Seasonocracy: Equinox Creativity Playshop

Description

A creative pause at the Equinox to reflect, realign, and seed what wants to grow

Twice each year, Earth pauses in a moment of rare balance. On the Spring Equinox, day and night briefly stand as equals as the light begins its steady return. Humans have long marked this turning as a time to reflect on the season that has passed and to listen for what is beginning to stir beneath the soil of our lives.

Seasonocracy is a two-hour creative playshop honoring this seasonal threshold. Through guided seasonal reflection, embodied earth-connection practices, and generative writing and other prompts, we’ll slow down enough to notice what winter has been quietly shaping in us and what seeds might be asking to tend this spring.

This gathering invites us to realign our bodies, imagination, and intention with the intelligence of spring—moving away Empire time and the urgency of productivity and back toward the rhythms of the seasons.

What is emerging? What seeds are planted in you? What are you pollinating? Where is balance being invited?

No prior writing experience needed—Come as you are; bring a pen (and maybe some colored pencils), your body, your truths, and open to whatever words and wilds might be ready to arrive.

DATE: Friday, March 20
TIME: 9:00-11:00AM PST | 12:00-2:00PM EST
Online | Sliding scale $20-40

(Note: Limited to 8)

If this feels like something that could be supportive of staying bouyed in this time of Trouble, you’re welcome to come surface words and sparks with us.

Register here, or VENMO: RyanVanLenning with the note “EMERGENCE” and a good email for zoom link.

My name is Ryan Van Lenning, Founder of Wild Nature Heart, and I am an earth-lover with a deep desire to be of service in the work of re-connection, re-membering, and re-inhabiting the animate web of life. I started Wild Nature Heart to support people at a crossroads to re-connect with the wisdom of both inner and outer wild nature, to live their soul callings into the world, and to assist in the work of repairing broken belonging. If I had to summarize our work for this time: Compost Empire. I am a threshold guide and barbarian poet of the Great Turning (author of several collections of poetry, including Re-Membering, From Inside These Wild Ones, One Bright and Real Caress, An Ambitious Silence, Trust the Ceremony, F*ck the Ceremony, and Trust the Ceremony, Then Yeses Come Bubbling, Within the Cave Something Pulses, Moon Has a Long Memory, Kiss Me A Huckleberry, and High-Cooing Through the Seasons: Haiku From the Forest). I am trained as a rite-of-passage/wilderness ceremony guide through the School of Lost Borders, certified as an Ecotherapist through The Earthbody Institute, where I teach the Level 1-3 ecotherapy courses, and am a Certified Wilderness First Responder through Foster Calm. Prior to moving to California 18 years ago, I taught Comparative Religion, Philosophy, and Environmental Ethics at Sinclair College in Ohio. I live among the forest and rivers in northern California, ancestral Wiyot and Yurok land. I like cinnamon ice cream, fantastic fungi and lovely lichen, and river ottering.