Can we continue to reach towards the dark place where we find birth, where we find creation, where we begin to be? Moment by moment. Pulse by pulse. Breath by breath. Imagining the Heart invites to a somatic, practice-based approach to the cardiovascular system of the human body. It is an exploration of philosophy-based artistic research that traces the translations and transformations of spoken and written words into choreo-graphy, gestures and actions. Thinking here is intrinsic to a sensitive form of embodiment and mattering. The attention is drawn to embodiment, imaginaries, materiality, and corporeal relations in ethics that extend beyond the individual, inspired by post-modern dance, yoga practice and resource-oriented ecology. 'To give birth to a dancing star' (as Nietzsche puts it) is envisioned as an fierce act of surrender, gratitude, permeability and receptivity in which the human body is expanded into living maps that are radically entangled with more-than-human agencies. The subjective sense becomes part of the surrounding atmospheres and questions the dichotomy of mind-matter, subject-object, and nature-culture critically. In this processual investigation of shardaya, - an aesthetic of the heart —, figuration for imagining and living otherwise might emerge, be welcomed and celebrated.