31. Inviting nature-led ritual, ceremony and celebration to honour your precious life

Tenderness warning: Mentions miscarriage

In this podcast episode recorded in my summer garden I share:

• How quick fixes and rushing through life is robbing us of meaning and connection

• How ritual, ceremony and celebration can bring us back into resonance with yourselves, each other and the web of life on our doorsteps

• The science behind why we need ritual, ceremony and celebration in unison with others

• Rituals, ceremonies and celebrations I have brought into my life

• Considering cultural appropriation when bringing in nature-led ritual, ceremony and celebration into your life

• Questions to help you create your own nature-led rituals, ceremonies and celebrations

PLUS - join The Wild Enchantment Club, my paid subscription on Substack, for £7.50/month and get access to the LIVE online Summer Solstice Gathering where we’ll be exploring the joy, wonder and enchantment of wildflowers as an act of resistance.

The gathering on 20 June, 1-2pm BST, is a moment of creative, devotional wild enchantment for fellow tender-hearted wonder-seekers. During the gathering you will:

• Get to know a local wildflower through wild journalling techniques (think painting with the flowers themselves!)

• Learn enchanting science and folklore stories about Britain's wildflowers

• Consider the imperfect beauty of wildflowers and our own imperfect beauty

• Create a wildflower crown for the Summer Solstice.

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Mentioned in the podcast

• Episode 28. The power of tender, loving attention and care

• Episode 21. How nature inspired my 2025 words of the year: Honour my precious life

• Josh Schrei - The Mythic Body and The Emerald Podcast

• Dr Sharon Blackie

• The Wild Academy

• Book: Dacher Keltner - The Transformative Power of Everyday Awe

• Your Wild Journal course

• Rewild Your Soul year-long programme

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🌲⭐ Join The Wild Enchantment Club

The Wild Enchantment Club is for fiercely tender-hearted wonder-seekers ready to step outside and nurture a devotional practice of seasonal wild enchantment.

Rooted in beauty, science, art, magic and awe, this is a space where love for our messy, beautiful universe is seen as an act of gentle resistance.

Upgrade to a paid subscription for £7.50 a month (or £75 for the year) and join the club and get a:

• 🌟 Monthly wonder quest - exploratory topic and quest to get you outside and noticing your local web of life with child-like curiosity and playful creativity as a regular practice. Quests are simple and achievable evidence-based nature connection exercises. One month you may track the opening of a blossom, the next you'll get to know the song of a local bird.

• 🎙️ Monthly Your Wildly Enchanted Life private podcast episode - a deep dive into the monthly exploratory topic and quest that weaves together science, art, folklore and rewilding the soul so you see the most ordinary moments in nature as magically extraordinary.

• Private member-only chat space with prompts to remind you of the wonder quest and a community of nature-lovers to support and encourage you.

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mage: Photo by Jessica Mangano on Unsplash
Music: Magic Winter by Serge Quadrado Music on Pixabay
Birdsong: Song Thrush, Turdus philomelos recorded at Cushendall, Causeway Coast and Glens, Northern Ireland Azens, XC905249. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/905249.