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Greet Yourself Arriving At Your Own Door

“The day will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door….”

Throughout February, I’ll be talking to people who think a wilderness rite-of-passage program might be right for them.

Cultivating Belonging

At yesterday’s Wild Nature Heart Humboldt Gathering we dropped into our bodies, senses, souls, and stories of belonging in the Redwoods.

Why Wilderness Rite-of-Passage?

Last week, I (Ryan) continued to put Katie on the spot and asked, “If you had to summarize in a few words why wilderness rite-of-passage is important right now, what would you say?”

WHAT IS AN INITIATED ADULT?

What does it mean to be an initiated adult? Here’s Katie’s answer when I posed the question.

Making Room For Growth

Everything alive sheds the old to make room for growth and the new.

Deep Belonging to the World

Belonging. Letting go. Exploring roots. Community. Gratitude. Coming home to ourselves. Flow.

These are some of the themes that emerged in yesterday’s Deep Belonging to the World gathering.

BIG ENOUGH TO HOLD IT ALL

This is for the crack that lets the light in, for trusting our wild heart bigness, for saying YES, we will feel the grief, we will mourn, because our wild nature hearts are in love with the world, and they are big enough to hold it all.

Our Wild Nature Heart Stories

For NaNoWriMo2018, we challenged ourselves to write our Wild Nature Heart stories.

What’s yours?

Trust and Self-Ceremony On the Land

Conducting a self-ceremony on the land, I re-commissioned and re-directed my inner Loyal Soldiers. It is part of my work to continue deepening and balancing each facet of my psyche, and help others do the same.

Free Online Ecotherapy Conference: Empowering Visions, Diverse Voices, and Practical Tools

JOIN ME, JOANNA MACY and 12+ diverse, inspirational leaders in the FIRST EVER ONLINE ECOTHERAPY CONFERENCE.

Re-Membering is Here!

We’re excited to announce that Ryan’s book Re-Membering: Poems of Earth & Soul is now live and available!

Deepen Your Connection With Nature & Your Wild Soul Calling

Three upcoming Wild Nature Heart opportunities to deepen your connection with nature and your wild soul calling: a Wilderness Backpacking Journey, a Writing Wild Workshop, and a Vision Quest.

Celebrate Your Summer Wild Nature Heart

Nature is the Master Teacher. One of the biggest lessons is that change is a constant and movement is perpetual–nature unfurls the next moment/season/image out of the old. This applies as much to the movement within–can we be present with this ever fascinating dance?… Continue Reading “Celebrate Your Summer Wild Nature Heart”

Why the Wild?

Why the wild?

We embrace wild nature to not abandon ourselves.

We go to listen. We go to remember.

Spring Emergence Weekend

A powerful weekend of nature, community, and soul unfurling.

Happy National Poetry Month!

SHARE an original poem with us and on your social media channels with the theme of EMERGENCE, SPRING, or PLANTING. Then tag @WildNatureHeart and use the hashtag #wildnatureheart. We’ll share some of your poetry on our Instagram and Facebook, PLUS we’ll feature one of our favorites in our #spring Newsletter.

Sense Walk – A Poem

A late winter curiosity guides them with a friendly hand at their back and butterfly voices
flit across their swallowtail innocence

Writing Wild Along the River

We couldn’t have asked for a more beautiful day or more awesome participants for our Writing Wild gathering.

Except, Sing! Happy World Poetry Day

It’s World Poetry Day!

A day to celebrate poetry, to read poetry, and to write poetry. We’ll be sharing a few of our favorite poems and poets throughout the day on social media.

Wildlife In the Nearby Faraway

Happy World Wildlife Day! A day to celebrate all our relations, and to promote and protect biodiversity and wild habitat.

What (who) do you connect with in your nearby faraway?

Dreaming Spring – March Update

We just sent Wild Nature Heart’s very first newsletter. We’re so excited to share our spring emergence and our new programs with our inner circle!