Beneath the forest floor, a quiet intelligence pulses — ancient, invisible, and wildly alive. In this episode of Tiny Portals, we explore the mysterious wisdom of mushrooms and the mycelial networks that connect entire ecosystems.

Mushrooms are not just strange and beautiful organisms — they are the fruiting bodies of vast underground webs that carry nutrients, messages, and memory. These fungal networks, often called the “Wood Wide Web,” help trees communicate, redistribute resources, and even share survival strategies.

Together, we journey into the world beneath our feet ~ where death becomes nourishment ~ where forests are held in a communal, living net ~ where fungi demonstrate a kind of “silent intelligence” — making decisions, responding to their environment, and remembering what they’ve encountered before.

This episode invites us to consider intelligence in new forms… and to trust the unseen support networks of life.

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This episode is paired with a slow, earthy yin practice available at ⁠The Artist’s Temple⁠ — designed to help you surrender into stillness, trust the unseen, and root into the quiet support systems holding you beneath the surface.

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