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.

PROGRAMS

Upcoming Programs:

💧Write Your Wild River (6 week course starting June 26)
❤️‍🔥Deep Belonging in the Great Composting (6 weeks starting August 11)
🫐Kiss Me the Huckleberry, Teach Me the Storm: Ecosensual Playshop (4 Sundays starting July 5)

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Books from the Wild Nature Heart Field

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

Be among the first to know when the new collections, Becoming Beautiful Barbarians and Lend Your Tears Back to the Watershed become available.

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Meeting the Bees Eye to Eye – A World Bee Day Reflection from the Heart of Empire

For me, re-enchantment begins simply: stopping all my antics of disappearing and learning (again and again) how to pay attention. On a mad meander through the forest the other day, amid a tangle of fir, ceonothos, huckleberry and salal bushes, my friends and I…

Posted on May 20, 2026 by Ryan Van Lenning

All the Terrible Things Will Become Tumbleweed

The old house of empire is groaning at the beams. Becoming Beautiful Barbarians is a poetry collection written from the threshold between collapse and re-enchantment—carrying wild kin, unraveling empires, deep-time trust, and the dangerous act of remaining openhearted in a burning world. Here’s a…

Posted on May 19, 2026 by Ryan Van Lenning

Imaginal Buds Are Gathering

Over the past year, a body of work and play has been slowly crawling across the landscape. Some of you have already walked beside small pieces of it through courses, playshops, solstice circles, grief rituals, and scattered poems shared here and online. Now two…

Posted on May 9, 2026 by Ryan Van Lenning