Tag: the great turning

Honoring the Season

Posted on September 27, 2023 by Ryan Van Lenning

Moments like equinox and solstice are great markers of transition from one season to another; yet we know the energies of transformation are always afoot, wearing different garbs and guises. There’s the change we want. And there’s the change we don’t. Regardless, change IS. Sometimes… Continue Reading “Honoring the Season”

Category: Newsletter, UncategorizedTags: autumn, honor the season, nature, presence, September, the great turning, threshold, Transition

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, poetry, UncategorizedTags: belonging, butterfly, collective initiation, council circle, course, earth, ecotherapy, nature, nature connection, 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, poetry, UncategorizedTags: ecospirituality, ecotherapy, exosensuality, map, nature, nature connection, rewild, the great turning

Wild Nature Heart October Update

Posted on October 25, 2022 by Ryan Van Lenning

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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”

Category: Newsletter, poetry, UncategorizedTags: autumn, co-liberation, ecotherapy, Imagination, liberation, mycelium, nature, Slow, slug, the great turning