Tag: the great turning

Falling Off the Map: an Invitation

Posted on February 20, 2023 by Ryan Van Lenning

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

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

NEW FALL COURSES: DEEP BELONGING 3.0 AND A HOOF IN EACH DIRECTION

Posted on September 21, 2022 by Ryan Van Lenning

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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”

Category: Class, UncategorizedTags: belonging, earth, ecosensuality, ecotherapy, nature, nature connection, poetry, rewild, the great turning, wholeness, wilderness

WHAT WILD NATURE IS

Posted on September 2, 2022 by Ryan Van Lenning

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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”

Category: UncategorizedTags: belonging, collective initiation, deep time, earth, ecopsychology, ecotherapy, heart, nature, nature connection, purpose, the great turning, wilderness

Global Earth Exchange: Honoring Our Love and Pain For the World

Posted on June 11, 2022 by Ryan Van Lenning

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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”

Category: Ecogrief, Ecotherapy, UncategorizedTags: earth, ecotherapy, global earth exchange, nature, nature connection, radical joy for hard times, the great turning