The Heart Revival is an enduring dharma practice and community gathering center that provides refuge for community to revive and dive within via togetherness.
Heart is a place to delight in slowing down, to open and see life in a fresh way. We are sangha. The Heart Revival Center for Yoga and Buddhist studies is a sangha (community) who believes that yoga and mindfulness-based programming have the power to enrich lives and strengthen connections. Each of us plays our part to create safe space for the contribution to a culture that is most compassionate.
Heart opened its doors in 2019 with a heart-centered mission to forge a collective where members are willing to be their whole self in mind, body and heart. In being, we bring that authenticity into the world, to all sentient beings.
Our guides are classically trained and passionate about upholding the deepest respect for indigenous Yoga, traditional wisdom and contemporary neuroscience. We provide community meditation, classical Yoga classes, workshops, community gathering, teacher trainings/ education, retreats, recorded content and so much more. All people of all experiences and backgrounds are most welcome to gather with us via our tranquil center within St. Francis, WI (Milwaukee) or via live-stream. Join us, we are sangha.
12/05/2025
Join us as we sit for peace, sparking insight by beginning the year with sacred stillness. This half-day community sit is devoted to stillness, compassion, and the collective intention of peace. We will alternate between periods of seated meditation and mindful walking, allowing the body to soften and the mind to settle into a steady, grounded rhythm.
Participants may contribute as they wish when reserving their spot. Dress comfortably, arriving on time. We ask that participants stay for the full duration and to note that no late entries will be admitted with the intention to maintain our peaceful container. Facilitated by
11/30/2025
December: A Year Closed by Way of Re-Entry
We came together over 12 months with a desire to go deeper instead of wider. We prioritized vulnerability through shared personal stories, bringing the shared text to life and into the current state of things. It was honest, awe-inspiring and brilliant. We brought both roots and limbs to the dharma.
T.S. Eliot captures the essence of our Zen Ox-Herding texts with these verses: We shall not cease from exploration / And the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where we started / And know the place for the first time.
The final fruit of enlightenment is us. A simple human life, free of all pretense, all striving, all repression, compulsion, and anxiety. A simple human life, fully present to the wonder of existence. A simple human life that transmits byway of the harmony of one’s whole being. It is the gift we arrive with as children, and the dream we pursue all of our adult lives. I have witnessed in myself and in others the moments where we become again like children. We are no longer teaching anything, and yet everyone around us grows wiser. The dharma emanates through us, as us.
With love and gratitude!
The Heart
11/21/2025
Shalom - Heart’s home away from home 🙏🏽 we’ve been squirreling ourselves away for weekend retreats in the kettle moraine since 2016. Hundreds of folks taking the invitation to slow down, listen and explore what moves underneath the daily rhythm of thoughts, words and routine. We still, we move - we cultivate the body’s innate wisdom so that we can trust the natural unfolding and revealing of life. The gift: We return to our lives with fresh perspective and an enthusiasm to act from our compassionate source - to the benefit of all.
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11/05/2025
Tonight! .ryals kicks off a 4 week series to demystify and clarify the Japanese principle and healing technique of reiki!
4 consecutive Wednesdays, each session 60 minutes in length, 6-7pm. Series bundle is $85 total!
Guests will receive a 10% discount to receive active healing with Sarina by way of 💫
11/03/2025
As the days grow shorter and we turn inward with the season, join us for a heart-centered workshop to awaken your senses and reconnect with your inner light. Led by our beloved instructor, Jody, we’ll begin with gentle Hatha and Restorative yoga to ground, release, and prepare the body for deep rest. Then, be carried by the healing resonance of a 45-minute sound bath savasana, guided by Laurel Ziemienski of Ananda Healing Arts. Allow the vibrations of Tibetan singing bowls, gongs, harps, chimes, and drums wash over you—clearing, aligning, and restoring your energy.
While the Yoga begins promptly at 2:30PM we are also extending an invitation to participate in an optional *Hapé medicine ceremony just prior. Participants are asked to arrive by 2pm. There is an additional fee ($30) made directly to Laurel for this add-on.
*About Hapé (Rapé): Hapé is a sacred medicinal s***f used by Indigenous Amazonian tribes for thousands of years. This plant medicine supports spiritual connection, mental clarity, emotional release, and energetic cleansing. It is non-addictive, free of chemicals, and ethically sourced through partnerships with various tribes. Laurel, a trained and experienced practitioner, will gently administer the Hapé through a ceremonial pipe into the nasal passages, accompanied by supportive energy work to create space for deeper healing.
Come as you are. Leave feeling renewed, connected, and deeply at peace.
Exchange is $40 (without Hapé) . Limit 11 guests
11/03/2025
A buddha knows that change begins by sowing nourishing seeds within your own heart. Ignite the wish for all of us to wake up with full bellies, well-rested bodies and palpable freedom within our hearts. Let us encourage the power of taking good care of selves and each other. In addition, it’s so important that we prioritize practice, self-keeping and time spent within community. If you or a loved one is seeking access to yoga, meditation or healing experiences/ workshops, please inquire directly with me via email at theheartrevival.meg@gmail.com.
10/30/2025
November at Heart
Returning to Source
The changing landscape with its cooling air, turning and falling leaves, seems to mirror so perfectly the spirit of this month’s teachings.
There comes a time in life and in practice when the persistence of seeking begins to not just soften, but fall away. The impulse to reach outward, to master something beyond ourselves, grows quiet. This shift does not mean that practice loses its meaning, rather, our relationship to it changes completely. What once felt like a path toward something now becomes a way of being skillfully and open-heartedly with what already is.
Full news link in the bio! 🪷
10/21/2025
Growing 🌱
Saturday karma yoga classes curated and led by your very own sangha members! These incredible women are recently certified yoga guides feeling called to share their love for the art and science of Yoga!
Karma classes are sliding scale with proceeds benefitting your budding guide! Pregistration is strongly advised as these classes cap at just 10 lucky yogis.
Karma classes run Saturday Nov 1st through Dec 20th. 60 minutes in length, 10:30-11:30am ✌🏽
10/05/2025
Heart’s Autumn Weekly
Join community for a practice steeped in heart-centered devotion!
09/30/2025
October at Heart
Transcending the Ox
Dependent Co-arising
I’ve been leading circles for over a decade and I can tell you that humans ARE good. Despite confusion, we love each other and we love life. The sangha has been testament to this; creating a myriad of creative ways to stay in touch well beyond the walls of our center. Checking in on our community requires stamina. It requires self-inquiry and attention. How am I and to what capacity am I available to help? A member of our monthly Q***r peer-led circle, sent along a brilliant little piece by the late, beloved, American poet and activist, Andrea Gibson. Andrea called it “Wellness Check”:
In any moment,
on any given day,
I can measure
my wellness
by this question:
Is my attention on loving,
or is my attention on
who isn’t loving me?
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09/18/2025
E Q U I N O X:
As the leaves begin to change color and fall during this season, they serve as a beautiful reminder of how we too can gracefully let go of what no longer serves us. Autumn is an ideal time to quiet the chatter of the mind and embrace the wisdom of those who came before (to include versions of ourselves). How will you honor the threshold of the season, gracefully flowing on to what is yet to manifest?
Friday, September 19th:
6am Sunrise Vinyasa with Gino Napolitano
9am Hatha Renewal with Olivia Flood
4pm Wisdom Wind Down with derria byrd
6:30pm Karma Yin + Yoga Nidra with Jess Kettner
Saturday, September 20th:
7:30am Yin + Dharma with Meg Lucks
9am Chakras in Motion with Meg Lucks
12pm Labyrinth Walk in Eagle, WI with Jerry Becker
Sunday, September 21st:
9am Nejang Tibetan Healing Yoga with Vanessa Weber
10am Slow Flow + Sit with Jess Kettner
12:30pm Yin for the Season 2-Hr Workshop with Amy Kerley
Monday, September 22nd:
9am Foundational Flow with Vanessa Weber
6pm Candlelit Twilight Yoga with Meg Lucks
7:15pm Community Meditation with Meg Lucks
09/18/2025
The truth of yoga is what happens beyond the mat. Cultivate your inner light through guided asana (postures), pranayama (breath), and meditation (focus) in this end-of-the-week class designed to help you shake off the tethers from the week and reconnect to your true wisdom. This hatha yoga class focuses on yogic intention and bodily alignment alongside the invitation to stillness and rest. Each class includes teachings on how to nourish your internal wisdom and nurture "an undefended heart,” in pursuit of liberation (moksha) for all beings.
This gorgeous offering occurs every first and third Friday of each month. Use any class pass, pack or membership to reserve your spot.
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We Are Community: Co-Creating a World of Compassion & Connection
The Heart Revival is a labor of love, made possible by a community of wide-awake hearts. Each of us plays our part to create safe space for deeper spiritual practice and the contribution to a culture of connected compassionate living. Join us to explore and unify through the transformative practices of meditation, yoga, writing, lean-in circles and countless other means of heart-to-heart gathering. All people of all experiences and backgrounds, seeking a deeply devotional practice and community, are most welcome.
Our community currently meets weekly online for live-streaming yoga & meditation AND at Heart for small in-person gatherings, classes & self-led practice (Urban Retreat)! Click around to learn about our class offerings (packages available), events, pre-recorded meditations, and printable practice resources within the free Community Library. More meditations available via our Meditation Membership ($5/ month).
Please note that during COVID19 times our center in St. Francis is used for small, physically-distanced gatherings (limit 6-8 students), self-led practice appointments (Urban Retreat, limit 3 students) and 1x1 support. We will stay agile in response to CDC guidelines and will therefore release a schedule of online and in-person offerings month by month. Learn more about our COVID19 Precautions HERE.
We invite you to come and discover that Yoga is not just a physical practice, but life itself. Yoga is belonging and you belong.
Our Heart-Centered Intentions:
May we align to our highest selves and know that we are divinely looked after by the universe.
May we welcome both beauty and pain with ease/flow and release all that no longer serves us (with utmost gentleness) so that we may open and create space for what is supportive & new.
As we willingly spread love to each other, may we understand that the more blessings we share, in and out of the center, the more miracles we receive.
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Under the guidance of founder Meg Lucks (E-RYT500, YACEP), The Heart Revival represents an all-levels, diverse family of practitioners on a love mission. Meg has been a practitioner of both Buddhist meditation and Yoga (Classical, Astanga, Yin, Adaptive, Prenatal) since the early 2000s. She has studied in the US and Internationally with teachers in both lineages. Meg humbly uses the gifts of ancient wisdom as a gateway into our own understanding of the treasure that is Yoga. In addition to supporting The Heart Revival mission, Meg Co-Directs the Healium Hot Yoga 200 Hour Teacher Training program, is a continuing education provider through Yoga Alliance and Birth Doula.
