Wild Nature Heart

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An orientation to the Wild Nature Heart ecosystem:

courses, books, immersions, and liberatory pathways into deeper participation with the animate web of life.

WILD NATURE HEART PROGRAMS

Upcoming Programs:

🫐Kiss Me the Huckleberry, Teach Me the Storm: Ecosensual Playshop (4 Sundays starting July 5)
❤️‍🔥Deep Belonging in the Great Composting (6 Fridays starting August 7)
🌎Earth Intimacies (Starts Thursday, August 6)

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Books from the Wild Nature Heart Field

NEW & EMERGING:
The first THRUM books, Becoming Beautiful Barbarians and Watershed, are available for pre-order now.

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

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Field Sighting: Beautiful Barbarians in Their Native Habitat

Field Observation: Beautiful Barbarian (Homo imaginalis/Homo metamorphicus/barbari pulchri) Habitat: thresholds, ecotones, collapsing empires, mountain ridges, places where certainty grows thin, and possibly swells like summer fruit Known behaviors: composting inherited stories, practicing permeability, building altars from ordinary debris, tending beauty amid collapse, occasionally jumping…

Posted on June 25, 2026 by Ryan Van Lenning

Living Light – A Sun Re-Enchantment Day

All life is lit from the same old fire. It’s the power that drives the whole shebang. Giant sequoias. Great whales. Algae and bacteria at the base of the food web. Sun is the “force that through the green fuse drives the flower,” as…

Posted on June 6, 2026 by Ryan Van Lenning

Introducing Becoming Beautiful Barbarians & Watershed

imaginal buds have arrivedand they are legion For a couple years these books have existed as scattered poems, field observations, river conversations, gargantuan griefs, delicious dreams, and improbable acts of hope. Now the first two THRUM books are emerging into the world. Becoming Beautiful Barbarians is…

Posted on June 6, 2026 by Ryan Van Lenning