Meet Rebecca Wildbear | Earth-Centered Writer & Soul Guide

We had the good fortune of connecting with Rebecca Wildbear and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Rebecca, why did you decide to pursue a creative path?
I wanted to follow the mystery of what I love and live a muse-directed life. And to offer my most authentic soul gifts to the world. This is the best way to stay connected to myself, the world, and what is sacred. I followed this path by paying attention to my longings, the innocent truths in my heart that reveal what I hold most precious. The world desperately needs people offering and speaking their most profound gifts and truths. For example, I am deeply in love with the Earth and soul (the wildest, most genuine part of humans). So that is why my work centers on practices and offerings that care for nature and the soul.

Can you open up a bit about your work and career? We’re big fans and we’d love for our community to learn more about your work.
I am the author of Wild Yoga: A Practice of Initiation, Veneration, & Advocacy for the Earth and the creator of a yoga practice called Wild Yoga, which empowers individuals to tune in to the mysteries that live within the Earth community, dreams, and their wild nature so they can live a life of creative service. I have been leading Wild Yoga programs since 2007 and also guide other nature and soul programs through Animas Valley Institute. You can learn more about me online at www.rebeccawildbear.com.

I’m proud to have created a set of practices that melds health and well-being with spiritual insight, Earth stewardship, and cultural transformation. It is a practice that helps people connect to the natural world and live from their souls while addressing environmental activism. I’m excited to have completed a book that includes a lot of practices so they are available to everyone.

I enjoy helping people live in a sacred relationship with the Earth and discover the mythic elements of their life stories. I love to offer soul-guiding sessions, allowing people to track what arises in their body, heart, and imagination and at the edge of their consciousness.

One of the hardest things has been saying no to things so I can listen and follow my muse. For example, I was a Wilderness Therapist for fifteen years and did my creative work in my off time, but ultimately I needed to let go of that role entirely to create what my muse wanted. That also meant giving up a higher-paying salary.

The practices of Wild Yoga and my life’s work are a prayer for the healing and restoration of forests, mountains, oceans, and rivers through awakening and nurturing our inherent wild nature. They are all about listening to forces we usually don’t hear, what I sometimes call the archetypically feminine aspects of our psyche and the world~love, nature connection, creativity, ferocity, mystery, and vision. They invite us to expand our perception and cultivate our capacity to perceive animals and plants, soils and rivers, as alive and conscious beings with whom we can relate. To listen to our body, the more-than-human world, and dreams. To connect with our soul’s purpose. By enhancing our ability to receive the messages of our body, nature, soul, and dreams, they can guide us in becoming a vital member of the Earth community.

Any places to eat or things to do that you can share with our readers? If they have a friend visiting town, what are some spots they could take them to?
I rarely hang out in the city, so if my friends were to visit, we’d most likely go rafting on the Animas River, hike around Jackson Lake or in a nearby forest or canyon, or take our backpacks into the backcountry. Fortunately, there’s so much wilderness around me in southwest Colorado.

I like eating at Turtle Lake Refuge Cafe, Durango Natural Foods Co-op, and The Lively Daikon in Durango. I like eating at Zuma’s Natural Foods, in Mancos, Colorado. I have enjoyed yoga classes at Yoga Durango. I once was a river raft guide on the Animas River with Mountain Waters Rafting.

Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?
To Animas Valley Institute, whose training and guiding opportunities helped me become a soul guide. To Nosara Yoga Institute, who helped me develop my yoga, Wild Yoga. To my friends who helped me become a better writer. To New World Library, who helped me publish a book. To all those who fight for the planet’s well-being and protect wild lands and species. And most of all to my muse, dream-maker, and the holy Earth.

Website: www.rebeccawildbear.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wildbearyoga

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebeccawildbear

Twitter: https://twitter.com/RWildbear1

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rebecca.wildbear/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@rebeccawildbear4994

Other: You can buy my book here – https://www.newworldlibrary.com/Yoga/WILD-YOGA I’m also a guide with Animas Valley Institute – www.animas.org

Image Credits
Photographers were Doug VanHouten, Chelsey Chapman, Allison Ragsdale Doug also did the collage I posted.