Animal Body - Year Long Mythical Descent

Six seasonal weekends + a 4-day retreat (2026–2027)
A journey of slow remembering, instinctual reclamation, and the return to the body as wild oracle.

There is a creature inside you.
It is not lost, only waiting.
Waiting for your breath to deepen.
For your skin to soften.
For your feet to meet the land and remember they once belonged to the herd, the den, the pack.

Animal Body is a year long thic and embodied container — a deepening spiral of memory, ritual, movement, and dream. Together, we will cross six ritual thresholds, gathering every two months for a weekend of ceremony, archetypal exploration, and somatic return. The journey will culminate in a final 4 day retreat, a rite of integration and return.

Who This Is For

This container is open to both men and women and may be for you if:

• You are longing to return to your animal knowing — breath, body, instinct, wildness

• You are ready to move at a gentle but deep pace, in right relationship with your nervous system

• You crave archetypal embodiment, sacred ritual, and mythic community

• You seek a committed path over time — seasonal, embodied, real

The Arc We Will Follow

Each weekend begins on Friday at 6pm with a ceremonial arrival — dream seeding, body listening, and descent. From there, we enter a mythic current of ritual, movement, deep imagery, mask work, grief-tending, and elemental ceremony.

Across the year, you will also craft a ritual mask — not of performance, but of revelation. This mask becomes the face of your deep animal self. It emerges not from the mind, but from dream, gesture, shadow, and bone memory. You will move with it, breathe with it, speak through it — and in time, be witnessed wearing it in sacred space.

Our six archetypal thresholds:

1. Root & Remember – Grounding the nervous system, animal dreaming, ancestral threads

2. Wild Descent – Shedding cultural skins, grief rituals, reclaiming instinctual voice

3. Predator & Prey – Power, boundaries, survival dances, relational knowing

4. Shadow & Eros – Shame alchemy, sensuality, reclaiming the wild erotic

5. The Masked Ones – Embodied archetypes, mask ritual, communal witnessing

6. Homecoming – Integration, myth weaving, devotion to the Wild Law

• Final 4-Day Retreat – Rite of return, fire ceremony, the wild self re-membered

Dates & Themes (2026–2027)

• March 13–15, 2026 – Root and Remember

• May 15–17, 2026 – Wild Descent

• July 17–19, 2026 – Prey & Predator

• September 25–27, 2026 –Shadow and Eros

• November 20–22, 2026 – The Masked One

• January 2027 (dates TBC) – Homecoming

• Marcg 2027 - The Return: Final 4-Day Retreat

Where We Gather

We will gather at Wild Ways, near Bridgnorth, a land-based retreat centre in Shropshire nestled among woodland, stream, and myth. This place knows wildness. It will hold us as we remember. You’ll sleep close to the earth, eat nourishing meals, and be held in a space where ritual breathes through the land itself.

Investment

The full cost for the 12-month Animal Body container is £2750 per person.
This includes:

• Six fully guided weekend immersions (Friday 6pm – Sunday 1pm)

• A final 3-night, 4-day retreat in March 2027

• All facilitation, ritual materials, mask-making supplies, and integration resources

• Accommodation in shared yurts or dorms at Wild Ways

• Nourishing organic meals prepared on-site throughout each gathering

Payment plans are available.

Your Guide

Louise
Louise is a ritualist, animist, and practitioner of ancestral craft, walking in the footsteps of the cunning folk tradition. Her work is rooted in the long arc of her own return to the body — a homecoming guided by grief, instinct, and the slow awakening of the wild within.

She is a ceremonialist and guide, shaped by years of working with death, ancestral reverence, and land-based ritual. Her craft draws from traditional tanning, animist listening, and the soul-wisdom of the body. She holds spaces where myth breathes through movement, where grief and power share a common root, and where the animal self is not only welcomed — but remembered.

This work is sacrosanct to her.
It is not a modality, but a blueprint — one carved by her own journey of return.
She walks beside others not as an expert, but as a companion to the wild threshold, guided by the whisper of bone, breath, and ancient knowing

If you would like to know more about Animal Body, head over to the Animal Body Page by clicking here . Here you will find more information and the chance to sink your teeth into the rhythms of this year long.

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or email me at Hello@weavingwonderment.com if you would like a discovery call or have any questions.