Wild Wisdom

Wild Wisdom

Nature-Based Nervous System Education for Elementary Children

You know that kid who can't sit still? The one who melts down over transitions, who hits when overwhelmed, who seems stuck in fight-or-flight?

Their nervous system isn't broken. It's just never learned its own language.

Most SEL programs teach kids to override their body's signals. Calm down. Sit still. Use your words. But what if the problem isn't that kids can't regulate... it's that we're not teaching them how their bodies actually work?

What's Actually Happening

Kids today are drowning. Not because they're broken, but because their nervous systems are stuck in overdrive and nobody's teaching them how to find the off switch.

Anxiety in elementary kids is skyrocketing. Five-year-olds having panic attacks. Eight-year-olds afraid to sleep alone. Ten-year-olds carrying worry in their bodies like stones.

Traditional "calm down" strategies aren't working. Because breathing techniques don't land when a nervous system doesn't feel safe. Feelings wheels don't help when a child can't feel their own body.

Children are disconnected from everything that regulates them naturally. Nature. Movement. Their own somatic wisdom. The felt sense of being held by something larger than their anxiety.

What If There Was Another Way

What if instead of teaching kids to override their instincts, we taught them to listen deeper?

What if we helped them understand that the tightness in their chest is information, not something to push away? That their body's discomfort around certain people is protection, not drama?

What if we used nature as the co-teacher it's always been... and let children remember what their bodies already know about regulation, resilience, and coming back to center?

That's Wild Wisdom.

What This Actually Is

Not activities to fill time. Not cute nature crafts with mindfulness buzzwords.

This is a complete nervous system curriculum grounded in polyvagal theory, somatic psychology, and what actually works with real kids in real settings.

50+ practices organized by what children's bodies actually need:

• Grounding when the world feels too fast

• Breathing techniques that actually land

• Movement for releasing stuck energy

• Building awareness of internal signals

• Expressing emotions safely through the body

• Connection practices rooted in co-regulation

Indoor adaptations for every single practice - Because I know you don't all have forests. You've got classrooms with fluorescent lights and limited outdoor time. This works there too.

Week-by-week implementation timeline - Not overwhelming you with 50 things at once. Start with one practice. Build slowly. Let it integrate.

Family take-home materials - 10 sheets ready to send home. So the regulation work doesn't stop at dismissal.

Assessment templates - For tracking what's actually changing. Not just feeling good about your teaching, but seeing measurable shifts in regulation, connection, empathy.

Who This Is For

Teachers who are tired of surface-level solutions.

Therapists who know behavior is communication.

Nature educators who feel the missing piece is nervous system literacy.

Parents who want their kids to trust their body's knowing instead of learning to override it.

Anyone who's watched a child calm down the moment they touch earth and thought... there's something here we're missing in our conventional approaches.

What Makes This Different

Most regulation curricula teach children that their body's signals are problems to fix.

This teaches them their body is wise.

That tightness in your belly when someone's being mean? That's your nervous system protecting you. Trust it.

That urge to run and scream when you're overwhelmed? That's stuck energy trying to move. Let's find a safe way to release it.

That pull toward the woods, the water, the dirt under your fingernails? That's remembering you're part of something larger. Listen to it.

The Investment

$147

For immediate access to:

• Complete 40+ page curriculum

• Indoor adaptation guide

• 10 family take-home sheets

• Implementation timeline with troubleshooting

• Assessment templates for tracking outcomes

Download it. Start tomorrow if you want. Use one practice or all fifty. Adapt it to your setting, your kids, your constraints.

No fancy formatting. No cutesy graphics. Just the work that actually helps children come home to their bodies.

What Happens Next

You'll get an email with download links. Everything's in Google Docs so you can adapt, copy, modify however you need.

You start where you are. Maybe with one breathing practice. Maybe with the mushroom network exercise on Monday morning. Maybe just reading through and seeing what resonates.

You watch. You notice which kids gravitate toward which practices. You see who needs more movement, who needs more stillness, who lights up when you talk about nervous systems like they're finally being told the truth about how their body works.

And slowly... you see shifts. Kids asking for tree roots when they're anxious. Using animal shakes to discharge energy instead of hitting. Teaching each other practices. Coming back to their bodies instead of getting lost in overwhelm.

Trust What You Already Know

Your body's telling you this matters. That the kids in front of you need more than behavior charts and breathing techniques that don't land.

You already know children aren't broken. Their nervous systems just need language, tools, and permission to trust their own wisdom.

Wild Wisdom gives you the roadmap.