Category: Class

THRESHOLD: UNRELENTING MYSTERY

Posted on August 24, 2023 by Ryan Van Lenning

Intention can be an important part of crossing the threshold during a wilderness rite-of-passage, life change, or any liminal transition, including our current collective initiation. My way of holding intention and threshold has shapeshifted over the years. Intention is not a goal. It’s good… Continue Reading “THRESHOLD: UNRELENTING MYSTERY”

Category: Class, Rite-of-passage, UncategorizedTags: ecotherapy, intention, more-than-human, mystery, nature, rite-of-passage, threshold, wilderness

NEW: THRESHOLD: Earth Intimacies & the Art of Transformation

Posted on August 18, 2023 by Ryan Van Lenning

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I’m both tickled like a butterfly and hungry like a caterpillar for Wild Nature Heart’s new course/journey starting next month.

THRESHOLD: Earth Intimacies and the Art of Transformation is a 6-week course journey dedicated to tending both our personal and collective thresholds with intention and heart. With the images of threshold crossing and caterpillar-to-butterfly transformation as guiding metaphors, we will deepen our ecospiritual practices, practice being present with the whole of what is at our doorstep, and proliferate imaginal buds for what is emerging.

Category: Class, Ecotherapy, UncategorizedTags: belonging, butterfly, collective initiation, council circle, course, earth, ecotherapy, nature, nature connection, poetry, rewild, rite-of-passage, the great turning, threshold, transformation

Falling Off the Map: an Invitation

Posted on February 20, 2023 by Ryan Van Lenning

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I’m both excited and curious about Wild Nature Heart’s new course container starting next month. Falling Off the Map is premised on the sneaking suspicion that we’ve exhausted the exhausting maps we’re caught in. That we are being invited to fall through inherited maps… Continue Reading “Falling Off the Map: an Invitation”

Category: Class, UncategorizedTags: ecospirituality, ecotherapy, exosensuality, map, nature, nature connection, poetry, rewild, the great turning

NEW FALL COURSES: DEEP BELONGING 3.0 AND A HOOF IN EACH DIRECTION

Posted on September 21, 2022 by Ryan Van Lenning

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Excited to announce two courses this fall: Deep Belonging in the Great Turning and a new course: A Hoof in Each Direction: Cultivating Earth-Rooted Wholeness. See below for brief descriptions. Follow the links to full course information or drop me a line at ryan@wildnatureheart.com.… Continue Reading “NEW FALL COURSES: DEEP BELONGING 3.0 AND A HOOF IN EACH DIRECTION”

Category: Class, UncategorizedTags: belonging, earth, ecosensuality, ecotherapy, nature, nature connection, poetry, rewild, the great turning, wholeness, wilderness

10 spring Poppies for Approaching Ecotherapy

Posted on April 1, 2021 by Ryan Van Lenning

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When invited to teach an upcoming Ecotherapy course, I realized that something beyond more knowledge or even skills, as commonly understood, is required. Something in me balked at overly-academicizing it, and felt that all-too-familiar intellect taking over, alienating my body, heart, and soul. So these are some spring wild poppies and prickly cacti that emerged through the soil:

Category: Class, Ecotherapy, UncategorizedTags: co-liberation, deep belonging, ecospirituality, ecotherapy, natural cycles, presence, purpose, soul, soul work