Take my hand - let us run on the damp earth and feel the freedom, wonder and joy of being alive
FREEDOM | WONDER | BELONGING
You are here because deep in your bones you yearn to return to the wild.
You want to go beyond books and talks to FEEL the rapture of
being alive in your body and soul.
You want to enrich your life so it is dripping with morning dew, interwoven with mycelium and roots, pumping with silty rivers, resonating with birdsong, entangled with wildflowers and moss, lit with burnings stars, crying for the moon.
Yet society has taught you to believe that loving the earth and sky is a waste of time, something you can do one day when the to do list is done/kids have left home/you have won the lottery -
– in other words, it is a luxury, not OK for “people like you”, only for those who know more than you do and anyway, you are strange and alone in your love for the earth.
I want you to know - living a life fully entwined with the life in this messy, beautiful universe is a fundamental human need – AND it is possible for you. Exactly where you are now.
Welcome to Rewild Your Soul
CREATIVITY | CURIOSITY | CREATIVITY
Rewild Your Soul is an enriching, year-long experience for quietly
courageous folk to gather, slow down and sink into the deep remembering that we are part of this messy, beautiful universe.
Number of places | 6 out of 16 places left
Investment | £1983 in full / 6 monthly payments x £331 / 12 monthly payments x £166 / 15 monthly payments x £133
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"The world feels alive"
"Rewild Your Soul has been transformational.
Before I felt completely disconnected from nature. The seasonal adventures gently encouraged me to get outside and build a deeper relationship with the natural world. The world feels alive now that I understand more of the stories of the stars, the songs of birds, and the wonderful variety of wildflowers in our local meadow.”- SHARON
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"Knowing there are other people who care deeply has been the biggest gift"
“I've always felt that nature was my friend but felt like I was the odd one out in all my social groups. I felt alone with my NEED for nature. Meeting Agnes and the other folk on Rewild Your Soul and gently
taking part in meetings and exercises has really made me realise there are plenty of other people who care deeply. The hope I now have knowing other people are working towards a more compassionate future and want to include and learn from nature has been the biggest gift.”- SARAH
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"I see hope in all that exists"
"Before I wanted to be outside walking in the woods, but I never gave it priority. Agnes is thoughtful, talented, creative and compassionate and the way she blends science and nature using curiosity and creativity is truly extraordinary. Now, my walks in the outdoors are more often and intentional. I am in awe and see all the hope that exists. "
- JAMEE
Do you feel guilty, frustrated and like a nature weirdo too?
“Life is hectic and I feel too guilty to stop and take the time to notice the world around me - I blink and the season has changed again without me really seeing the transition.”
“I have tried putting aside an hour a week to get outside but I never manage. I get annoyed with myself - why can’t I prioritise the time?”
“I feel 'tied to my desk' for work rather than outside where my soul wants to be. It makes me feel trapped and like I want to scream.”
"I want to step out of the hurricane for a bit, and take a breath. My body and spirit are beginning to crack under the relentless wind.”
“There’s so much noise out there - relentless negative news and people telling me how I should be giving and doing more. I just want to stop and listen more deeply beyond the screeching tumult to the joy and pain beneath it.”
I want you to know -
Living a life fully immersed and entwined with the life around you in this messy, beautiful universe is a fundamental human need – AND it is possible for you. Exactly where you are.
We have lived in relationship with the more-than-human for millennia. We have evolved with the land. Your desire to love the earth and sky is NORMAL and has been deliberately positioned to be seen as odd in order to continue harming people and planet through extraction and exploitation.
Yet the hard truth is that the more we ignore the call for the wild, the more we are collaborating with the damaging systems that are currently governing our society and the more we are hurting ourselves and the earth.
How can you step away from the noise and deepen your love for the earth, sky and your wild self?
Journey together in Rewild Your Soul
Rewild Your Soul is a quietly powerful, semi-guided journey to fall more deeply in love with our messy, beautiful universe through curiosity, creativity and community and with compassion and courage in our hearts.
Over the year we explore four interwoven landscapes through seasonal adventures. Our time together will be guided by a rich tapestry of prompts, talks, workshops and community sharing as we begin to awaken the wild within.
Delivered online the experience will connect you with folk from around the world who also love the earth. Together we travel into the wilderness and discover enchantment, grief, magic, wonder, awe.
Together we emerge with a renewed sense of belonging and
knowing - for we are part of everything. We are made of stardust.
AUTUMN
Root | Adventure under the ancient forest
Wander into the ancient autumn forest and explore your roots and values
In Autumn we explore the complex world of roots and fungi under the earth of our oldest woodlands - and our own needs for roots and nourishment. Together we will notice, wonder, discover, create and connect with this landscape and the messy, entangled world of mycorrhizal (fungi-root) networks. It is time for observation and learning, understanding and healing. It is time to feel rooted again.
winter
Dream | Adventure into the night sky
Gaze at burning winter stars and sink into your life stories and dreams for the year ahead
We begin our winter adventure embracing quiet, stillness, rest. Together we will reopen the dreaming space and envision how we'd like our lives to unfold in the year ahead. We allow ourselves to pause, look at the stars, feel the stories of our ancestors in our bones and fill our souls with wonder and awe. It is time to reopen the dreaming space.
SPRING
Nest | Adventure into the wild hedgerow
Seek hidden nests in the hedgerow and create a supportive nest at home
In Spring we adventure into the wild hedgerow where birds weave their homes. Together we will connect with our avian kin, their precious homes and our own needs for nesting. Together we will seek to understand what it means when our ultimate home – the earth – is changing, and amongst this change create a loving, nourishing home for us to...be. It is time to rekindle the quiet joy of a safe nest buried in the tangled hedgerow.
SUMMER
Joy | Adventure to the wildflower meadow
Feel the powerful transformation
of flower to seed in the summer meadow and explore joy and what it means to be a good ancestor
In Summer we adventure to the wildflower meadow where flowers unfold, insects thrive and precious seeds are made. Together we will embrace the lightness and joy of the season and notice, wonder, discover, create, and connect with ancient, entangled grasslands and the power of seeds. We seek out joy and explore creating a better future as good ancestors. It is time to step into the world with lightness, imagination, compassion, healing and joy to collectively plant seeds for a better world.
Let us ask ourselves, “what is it I plan to do with this one wild and precious life?”
About Agnes Becker
"I created Rewild Your Soul to deepen our relationship with and belonging to nature."
Hi, I'm an artist and science communicator who feels most at home with family and friends, immersed in nature. After a degree in Natural Sciences and a Masters in Science Media Production, I spent 10 years working in universities with scientists. In 2016 I created we are stardust as a way to deepen our experience of the messy, beautiful universe through art and science.
What will Rewild Your Soul gift you?
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Loving acceptance for your whole, beautiful, wild self
Begin to accept all the wild parts of you and see yourself as an ecosystem of beings in a greater ecosystem of life.
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A deeper understanding of and love for the earth
Sink deeper into understanding your place and see how your story and life intertwines with the more-than-human world around you.
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A powerful sense of belonging
Find powerful new perspectives on your sense of belonging to our messy, beautiful universe
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Curiosity, wonder and enchantment for life!
Turn your loving attention to the plants, fungi, animals and sky on your doorstep and see hidden worlds reveal themselves. Awaken your curiosity so that you pause and listen more deeply to what nature can teach you and tone down the relentless noise of news and social media.
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A supportive global community
Meet fellow adventurers from around the world and know you are not alone in your love for the earth. This is how alumni have described the community: "a safe, cosy nest" "a cluster of star sisters" "a network of mycelium"
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Space to bear witness
Allow the grief for what is happening to our world to flow through you and in doing so step into love and action in gratitude to the earth and sky.
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Quality time outside practicing Deep Life
Spend your time outside with intention, slowly getting to know your local land intimately.
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Playful creativity
Begin to explore creatively expressing all that you notice and feel.
Guides along the journey
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Andy Holden, Artist
andyholdenartist.comLIVE TALK | Nests, ecology, sculpture and familial relationships
Andy Holden is an artist based in Bedfordshire, UK. Andy will join us to show a short film followed by questions about his work A Natural History of Nest Building where he used the study of birds’ nests to explore ecology, sculpture and familial relationships. -
Kaz and Fi, herbalists, authors and speakers, SEED SISTAS
seedsistas.co.ukLIVE TALK | Medicinal wildflowers
Kaz and Fi, known as the SEED SISTAS, are seasoned herbalists, published authors and international speakers. These Earth lovers believe in the power of reconnecting with nature for holistic well-being, and are on a mission to bridge the gap between humans and the green world around them. Beyond clinical expertise, they embody ecological guardianship advocating for botanical connection with plenty of passion and humor.
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Mark Westmoquette, Astrophysicist and Zen teacher
markwestmoquette.co.ukLIVE TALK | Mindful stargazing
Mark Westmoquette encourages us to connect with the universe and reveal our true selves. As an astrophysicist and Zen teacher, Mark offers a unique method of embodied practice based on science and research, which will encourage us to find a deep connection with the cosmos.
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Elle Bower Johnston, body witch
www.ellebowerjohnston.comLIVE TALK & WORKSHOP | Earth and body
Elle is a body witch. Her work is the alchemisation of breathwork, somatics, and rest practices with witchcraft and folk magic. She works with creatives, witches, queers, change-makers, weirdos - folks who might not necessarily feel like they belong in ‘wellness’ or ‘spiritual’ spaces - to help them get into deeper their relationship with their body and the magic of he world. Her work is queer- and trans-centred, trauma-conscious, and rooted in unraveling colonialism and capitalism from the ways we relate to our bodies. She believes that our practices can be microcosms of liberation that spiral out and create a better world.
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A meadow of pre-recorded talks and workshops
With guests including David Haskell, Nana Tomova, Becka Nathan, Ayesha Khan, Sophie Strand, Jo Marchant, Ruth Allen, Martin Bidartondo, David Satori, Sasha Glasgow, The Wild Academy, Trevor Dines, Hannah Bullivant, Hazel MacCambridge, Tamu Thomas, Kathryn John.
SUPPORT | GUIDANCE | INSPIRATION
What's included? (Worth £2830)
Campfire gatherings
Never feel alone in your love for nature and always feel inspired and supported to learn and share discoveries as we gather with other starry-eyed learners in the twice monthly online campfire gatherings held Tuesdays 1-2.30pm UK time.
Gatherings are 90 minutes to allow deep conversation. All gatherings are recorded.
Seasonal adventure guidebooks
For each seasonal adventure you’ll receive a printable guidebook filled with a rich tapestry of science and folklore stories, nature activities, journaling questions and playful creative exercises so you never feel stuck or overwhelmed with how to spend intentional time outside.
Inspiring guest speaker talks
Deepen your knowledge and understanding of the more-than-human world and expand your perspective of what it means to be alive with inspiring pre-recorded and live talks from scientists, coaches, writers and through leaders. This year, our speakers include Mark Westmoquotte, Astronomer and Zen Yoga Master, Elle Bower-Johnson, body witch, and the Seed Sistas, medical herbalists. Held Tuesdays 1-2.30pm UK time.
Seasonal creative workshops
Even if you haven’t picked up a paintbrush in years these gentle, joyful seasonal creative workshops will see you painting with mud, creating a night sky chart, weaving nest-like wreaths and making berry ink. Held Tuesdays 1-2.30pm UK time.
Harvest festival at home retreat
At the end of the year on 27 August 2024 you’ll take part in a nurturing, curated at home Harvest Festival Retreat so you can always remember what you have learned and discovered about nature and your inner wild.
Nourishing welcome box
As a gift to mark the start of your rewilding journey you’ll receive a box filled with treasures to guide you throughout the year.
Online community space on Circle
Always find someone who gets your love of nature with the supportive community space on Circle, free from adverts and distractions.
Private podcast
Minimise screen time by listening to the guidebooks, talks and campfires as you go with the private podcast.
BONUS: Access to The Wild Enchantment Club, worth £75
You will have FREE access to my subscription, The Wild Enchantment Club, throughout your time in Rewild Your Soul where each month you’ll get a new nature quest to explore the seasons. Worth £75.
BONUS: Access to new online workshops and retreats
Access to any new online workshops and retreats during your time with Rewild Your Soul for FREE.
Ethos
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Slow, deep work
Journeying through the seasonal adventures for a year gives you the space and depth to allow this new way of engaging with the world to root deep into your bones. Change is not immediate, rather it is a gradual building up of new ways of noticing and being. Over time, you will see how getting to know the more-than-human world more deeply has changed you.
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Your journey
Rewild Your Soul provides a broad route to start your journey getting to know your own inner wild and the nature of the more-than-human world. Within each seasonal adventure you are encouraged to seek your own meandering path – to wander where your curiosity and creativity takes you – knowing you have the support and encouragement of a community that understands.
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Flexible and accessible
Rewild Your Soul encourages adventurers to spend time outside as much as possible and the prompts are designed (as much as possible) to be done whether you have a garden or not, whether you can walk into the wilderness or not, whether you live in the country or the city. Nature is everywhere – including you because you are a body.
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Supportive community
The Rewild Your Soul community is curated to be a supportive, loving yet also courageous place. We support each other to make space for more moments of wonder in nature. We inspire each other with our discoveries about and creative expressions to the Earth and our place in it. We collectively deepen our sense of belonging.
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"My eyes have been opened to the real importance of nature"
“I joined because I wanted more time to appreciate nature. When I’m walking it can feel solitary and the group has made my wanderings a shared experience. The speakers are good and raise new and interesting issues for me. Rewild Your Soul has opened my eyes to the real importance of nature. I always feel better and renewed after a campfire gathering or talk, regardless of topic and activity. Thank you for bringing so much variety and joy into our lives.”
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"I feel whole"
"I feel more whole and complete, understood and heard as well in ways that I didn’t know even mattered to me and yet this is now one of those things that matters to me the most. Things that could just be normal and every day suddenly became interesting and magical. Rewild Your Soul feels evolving and alive and real and something that’s precious."
- SARAH-LOUISE
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"I now see time with nature as necessary work, of growth, understanding and belonging"
“Before Rewild Your Soul I think I would have seen time with nature as indulgent, unfair. The past year has openly, generously, given me the permission to take the time—a morning or just a moment—to lovingly trace my gaze around the fine contours of a leaf, to marvel at the stain of a fresh berry on my page, to find both time and timelessness as springtime clouds built and floated past overhead. I found cheer in the knowledge that I was part of a global community also doing that very same kind of thing, and we could come together with Agnes, our guide, to share our discoveries and laughter and tears together. Now I see time with nature as necessary work, of growth and belonging and understanding.”
- JOYCE
Are you ready to step away from the noise and deepen your love for the earth, sky and your wild self?
Questions
Is Rewild Your Soul for me?
You are welcome with open arms if:
You have started to hear the call for the wild and want to live a full, nourished life entwined with nature
You want to enrich your experience of being in nature with learning and creativity but don’t know where to start
You want to connect with the Earth and all her living beings more deeply but never find the time or headspace to do this
You love learning about nature from all disciplines and people but have never found a community where learning is free of judgement about how much you do/don’t know
You want to learn more about the world through science but feel what you read when you look things up is too complicated and overwhelming or believe you aren’t clever enough
You want to respond to your experience of being in nature with creative art projects but don’t know where to start or believe you are “rubbish at drawing”
You love being part of a diverse community of people from all walks of life who love the connecting with the more-than-human world
The adventure not be the best experience for you if:
You want to learn technical terminology and get very specific about scientific methodology
You want a perfect, slick experience. I am a mother working on we are stardust part-time. I am messy and human. I do my best to create a smooth, beautiful experience for you but I will make mistakes. If this is something that would bother you, Rewild Your Soul may not be for you.
You want to tick off identifying as many plants, trees, birds, mushrooms, stars etc. as possible
You want a detailed, step-by-step ‘how to’ guide to exploring the world through science and art
You hope to heal trauma through this experience. While it may help, I am not a therapist and recommend working with a trained professional to address trauma
You are looking for a very directed course with a leader to take you through learning about an area of nature (I will act as more of a guide, encouraging others to share their findings and creations)
You feel some areas of learning about the world are superior to others
What is the time commitment?
You can tailor your adventure to meet your needs, however, here is a rough guide:
Minimum: 1 hour each week to spend time with the more-than -human world
Medium: 2 hours each week to also take part in the campfire gatherings, talks and workshops
Maximum: As many hours as you like! Immerse yourself in the journey and see where it takes you!
When are the campfires, talks and workshops?
All campfire, talks and workshops will be held every 2 weeks on Tuesdays, 1-2.30pm UK time or 7-8.30pm UK time
Harvest Festival at home day retreat, 26 August 2024, 10am - 3pm BST (workshops will be held from 12 noon BST onwards)
All talks will be recorded and posted in the community space and there will be a chance to ask speakers questions in advance.
I live in a city, can I still take part?
Yes! Nature is everywhere - including you! Prompts have been designed to be adapted to urban and rural living. There are fragments of ancient forests, meadows and hedgerows to be found everywhere.
I don't live in the UK, can I still take part?
Yes! Adventurers have joined from from the USA, France and Mallorca as well as the UK. The prompts will apply to all countries. You may to check you can make the times of the live calls first and might find it useful to get a local field guide or find local identification websites or apps to help you to get to know your local birdlife.
I'm not very sciency or arty - will I be left behind?
I believe all humans are creative and curious. In joining Rewild Your Soul, you become part a nourishing community learners where we are all equal in our learning. There are no 'stupid' questions or 'rubbish' artworks. Instead we get curious and enjoy playful creativity. We support each other to make space for more moments of wonder in nature. We inspire each other with our discoveries about and creative expressions to the Earth and our place in it. We collectively deepen
our sense of belonging.
I have a disability, can I still take part?
Yes! The prompts and activities have been designed to be done in areas close to home, such as parks and gardens, and in your own time.
If you have a physical disability, you can choose to do the prompts and activities in a place that is comfortable for you and meets your needs.
If you have a chronic illness, the programme has been designed to be flexible so that you can do prompts and activities when your health allows.
You can also pick and choose which prompts and activities you would prefer to do - I repeatedly emphasise that you do not need to do every single prompt of activity in order to participate.