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New to Wild Nature Heart?
Begin here.

Wild Nature Heart is a home for programs, poetic offerings, and earth-rooted practices
devoted to deeper belonging with the living world at a time of unraveling and cultural reimagining.

Here you’ll find seasonal playshops, immersions, books, and practices
for re-inhabiting the animate web of life: not as an idea, but as a lived relationship with place, body, grief, wonder, creativity, kinship, and participation in a more beautiful and life-honoring world.

We practice relearning forms of belonging often severed by modern disconnection, extraction, and empire.

Explore the Pathways

Some people enter through courses and communal practice, some through poetry,
others through seasonal letters and earth-rooted invitations.

Begin with the Books

For those who enter through poetry, mythopoetic language, grief, wonder, and the more-than-human world.

Explore the Books

Join a Course or Playshop

For those who want guided practice, community, creative invitations, and deeper earth-rooted participation.

Explore Courses

Receive Seasonal Notes

For those appreciating seasonal attunements, poems, and small invitations back into relationship with Life.

Join the Newsletter

Threshold Work

Some thresholds ask for a circle. Others ask for a companion on the trail.

If you’re drawn to one-on-one support, I’d be honored to walk alongside you for a stretch.
Sometimes what is needed is a dedicated space to listen deeply, untangle what is shifting,

and explore what is calling for attention, expression, or transformation.

I love accompanying with people at crossroads and seasons of becoming: composting what is ready to be released, heartstorming new possibilities and re-alignment, empowering creativity and gifts, co-creating meaningful ceremony, and, of course, jamming on earth-centered life-crafting.

Explore 1:1 Work & Wilderness Ceremony
Where should I begin?

If you’re longing for reconnection…
Begin with Earth Intimacies or Deep Belonging, or one of the playshops

If you want a communal experience…
Begin with any upcoming course or playshop with the themes that are at the tip of your heart.

If grief, rage, or heartbreak is close…
Begin with We Go to the Sea to Scream or the new collection Watershed.

If you’re feeling the unraveling and want fierce, strange, liberatory poems…
Begin with Becoming Beautiful Barbarians.

If you’re feeling that unraveling, but want to move through composting it with a cohort of fellow pilgrims…
Join the 3-month Becoming Beautiful Barbarians Immersion this fall.

If your creativity is on fire or wants a fire under it…
Begin with Write Your Wild River Playshop or Then Yeses Come Bubbling.

If you want a free, gentle doorway into re-enchantment…
Begin with the Re-Enchantment & Gratitude Day Almanac.

If you are desiring seasonal attunements…
Begin with a Seasonocracy playshop or the longer Moon Apprenticeship.

Re-Enchantment & Gratitude Days
Monthly invitations into kinship, gratitude, and the animate world.

Visit the free Almanac
Who’s tending this?

Wild Nature Heart is tended by Ryan Van Lenning:
poet, teacher, threshold guide, and founder of this feral little ecosystem.

This field grows from animism, deep ecology, creative practice,
grief tending, rites-of-passage, and a dedication to disrupting modernity’s trance of separability
and inviting us back into animate web of life.

Learn More About Ryan & Wild Nature Heart’s orientation
Begin with 7 Earth-Rooted Practices

A gentle guide for reconnecting with your inner and outer wild nature
through presence, sensory attention, creativity, and small acts of participation.

Get the Free Guide

Because Slug is one of our elders here, however you enter, enter slowly.
Let the first doorway be enough.

Newsletter
GET YOUR FREE GUIDE: 7 Earth-Rooted Practices

Along the way, you’ll also receive seasonal reflections, poetic offerings, and earth-rooted invitations into deeper belonging with the animate web of life in a time of unraveling and cultural reimagining.

Featured Offerings