Wild Nature Heart FREE 7 Day Challenge

Plant the Seeds of Your Ecological Self

The Wild Nature Heart Challenge is a self-paced experience that guides you through easy-to-implement exercises and concepts that invite you to drop deeper into your body, your senses, and your inner and outer wild nature.

Each daily challenge comes with a description, a how-to, and earth poetry related to the theme.
The Wild Nature Heart Challenge can be done daily over seven days, or completed at the pace that works for you.
We are confident you will be inspired and nourished by completing the challenge!
- The Wild Nature Heart Team


Your Instructor


Ryan Van Lenning
Ryan Van Lenning

My name is Ryan Van Lenning, Founder of Wild Nature Heart, and I am an earth-lover with a deep desire to be of service in the work of re-connection and re-membering during this Great Turning/Great Composting. I started Wild Nature Heart to support people to re-connect with the wisdom of both inner and outer wild nature, to live their soul callings into the world, and to assist in the work of repairing broken belonging.

I am an inner/outer wilderness guide and poet (author of Re-Membering: Poems of Earth & Soul) and High-Cooing Through the Seasons: Haiku From the Forest. I am certified as an Ecotherapist through The Earthbody Institute, at which I teach the Level 1 and 3 Ecotherapy courses. I am trained as a rite-of-passage/wilderness vision fast guide through the School of Lost Borders, through which I assist wilderness ceremonies, and am a Certified Wilderness First Responder through Foster Calm. Prior to moving to California 13 years ago, I taught Comparative Religion, Philosophy, and Environmental Ethics at Sinclair College in Ohio. I live among the forest and rivers in northern California, ancestral Wiyot, Yurok, and Sinkyone land. Email: [email protected]


Course Curriculum


  At the Trailhead
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  Coming to Your Senses
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  Conversations with Wild Nature
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  Love Affair With the World
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  Meet the Neighbors
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  Letting Go
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  What's Next on Your Journey?
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Frequently Asked Questions


When does the course start and finish?
The course starts now and never ends! It is a completely self-paced online course - you decide when you start and when you finish.
How long do I have access to the course?
How does lifetime access sound? After enrolling, you have unlimited access to this course for as long as you like - across any and all devices you own.
What if I am unhappy with the course?
We would never want you to be unhappy! If you are unsatisfied with your purchase, contact us in the first 30 days and we will give you a full refund.

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