Animal Body - 12 Month Mythical Container

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 12-month mythic 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 3-night retreat, a rite of integration and return.

Unlike the intense arc of our 5-day immersion (for those with strong nervous system capacity and experience in ritual work), this container is a gentler unfolding — steady, spacious, and deeply rooted. A hearth for those longing to re-root into the body, awaken the animal soul, and cross wild thresholds at a pace that honours the nervous system and the land.

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)

• January 16–18, 2026 – Root & Remember

• March 13–15, 2026 – Wild Descent

• May 15–17, 2026 – Predator & Prey

• July 17–19, 2026 – Shadow & Eros

• September 25–27, 2026 – The Masked Ones

• November 20–22, 2026 – Homecoming

• January 2027 (dates TBC) – 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 January 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 Guides

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

Clive
Clive is an outdoor enthusiast, lay-philosopher and former soldier. For the last 8 years, he has been on a voyage into the re-wilding of self, travelling such exotic pathways as permaculture design, bushcraft & survival, Neo-Tantra & sacred sexuality, Non-Dualistic philosophy, Somatic Coaching and Shamanic Animism. Clive comes to space holding not from any particular area of learned expertise, but from his innate ability to see and communicate with the soul behind the armour. He brings trauma-informed practice, loving acceptance, and utmost confidentiality to his work

Application & Commitment

Animal Body is not a drop-in offering. It is a 12-month ceremonial commitment — a sacred container where trust, transformation, and depth can root and grow over time.

This is for those who feel the tug of the wild beneath the skin.
Who are ready to meet themselves in shadow, in longing, in breath, in soil.
Who can honour the full arc of this journey — showing up not only for the ecstatic moments, but for the thresholds, the grief, and the quiet becoming.

We ask that you read the full invitation carefully.
Then, if your animal body stirs with a yes, we invite you to apply.

On booking we will ask you to complete the short form below. We’ll ask:

• What draws you to Animal Body?

• Have you done previous embodiment, ritual, or trauma-aware work?

• What supports your nervous system right now?

• Do you feel ready to commit to the full 12-month arc?

Once received, we’ will review and may invite you to a short conversation (Zoom or phone) to feel into the fit together.
Spaces are limited to maintain depth and intimacy.

Terms of Reference

By entering this container, you are stepping into a committed ceremonial space.
This is not a course — it is a living, breathing rite of passage over 12 moons.

What You Are Committing To:

• Attendance at all 6 weekends and the final retreat

• Engagement in the full arc of practices and ceremonies

• Respect for yourself, others, and the land

• Communication with the facilitators if challenges arise

Radical Responsibility:

• You are the guardian of your own inner world

• We ask for self-awareness, honest communication, and the ability to track your own yes/no

• We do not rescue or fix — we walk beside you with integrity and devotion

• This is the wild path — and with wildness comes choice, consequence, and deep personal sovereignty

Payment & Cancellations:

• £2750 per person

  Payment plans available

• No refunds are avalible

Accessibility:

• This is a trauma-aware space

• We honour your pace and support your nervous system

• Please speak to us if you're navigating significant instability so we can assess fit and readiness

Confidentiality & Integrity:

• All personal shares remain confidential

• No recording or photography unless invited

• This is a space of non-judgment, consent, and deep mutual respect

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