Reclaim Your Wild Nature Heart 6-Week Course

We’re happy to announce Wild Nature Heart Academy’s 6-class series called Reclaim Your Wild Nature Heart for people transitioning or ready to transition to a deeper earth-centered life and eager to cultivate a deeper belonging to place and purpose. (This is the in-person course…

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Re-Membering Is Here!

We’re excited to announce that Ryan’s book Re-Membering: Poems of Earth and Soul is now available!

The 75 poems in Re-Membering are an unabashed celebration of the sensuality and mystery of wild nature, and an invitation to express our biggest selves and live into our deepest belonging.

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2019 Schedule

We’re excited for a full and expansive year of programs dedicated to soulful reconnection in nature.

Berry Walk: Learn Your Local Wild Berries (July 6, 12-2pm, Mad River Bluffs, McKinleyville)

Memorial for Whale and Dolphin Deaths (July 24, 8:15pm, Trinidad State Beach)

Finding Flow and Groundedness With Nature (August 3, 10-12. Mad River Bluffs, McKinleyville)

Wild Mind: Exploring the Facets of Human Wholeness Series (5 Wednesdays, September 4-October 2, Mad River Bluffs, McKinleyville)

Reclaim Your Wild Nature Heart 6-Week Class (Thursdays, Sept. 5-Oct.17, McKinleyville)

Healing the Healers With Nature as Ally (August 4, 12-3pm, Sequoia park, Eureka)

One-on-One Earth-Based Mentoring/Inner Wilderness Guiding (Contact Ryan for your FREE Discovery Call, ryan@wildnatureheart.com)

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Opening to the Mystery of the East

It was the final session before his solo wilderness rite-of-passage ceremony next week. But for now, we were in a redwood and bay forest along a creek and Opening to the East.

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Heal the Healers with Nature As Ally Workshop – TV Coverage

Redwood News coverage of our Sense Walk at the Healing the Healers with Nature as Ally workshop.

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TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT OUR PAIN

Then we told the hard truth—about the state of the world, about the state of our emotions.

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🌿RECLAIM YOUR WILD NATURE HEART - ONLINE COURSE Enrolling now for the Online version of Reclaim Your Wild Nature Heart, a 6-class series for people transitioning or ready to transition to a deeper earth-centered life and eager to cultivate a deeper belonging to place and purpose. This course is for you if any of the following describes you: You are longing for a deeper earth-centered, sensual, and meaningful life. You know in your bones there is a more authentic, earth-honoring, community-centered way of living. You are exploring, or want to explore, your inner wilderness and eager to expand your toolbox of exploration. You are on the path of rewilding and cultivating a deeper belonging to place, purpose, and people. THROUGH 6 CLASSES we’ll explore conceptually and through practice these topics: Deep Belonging Deep Listening Watershed and Local Flora Living the Seasons Bill Plotkin's Nature-based Map of the Psyche with the 4 Directions Council Circle and the Art of Mirroring Wilderness Rite-of-Passage and Other Ceremony Joanna Macy, Ecogrief, and The Work That Reconnects Decolonization Returning to Our Wild Purpose When: Thursdays, Sept. 19-Oct. 24 Time: 11am-12:30pm (This course is scheduled to help make it also accessible to those in the U.K. and Europe. We may add an evening class in October) Where: Online - Zoom Meetings and Teachable Cost: $245 IF YOU REGISTER BEFORE AUGUST 22 ($295 after August 22) Class capped at 8 students to ensure a cozy cohort. 3 spots taken, so 5 are left. To Register: Link in Bio or Email ryan@wildnatureheart.com with your interest & send registration fee to PayPal.Me/WildNatureHeart. Find all the details and benefits in the Link in Bio. 🌲 🦊CALIFORNIA WILDLIFE DAY Hey #Humboldt, we’re putting out the call for organizational partners, volunteers, teachers, artists, students, indigenous partners, business leaders, local elected officials, and engaged citizens to collaborate on producing California Wildlife Day in Humboldt County. California Wildlife Day began two years ago as an official day on the state calendar, spearheaded by the Carmel River Watershed Conservancy in Monterey County. Now it's time to bring it to #HumboldtCounty, a day of honoring our local #wildlife. It will be a day of community education and service, free and open to all. The 2020 date will be Spring Equinox, March 21. Contact ryan@wildnatureheart.com to begin the heartstorming! (Photo: Fox saying hi on her morning commute) HONORING OUR PAIN AND RESILIENCY Scratch the surface of everyday life and you’ll find many people holding a lot of unexpressed grief and other emotions about what is happening in the world. It is not easy to absorb the enormity of the crises we face, and yet we know it is not meant to be borne alone, but in community. Our intention is simply to offer an opportunity for people to gather together and share our grief and sense of loss at what’s happening with climate crisis and the loss of members of our other-than-human family and habitats. New terms that are becoming increasingly popular—"ecogrief," “climate distress,” “climate grief,” “climate anxiety” or “eco-anxiety.” Whatever we call it, it signifies both our struggle to be with and express our complex emotions AND our interconnectedness with our Earth Home. Pain is the other side of our love. We are in a collective initiatory moment. How can we show up, feel all of it, including the difficult emotions, while moving forward? By sharing grief and other emotions, and moving through them (not wallowing!), we can step into new ways of seeing and reconnect to each other and nature, and thereby become even better stewards of the world and the work that needs to be done to heal. We will heartstorm empowering ways to stay/become engaged annd build resiliency and courage. What to expect: This is a FREE, non-religious, simple earth-based gathering and everyone is welcome. Together we will do an opening circle, share a moment of silence, and an opportunity to share our grief, gratitude, and other emotions. Attendees may expect poetry, movement, a truth mandala, and singing. It will be about an hour and a half. Facilitators: Ryan Van Lenning, Certified Ecotherapist and Kelly Noble, LMFT RSVP on Facebook Event Page. (Link in bio) #humboldt
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