Wild Nature Heart

POETRY COLLECTIONS

Wild Nature Heart’s collection of organic, free-range poetry books. Forage among 10 earthy books available now.
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PROGRAMS

Upcoming Programs Early 2026:
❤️‍🔥Deep Belonging in the Great Turning (6 week course, starting April 24)
💧Write Your Wild River (6 week course starting Earth Day, April 22)
🫐Kiss Me the Huckleberry, Teach Me the Storm: Ecosensual Playshop (4 Sundays starting May 3)
🍄Earth Intimacies: Apprenticing to Life (6 Thursdays starting April 23)
🦋Becoming Beautiful Barbarians: Composting the Spell of Empire (Sept-Nov. 2026)
🐉Crossing the Threshold Wilderness Ceremony (July-September 2026)

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Deep Belonging In The Great Composting

A 6-week experience for those hearing the call to cultivate our earth-connection, deepen our liberatory journey, and practice belonging to pace, place, purpose, and more as we intentionally meet this collective initiation of intersecting ecological/social crises and opportunities.

Begings April 24.

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Reconnect with Nature: Four-Week Ecosensual Journey

For some time I’ve held Sundays as an excuse/opportunity to explore slowly ad specifically in an ecosensual way – meaning simply being more present to opening my senses intentionally to what/who is around me. I occasionally post some experiences as #EcosensualSunday and last year…

Posted on April 7, 2026 by Ryan Van Lenning

Welcome to the Pollination Party! Celebrating Pollinator People on Re-Enchantment Day

“Among the humble-bees, for instance, the workersdo not dream of renouncing love.”~Maurice Maeterlinck, The Life of the Bee Welcome to the Pollination Party! My practice this week was simply to notice: who are the flitting, flirting, flapping, crawling, buzzing, whirring, partying pollinators around me?…

Posted on April 4, 2026 by Ryan Van Lenning

Writing as Refusal, Writing as Compost, Writing as Spark

The next round of Write Against/Beyond Empire is next Wednesday, April 1. This is a gathering for people carrying grief, rage, confusion, clarity, and imagination in a time of imperial violence, lies, and psychic exhaustion. Together we’ll write from earth, body, and heart—not to…

Posted on March 25, 2026 by Ryan Van Lenning