SoulRiver Anahata Giri

22/01/2026

Who can spot the love?

Jacquie .muze and I spent a couple of days at Bear Gully Campground, to soak up the magic of the landscape in preparation for the Wild Heart Wild Soul Immersion, at this beautiful wild beach, Walkerville South, next week: 28 January - 1 February 2026.

There are still places but book ASAP if you want to join us. If you long to come but can't make it work financially, please reach out.

See link in bio.

🌊 Pick up the thread of your heart-and-soul longing and see where it guides you.

🌊 When we do creative, new, 'sideways' practices, we can make fresh, experiential and genuine discoveries about who we are, why we are here and where we are going.

🌊 Practices are offered as creative and evocative invitations that you can adapt to whatever is emergent on your path.

🌊 You will have space and support to follow your own unique soul thread, held in the nourishing container of the temporary village that we will co-create together.

🌊 As we see and are seen by the human and more-than-human world, the wilderness of heart and soul, land and ocean, beckon us home.

❣️ Anahata & Jacquie

16/01/2026

“Where there is Sorrow there is holy ground.”
- Oscar Wilde

"Recently I completed a five month Grief Ritual Leadership training with Francis Weller, author of the profound book, The Wild Edge of Sorrow. As a soul activist, Weller believes that grief tending is essential to living a soulful life. He has facilitated community grief rituals for decades and it was a delight to learn from his quiet and deep wisdom. I especially love his framework of the Five Gates of Grief, explored below. If the summary here calls you, I highly recommend reading this beautiful book. "
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"Zen Master Thích Nhất Hạnh was asked what we need to do to save our world. “What we most need to do,” he replied, “is to hear within us the sound of the earth crying.”

What if grief was one of the ways the earth is calling us home? The five gates of grief can helps us name, acknowledge and hold tenderly the wild grief within, whatever gateway we walk through. Grief tending is not done to fix what is broken but rather to bless what is broken (James Hillman). In a culture that individualises grief, it is important that we grieve not only in solitude, but also together, in community. There is great power in ritual, alone or with others, to call in the transformative power of grief tending.

Our shared grief brings powerful medicine needed by our world: the vulnerability and love of the first gate; compassion of the second gate; entanglement of the third gate; belonging of the fourth gate and wisdom of the fifth gate. “Grief is our common bond. Opening to our sorrow connects us with everyone, everywhere.” Will we reap the harvest of our shared grief?"

You can find the link to this substack article in my bio

❣️ Anahata

16/01/2026

Kookaburra.

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16/01/2026

What does the word WILD mean to you?

A wild landscape is vibrant, emergent, relational, participatory, spontaneous, complex and brimming with: beingness; experiential intelligence; cyclical becoming..and so much more. We humans are wild too. How do we remember our wild, fully human, loving selves?

When our ways of perceiving and relating with the world become stuck in rational-thinking we forget the vibrant wilderness of our: WILD BODY, WILD HEART-MIND, WILD PRESENCE, WILD IMAGINATION and WILD INTUITION.

Through experiential participation with the wild world that is around us and within us, we can make genuine discoveries about who we are, why we are here and where we are going. We can uncover our authentic way to participate in this wondrous world.

You will have space and support to follow your own unique soul thread, held in the nourishing container of the temporary village that we will co-create together.

Anahata holds a grounded, gentle and compassionate container for deep practice. Since 2021 she has immersed in the work of Animas Valley Institute / Bill Plotkin and receives ongoing mentoring with Animas mentor Laura Gunion. Her other influences are wide-ranging from 30 years on the inner/world path.

Jacquie .muze has a passion for art expression, wild crafting and rewilding. Her approach is encouraging and empowering as she guides simple and beautiful rewilding and nature art practices, to help us know inner and outer wilderness.

We are also very lucky to have Amichai Lankri .foods join us with his wholesome and amazing food!

This immersion is open to men and women. If you are new to working with me or with soul, let's have a zoom chat to see if this immersion is for you.

Held at Walkerville South in Victoria, Australia.
There are just 6 places left. Camping and rooms - book soon if you want a room.

✨ We see and are seen by the human and more-than-human world.
✨ We remember and return.
✨ Soul brings us home.

❣️ Anahata

Wild Heart Wild Soul 5 Day Immersion
28 January - 1 February 2025 / 5 days, 4 nights
with Anahata Giri and guest facilitator Jacquie Swan

Do you long to know how to contribute to the world in a way that is fulfilling and joyously YOU? The Wild Soul Immersion online & Soul Retreats Victoria & Soul Circles Melbourne Australia explore nature and heart based ways to genuinely connect with your wild soul and to discover the belongi

15/01/2026

Gumleaf Grasshopper.

11/01/2026

I love these dendritic (branching) patterns on these rocks, apparently caused by mineral-rich water seeping through, that leaves behind crystals of manganese or iron oxide. I love the fractal shapes...

A discovery on the Dandenong Creek Trail.

05/01/2026

At the heart of the Wild Soul Immersion is your practice as you walk the unique terrain of your soul-scape, towards (or with) the mythical, mysterious one inside, who is yours to become.

Soul embodiment is a process of years. As we follow the breadcrumb trail of soul, we need support. Wild Soul offers a map, compass, tools and fellow travellers to support your exquisitely unique journey home, to the wild knowing of your soul-self.

Wild Soul offers experiential soul-based practices, lovingly created for the wild soul path. You follow what is resonant and emergent. Themes include: following the soul thread; portals of perception; navigating descent/dissolution; the imaginal realm; working with conditioned narratives; sacred wound; gates of grief; ecological awakening; mythopoetic identity; belonging; creativity; soul brings purpose; your way to love this world..

THREE WAYS to explore this systematic and individually attuned immersion:

🌿 Wild Soul Immersion GROUP online. Two cohorts over 6 months: Tuesdays starts 3 Feb OR Wednesdays, starts 11 Feb 2026. The most affordable option. A beautiful, intimate circle.

🌿 The Wild Soul Immersion SOLO version. The most one to one support, with 12 mentoring sessions online. You choose the time frame: 6, 9 or 12 months. I have run this since 2022 with glowing feedback.

🌿 Becoming Women's Circle, 8 Sunday afternoon sessions in person in Warrandyte or nearby, over 6 months. A beautiful and creative circle, in nature.

✨ Special discount: save $100+ on all three options if booked before 17 January 2026. ✨

The primary influence on Wild Soul is the work of BIll Plotkin and the Animas Valley Institute which I have immersed in since 2020. I receive ongoing mentoring from Animas Guide Laura Gunion. Other influences from my 30+ journey of inner/world work, include: 30 years of yoga/embodiment practice; 20 years teaching yoga and meditation; Somatic Psychotherapy Diploma; work as a counsellor; Community Development Diploma; group facilitator; training as a Purpose Guide with the Purpose Guides Institute; environmental activism; storyteller; poet; mother; and, I remain, Love's apprentice.

❣️ Wild Love
Anahata

04/01/2026

Shadow on trunk.

02/01/2026

Wild Heart Wild Soul 5 Day Immersion
28 January - 1 February 2025 / 5 days, 4 nights
with Anahata Giri and guest facilitator Jacquie Swan

✨ The wilderness of heart, soul and land beckon us home.

You are invited to pick up the thread of your heart-and-soul longing and see where it guides you. We will explore the craft of soul-making through: nature wandering; guided imaginal practice; dream exploration; story wisdom; embodied practice; grief ceremony; creative writing and art; circle sharing and more.

When we do creative, new, 'sideways' practices, we can make fresh, experiential and genuine discoveries about who we are, why we are here and where we are going.

Practices are offered as creative and evocative invitations that you can adapt to whatever is emergent on your path. You will have space and support to follow your own unique soul thread, held in the nourishing container of the temporary village that we will co-create together.

Anahata has decades of group facilitation experience and holds a grounded, gentle and compassionate container for deep practice. Since 2021 she has immersed in the work of Animas Valley Institute / Bill Plotkin and receives ongoing mentoring with Animas mentor Laura Gunion. Her other influences are wide-ranging from 30 years on the inner/world path.

Jacquie .muze has a passion for art expression, wild crafting and rewilding. Her approach is encouraging, inspiring and empowering as she guides simple and beautiful rewilding and nature art practices, to help us know inner and outer wilderness.

We are also very lucky to have Amichai Lankri .foods bring his wholesome and flavoursome culinary flair! We will be well nourished.

This immersion is open to men and women. If you are new to working with me or with soul, let's have a zoom chat to see if this immersion is for you. Reach out for a chat any time.

Held at Walkerville South in Victoria, Australia.
There are just 6 places left. Camping and rooms - book soon if you want a room.

✨ We see and are seen by the human and more-than-human world.
✨ We remember and return.
✨ Soul brings us home.

❣️ Anahata

31/12/2025

In this new substack post, I share an old favourite practice to find your unique, deepening and beautiful questions. I prefer to start the new year with deep questions rather than intentions.

What does a question open up inside us? What are your beautiful questions?
What is beckoning?

See susbstack link in bio

❣️ Anahata

30/12/2025

Exploring my new neighbourhood Heathmont and the Dandenong Creek Trail with my dog, Jessie. I am so grateful for her boundless enthusiasm for long walks and for sniffing out everything along the way. A good metaphor for a good life.

❣️ Anahata

12/12/2025

Any substackers out there? Come and say hello.

I share prose and poetry on the mythopoetic and wild soul journey, wilderness communion, the wild feminine, storytelling and old stories, grief and death, life and wonder.

See link to my substack in my bio.

❣️ Anahata