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NEW: THRESHOLD: Earth Intimacies & the Art of Transformation

Posted on August 18, 2023 by Ryan Van Lenning

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, poetry, UncategorizedTags: belonging, butterfly, collective initiation, council circle, course, earth, ecotherapy, nature, nature connection, 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, poetry, UncategorizedTags: ecospirituality, ecotherapy, exosensuality, map, nature, nature connection, rewild, the great turning

2023 NEW YEAR’S INCARNATIONS

Posted on January 2, 2023 by Ryan Van Lenning

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💧Recite the eon-long poems in our blood💧Relish our grand and gratuitous re-enchantment💧Kiss the other-kin in the center of our cells💧Allow prophetic artistry to germinate from our magnificent failures💧Waltz whimsically with all the big and little deaths💧Let our inner cops out of jail💧Caress each other’s… Continue Reading “2023 NEW YEAR’S INCARNATIONS”

Category: poetry, UncategorizedTags: earth, New year, resolutions, spells

THE BIG RHYTHM HOLDS IT ALL

Posted on December 21, 2022 by Ryan Van Lenning

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Winter Solstice blessings! May we relish deep rest and be nourished by the slow gift of fruitful darkness, wooing and embracing the dark parts of us into the circle of Self ⭕️. May we nurture the inner fire on our darkest nights. May we… Continue Reading “THE BIG RHYTHM HOLDS IT ALL”

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PRACTICES FOR APPRENTICING TO DARKNESS AND SLOWNESS

Posted on December 7, 2022 by Ryan Van Lenning

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Befriending darkness can take many forms. In an over-illuminated world, could it be that we’ve let go of some of our ancestral connection to the gifts of night? Here are some practices for apprenticing to darkness and slowness.

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