Resources

Resources on Council, Wilderness Rites of Passage, Four Shields:

What is a Wilderness Rite of Passage (by John Davis)
Wilderness Vision Questing and The Four Shields of Human Nature, by Stephen Foster and Meredith Little, founders of School of Lost Borders
The Practice of Council (From Ojai Foundation, posted on Wilderness Guides Council)
The Four Shields Model

Earthy Poets, Writers, and Creatives We Adore:

David Whyte
Mary Oliver
Michael Meade’s Living Myth Podcast
On Being with Krista Tippet Podcast
Kai Siedenburg, Poems of Earth and Spirit
Andy Goldsworthy – Nature Artist
Rainer Maria Rilke
James Hollis
Gary Snyder

Related Organizations & Networks We Adore:

Joanna Macy and The Work That Reconnects
EarthWays
School of Lost Borders
Ariana Candell and The Earthbody Institute
Bill Plotkin & Animas Valley Institute
Craig Chalquist, Emmanence Journal, and WorldRede
Holos Institute
Emergence Magazine (Coming Earth Day 2018)

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“If we surrendered
to earth’s intelligence
we could rise up rooted, like trees.” -Rumi

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🌲We’re excited to announce that Ryan’s book Re-Membering: Poems of Earth & Soul is now live and available! • Re-Membering has 75 earthy, soulful poems in it. Link to Amazon page in Bio. Only click if you are a nature and poetry lover 🐸 May the poems in Re-Membering inspire your fierce and big wild nature hearts and be a small part of The Great Turning. • Wild nature is always there to jog our memory-- to whisper, to sing, or sometimes to yell, "Hey, remember your childhood curiosity? Remember your creativity and your gifts for others? Remember your senses and your animal sensuality? Remember your great love affair with the earth?" The poems in Re-Membering are about evoking that gasp of memory. To re-member is not only to recall the treasures that have been lost to forgetfulness, but about re-integrating the body and soul, putting the members of our whole selves back together, and to re-belong ourselves to the vast and beautiful and endlessly fecund home we call earth, to become full members again in the great earth community. • Re-Membering is Wild Nature Heart Press’s first book, and we have several literary projects planned, including a curated collection of poems, reflections from participants in our programs. . . . #poetry #poetrycommunity #wild #wildnatureheart #instapoetry #bookstagram #book #nature #reconnect #soul #earth #ecospirituality #ecopsychology #forest #redwoods #poet #inspiration #mondaymotivation #naturetherapy
A wonderfully nourishing, grounding, and connecting morning in the forest at our inaugural gathering of Wild Nature Heart Humboldt County. The theme: Sacred Pause and Love Affair with the World. • What if we flipped the conventional script? What if carving out sacred time and space to reconnect and re-ground is THE most practical thing you can do? What ways do you create a sacred pause in your life and what gets in the way? . . #forest #sacredpause #slowdown #love #nature #reconnect #trees #ecotherapy #naturetherapy
Great post from @zhennifr of Latorium on being with the wisdom of water. ・・・ Healing water activity. Water is always a powerful healing tool. If you are near the sea, lakes or river or small canal find a sit spot...Somewhere comfortable beside the water. You can have the sensory experience of just listening to the water... Watching ripples... Or the sunlight reflecting off... Meditate Research shows that Water sounds and vibrations calm our brains and nervous systems. We can think that Moving waters symbolise going with the flow, letting go, movement, change, and creative energy. Still waters symbolise self-reflection... Still waters run deep If possible, feel the water with your hands and feet. Allow the water to massage and refresh your feet.... . . . . . . . 🌼🌻🌳🌲🌱🌴 #wellbeing #mentalhealth #mindbody #biophilia #natureconnection #latorium #anxiety #therapeutic #creativecoaching #creativeinterventions #selfgrowth #selfcare #selfreflection #water #waterislife #nature #natureconnection
This is for the women we work with (though much of it applies to all of us). What is instinct? It is the knowing that comes from listening to our animal bodies, and it is our true heritage as human beings. In my work with women there is something I find myself saying again and again. • “You have good instincts.” Each time I say it, it is genuine and born of my amazement that, despite all the cultural messages designed to get us to doubt and numb our inner knowing, good judgment that comes from deep within (which is the best definition I can give for intuition) still somehow gets through. • Not all the time. But often enough that I can say with certainty that there is hope for us. Every time I say these words, “you have good instincts”, I become a witness to a woman taking back a little of her power. One woman’s shoulders get a little straighter. Another seems to breathe a sigh of recognition. • Or, a woman’s eyes get just a little brighter with that spark that’s always been inside her, or she beams a smile as if to say “you see me!” And then I get to feel more vital too and my heart fills with gratitude for this sacred work I do. Like the woman who sings over the bones in a story told by Clarissa Pinkola Estes in Women Who Run with the Wolves, I help women to re-assemble all the parts of themselves by speaking these simple, magic words. • Lately, I’ve been saying these words a lot to my daughter too. She is an amazing eighteen year old young woman now and her good instincts (along with her brilliant curiosity and her fierce courage) really do inspire me. The little girl she used to be (shown in this picture) was fiercely brilliant and courageous too. • Children are innately intuitive. The trick is to hold on to that when we grow up. Clarissa Pinkola Estes says, “There is no greater blessing a mother can give her daughter than a reliable sense of the veracity of her own intuition. Intuition is handed from parent to child in the simplest ways; ‘You have good judgement. What do you think lies hidden behind all this?’ Rather than defining intuition as some unreasoned faulty quirk, it is defined as truly the soul-voice speaking.” -Katie Baptist
Redwood therapy-Never fails 🐸🐾 . #trees #sacredpause #deepbreath #forest #reconnect
M is for Murmuration and Moving with it. “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” - Alan Watts . . . #change #movement #fly #dance #flow #water #birds #alanwatts #beauty #nature
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