A simple way to do this, that requires no additional SiteMesh configuration is by using a tag in your FTL view. The default SiteMesh 3 tag processor will automatically parse these tags and make them available to your decorator using a "meta." prefix.
FTL view:
<html>
<head>
<title>Some title</title>
<meta name="heading" content="My page heading">
...
</head>
<body>
...
</body>
</html>
Then in your decorator:
<html>
...
<div id="content">
<div id="contentHeading"><sitemesh:write property="meta.heading"/></div>
....
</div>
...