This workshop invites a return to what is already there: our feral nature, without apology.

We begin by unpeeling. Loosening the human-centred conditioning that shapes perception and constrains response. As these habits soften, instinctive intelligence — the feral knowing we were taught to mistrust — reawakens.

We practise staying with the tension between instinct and attention. Spontaneous without collapse. Attentive without rigidity. Alert, porous, responsive, and accountable to what surrounds us.

As sensitivity deepens, the boundary between body and environment begins to thin. We start to feel how the land moves through us. Perception reveals itself as reciprocal. We learn how to be affected without resistance, and how to act without dominance.

Movement shifts from expression to relation. Through agentive listening — recognising that agency is shared across human and more-than-human bodies — gesture becomes participation in a wider field of intelligence. The world thinking through us. Dance becomes ecological attention. A form of listening. A form of conversation.

To move with the land is to be unsettled and astonished, to encounter the porous edge of identity itself. In this friction between instinct and attention, human and more-than-human, another way of being alive becomes possible — raw, relational, and feral.

This workshop draws on practices from my book How to be feral: movement practices to re-wild your body. We move indoors and outdoors, alone and in pairs, across three locations — near London Fields and in Hackney Marshes. No prior movement experience needed. Only curiosity and a willingness to be surprised.