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)
❤️‍🔥Within the Cave Something Pulses (6 Sundays starting Dec. 6)
🌎Earth Intimacies (Starts Thursday, January 14)
🐾Deep Belonging in the Great Composting (6 Fridays starting January 22)

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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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What Vows Are You Casting Today? On voting, vowing, and gestating worlds beyond Empire

What’s that you say? Beneath the endless electoral noise, another conversation is always and already underway? What if casting a vote were also an occasion to reconsider and renew our deepest vows? The ballot box receives our choices within the given system. A sacred…

Posted on November 3, 2026 by Ryan Van Lenning

The Case for Retching: On Empire, Elder Owls, and the sacred gag reflex

Like you, I’m sick. We’re sick to our stomachs. Sick to our souls. We are relentlessly being asked to swallow things that our organism rejects: the lies of the patriarchal genocide class, the rigged menu of a mafia duopoly, the impunity of sexual predators,…

Posted on November 2, 2026 by Ryan Van Lenning

A Single Leaf – On autumn, the fall of Empire, and the ancient intelligence of endings

We are entering a threshold season: one of endings, descent, darkness, ancestors, and remembrance. This weekend marks Samhain and the astronomical cross-quarter day (midpoint between autumn equinox and solstice) arrives November 7. I love these reminders that we’re not merely passing through time, but…

Posted on October 31, 2026 by Ryan Van Lenning