdoctoral research in the philosophy of artificial intelligence, Shai brings a rare depth to the exploration of consciousness and human potential. He currently continues this inquiry at University College London’s School of Education, focusing on AI and the future of human intelligence. For more than two decades, Shai has guided workshops, retreats, and trainings that have touched the lives of tens of thousands. His integrative path draws on both Eastern and Western traditions to awaken the full spectrum of human intelligences – especially the often-forgotten wisdom of the heart. His work weaves together transformative therapy, philosophy, and mysticism into a single vision: the evolution of the soul in all its dimensions.
The author of over a dozen books – including The Seven Chakra Personality Types and Llewellyn’s Complete Book of Meditation – Shai’s writings have been translated into 14 languages worldwide. He is also the developer of several original, meditation-based methods for psychological and spiritual transformation, among them the Expansion Method, which has been the subject of medical research.
Tamar Brosh, M.A.
Tamar Brosh is a distinguished professional in the fields of trauma healing and positive psychology coaching. With a wealth of experience, she specializes in facilitating emotional healing processes and training both professionals and individuals in the transformative Expansion Method. Over the course of her 17-year career as a therapist, Tamar has accompanied countless sessions, making a significant impact on the lives of her clients. She has operated private clinics in both Tel Aviv, Israel, and Berlin, Germany, and has gained invaluable expertise through her extensive practical experience.
For the past four years, Tamar has been actively involved in co-hosting training programs with Dr. Shai Tubali. Through these collaborative efforts, she has trained hundreds of professionals, empowering them to make a difference in the lives of their own clients. Tamar holds a master’s degree in Positive Psychology and Coaching and an LLB degree, reflecting her previous career as a lawyer. Tamar uses chakra knowledge in her practice daily and is an expert in chakra maps and personality types, integrating these insights to enhance the therapeutic process and support personal growth.
What you will leave with
By the end of the immersion you can expect to carry:
A lived sense of the heart as a real center of perception, not only a poetic image
A clearer ability to distinguish mental chatter from the heart’s knowing
The beginnings of your own “Book of Knowing,” which you can continue to refine after the retreat
Practices for relocating awareness from head to chest in daily situations of conflict, doubt, or overthinking
Greater emotional flexibility and the first steps toward releasing certain hardened stories and identities
A practical model for heart-centered decision-making in relationships, work, and ethical dilemmas
Online format and practical details
How to Participate
Price
- First mover price, until February 7: 295€
- Early bird price, March 7: 345€
- Normal price: 395€
Dates
- Easter 2026 · Four consecutive days
- April 3-6, 2026
Times
Every day from:
- 16:00 – 20:30 (WET, Lisbon time)
- 17:00 – 21:30 (CET, Berlin time)
- 11:00 – 15:30 (EST, New York time)
Format
- Live sessions with teaching, guided inner journeys, and space for questions
- Individual reflection exercises to explore the heart’s intelligence in your own life story
- Recordings available for a limited time, in case time zones or life circumstances prevent you from attending every minute live
Platform
Held on Zoom. You will receive a private link and simple guidelines for creating a quiet, dedicated space at home.
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Who this immersion is for
This online retreat is for you if:
You feel pulled between insight and action, and want a deeper center that can hold both
You live largely in your head and sense a neglected intelligence in your chest
You carry past wounds and wish to heal without closing or hardening
You have a spiritual or contemplative background and want the heart to become the main site of awakening, rather than abstract awareness alone
You are concerned about the direction of a highly technological world and wish to safeguard and deepen what is most human within you
No prior study of traditions is required. A sincere wish to listen to the heart is enough.
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