Reise Tanner, Seed in the Garden

25/02/2025

I created Wild Return as a new mom and baby group that meets the psychological, social and embodiment needs of postpartum in the context of nature and gentle hikes.

It offers an antidote to the common experiences of isolation or feeling stuck at home with a baby while providing compassionate guidance, support and a community experience to get more comfortable and confident in motherhood, as well as going out with a baby.

Wild Return goes beyond typical postpartum circles that only scratch the surface with conversations limited to sleep training and choosing the best diapers/pediatrician/stroller...

Facilitated deep sharing circles help to process and integrate pregnancy, birth, postpartum experiences, as well as relationship and identity shifts that come with welcoming a baby whether it is the first or the fourth.

Meanwhile, the eco-therapeutic benefits of nature connection are known to improve moods, reset bio-rhythms and calm babies. Walking is a regulating activity that moves energy.

Wild Return is a soft landing place and nonjudgmental space that meets birthing parents and their babies where they are starting.
Just in time for Spring, the next 8-week sessions begin the second week of March for Bay Area Folks.

San Francisco (3/12-4/30)
https://reisetanner.satoriapp.com/.../284492-wild-return...

East Bay (3/14-5/2)
https://reis.etanner.satoriapp.com/.../284493-wild-return...

06/10/2024

Tomorrow, I will be facilitating a program where we will needlefelt spirit dolls.

This comes from a 6,000 year old tradition of handmade dolls as amulets and connects us with our intuition, creativity and the state of Flow.

(The doll in the photo was made for my beautiful mother-in-law.)

In this program, we will also explore what awakens intuition and good mothering by connecting with the Slavic fairytale Vasilisa, the Beautiful.

Mythcraft begins tomorrow. If you or someone you know, would like to join, this is the last call.

Register for the first session as a standalone or the entire immersion.

Registration Page for the Full 6-month Immersion:
https://reisetanner.satoriapp.com/offers/290143-mythcraft-immersion-meeting-the-wild-witch-pilot

Registration Page for the First (Introductory) Session Only:
https://reisetanner.satoriapp.com/offers/290906-mythcraft-introductory-session-meeting-the-wild-witch-pilot

30/09/2024

Friends - What if I told you that working with a Fairytale saved my life (psychologically and spiritually, that is) and could enchant, enliven and empower yours?

Immerse youself in MythCraft and explore the Slavic Fairytale Vasilisa the Beautiful with me through deep sharing circles, crafting, embodiment processes and ritual.

Let me share what I have been learning and experiencing for the last several years while completing my PhD and making yearly pilgrimages to study with Clarissa Pinkola Estes.

MythCraft: Meeting the Wild Witch begins Sunday, October 6 in Berkeley.

Full 6-month Immersion
https://reisetanner.satoriapp.com/offers/290143-mythcraft-immersion-meeting-the-wild-witch-pilot

First (Introductory) Session Only:
https://reisetanner.satoriapp.com/offers/290906-mythcraft-introductory-session-meeting-the-wild-witch-pilot

30/09/2024

MythCraft: Join me just for the first "introductory" session on October 6 in Berkeley or the whole 6-month immersion.

Registration Page for the Full 6-month Immrsion
https://reisetanner.satoriapp.com/offers/290143-mythcraft-immersion-meeting-the-wild-witch-pilot

Registration Page for the First (Introductory) Session Only:
https://reisetanner.satoriapp.com/offers/290906-mythcraft-introductory-session-meeting-the-wild-witch-pilot

26/09/2024

Motherhood is a portal (but not the only portal). I am so blessed to work with new moms as they enter this new way of being, come to know themselves, their babies and co-conspire with Nature. Even after almost two decades, it inspires so much humility and reverence. Walking the path of a birthkeeper is the privilege of a lifetime whether it is for the birth of a new baby, vision, project or a renewed version of oneself.

26/09/2024

Last Call! Only a couple spaces left.
Wild Return begins tomorrow (9/27) in Berkeley, CA.
>> Process, integrate and celebrate the motherhood journey with deep sharing circles, gentle hikes and community.
8 Fridays, 10am-noon

>>Register here: https://reisetanner.satoriapp.com/offers/282161-wild-return-fall-2024-east-bay

13/09/2024

Postpartum is an essential period of integration. New mothers/birth parents need and deserve connection, community, and a nonjudgmental space to process birth, identity changes and relationship shifts. Nature and gentle hikes provide the perfect setting.

The next session of Wild Return begins in two weeks. Limited space is still available in the East Bay/Berkeley cohort.

13/05/2024

When something happens to our babies or children, there is a visceral experience like it is happening to a part of ourselves. Being exposed and vulnerable means that mothers need to be strong and brave. The other side of nurturer is protecter. So, people need to stop telling mothers that they are too emotional or taking things too personally.

09/05/2024

How do you want to spend the next couple of months with your baby? Fill yourself up and refuel with nature, community and connection. New Sessions of Wild Return New Mom & Baby group begin next week in SF and Berkeley.

08/05/2024

Mothering is a practice. It means living an on call lifestyle. It's round the clock without days off because even when you take a day off, you always know that anything can happen. It's being there even when you are not fully up for it and coming back when things haven't gone so well. It's allowing for hard days and trying again to make things better. You don't just do it when you feel like it. Mothering is the REAL spiritual path. That's why calling someone a MOTHER is an honorific and speaks volumes about their capacity to stick with something.

07/05/2024

Can we finally liberate ourselves from the perfect mother trap that comes from idealizing mothers or blaming them for everything? And then stop playing into the hands of people who benefit from that losing game of perfectionism that keeps us overhwelmed, exhausted, feeling lousy about ourselves or on a constant self-improvement wheel while they make money off of us. This way, we can relax into being good enough mothers.

06/05/2024