A Year-Long Mythic & Embodied Container Within Animal Body
Six seasonal weekends + final retreat April 2027 – April 2028
An Orientation For Prospective Participants
This page is not here to persuade you, it exists to support discernment.
The Year-Long Descent is a significant commitment of time, energy, and devotion. It asks for presence, patience, and a willingness to listen.
You are not being asked to decide quickly, you are not being asked to prove readiness.
Your body already knows how to orient.
As you read, go slowly. Notice where your body softens, notice where it tightens. Notice where something in you leans forward, and where it wants to retreat.
Discernment is part of the work.
What This Container Is
The Year-Long Descent is the deepest immersive pathway into the Animal Body body of work.
A seasonal, land-based initiatory container devoted to embodied remembering.
Across one year, participants move through six archetypal thresholds and a final retreat—descending into instinct, sensation, animal intelligence, grief, eros, shadow, and belonging.
This work is paced slowly and intentionally to honour the nervous system.
It is not a quick transformation, it is not performance, it is not intensity for intensity’s sake.
It is a remembering of how to belong inside your own skin.
The Shape Of The Year
We gather every two months for immersive weekend thresholds.
Each gathering begins Friday evening with ceremonial arrival, grounding, and descent.
Across the year participants move through:
Somatic and nervous system work
Ritual and ceremony
Deep imagery and mythic inquiry
Tracking and land-based awareness
Grief tending and integration
Ritual mask-making and archetypal embodiment
The year culminates in a final four-day retreat of witnessing, integration, and return.
Shadow & Eros Shame alchemy, sensuality, reclaiming the wild erotic
The Masked Ones Embodied archetypes, ritual mask work, communal witnessing
Homecoming Integration, myth-weaving, devotion to the Wild Law
Final Retreat A rite of return, completion, and re-membering
This Work May Be For You If…
You are seeking sustained, deep transformation rather than peak experiences
You feel called to a slower, more initiatory path
You long for embodied, land-rooted spirituality
You are ready to meet instinct, grief, eros, and shadow honestly
You value relationship over performance
You can commit to long-term process and integration
This Work May Not Be For You If…
You are seeking quick breakthroughs or catharsis
You want clear linear outcomes or certifications
You are looking for a teacher to tell you who to be
You are uncomfortable with ambiguity and slowness
You are currently in acute crisis without support
You are drawn to intensity as substitute for pacing
Saying no to this container is not failure.
It is discernment.
Care & Nervous System Awareness
This work is trauma-aware, choice-led, and deeply respectful of nervous system pacing.
You will never be asked to:
Override your body’s signals
Publicly disclose personal material
Push beyond your capacity
Perform vulnerability or catharsis
All practices are invitational.
Resting, modifying, observing, or opting out are always welcome.
Practical Details
Dates: April 2027 – April 2028 Six weekends + final retreat
Location: Wild Ways, near Bridgnorth, Shropshire
Accommodation: Shared yurts / dorm accommodation
Food: meals included
Investment:
Full Descent £3250
Early Bird Investment £2850 ( available for a limited number of places)
A non refundable deposit of £250 secures your place. Because this descent unfolds over the course of a year monthly payment plans are also available to support participants stepping into this work gradually and sustainably. Payment plans available
Dates
9th - 11th April 2027
11th - 11th June 2027
6th - 8th August 2027
15th - 17th October 2027
3rd - 5th December 2027
4th - 6th Feb 2028
3rd - 5th March 2028
If you feel called:
Step One: Read the Animal Body Philosophy Essays - click here
Step Two: request a Discovery Call - email hello@weavingwonderment.com
Step Three: Book - a £250 non refundable deposit secures your place.
A Closing Note
The Year-Long Descent is not about becoming something new.
It is about remembering.
The body does not shout its truth.
It leaves tracks.
If something in you recognises this path, you are welcome to take the next step, slowly.
