How to be feral workshop

Unlearn what constraints your body. Question our human bias through movement. Be in conscious dialogue with the environment and non-human beings.

Explore new ways of moving and being in your body by becoming more aware of how conditioning limits your range of movement vocabulary and behaviour. Be more aware of the bias of our human perspective and be more permeable to non-human ways of being and what we can learn from them.

Trust the spontaneity of your feral nature and let it speak through your moving body without judgment or censure. Learn to let go of control so that you can experience being more connected to deeper parts of yourselves and what surrounds us. Unlearn human narratives of separation with the natural world.

This workshop is using practices from my new book How to be feral: movement practices to re-wild your body. 

What to expect

    • Learn to receive your body and an environment before expressing yourself through movement
    • Follow simple movement scores to challenge how you normally move your body
    • Follow simple movement scores to dialogue with the environment and its non-human inhabitants from a fresh perspective
    • Moving and witnessing in pairs
    • Self-reflecting and sharing in pairs and in groups
    • Being held in a non-judgmental supportive learning space

This workshop is for you if

    • You want to move more spontaneously and freely like animals do while at the same time nurture the state of awareness practiced in sitting meditation
    • You want to challenge your human biased perspective and learn from non-human perspectives
    • You want to understand how social and cultural conditioning is shaping our bodies and how we move and how you can make different choices outside of conditioning
    • You want to re-wild your body and learn to dialogue on an equal footing with the environment and non-human beings
    • You believe that body intelligence and an unbiased connection to the natural world is key to the evolution of the human species and the survival of this planet
    • You’re open to trust the unknown and the wisdom of your subconscious self

Who is this for?

The workshop is for everyone: experienced eco-somatics practictioners and beginners. All practices are simple, accessible and require no prior experience. The only thing you need is an open and curious mind and a willingness to explore unfamiliar movements.

How you may benefit from this work

    • Be more spontaneous while keeping a high level of awareness
    • Shed some constraints from social and cultural conditioning
    • Increase your movement vocabulary
    • Feel more fully connected to nature and the more-than-human world
    • Trust the unknown and your body’s intelligence more
    • Provide you with simple tools to continue developing critical self-reflection on your human bias
    • Provide you with simple tools to continue harnessing spontaneous movement which is in conscious dialogue with the environment

Get in touch to find out when the next one is.

Testimonials

‘Claire’s weekend workshop How to be Feral was a most joyful and enriching experience. She generously invited us into her practice, beginning indoors with a series of movement exercises to unsettle our upright human ways of perceiving the world, before leading us into the woods and marshes where she guided us to tune into our senses and receive the environments. We used our bodies to respond to the sounds, shapes and textures around us, exploring alone and also taking turns to witness one another’s movements in an atmosphere of trust and playfulness. I left the workshop feeling creatively invigorated and excited to do more.’

Samantha, artist and psychotherapist

Claire creates a safe space and process that opens up new thoughts and movement possibilities. I was able to make new discoveries. 

Helen, theatre maker