The Land hears you.
Are you ready to listen?
Upcoming Classes
Join Emily Risinger — Animistic Witch, community herbalist, and Nature-Guided Therapist — for an exclusive two-hour class exploring journey work.
This is an introductory journeying class where you will learn how to intentionally enter a guided inner landscape for exploration, reflection, and spiritual connection.
Emily will guide you to meet your ancestors through drumming and meditation. Wear comfy clothes, water and a journal.
Saturday
Dec 19th 4pm-6pm
Wildmother, Zumbrota
What to expect:
Learn about Domovoy- Protective House spirits of Slavic Folklore
Guided assistance on making your own house guardian
*Materials and written material included
Emily Will provide Seasonal Herbal Tea
Plant Ally Walk
60 minutes • $125
This is an introduction — the beginning of a relationship that asks something of you in return: attention, curiosity, and a willingness to let the more-than-human world speak.
Open to anyone who wants to deepen their connection with the living landscape — whether you're new to plants, deepening an existing practice, or simply ready to pay a different kind of attention.
*We walk a short distance and do not forage. This is not a lecture.
Spirit Work/Energy Work
90 minutes • $150
Spirit work and energy healing sessions draw on the living web of relationship between worlds — calling in guides, allies, and helping spirits to support your healing and wholeness. Through sacred drumming, we journey together into the spaces where transformation becomes possible, working with what wants to shift, release, or come into greater alignment. This work is deeply personal and unfolds differently for each person who comes to it. Reach out to learn more and explore whether this work is the right fit for you.
Forest Bathing
60 minutes • $125
Weave your values back into your life, strengthen your inner being with the outward facing self. Claim your divine right to establish a relationship with the more-than-human world. Confront your environmental fears with support and confidence. Cultivate joy by learning to hold space for your fears while engaging with the natural world-the world you belong in.
Available Online Courses
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Nature Aware Mindfulness for OCD
Tired of your mind getting caught in endless loops? Imagine finding a unique path to peace, one rooted in the grounding embrace of the natural world. This online "Nature Aware Mindfulness for OCD" course offers a gentle yet powerful approach to transforming your relationship with intrusive thoughts and urges.
Learn to observe the rich tapestry of the present moment – the rustle of leaves, the warmth of the sun, the scent of fresh rain – as you cultivate acceptance and build resilience, shifting your focus from internal distress to the calming constancy of Nature's rhythms. Discover how connecting with the world around you can be a powerful tool for managing OCD, allowing you to live a life guided by presence and peace.
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Sensations and Perceptions: Working with Discernment
A deep connection to Nature involves more than just observation; it's about a reciprocal relationship built on respect, mindfulness, and a willingness to learn. By acknowledging the Land we shift from being mere visitors to active participants in an ongoing dialogue with the world around us. This approach, rooted in an animistic worldview where all things are alive and interconnected, allows us to listen for the language of the Earth. Through journaling and creative expression, we can begin to engage with the conversation around us and integrate it into our lives, transforming not just our understanding of Nature, but our very place within it.
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Suspending Judgement: Curiously Expanding Awareness in Critical Times
When we rush to judge, we close off our natural curiosity and lose the chance to really hear—whether it's our own inner voice or the world speaking to us. This habit of cutting off exploration too early can cause us to overlook important understanding, ignore what we truly need, and lose touch with the living, breathing world that surrounds us.
How often have you noticed what seemed like a meaningful signal from life itself, only to immediately think, "Thanks... but maybe something a little clearer? Something more unmistakably obvious?" This tension between awe and doubt, between embracing subtle mystery and wanting definitive proof, shows us something important about how we connect with the other-than-human world and our own wisdom.
In this course, we'll dive into holding back judgment—not simply as a thinking technique, but as an approach to living that creates space for richer connection with ourselves, one another, and the vibrant world that holds us all. goes here
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Guided By Nature: Introduction
Discover the living threads within and around you, weaving you to the tapestry of interconnectedness. This transformative course invites you to explore the meaningful relationships you engage with every day. Revitalize your awareness with Nature and remember your true self.
What You'll Experience
Communicate with Nature: Learn to engage with Plant Allies, Ancestors, and Land spirits through powerful practices like sensory awareness and dream journeying.
Build a Spiritual Practice: Establish a daily spiritual routine grounded in animism and Earth wisdom, fostering a sense of peace and belonging.
Explore Your Roots: Delve into your lineage and uncover your intrinsic, essential connection to the living world around you.
Ready to embark on a journey of self-discovery and reconnect with the wisdom of the Earth?
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Guided By Nature: Advanced
Take your connection with Nature to an entirely new level. This advanced course, guides you beyond the introduction to sensory perception, empowering you to confidently commune authentically with fellow Plant Allies.
Do you ever wonder, "Am I really connecting, or just imagining things?" We'll tackle this crucial question head-on, providing you with powerful tools and practices to sharpen your subtle senses and build unshakeable trust in your intuition. You'll learn to discern genuine communications, expand your concept of Nature, and cultivate a clear, undeniable bond with the vibrant life all around you.
Within this course, you'll also explore the very Land that holds you by delving into your personal lineage, ancestry, and neighborhood. We'll consider your unique stories and help you create a sacred nook for your continued engagement with Nature and the other-than-human world.
Join the course and transform your relationship with the green world from observation to genuine, two-way conversation.
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Climate Grief and Current Times
This transformative online course offers a compassionate space to acknowledge and work through the complex emotions that arise from witnessing our changing planet.
Through guided embodied practices, creative art exercises, and reflective journaling prompts, you'll find a place to honor your climate grief as a natural response to environmental loss while discovering pathways toward deeper processing and reflection.
Free Courses
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Free Mini Course: Guided By Nature
This brief overview includes an audio recording of Emily's approach. Her work helps individuals navigate existential fears, particularly those related to the climate crisis and social unrest, by reconnecting them with their core values.
Emily's therapeutic approach is deeply influenced by her personal history, including a childhood spent largely outdoors and a family that valued Nature. Reflecting on her personal experience of living with OCD, Emily found Nature to be a powerful ally in managing her condition, allowing her to more fully embrace and live in alignment with her true values.
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Free Mini Course: Unfurling the many layers of you
Feeling tangled in self-doubt or like you're not quite living as your true self? It's common for fear, like a dense thicket, to obscure who we really are, pushing us towards behaviors and attitudes that don't align with our deepest desires. This often leads to avoidance and a lack of confidence.
But what if you could find your way back to clarity and reclaim your personal power? By consciously engaging with and reciprocating the wisdom of the natural world, you can begin to peel back the layers and rediscover your authentic self. Join us to take a breath and explore the multifaceted "you" waiting to emerge.
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Breathwork with Plant Allies
Amid environmental crises, social conflict & inner struggles, we yearn for connection. This workshop teaches practical methods to connect with plant allies, fostering compassion, expression & emotional attunement. These skills help us embrace uncertainty without avoidance, apathy or fatigue while sustaining compassion. Learn to find capacity through relationships with plants—our oldest teachers for newest challenges.
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Story Walking: Connecting and Considering Intimacy with the Land
DescriptionStory walking is an immersive practice of listening with sensory engagement where we allow the Land to awaken our stories while creating new ones with each mindful step. Unlike ordinary walking, this practice involves receptive awareness that weaves together memory, present moment experience, and the subtle communications of the other/more-than-human world.goes here
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