Animal Body: The Ritual Container
A 5-Day Deep Dive at Spirit Horse, open to both Men and Women.
October 10–15th 2025
Spirit Horse, Mid-Wales
Shared accommodation | 3 nourishing meals daily
A return to the untamed self. There’s a reason this work is happening here. The land at Spirit Horse hums with the memory of ceremony. Its waterfalls, stones, and trees carry the pulse of something ancient, something wild.
It doesn’t ask for your performance. It asks for your truth.To be stripped back. To be witnessed. To remember.
This 5-day deep dive is not a retreat, It is an initiation back into your wild. A ritual descent into your Animal body, the instinctive, raw, remembering self that knows how to move, feel, hunt, grieve, dance, and love without apology.
This is not a space for those new to embodiment or ritual work. This is a fast-paced and immersive container. You will be challenged. You will be met. And you will not leave unchanged.
The Arc: Descent → Rupture → Return
Each day is a ritual in itself, building toward a full-bodied reclamation of your wild self.
Day One – Arrival: The Hollowing We open the circle., You are welcomed into the belly of the land and the bones of the work. Through grounding, movement, and dreamwork, we begin the slow unpeeling of the surface self and meet your animal self. You are invited to shed what no longer serves, gently, intentionally, ritualistically.
Day Two – The Descent: Bone Memory We drop. Into the mythic body, the animal body, the ancient remembering. We enter the Mask makers hut where our work begins. and through your hands you begin to craft the mask of your animal self. You will meet the wild parts that have been buried, banished, or broken open. Deep imagery and guided journeying anchor you into body based wisdom beyond the thinking mind.
Day Three – Underworld: Grief & Instinct. We meet the places that ache. Grief, rage, longing all have a seat at this fire. The nervous system is held as we explore instinctual response, relational wounds, and the terrain of the untamed heart. Rituals of lament and primal release are held with care and fierce beauty.
Day Four – Rupture: Predator & Prey Here, we step into the dance of power. Through archetypal embodiment, we explore the dynamics of hunger, protection, chase, and surrender. You meet the edges of your capacity, your fear, your desire.
Day Five – Return: The Masked One The animal has spoken. The final day is a reclamation, a rite of return. Masked ritual, embodiment ceremony, and shared witnessing. You leave not polished, but powerful. Not tidy, but true.
This may be for you if...
• You crave something real, raw, and ritualistic, not a wellness experience, but a rite of passage.
• You are familiar with embodiment, trauma-awareness, or ceremonial spaces.
• You have a good relationship with your nervous system and the ability to self-regulate.
• You are ready to meet grief, instinct, and power with open hands and an open heart.
• You feel the call of the wild self — the one who knows how to move, feel, howl, and belong.
This is likely not for you if…
• You are currently in acute mental health crisis or navigating recent trauma.
• You are seeking a gentle, relaxing retreat.
• You are new to ritual or group process work.
• You are uncomfortable with deep emotional expression, physical movement, or archetypal play.
• You are unable or unwilling to take full responsibility for your inner experience.
Radical Responsibility & Agreements
This is a ceremonial container. Facilitators will hold the space with depth, experience, and care, but you are responsible for your own process, pacing, and wellbeing throughout.
We work with clear consent practices, co-regulation tools, and daily nervous system care. You will be invited to make sovereign choices at every stage.
There is no pressure to perform or participate,— only an invitation to meet what is true, moment to moment.
By signing up to The Animal Body - The Ritual Container , you agree to:
• Take full responsibility for your experience and personal boundaries.
• Communicate clearly with the facilitation team if you need support.
• Be sober throughout the container.
• Treat others’ experiences with absolute respect and confidentiality.
• Engage with honesty, integrity, and a willingness to meet discomfort.
Facilitators
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
