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BEFRIENDING THE DARK In these darkest days and longest nights approaching the winter solstice, I am participating in an apprenticeship to dark, silence, slowness, solitude, shadow, and soulstice. The season contracts, things slow down, energies withdraw, go underground, and the earth releases and composts the old in order to recharge for new life. We honor the season and ourselves by doing the same. Now the dominant culture sure as hell doesn’t necessarily abide by these energies. In this culture dedicated to light and production, business and speed, wasteful consumption, the notion of valuing and celebrating the darkness, slowness, stillness, spaciousness for rest, poetry and dreaming, the unconsciousness, cocoon and cave and womb energy, is a radical notion. Yet life and creativity are born in these spaces. The natural cycle and balance of seasons both external and within exists for a reason.. We can dedicate ourselves to syncing our body, energy, psyche to the season by honoring the darkness, shadow, stillness, slowing down, withdrawing in. We can say no to things. We can let go of things. We can take sacred pauses to simply BE, not do. It is not unusual to resist these downward descent energies (and I myself in the past resisted), but one can find a vitality & wisdom in befriending the dark, sinking into the slowness, and owning the shadows. I’ll be sharing poems, images, and inspiration that honor the season of dark and shadow and slowness, Using the #BefriendingtheDark. How are you honoring the season? ———————————————————- INTO THE CAVE Courses begin January 8. Two groups—one All/No Genders Cohort and one Men Only Cohort. DEEP BELONGING Courses begins January 9. Take the self-paced WILD NATURE HEART CHALLENGE at anytime. Links in Bio. 🌿 🍁DEEPEN YOUR EARTHY, SOULFUL LIFE Some Solstice time incentives. How it works: 🍁Invest in one 1-on-1 Earth-Rooted Mentoring/Ecotherapy session and get second session free. 🍁Buy 1 Wild Nature Heart Seasonal Challenge (#wildnatureheartchallenge) and get second Access Pass for a friend. 🍁Register for a 6-week interactive online group course (DEEP BELONGING and INTO THE CAVE) by December 22 and get 25% off. 🍁Purchase any number of copies of Re-Membering: Poems Of Earth and Soul or High-Cooing Through the Seasons: Haiku from the Forest and get 25% off. Ends Sunday, December 22. Just go to links in bio or visit Wild Nature Heart and click on Enroll, Register, or Shop. At check out use coupon code “WNHSOLSTICE” and we’ll send your coupon code to get the second FREE. For Courses and Books use coupon code “SOLSTICE25” 🌿🤠 KNOCK AND SEE WHAT ANSWERS How you know yourself like the taste of blood in your mouth like desire ripe as guardian oak crimson and certain. To share this and find yourself knowing new with a fabulously defeated mind. It starts as a look— something astonished has your face in the water drinking a startled pulse of meaning. Knock and see what answers. Open all your ears and Wait patiently. Do not force your way in. Sit on the porch til dawn if you must. Maybe it's your porch. Have you checked the basement, the attic? Maybe it's your house and you forgot the key. Maybe the key has been hidden under the chair you've been sitting on this whole time. Unlock your accurate desire, taste your blood. Don't lose heart, the night is young. #ryanvanlenning
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