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:

❤️‍🔥Deep Belonging in the Great Composting (6 Fridays starting August 7)
💧Write Your Wild River (Starts Sunday, September 13)
🌎Earth Intimacies (Starts Thursday, October 1)

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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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The Flowering Ones – Every blossom is an invitation

Just look at the costumes summer is adopting. August’s Re-Enchantment & Gratitude Day has arrived, and this month we turn toward the Flowering Ones. Every blossom is an invitation. Not merely to admire beauty, but to enter more deeply into relationship with the blooming world. Every blossom we…

Posted on August 1, 2026 by Ryan Van Lenning

Water: The Living Current – July’s Re-Enchantment & Gratitude Day

July’s Re-Enchantment & Gratitude Day guide is here, and this month we turn toward Water. Water as source. Water as kin. Water as current, carrier, teacher, shapeshifter, and living memory. This month’s issue, Water: The Living Current, invites us to enter more consciously into relationship with the…

Posted on July 9, 2026 by Ryan Van Lenning

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