Tag: nature connection

8 Books Flying and Chirping

Posted on November 12, 2025 by Ryan Van Lenning

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”

Category: books, UncategorizedTags: belonging, earth, ecotherapy, nature, nature connection, poetry, poetry books, rite-of-passage, the great turning

UPCOMING WILD NATURE HEART PROGRAMS

Posted on January 14, 2025 by Ryan Van Lenning

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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”

Category: UncategorizedTags: belonging, course, ecotherapy, nature, nature connection, poetry, rewild, the great turning, writing

EARTH INTIMACIES

Posted on August 19, 2023 by Ryan Van Lenning

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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

Category: UncategorizedTags: andreas weber, belonging, cocreation, deep listening, interbeing, interdependent, intimacy, nature, nature connection, the great turning

NEW: THRESHOLD: Earth Intimacies & the Art of Transformation

Posted on August 18, 2023 by Ryan Van Lenning

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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.

Category: Class, Ecotherapy, UncategorizedTags: belonging, butterfly, collective initiation, council circle, course, earth, ecotherapy, nature, nature connection, poetry, rewild, rite-of-passage, the great turning, threshold, transformation

Falling Off the Map: an Invitation

Posted on February 20, 2023 by Ryan Van Lenning

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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”

Category: Class, UncategorizedTags: ecospirituality, ecotherapy, exosensuality, map, nature, nature connection, poetry, rewild, the great turning