Resource Garden

Here are some resources that offer us guidance, and which we hope you will enjoy:

Podcasts

  • The Emerald — “Currents and trends through a mythic lens” with creator Joshua Michael Schrei

  • Living Myth - Mythologist Michael Meade offers mythic context and sustenance for these times

  • Tarot for the Wild Soul — An “inclusive, soul-centered, trauma-informed” exploration of the Tarot as a tool for intuition and creativity

  • The Nature Of (from Atmos) —The natural world offers insights into how we can realign ourselves with life’s intelligence

  • For the Wild — Land-based protection, co-liberation, + intersectional storytelling

Poems

Books & Writing

  • Courting the Wild Twin by Martin Shaw — A ceremony unto itself… audiobook recommended!

  • The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd — A journey into “the high and holy places” of the Cairngorm mountains in Scotland

  • When No Thing Works: — Rōshi Norma Kawelokū Wonga is a visionary guide to co-creating new worlds

  • The Ohlone Way by Malcolm Margolinan — An exploration of Ohlone life in the Bay Area

  • Anything by Robin Wall Kimmerer — a Potawatomi botanist, author, and elder offering Indigenous wisdom and the teachings of plants

  • Making Love with the Land by Joshua Whitehead — A sensual, queer, deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world

  • The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abrams — Perception, storytelling, shamanism, MAGIC

  • The Dark Mountain Project - ‘Uncivilised’ art and writing

  • Emergence Magazine - A publication and creative studio exploring the threads connecting ecology, culture and spirituality

Resources for land-based learning:

  • Sogorea Te' Land Trust —an urban Indigenous women-led land trust in the Bay Area facilitating the return of Indigenous land to Indigenous people

  • Co-Culture —Leah Manaema is an incredible Tuvaluan-Irish educator / therapist / researcher offering earth-based anti-oppressive relational strategy and design

  • ITSU CIRCLE - Indigenous Centered Land Rematriation

  • Bioneers — a 3-day conference + global convening in Berkeley, CA (March 28-30, 2026)

  • Seeding Sovereignty — a multi-lens collective a working to radicalize and disrupt colonized spaces through land, body, food sovereignty work, community building, and cultural preservation

  • The School of Lost Borders — a guide collective based in Payahuunadü (the Owens Valley) offering modern day rites of passage ceremonies (this is who we trained with)

  • Wilderness Guides Council — a global hub for wilderness rites of passage guides + organizations