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.
