Projects of the heARTbeat Collective

The heARTbeat Collective is located at 35 Wyman Street in Jamaica Plain, equidistant from the Jackson Square and the Stony Brook T stops, and near the Perkins Street stop on the 39 bus. Wyman street comes off of Center Street between Hyde and Jackson Squares, one block downhill from the traffic light at Forbes Street.

Our phone number is 617-522-3000 (Dragonfly Office).

Members of the heARTbeat Collective have a number of different projects going, among them:

Forestdance: www.forestdance.net . Transformational project run by our director Jason Cohen, bandleader of Incus, working to reconnect people with their creativity, inspiration, and nature; breaking down barriers of inhibition without drugs or alcohol. Forestdance has occured in five states in the U.S. and happens in Costa Rica every February.

Sacred World Interdependence Day: SWID: A healing and expressive arts festival with live music, belly dance performances, fire spinning, vending, children's activities, workshops and an all night fire circle ceremony

Alternative Energy Projects: Bicycle Generator for running PA's, lights, and blenders for smoothies. .

35 Wyman Street: beautifying and creating a more sustainable community center at 35 Wyman Street. Currently underway: building a Cob wall on the Forbes sreet side of the property; planning a Wyman Street block party.

CSA Project and Gardens: In the fall of 2010, the HeARTbeat Collective began working towards maximizing their garden space with the intention of growing more food for the collective.  Currently, we are growing food (as local as it gets!!!) that is shared between all house mates in our raised bed gardens, herbs in our lovely crescent moon garden and flowers most everywhere.  Plans for this season include creating a mandala garden that will more than double our vegetable growing space and beginning mushroom cultivation. This project is being headed up by our in house visionary artist and urban farmer K. Lenore Siner. www.klenoresiner.com

Classes to Reconnect: the heARTbeat collective hosts teachers from around the world teaching skills to help us heal and reconnect to ourselves, each other and our environment. See our schedule on the Calendar page.