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:

💧Write Your Wild River (Starts Sunday, October 11)
🌎Earth Intimacies (Starts Thursday, November 5)
🐾Deep Belonging in the Great Composting (6 Fridays starting November 6)
❤️‍🔥Within the Cave Something Pulses (6 Sundays starting Dec. 6)

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Books from the Wild Nature Heart Field

NEW:
The first two THRUM books, Becoming Beautiful Barbarians and Watershed, and the newest Kin Collection book, Riverever, are available now.

Forage among Wild Nature Heart’s collection of organic, free-range earth poetry books.

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A Little Messy, Like the Forest Floor in Fall

What announces autumn’s arrival to your body? For me, it’s that first alder leaf, those first rains, and the fungal people pushing up from the underworld. Perhaps like you, I create a seasonal altar every autumn. A little ceremony of remembering, releasing, honoring, and…

Posted on October 21, 2026 by Ryan Van Lenning

Tell the Truth About the Season

What does it mean to honor the season we’re actually in, rather than the one we expected? Or the one we’re desperately trying to get to? Here on the North Coast of California, autumn has been reluctant to arrive in its familiar wet garments….

Posted on October 19, 2026 by Ryan Van Lenning

UNDERGROUND BECOMING: On mushrooms, hidden movements, and the extravagant Yes of collective liberation

Referendum from the mycelial underground—The forest has voted YES.Motion carried overwhelmingly by spore majority. This beautiful bolete emerged practically overnight. It’s one of the bruising boletes, whose golden pores turn dark almost immediately upon touch, through the sudden oxidation of compounds within its tissues….

Posted on October 17, 2026 by Ryan Van Lenning