SoulRiver Anahata Giri

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

12/12/2025

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

Wilderness beckons us home.
We follow beautiful questions.
We gather in circle.
We feel, imagine, intuit.
We see and are seen.
We remember and return.
Soul brings us home.

A deep dive into soul-heart-nature communion.
Wild beach location in Victoria, Australia.
Camping and a few private rooms available.
Book soon, 16 participants only, and already half full.

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.

❣️ Anahata

24/11/2025

She is running, running fast on four deft feet. Her nose leads her. Ears twitching. With her lean body and her bushy red tail, she is a blur of red-gold as she follows the trail of a rabbit. But then her sharp nose picks up another track. Human. She is not sure why, but in an instant, she changes track. Then she sees him, a man with an arrow pulled back. His aim is true as he hits the rabbit. Hmmm, she thinks, he likes rabbit too....

And so begins the story of the Fox Woman and the Hunter, one of the stories I shared at the Singing Over the Bones workshop Part 2.

Together we placed our deep and beautiful questions on the altar, tucking them under bone and seed, picking up our soul threads.

A Wolf shared an eyelash with us. When we stepped into the clearing Baba Yaga's house on chicken legs turned to face us. Then Baba Yaga herself came circling down in her mortar chariot, laughing, as she stood next to her fence made of bones. You might see on the altar three crucibles, containing three cinders. Hmmmmm...

We shared the wonderment and nourishment of old stories weaving with the current stories of our lives...

May we carry the embers home.

❣️ Anahata
P.S. There will be more Singing Over the Bones workshops in 2026, stay tuned.

05/11/2025

Singing Over the Bones
a day of soul tending through stories & creativity - for women
with Anahata Giri

Meet old and wise stories with themes of belonging and becoming, shape-shifting and transformation, calling and initiation. These old stories offer potent soul medicine for women. Like tending to embers, like singing over the bones, we will tend to the old stories so that story medicine, wisdom and magic may guide us.

We will sit in circle with each story, feel its resonance and explore our own connection with each story, using creative expression, writing and art making.

Old stories help us follow the breadcrumb trail of our deepest inner life, so that we may bring our unique way of being and gifts to this wondrous yet turmoiled world.

Singing Over the Bones - Saturday 15 November 10.00am-4.30pm

What can a wolf’s eyelash show us? What can fox-woman, fox dreaming reveal? Do you dare to visit the fearsome Baba Yaga whose house moves around the dark forest on chicken legs? Be a little bit afraid as together we go into the dark woods and uncover what gives us courage, authenticity and sovereignty.

I am delighted that Jacquie .muze will be joining us for this one, facilitating nature art making in response to one of the potent stories.

Held at the peaceful Kangaroo Ground Centre.
Morning & afternoon teas provided. Bring a plate to share for lunch.
Bookings essential.

See link in bio.

❣️ Anahata
Images by Anahata Giri
Image 2: Swimming with Selke
Image 3: Meeting Baba Yaga
Image 4: Singing over the bones

05/11/2025

20/10/2025

Singing Over the Bones
a day of soul tending through stories & creativity - for women
with Anahata Giri

Meet old and wise stories with themes of belonging and becoming, shape-shifting and transformation, calling and initiation. These old stories offer potent soul medicine for women. Like tending to embers, like singing over the bones, we will tend to the old stories so that story medicine, wisdom and magic may guide us.

We will sit in circle with each story, feel its resonance and explore its meaning using creative expression, writing and art making. Old stories will help us follow the breadcrumb trail of our deepest inner life, so that we may bring our unique way of being and gifts to this wondrous yet turmoiled world.

I am delighted that Jacquie will be joining us for this one, facilitating nature art making in response to one of the potent stories.

Singing Over the Bones - Saturday 15 November 10.00am-4.30pm

What can fox-woman, fox dreaming show us? Do you dare to visit the fearsome Baba Yaga whose house moves around the dark forest on chicken legs? Be a little bit afraid as together we go into the dark woods and uncover what gives us courage, authenticity and sovereignty.

Held at the peaceful Kangaroo Ground Centre.
Morning & afternoon teas provided. Bring a plate to share for lunch.
Bookings essential.

www.soulriver.com.au

See link in bio.

❣️ Anahata

20/10/2025

Birrarung River, Warrandyte

14/10/2025

Singing Over the Bones, part 1, was a beautiful day of soul tending through old stories and creativity: drawing, writing, poetry, heart sharing, guided by four stories.
We wrote our deep and beautiful questions on pieces of paper and tucked them under knowing-bones, planted as seeds in the centre of our circle.
It was nourishing to witness everyone’s deep attuning
to the underneath and to each other, as “we walk each other home” (Ram Dass).

Women are welcome to join us for the next day of soul tending and stories on Saturday 15 November.

You do not need to have done the first day to come to the second day.

Join our sweet and deep circle, enter the dark woods, follow the bread crumb trail of your own creativity and see what emerges…

Held in the mud brick charm of the Kangaroo Ground Centre.

Please book. See link in bio.

❣️ Anahata