Wild Nature Heart
Walking Together On An Ecospiritual Liberatory Journey
Tag: ecotherapy
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”
Re-enchantment and Gratitude Day – Darkness
I am writing this pre-dawn in the stretched pregnant hour before the dance of the day, while stars are still singing soliloquies in the belly of night. I’m drinking the landscape with a warm cup of earthy fir tip/lichen/turkey tail tea, and before I light… Continue Reading “Re-enchantment and Gratitude Day – Darkness”
Kiss Me A Huckleberry
Kiss Me A Huckleberry is finally here 🙂 At first, I was thinking of waiting until next summer to release this one because the cover features wild fruit. But don’t be fooled, Ecosensuality is not only a summer season thing—it’s a year round evocation.… Continue Reading “Kiss Me A Huckleberry”
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.
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”
💚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”
THE FIERCE EMPTY
Fasting is one most ubiquitous and ancient spiritual technologies. Just about every religious & spiritual tradition I’m aware of has some tradition of fasting. But it is one that many of us modern mesopotamians have lost connection with. Perhaps like me, you were not… Continue Reading “THE FIERCE EMPTY”
What to Learn From an 11,000 Year-old Elder?
If you’ve been in the Mojave and Sonora deserts you know creosote bushes are ubiquitous. Creosote plays a pivotal role in the desert ecosystem as a keystone species. Creosote has earned the title of “nurse plant,” helping many young cacti and other plants to establish,… Continue Reading “What to Learn From an 11,000 Year-old Elder?”
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”
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”
THRESHOLD: UNRELENTING MYSTERY
Intention can be an important part of crossing the threshold during a wilderness rite-of-passage, life change, or any liminal transition, including our current collective initiation. My way of holding intention and threshold has shapeshifted over the years. Intention is not a goal. It’s good… Continue Reading “THRESHOLD: UNRELENTING MYSTERY”
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.
Falling Off the Map: an Invitation
I’m both excited and curious about Wild Nature Heart’s new course container starting next month. Falling Off the Map is premised on the sneaking suspicion that we’ve exhausted the exhausting maps we’re caught in. That we are being invited to fall through inherited maps… Continue Reading “Falling Off the Map: an Invitation”
Wild Nature Heart October Update
Dear Wild Nature Hearts, A few days ago, I woke up feeling overwhelmed. I sensed my imagination waning. Perhaps you can relate to that sensation of constriction that can arise when you’ve been digesting too much about climate catastrophes, shameless capitalist exploitation and commodification,… Continue Reading “Wild Nature Heart October Update”
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”
AT THE TRAILHEAD
The trailhead is such a magnificent moment, carrying its own species of energy. It is a threshold of sorts—the threshold into the unknown. A crossing from one world to another. An excitement and curiosity runs the blood hot regardless of the weather. What beauties… Continue Reading “AT THE TRAILHEAD”
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”
Honoring Our Love and Pain for the World Gathering
We will gather to Honor Our Love and Pain for the World. It will be part council circle where we share our truths about things on the tip of our hearts, part simple grief ritual, witnessing and being witnessed in grief and other energies together, lending our tears & laughter to the watershed; and part eco-art and ecosensual exploration, getting curious about earthy joy/pleasure to root our work/play in the world.
Programs and Products
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Watershed Paperback — Preorder
Price range: $25.00 through $60.00
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Becoming Beautiful Barbarians Paperback — Preorder
Price range: $25.00 through $60.00
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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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An Ambitious Silence: A Playshop in Opening All Our Ears
Price range: $125.00 through $200.00
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We Go to the Sea to Scream: A Grief & Belonging Circle
Price range: $150.00 through $250.00