SoulRiver Anahata Giri

SoulRiver Anahata Giri As a soul purpose mentor, I help people bring their exquisitely unique soul gifts to the beautiful yet turmoiled world. I offer an experiential approach using nature-based, soul-based and heart-based practice to help you uncover the unique path that is yours to walk.

SoulRiver offers soul-based practice to help you discover your exquisitely unique gifts to bring to this precious yet turmoiled world.

The soul is the unique essence of you, that holds the unique soul powers, qualities, gifts and your unique eco-niche in the web of life. The soul expresses itself through metaphor - through image, symbol, archetype, feeling, sensation, story or mystical experie

nce. To attune to the soul, we need to shed the layers of conditioning and not-self. We also need practices to help us attune to the soul through feeling, sensing, intuiting, deep-imagining and heart-thinking. I love teaching people practices to help tune into the underworld of soul and the deeper messages emerging in our lives.

Soul-craft includes nature wandering, soul art, stream of consciousness writing, communing with wild beings, embodied practice, dream exploration and many other practices.

In the Soul Purpose Immersion, I offer a systematic and transformative range of practices and one-to-one mentoring, to help you adapt the immersion to your unfolding soul path.

The Wild Heart Wild Soul Retreat is a deep dive into soul-heart-nature-based practice, held within the supportive container of nature, my facilitation and the supportive container of the group/community.

If you want to 'meet' me or are simply curious you are welcome to have a free zoom chat to learn more.

The next Dream Tending Circle starts Thursday 6 August, 7.00-9.15pm, 8 weeks of sacred space that gives our dream life s...
25/07/2026

The next Dream Tending Circle starts Thursday 6 August, 7.00-9.15pm, 8 weeks of sacred space that gives our dream life space to breathe and reveal its magic.

In this circle we will attune to and commune with dreams in THEIR language. The language of dreams is the language of soul: image, felt experiences, symbol, perception, metaphor, all wrapped up in loving mystery.

We put aside the habit of interpretation and analysis - our soul life is beyond and underneath that! Instead, we will dive into profound portals of perceiving, to help us swim in the river of the imaginal realm.

We will feel, sense, imagine, intuit our way. We offer up our wonder, awe, gratitude for the remarkable precision that dreamweaver shows, giving us experiences that help us discover and receive the beautifully attuned guidance that we need.

We will also explore active imagination practice through writing and art making to create space for deeper meaning and embodiment.

Dreams are profound portals to help us connect not only with ourselves but with this wondrous web of life. Is the earth dreaming through us?

Dream tending skills will be shared in the group, to empower participants to work with each others dreams. This is not a dream therapy group. These dream tending skills are also foundational life and soul tending skills.

Our circle will be 6-8 participants, book soon if you want to join us.

New and experienced dream listeners are welcome. See link in bio.

I ran my first retreat when I was pregnant with my son, in 2006. This year is the 20 year anniversary for the One Heart ...
23/06/2026

I ran my first retreat when I was pregnant with my son, in 2006. This year is the 20 year anniversary for the One Heart Retreat!

Is there anyone out there who remembers a retreat with me, over the years? What do you remember?

I am grateful to the practices of yoga and meditation that I began 35 years ago.
I am grateful to the beautiful and deepening classes and retreats of my yoga teacher and friend Paul Wooden. Who else has practised with Paul? What do you continue to live from your practice?

Embodiment is the ongoing always-there ground of my life. To rest into a ground of deep sensing, deep feeling, a radical being-with what is here, has oriented and deepened my life in profound ways. I can feel my way through the gratitude, grief and grit of life. It takes practise, whether on the yoga mat, meditation cushion or sitting with a tree or river. A return again and again, to feeling what is here, now.

What is here, now? What holds you?

Embodiment is radical, deep-feeling, being-with what is here, now. When we open to what is here now, even if it is unwanted or difficult, we step through resistance and suffering. When we truly meet what is here, we are always led onwards and through. There is a kind of softening into the flow of life, however challenging, expanding, exhilarating or scary what is arising may be.

We soften into what is arising and find ourselves returned to what is always here holding us. We return, even though we hold ourselves away, trapped in fear, tension, suffering. This softening into the flow of actual breathed life, into the wild ground of beingness, the sacredness of all life, is a form of grace. It is love. Love enacted and experienced. Love holds us.

We learn and remember this through our own practice.

Ground. Gratitude. Grief. Grit. Grace. Love holds us.

Simple practices: sitting and walking meditation, meditation in nature, resting, yoga accessible for all, yoga not primarily postures but moving and inhabiting the wondrous body.

Eating our food - our life - and truly tasting it.

Living on this earth. Loved and loving.

This is not 'taught' by me but remembered by you.

♥️ Anahat

20/06/2026

Echidna grooming his quills. What incredibly flexible back legs he has to reach backwards and right over the top of his back. He worked systematically, swapping left side and right side grooming all his quills. Wondrous to see.

The next Dream Tending Circle starts Thursday 16 July online, 7.00-9.15pm, 8 weeks of sacred space that gives our dream ...
20/06/2026

The next Dream Tending Circle starts Thursday 16 July online, 7.00-9.15pm, 8 weeks of sacred space that gives our dream life space to breathe and reveal its magic.

In this circle we will attune to and commune with dreams in THEIR language. The language of dreams is the language of soul: image, felt experiences, symbol, perception, metaphor, all wrapped up in loving mystery.

We put aside the habit of interpretation and analysis - our soul life is beyond and underneath that! Instead, we will dive into profound portals of perceiving, to help us swim in the river of the imaginal realm.

We will feel, sense, imagine, intuit our way. We offer up our wonder, awe, gratitude to the remarkable precision that dream maker shows, giving us experiences that help us discover and receive the beautifully attuned medicine that we need.

We will also explore active imagination practice through writing and art making to create space for deeper meaning and embodiment.

Dreams are profound portals to help us connect not only with ourselves but with this wondrous web of life. Is the earth dreaming through us?

Dream tending skills will be shared in the group, to empower participants to work with each others dreams. This is not a dream therapy group. These dream tending skills are also foundational life and soul tending skills.

New and experienced dream listeners are welcome.

❣️ Anahata

I have just learned that this ground covering heath, with tiny tubular flowers that hold up star-shaped ends, is called ...
18/06/2026

I have just learned that this ground covering heath, with tiny tubular flowers that hold up star-shaped ends, is called Cranberry Heath.

Found this small patch in the Warrandyte state park.

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It was beautiful to share wintery stories at the Red Door home studio, with such a warm and deep-listening community. A...
18/06/2026

It was beautiful to share wintery stories at the Red Door home studio, with such a warm and deep-listening community. A big thank you to Julie and Virgil and kin for being so welcoming and supportive of all of us, and of the story-beings.

I feel like the story-beings would be happy to hear their stories being shared, bones tended to, longing and grief given song, impossible underworld journeys undertaken, home lost and found, ocean and land and storm, weathered...

With the rain pelting down outside, we lit candles and gave voice to what the stories stirred in us and our prayers for the world.

The next night of stories at the Red Door will be in Spring, Saturday 12 September. What story-seeds will be planted then?

♥️ Anahat

Winter moss, de-composition…
18/06/2026

Winter moss, de-composition…

My heart is breaking for Gaza. The least I can do is to participate in a ceremony of bearing witness and protesting, by ...
11/06/2026

My heart is breaking for Gaza.

The least I can do is to participate in a ceremony of bearing witness and protesting, by marching in peace, in strength, in the city streets against the systematic oppression of the Palestinian people by the Israeli government, over decades. Israel must be held to account for its brutality, for breaking international law, for breaching human rights, for committing genocide against Palestinian people in Gaza.

According to the United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner:
“The Commission finds that Israel is responsible for the commission of genocide in Gaza,” said Navi Pillay, Chair of UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory. “It is clear that there is an intent to destroy the Palestinians in Gaza through acts that meet the criteria set forth in the Genocide Convention.”

“The responsibility for these atrocity crimes lies with Israeli authorities at the highest echelons who have orchestrated a genocidal campaign for almost two years now with the specific intent to destroy the Palestinian group in Gaza,” Pillay said. “The Commission also finds that Israel has failed to prevent and punish the commission of genocide, through failure to investigate genocidal acts and to prosecute alleged perpetrators.”

According to UNICEF, from 7 October 2023 to 3 February 2026, 71,803 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza strip including at least 21,289 children.

I would also like to acknowledge activist Benny Zable (the last photo), now 80 years old, who has worn this anti-war, care for country, costume for about 45 years. I first saw Benny Zable in this outfit at protests in the late 1980s, including ones organised by the Melbourne Rainforest Action Group, of which I was a member. It was incredible to see him at the Palestine protest a few days ago. Such commitment!

All we can do is show up in whatever small way we can, to stand by our values, to speak against injustice, to hold our hearts open for truth-telling, reconciliation and peace.

💔 ❤️‍🩹 ♥️ Anahata

I am here, on this wintery day, to give thanks to this wild place. Even after years of speaking out loud to the land and...
11/06/2026

I am here, on this wintery day, to give thanks to this wild place. Even after years of speaking out loud to the land and plants and animals, every time I speak here, I still feel shy. But as my spoken words breathe puffs of mist in the cold air, the sulphur crested cockatoos on the other side of the river bank screech their encouragement.

Thankyou, wide, flowing Birrarung, with your name that means ‘river of mists and shadow.’ How many times on your banks, I have spoken my heart, sang, made ceremony, cried, laughed and simply sat, to be and listen. Through the seasons I come here. In winter your banks are lined with yellow wattle, in summer with white Christmas bush.

Birrarung, my story is nothing without your story.

I am sorry it has taken me so long to introduce myself. All these years of walking these trails, sitting on rocks by the river, sometimes with human friends, always with wild companions of this place. It has taken a lifetime to realise that I am part of all that is here, not seperate.

Indigenous elder Miriam Rose Ungunmerr says “When you sit on country, country sits in you.” I am not simply returned to myself or returned to this place - I am returned to myself belonging here in this place.

My name is Anahat Giri. I grew up in Naarm (Melbourne), on Wurundjeri country.

I acknowledge that I live on stolen land. I acknowledge the Wurundjeri people as the traditional custodians of this land. Their sovereignty was never ceded. I acknowledge we need a national treaty and courageous truth-telling about the genocide committed agains indigenous people, so we can have genuine reconciliation.

I acknowledge the generosity of the Wurundjeri people as they extend welcome, share wisdom and truth-telling, inviting colonial settlers to listen, to learn, to walk together into a new story of shared connection with country.

I pay my respects to the Wurundjeri ancestors and elders, past and emerging. I give thanks for their ongoing care of country.

I love the world so much my heart aches, much of the time. I am here to serve life, to serve love and to guide others to contribute in their unique way to this precious, yet turmoiled, world.

♥️ Anahata

"Most modern people have lost the ability to converse - that is, to listen and exchange meaning - with animals, plants, ...
29/05/2026

"Most modern people have lost the ability to converse - that is, to listen and exchange meaning - with animals, plants, elements, with any feature of land and sky, from an earth-bound rock to the far away stars. If you are yet to experience a meaningful exchange with a hopping yellow robin, or a staring male kangaroo or a cliff with faces of ancestors embedded in it, then these wild and transformative conversations are a precious and revelatory gift waiting for you."

"Poet and environmental activist Gary Snyder writes: “It has always been part of basic human experience to live in a culture of wilderness. There has been no wilderness without some kind of human presence for several hundred thousand years. Nature is not a place to visit, it is home” [1]. Wilderness has always shaped - and continue to shape - who we are as humans. To return to wild places means to pick up a vast, evolutionary thread of wondrous becoming. Who do we become if we only stay inside walls and technological confines? Who do we become if we remember home as wilderness? “Wilderness is a place where the wild potential is fully expressed…When an ecosystem is fully functioning, all the members are present at the assembly. To speak of wilderness is to speak of wholeness.”

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❣️ Anahata

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