Deep Belonging, Creative Awesomeness, and Earth Intimacies

I can hardly believe we’re approaching the end of 2025. It took me a few years, but I actually love these deepening dark and slowing down few weeks before Winter Solstice. In addition to offering one more program this year (Within the Cave Something Pulses, starting Dec. 13) and 3-4 slots for earth-rooted mentoring and ecotherapy, I’m thrilled to be able to offer a basketful of 2026 programs starting in January.

Deep Belonging in the Great Turning (begins January 24) was Wild Nature Heart’s first flagship course, foundational deepening in our earth-connectedness and supporting your next, aligned steps. This will be the fourth round, and anchors on what I call the 7 Ps of Belonging (Pace, Place, People, Purpose, Play, Pain, and Possibility).

The next round of Earth Intimacies (begins January 23) will be the third round, this time adding new more-than-human kin with whom we will apprentice, an exploration of soundscapes, and a new session on being what I’m calling “Emergence Aware”, the mirror of being ‘Collapse Aware.’

Write Your Wild River‘s first couple rounds were so so sweet, fun, and creative that I’m already eager for the cohort that begins February 1 If you’re looking to support your creative awesomeness, this is a great container for that.

If you’re like me, sometimes it’s easier to vibe something I’m curious about if I meet the facilitators and get a taste test. So, I’d love to meet you and jam on these themes with you.

What: Free Meet & Greet about Upcoming Wild Nature Heart programs
Date: Thursday, Nov. 20
Time: 5:30pm-6:30pm PT

We’ll have an earth-practice together, and more about what Deep Belonging, Write Your Wild River, Earth Intimacies, and Crossing the Theshold journeys are all about.

Register Here.
-Ryan 🌿

See more below:

DEEP BELONGING IN THE GREAT TURNING (6 Saturdays beginning January 24)
Situating our current moment of multiple crises and opportuunity as the Great Turning, Deep Beloning is a 6-week experience for people hearing the call to cultivate their ecospirituality, deepen their journey beyond inherited scripts, and practice belonging to pace, place, and purpose as we intentionally meet this collective initiation of intersecting ecological/social crises and opportunity.

We explore what I call the seven Ps of Belonging (Place, Pace, People, Purpose, Pain, Pleasure, and Possibility). For example, how do we divest from the Colonial Clock and re-connect more deeply to natural cycles (season, moon, sun, deep time) and to the pace of the body? How can we think of our wild purpose ecologically, as a niche in the ecosystem of repair? How to we both not turn away from the wounds of the world, while also allowing our pleasure to be liberatory? (Find out More HERE)

EARTH INTIMACIES (6 Fridays beginning January 23)
Earth Intimacies is a 6-week interactive course dedicated to intentionally re-inhabiting the animate web of life. We will deepen our ecospiritual intimacies by tending sacred relationships with the other-than-human world (including Water, Moon, Lichen, Mycelium, feathered friends, Soundscapes, Emergence, and more), practice cultivating belonging and honoring longings, and proliferate imaginal buds for what is emerging in this Great Turning.
(Find out More HERE)

💦 WRITE YOUR WILD RIVER: A 6-WEEK Poetry & Nature Playshop (Sundays Beginning Feb. 1)
This 6-week workshop explores the play/craft of creative writing through an embodied, earth-centered, liberatory lens, and simultaneously, explore our embodied, earthy, multi-faceted selves through the exploration of poetry.

We will create a river of words that tap into Earth as poet and the melody of our whole, multi-faceted, messy, brilliant selves. Each week will focus on a different theme (see below), using open conversation, embodied practice, and visualization as inspiration for creative experimentation. Each week includes generative writing prompts, somatic solicitations, readings of poems, spaciousness for exploring particular energies, and generous mirroring in a relaxed, supportive online environment.

No previous poetry or creative writing experience required. All experiences le