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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 and Other Foraged Goodies
This summer I released 4 collections of earthy poetry. The first two are books 2 and 3 of the Re-Membering Poetry series. The third, Trust the Ceremony, is one I’ve been excited about for a while, and released 8 years to the day I… Continue Reading “From Inside These Wild Ones and Other Foraged Goodies”
🌀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.
10 EARTH DAY-IS-EVERY-MOMENT ACTIONS
🌏Anchor in an unshakable ecospirituality (rooted in deep time, reciprocity, humility, gratitude, love, enchantment, animist relationality) 🌏Slow down. Allow something new to emerge. Practice skills for building sky (spaciousness) & earth (grit) within (i.e. regulating our nervous system). Practice Erecting your No, stretching your… Continue Reading “10 EARTH DAY-IS-EVERY-MOMENT ACTIONS”
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”
💚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”
In deep conversation with the Magic of the world
From the Life mat this morning 🙇🏻♂️🌞 INHALEMay all beings be who they really arewithout restriction or fear.May we stretch our starlight imagination beyond its binary rusty cages.May your liberation be my liberation.May we spend our unearned privilege in the service of Life and… Continue Reading “In deep conversation with the Magic of the world”
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”
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.
2023 NEW YEAR’S INCARNATIONS
💧Recite the eon-long poems in our blood💧Relish our grand and gratuitous re-enchantment💧Kiss the other-kin in the center of our cells💧Allow prophetic artistry to germinate from our magnificent failures💧Waltz whimsically with all the big and little deaths💧Let our inner cops out of jail💧Caress each other’s… Continue Reading “2023 NEW YEAR’S INCARNATIONS”
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”
Global Earth Exchange: Honoring Our Love and Pain For the World
As part of Radical Joy for Hard Times’ Global Earth Exchange, we will gather to Honor Our Love and Pain for the World. This will be equal parts sharing in circle, solo time on land/with the river, a simple grief ritual, and creating ecoart… Continue Reading “Global Earth Exchange: Honoring Our Love and Pain For the World”
TAKE THE WILD NATURE HEART CHALLENGE
The Wild Nature Heart Challenge: A Season Of Deepening is a Self-paced mini-adventure with 25+ earth-rooted practices and accompanying poems to guide you into reconnecting and deepening your connection with the inner and outer wild.
THE TREASURE AT THE BOTTOM OF EACH BREATH
The sun setting can be a daily practice for letting go of things that we are still holding onto too tightly.
TENDER BEAUTY OF THE BREAKDOWN
Tomorrow I head out on the mountain to guide a 4-day solo wilderness rite-of-passage ceremony for someone. I’m reminded of some poetry that came through me during my first wilderness fast, that may now be medicine for others going on the sacred mountain to mark a transition, to claim their truth, to release the old, and live into their new aliveness.
CULTIVATING BELONGING -PART 1
Over the next few weeks, I will be posting ways in which we can cultivate belonging—to Place (the land, watershed, & more-than-human world), to community, & to self (body/soul/calling)—and how these are all interrelated. One of the ways to cultivate belonging to where you’re… Continue Reading “CULTIVATING BELONGING -PART 1”
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