Wild Nature Heart
Journeys Into Reconnection
“The world was made to be free in. Give up all the other worlds except the one to which you belong. Anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.” – David Whyte, Sweet Darkness
“If we surrendered
to earth’s intelligence
we could rise up rooted, like trees.” -Rumi
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🐾Oh, the beauty of the Nearby Faraway. 😀 Find your own way to reconnect and stay grounded as the week flows through you and you flow through the week.
We’ve been following the thread for the #Bioneers environmental and indigenous wisdom conference—so many inspirational and creative solutionaries!
Our friend and sometime WNH collaborator @savornourishwellness is on the grounds there facilitating and holding space for gorgeous community nature art. And our very own @katie.baptist.1 will be joining today, so if you’re in San Rafael at the conference, stop by and say hi to both and create some art. 😀 Can’t wait to see what everybody creates today!
#nature #art #natureart #creativity #meditation #natureheals #mandala #bioneers2018 #reconnect
I (Katie) was at Apple Hill today with my family. There are WAY too many people flocking there this October, but there is undeniably something magical and earthy about biting into a bright red apple, so can you really blame them? The words on this photo come from my one woman play "Crimson". Maybe I'll actually perform it one day!
Our Autumn newsletter is here!
Deep autumn is here--the crisper evenings, the shorter days, the slowing down, gold and crimson alder and maple leaves. But it is also a season of descent--lengthening shadows of the season match the lengthening shadows of a culture that has lost its way. If one is paying attention, it seems as if the culture has collectively drunk deeply from the fathomless River Lethe, that great underground river of oblivion, and as a consequence has forgotten a great number of important things about what it means to be a human being.
One of Wild Nature Heart’s core missions is creating healing spaces in nature for all genders to come together during this time of cultural, psychological, and ecological crises. It is a time for people to tell their truths. It is a time for those who have historically dominated cultural spaces and determined who gets heard to step back and listen and take seriously the under-told stories—stories of women, stories of people of color, indigenous stories, earth stories. And It is a time for all people to step into their genius, the power and gifts that are uniquely theirs. When we do this, we co-create the seeds of the healthy, inclusive, regenerative culture we envision.
Our work as facilitators of remembrance takes various forms: workshops, classes, 1-on-1 nature-based mentoring, wilderness vision fasts, retreats, and writing. We strive to be part of the Great Remembering or what has been called the Great Turning: to remember our proper relationship with our earth home and all our relations, one based on reciprocity and a profound sense of belonging, to remember a fully alive embodiment of our wonderfully sense-based and sensual mammal bodies, and---though it is not popular to talk about it in these extremely unsoulful times---to remember our soul and its callings. A Great Remembering is not the only thing needed to reach the other side of critical problems facing humanity, but it doubtful it can be accomplished without it.
In love and all the best wild mysteries,
Katie and Ryan (To receive our full newsletter follow link in bio)
#nature #naturetherapy #reconnect #rewild #visionquest #ecospirituality
I'm in the process of unlearning- a people-pleaser in recovery. I have a strong hunch that I'm not alone. This dedication to authenticity isn't easy. It's a practice that I have to bring myself back to every day.
I'm Katie Baptist, and you might know me as the other founding member of Wild Nature Heart. But then again, you might not, because up until now I've hardly ever posted here. I've cultivated the art of invisibility a lot of the time and letting myself be seen is really hard some days. When I show up with my wild authentic truth, there's no telling how it's going to be received. But I have to let that go.
If you follow Wild Nature Heart on Instagram, you've been gifted with the words, photos, and authentic presence of my friend and business partner @ryanreturntotheearth. Lucky you, and lucky all of us! Ryan's courage and dedication in the way he keeps on showing up inspires me.
I stepped into this work in large part because Ryan challenged me to walk my talk and step into the light to let myself be seen. But recently, he called me out. Why wasn't I posting? Wild Nature Heart is a poem in two voices- and to see our Instagram history, you couldn't tell.
So here I am. Stepping up and showing up. And the irony is, one of the big things we most want to do in our work is to inspire people to show up with courage and full on authenticity.
I adore authentic fire when I meet it in others, and I want you all to show up big and bright and shining! How can I encourage you to do that if I don't do it myself? Stay tuned, there'll be SO much more to come! Love, Katie
#authenticity #innervoice #empowerment #vulnerability #courage #useyourvoice #heartcentered #presence
🐍RE-CLAIM YOUR POWER
Go through all the othered yeses
To uncover thundered no’s
They are but the bottom side, no less
Than the yeses that you own
#poetry #snakemedicine #claimyourpower
