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​The Path to True Connection

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Open Path of the Heart offers guidance and encouragement to become fully alive by deeply connecting with nature. Our work together aims at generating a mindful awareness of your inner wisdom, and the cultivating of a personal path of meaning and purpose.

We live in unsettling times: the challenges in the environmental, political, economic, and social arenas feel overwhelming. Our institutions are failing us and the old solutions are no longer working. Our social fabric has become threadbare and relationships may lack the depth we seek. It is hard to know where to turn. Amidst the change and transition on a global scale and in our personal lives, the habits and activities of our “old” life seem stale and empty. We yearn for a new perspective that can heal our hearts, our families, our community.

Yet we also live in an age of tremendous potential. Change is opportunity and once we realize that we are not the only seeker on the path, answers to questions asked collectively are beginning to emerge. We are beginning to shed our skin. Clinging to the old one is not only pointless but actually impossible. We are gaining an ever deepening understanding and appreciation of our intricate and interdependent relationship with nature and our environment, something Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh calls ‘Interbeing'.

Many of us discover that finding our truth is not a new invention, but uses the oldest of technologies — sitting in a circle, in togetherness and mindful awareness of the present moment, knowing that each person is both student and teacher. Through simple practices we help each other to kindle our own spark of wisdom and aliveness and find the confidence to integrate what is working for us now and the courage to let go of what is no longer. 

Open Path of the Heart is dedicated to renewing our connection to nature to heal our bodies and our minds, in community with each other, and in reciprocity with all living beings. Through Forest Bathing and inquiries to ancient wisdom sources we are guided through practices of grounding, connection, and exchange. What we learn and experience will help us to make good, sustainable decisions, gain clarity about what really matters, and help us feel more alive.


Open your heart and take the first step on the path to fully connecting to your life force. We all are a divine spark. Take a deep breath, dive into the stream of the power inside you and begin to live your life in the fullness of saying YES!

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Ralf ‘Travis’ Masch is a certified Shinrin Yoku (Forest Bathing) guide and a spiritual life coach. He is a fully ordained Dharma teacher in the mindfulness tradition of Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh and a member of the St. Romuald society of New Camaldoli, a contemplative order in the Benedictine tradition. 
​His business background is as a publisher of multiple award-winning books on mindfulness and as a pet bereavement counselor. 

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