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Empire Is Young. Earth Remembers Other Worlds.
Spend sufficient time among redwood, stone, and lichen elders and Empire begins to feel like a temporary administrative error, or a nervous system glitch. A futile attempt at paving overand filling up with all the wrong things. A hungry ghost.An ungrieved wound.Maybe one day… Continue Reading “Empire Is Young. Earth Remembers Other Worlds.”
Water: The Living Current – July’s Re-Enchantment & Gratitude Day
July’s Re-Enchantment & Gratitude Day guide is here, and this month we turn toward Water. Water as source. Water as kin. Water as current, carrier, teacher, shapeshifter, and living memory. This month’s issue, Water: The Living Current, invites us to enter more consciously into relationship with the… Continue Reading “Water: The Living Current – July’s Re-Enchantment & Gratitude Day”
Resist Not the Gravity of the Moment
“In a dark time, the eye begins to see.” ~Theodore Roethke My motto is: never waste a good Full Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse. I try to practice not dominating Mystery with too much pre-packaged agenda or meaning making. I didn’t carry any specific plan… Continue Reading “Resist Not the Gravity of the Moment”
Earth Intimacies: Apprenticing to Life
Often when we hear the word intimacy, we think romance. At the very least we think about humans. But what if intimacy with Earth was not only possible, but necessary for co-creating the world we want to inhabit and bequeath to future generations? For… Continue Reading “Earth Intimacies: Apprenticing to Life”
Cultivating Deep Belonging, Creative Awesomeness, and Earth Intimacies
I’m thrilled to be able to offer a basketful of 2026 programs starting in February. They all explore re-belonging ourselves in the animate web of life, practicing our creative awesomeness, cultivating all dimensions of our wholeness, and embodying our purpose. If being part of… Continue Reading “Cultivating Deep Belonging, Creative Awesomeness, and Earth Intimacies”
For Those Who Listen to Earth
Never in my wildest dreams did I think I’d have 10 poetry books out there, flitting about in the bushes and soaring in winter skies. This time last year there were just the two originals, that grew from my time in the forest and… Continue Reading “For Those Who Listen to Earth”
8 Books Flying and Chirping
8 books flying and chirping like pacific wren singing up the sun. Three fledglings (at bottom, Moon one not shown) needing a couple more worms before flight. A few more still in the nest, including the composting empire Becoming Beautiful Barbarians and Riverever. Feels… Continue Reading “8 Books Flying and Chirping”
From Inside These Wild Ones: Dispatches from Somewhere in the Entanglement
Introduction to From Inside These Wild Ones: Dispatches from Somewhere in the Entanglement
🌀Honoring Joanna Macy – Thank you
earth elder Joanna Macy is in her final days. She is in hospice space surrounded by family and friends. You can find updates at CaringBridge, and leave a message.
I feel moved to honor her and name a few of the many things I have learned from Joanna and her body of work and play, from her teaching, courage, transparency, and passion.
UPCOMING WILD NATURE HEART PROGRAMS
In addition to offering evergreen earth-rooted mentoring and ecotherapy, and custom wilderness rite-of-passage ceremony, I’m thrilled to be able to offer a basketful of programs in the next few months. Deep Belonging in the Great Turning (starting tomorrow, Wednesday) was Wild Nature Heart’s first… Continue Reading “UPCOMING WILD NATURE HEART PROGRAMS”
POLYPOETIC PRODUCTION IN PROCESS
“𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘦𝘤𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳. 𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘦𝘵, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘴.” – 𝘙𝘶𝘮𝘪 It’s been a polypoetic productive wow of the den time. I’m happy to have both tended the delicious darkness & liminal rest and… Continue Reading “POLYPOETIC PRODUCTION IN PROCESS”
Turn It Up
All rivers lead to a free Palestine and the end of U.S. Empire. Flow on. May all the dams break. All watersheds connect. Bombed schools & hospitals & refugee camps + beheaded babies + targeted journalists and poets + Palestinian men sodomized and tortured… Continue Reading “Turn It Up”
💚10 EARTH DAY-IS-EVERY-MOMENT ACTIONS
Happy Earth Day and full moon vibes, beautiful beasts! Of course, we don’t just live on Earth—we are OF Earth. With Earth. We ARE Earth. There is no separation. May we all fall in love with each leaf and dew drop, each dawn and… Continue Reading “💚10 EARTH DAY-IS-EVERY-MOMENT ACTIONS”
From the Life Mat
From the Life Mat: 🌞 Feed beauty, starve the Beast 🌞 Forage imaginal possibilities beyond the hungry ghost energy of Empire 🌞 You are here to tend the Sacred 🌞 Court your radiant rage as a more-than-human wisdom 🌞 Refusing to be well-adjusted to a sick society is a… Continue Reading “From the Life Mat”
THRUM Circles of the Great Re-Membering
THRUM Circles are gatherings for cultivating a community of inquiry, practice, and emergent wisdom in the ongoing Great Turning, sometimes called the Great Re-Membering or The Great Composting. Hosted on the full and new moon, each gathering will be anchored by a theme, and include space for council circle,… Continue Reading “THRUM Circles of the Great Re-Membering”
MORNING DEW: HOLY WATER
These days I rarely start the day without being 61% salt-water by volume. I rarely start heating the water (from the mountain spring) for my forest fresh tip tea without my body being 99% H20 by molecular count. I see these morning dew drops… Continue Reading “MORNING DEW: HOLY WATER”
EARTH INTIMACIES
And when Grasshopper flies into your heart
their green gears grin
at all your precious purities.
You find yourself
no longer fearing
the depths of entangled love
NEW: THRESHOLD: Earth Intimacies & the Art of Transformation
I’m both tickled like a butterfly and hungry like a caterpillar for Wild Nature Heart’s new course/journey starting next month.
THRESHOLD: Earth Intimacies and the Art of Transformation is a 6-week course journey dedicated to tending both our personal and collective thresholds with intention and heart. With the images of threshold crossing and caterpillar-to-butterfly transformation as guiding metaphors, we will deepen our ecospiritual practices, practice being present with the whole of what is at our doorstep, and proliferate imaginal buds for what is emerging.
NEW FALL COURSES: DEEP BELONGING 3.0 AND A HOOF IN EACH DIRECTION
Excited to announce two courses this fall: Deep Belonging in the Great Turning and a new course: A Hoof in Each Direction: Cultivating Earth-Rooted Wholeness. See below for brief descriptions. Follow the links to full course information or drop me a line at ryan@wildnatureheart.com.… Continue Reading “NEW FALL COURSES: DEEP BELONGING 3.0 AND A HOOF IN EACH DIRECTION”
WHAT WILD NATURE IS
WILD NATURE HEART is: A Geo-Mystical CrackingA Hoof in Each DirectionA Bright Green TrustA Spiraling UpwardHeartbroken and WholeVulnerable and RobustA Tender and Savage PulseA Yes in the DarknessA Threshold of Unrelenting MysteryBright and Slow CaressA Strange Curiosities Tent at the Festival of Slow SurrenderingA… Continue Reading “WHAT WILD NATURE IS”
Wild Nature Heart Challenge
We’re excited to announce the FREE Wild Nature Heart Challenge! In this self-paced mini-adventure, you will engage in earth-rooted activities and poetry that help you reconnect, feel alive, have fun, engage your senses, be inspired, practice presence, reground, and reconnect to your rhythm and the rhythms of nature.
Featured Offerings
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Watershed Paperback
Price range: $16.00 through $45.00
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Becoming Beautiful Barbarians Paperback
Price range: $16.00 through $45.00
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Moon Has a Long Memory: A 13-month Lunatic Apprenticeship
Price range: $325.00 through $520.00
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Kiss Me a Huckleberry, Teach Me the Storm: An Ecosensual Playshop
Price range: $125.00 through $175.00