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Belonging To Berries

One of the ways to cultivate belonging of course, is to become friends with the local flora and fauna. Since it’s June that means it’s the belonging of Berry season, and they’re out there awaiting our conversation!

CULTIVATING BELONGING -PART 1

Over the next few weeks, I will be posting ways in which we can cultivate belonging—to Place (the land, watershed, & more-than-human world), to community, & to self (body/soul/calling)—and how these are all interrelated. One of the ways to cultivate belonging to where you’re… Continue Reading “CULTIVATING BELONGING -PART 1”

Sometimes You Have To Invent a New Role

Sometimes you have to invent a new role. In fact, the Great Turning we are in the midst of may depend on it.

WALKING EACH OTHER HOME

We love that line, “We’re all just walking each other home,” by Ram Dass & Paul Gorman in their book How Can I Help.

But what does it mean? I

EMBODYING YOUR SOUL GIFTS

Where are you at on your psycho-spiritual journey?

DEPART FOR THE GRAND ADVENTURE

It’s the things we don’t do that we end up regretting.

🌱WILD NATURE HEART ACADEMY🦉

Really excited about what’s emerging! We’re launching Wild Nature Heart Academy

🌱Spring Emergence and The Great Turning

With migrating ducks and butterflies flitting about, the scent of cherry blossoms and lilac in the air, and brighter days, spring has Wild Nature Heart saying “Yes!” to the new season. Read our Spring Update.

The Great Turning – Joanna is 90

Yesterday earth elder and teacher Joanna Macy turns 90.

Learning from Joanna’s teaching, courage, transparency, and passion.

Deep Nourishment Gathering

A Deep Nourishment gathering brought together 12 people to reconnect to ourselves, the land, and each other.

Mirroring

We are all mirrors for each other. I take the skill of mirroring into my work as a inner wilderness guide and poet.

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.

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