Wild Nature Heart

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An orientation to the Wild Nature Heart ecosystem:

courses, books, immersions, and liberatory pathways into deeper participation with the animate web of life.

WILD NATURE HEART PROGRAMS

Upcoming Programs:

💧Write Your Wild River (Starts Sunday, October 11)
❤️‍🔥Within the Cave Something Pulses (6 Sundays starting Dec. 6)
🌎Earth Intimacies (Starts Thursday, January 14)
🐾Deep Belonging in the Great Composting (6 Fridays starting January 22)

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Books from the Wild Nature Heart Field

NEW:
The first two THRUM books, Becoming Beautiful Barbarians and Watershed, and the newest Kin Collection book, Riverever, are available now.

Forage among Wild Nature Heart’s collection of organic, free-range earth poetry books.

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A Relative from Forever: First Fire of the Season

The season turns, and the hearthfire returns. Welcoming an elder back into the home. The first fire is also an ancient fire. Perhaps a first deity, our first altar. A relative from forever. Powerful, mysterious, enchanting. The first flamelets gobble their forest meal, growing…

Posted on October 29, 2026 by Ryan Van Lenning

Let the Season Season You

The season has its own wisdoms. Here on the North Coast of California, autumn is beginning to gather us inward. I feel the tug with a little more force today as temperatures drop and the rain shifts from last week’s gentle invitation to today’s…

Posted on October 27, 2026 by Ryan Van Lenning

Gratuitous Re-Enchantment as Surthrival Strategy

For the past twelve months, I’ve been hosting a peculiar little celebration. Each month, I invite people to tune into a different more-than-human kin or elemental presence. We’ve celebrated Pollinators and Soil, Sun and Moon, Water and Fire, Darkness and Decomposers, Fungi and Feathered…

Posted on October 22, 2026 by Ryan Van Lenning