My name is Ryan Van Lenning and I am an inner & outer wilderness guide, and poet. I am founder of Wild Nature Heart and am passionate about facilitating re-connections with wild nature and our most authentic selves to assist in the work of repairing broken belonging. I believe in catalyzing human wholeness and that our world desperately needs each person becoming more fully themselves and offering their gifts back to the community and the more-than-human world. I am certified as an ecotherapist through the Earthbody Institute. Coming soon: Wild Nature Heart Academy!
I published my debut collections of poetry, Re-Membering: Poems of Earth & Soul, and High-Cooing Through the Seasons: Haiku From the Forest. in 2018 under Wild Nature Heart Press.The 2019 Jodi Stutz Poetry Award by Toyon Literary Magazine was awarded to my poem ‘And All the Walls Between Them’ and I have published work in Earth Island Journal, Deep Time: The Journal of the Work That Reconnects, Terrain Magazine, Elephant Journal, various poetry journals, and the soon-to-be-released book A Walk with Nature: Poetic Encounters that Nourish the Soul.
Services Summary :
1-on-1 Earth-Rooted Mentoring/Coaching (Inner Wilderness Guiding)
Wilderness Ceremonies/Rites-of-Passage
Custom Wilderness Backpacking Journeys (1-4 days, groups of 1-5)
Weekend Immersions, Community Nature Meetups
Small group facilitation (Council Circle, Writing Wild Workshops, Deep Belonging Workshops)
Online teaching at Wild Nature Heart Academy (Coming soon!)
I live among the forests and rivers of Humboldt County, and when I can also spend time in the rich redwood forest of the East Bay hills, the wild oaks & coyote along the American River, the alders and otters along the Mad River, and the lodgepole pines of the Sierra mountains. Email: ryanvanlenning@gmail.com
