Embodied Practices for Collective Thriving

In this time of intersecting social, political, and planetary crises, how do we embrace and honour all that is arising in us as bodies?

What if we listen closely to what we feel in our hearts, what we know in our bones? Can we resonate care and connection across our differences, tuning into our sense of aliveness and embracing a fully embodied, relational way of being in the world in service of collective thriving?

Resonate inside circles of kindness, wonderment, and connection, illuminating a sense of interconnectedness within the living world. Discover creative practices that gesture toward a world aligned with thriving.

Wild Soma Collective invites you to soften your mind and connect to the wisdom of your body. Move through embodied practices that invite new ways of relating to self, others and our world. Explore ways of recasting the body as self, in specific relationship to the social, cultural, temporal and planetary ecosystems we live within. Members of Wild Soma Collective will guide you through intentionally designed practices and experiences that center embodied ways of knowing, being and moving into action.

These will include:

• Somatic practices that foreground feeling, sensation, and emotion
• Attentional practices to expand awareness
• Relational practices that support connection to community with the human and more than human world
• Creative practices such as ensemble-based imaginative play, including movement and vocalizing.

What You’ll Gain

• An expanded awareness of embodied ways of knowing, being and doing
• A repertoire of individual and collective practices designed to support your wellbeing and aliveness, including sensory, attentional, relational, and creative practices
• An enhanced capacity for cultivating life-giving relationship with self, others, and the world around you
• A better understanding of how embodiment is a world-making gesture

Who This Program is For

This program is for you if you are:

• Curious about the ways in which imaginative arts-based practices deepen connection. 
• Looking to cultivate joy and aliveness as we navigate the challenges of our time. 
• Drawn to the connection between personal wellbeing and collective thriving.
• Wanting to build collaborative relational practices of care as a leader, educator, researcher, artist, activist, health care worker, caregiver or community member
• No movement or artistic experience required. 

What You’ll Experience

We will experience a range of delights: embodied play, guided movement explorations and meditations, nature connection activations, personal and group reflection, collective rest, imaginative co-creation and other creative expressions through artmaking

Testimonials

I recommend you jump all-in to the Wild Soma retreat experience. This seriously thoughtful program is in equal parts deep learning, Being shifting and delightful fun. I can’t recommend it enough. – Deborah Farquharson -artist, past participant

Beautiful location, gem of an experience for life-altering shifts needed in one’s mind, body, and spirit, in connection to self and others. A place to rest and be nurtured amongst the delicious landscape and facilities; healthy food, and rest time is appreciated. -Katherine (2025 participant)

It was a rich delight to experience the exquisite integrity Wild Soma brings to their workshops – a rare quality that is grounded in the diverse and complementary expertise of their leadership, in the inclusive, welcoming invitation with which their practices are offered, and in the ways those practices support a gentle opening of the heart, the imagination, our embodied sensitivity – and ultimately our full, relational humanity. If you have a chance to experience Wild Soma, jump at it! – Philip Shephard, Creator of The Embodied Present Process, Author of Radical Wholeness and New Self, New World

Daily Schedule

A detailed schedule will be emailed to you about 30 days prior to your program. Click here to view a sample program schedule.