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 Fridays starting August 7)
🫐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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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

Unauthorized Conversations with Awe

Even amid noise and numbness, busyness and overculture exhaustion,the world continues extending tiny invitations into participation. Awe keeps leaking through. The frog croaks from a hidden pond.The creek practices surrender beneath logs and around stones.Salmon waxcaps appear overnight, announcing: did you know mycelial fish…

Posted on May 30, 2026 by Ryan Van Lenning