Cultivating Deep Belonging, Creative Awesomeness, and Earth Intimacies

I’m thrilled to be able to offer a basketful of 2026 programs starting in February. They all explore re-belonging ourselves in the animate web of life, practicing our creative awesomeness, cultivating all dimensions of our wholeness, and embodying our purpose. If being part of a small connective group could be supportive for deepening into some of that, these programs might be for you.

Or, If you are on your own journey, and could appreciate some gentle, mirroring support, I have 2-4 slots for earth-rooted mentoring and/or ecotherapy. I especially love meeting people who are at a crossroads, heartstorming re-alignments, evoking creativity, and aiming at our sacred why. Happy to set up a free brief chat.

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 Sunday, February 1. If you’re looking for both inspiration for your own creative awesomeness, and support for earthy experimentation, this is a great container for that.

Deep Belonging in the Great Turning (begins February 21) 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 February 20) 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.’

See more details below:

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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 Info Session/Meetup about Upcoming Wild Nature Heart programs
Date: Tuesday, January 20
Time: 5:30pm-6:30pm PT

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

Register Here.
-Ryan 🌿

DEEP BELONGING IN THE GREAT TURNING (6 Saturdays beginning February 21)
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 February 20)
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 in our respective landscapes (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 levels welcome.

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If you a deeper experiential is what is calling you:

Crossing the Threshold is a rite-of-passage ceremony disguised as a four-month conversation with the more-than-human world, your purpose, and the parts of you that have been waiting for permission to arrive. Join us for a four-month sacred journey combining elements of earth connection and creative arts and culminating in a 6 day wilderness rite-of-passage ceremony in the Mojave desert. We hold it as a powerful container to navigate these liminal times together and deepen our understanding of our unique paths forward.