Re-wilding, and how to hear the call of the wild.

What re-wilding means to me

I’ve been hearing the call of the wild lately. Every time I hit my mat, every time I sink deeply into my body, and every time I express freely without reservation, I feel this wildness.

It’s not feral, or unruly, or out of control. Rather it’s raw, it’s primal, it’s freeing and it feels like I’ve come home.

This call of the wild is what drives me.

It’s not living off the grid, getting dreadies, or walking topless through Woolworths. It’s not an identity, it’s not hear for masks.

Rather the return to the wild is the re-inhabiting of our PRIMAL bodies

It’s the gentle unpeeling of the layers of patriarchal conditioning, familial wounding, and societal rules that wrapped us up into palatable, bite-sized after-dinner mints.  

Rewilding is to befriend my nervous system, to develop such awareness with every cell of my body that I greet what I find within with curiosity instead of judgement, supporting a return to Self.

Hearing the call of the wild is to listen and feel my body more intimately so to discern the signals it tells me.

The return to the wild is to reconnect what is true, and authentic and deeply desired.

It is to let our hearts lead as we support the creative and uninhibited expression of our soul.

This self is not calm, zen and in a state of balanced homeostasis all the time. She has personality. She is responding to what’s around her, just as an animal would. Her shackles raise, her breathing quickens, she cowers, she roars.    

She is released from domesticity.

We are living in an era of subdued, numbed, and disembodied domesticity

What is wild, feral, rash, and fearsome  - what is primal in us - has been pushed down by generations of patriarchal conditioning, perhaps bubbling up as an impulse to dye one’s hair or get a tattoo only to be swallowed up again into the indifferent, and undifferentiated lives we lead.

The status quo feels safe.

It’s human nature to be a welcome part of a community. Regardless of how dysfunctional it is.

Women particularly, due to our hormonal make up, are more cued towards the tendency to ‘fawn’ or ‘fit-in’ if we perceive a low-level threat. I can’t help but think of the beauty industry here and the plethora of fake tans and golden highlights (that I myself have succumbed to). This tendency to ‘fit-in’ and to avoid differentiation is a nervous system response, specifically that of the social engagement nervous system, and is not something that is morally wrong or to be judged. In effect, we can’t help it even when on some level we think it’s stupid and not really true to us.

It’s why it’s so common to reflect back on the clear arc of life we have travelled, and see how it mirrors everyone else’s… and then to realise that on that trodden path we don’t really know who we are anymore.

This is what happens when we silence the inner wild

We turn to the external, we look to the transcendental, and we are never fulfilled, because we have forgotten the part of the self, the truth, that lies within the pulsating and primal messages of your body.

Your inner wild is your primal messenger. The hairs that stand on end, the furtive glance, the deep-seated roar. Your inner wild is the signals from your nervous system telling us what is a threat to your core integrity. Your inner wild is so deeply in your body that she speaks to your soul.

To re-wild is to support and embody the creative expression of your soul.

We use embodiment practices to reconnect with the felt-sense of being alive. Breath, movement, and expression unwinds layers of conditioning, dissolves stagnation, and returns us to our primal state of being. It’s through embodying our wild that we avoid the domesticated, dull, and indifferent life.

Is the wild calling you? Find out more about in person embodiment classes Embodied Alchemy here, and embodied, feminine, body-led forms of Personal Coaching and Mentoring to take you deeper and to re-connect with your own wildly authentic self here.

Let me know, where do you feel tamed? And do you wish to unleash your wild? Drop a comment or an email, I’d love to hear from you!

xo

Jess