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Imprint: Triarchy Press
Published: 20th July 2024 (available here from 18th June)
Format: Paperback 
Extent: 200pp.  ~  Size: 25.2 x 17.5 cm
List Price: £18 
Print ISBN: 978-1-913743-91-8
Tags: Amerta movement; non-stylised movement; authentic movement; ecotherapy; ecopsychology; embodiment; ecological self; somatics; nature connection
How to be feral
Claire Loussouarn  
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Readership

This book of movement practices can be used by anyone who wants to start or deepen a practice of mindfulness, movement meditation, somatic awareness or connection with the rest of nature.
​It is also designed to be used by people who work with others in personal development and healing - for example, coaches, therapists, ecotherapists and outdoor educators.
How to be feral

​Movement practices
to re-wild your body


Claire Loussouarn

Watch a clip from the book launch: what  does it mean to be feral?


In How to be feral, Claire Loussouarn invites us to challenge our preconceived notions of how our body should move. Through a series of practices and reflections, she encourages us to disrupt our usual shape and movement and to explore moving without the head on top, without using the hands, from the spine, with the face ... and in many other ways.

In Part 2 she challenges our deeply held beliefs about our place in the natural world. She shows us how to learn from non-human ways of being in the world and wake up our feral bodies in dialogue with the environment.

In all, she offers 91 movement practices that any reader can use. They allow us to use our moving body as a way to question and come to understand our conditioning and our biases. By disrupting our movement habits and our ideas of what it means to be human, she shows us how we can tap into our feral selves and reconnect with our bodies in a more expansive way.

This is a practical, reflective and beautifully illustrated handbook that re-appropriates the term 'feral' as a potent way to bring to light the limitations of our human perspective. Be ready to see through new lenses!

Claire's practice is broadly in the tradition of Amerta Movement (a form of non-stylised movement) - but these movement invitations and practices are fully accessible to any human.

Read the Introduction: Trusting the Body

Highlights of an interview with the author

Why do we need to disrupt ourselves?

Watch three other clips of Claire talking about the book here:
What kind of movement are  you talking about?
​What do you mean by the word 'feral'? 
What are the movement practices?  

Example practices:

Practice 1: Dropping the head
Stand or sit.
Drop the head.

     Let it hang gently and slowly.
     Feel the weight and pull of gravity.
     Don’t force it unnecessarily.
     Relax.
Hold the position as long as you can.
     Let each breath take you a bit deeper       into the drop.
     The head is heavy and pulls the                 muscles
     How do you negotiate this?
Explore hanging the head at different angles.
Practice 61: Disrupting the human shape in landscape
Move with the intention of disrupting your human shape.
Explore how to do this with elements of the environment.

     Become part of a rock.
     Attach a branch to your leg.
     Carry sand on top of your head.
     Rub earth on your face.
     Find your own disruption.
     How can the environment help and         afford non-human ways of shaping?
Experiment in different environments and see what they afford.

​See the full list of 91 Practices


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This and other images in the book is taken from film made by Dominique Rivoal: dominiquerivoal.com

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Ways to Wander
The Pattern 
Nature Connection
Nine Ways of Seeing a Body 
The Roots of Amerta Movement 
Suomenlinna: Gropius 
Skinner Releasing Technique ~
All Triarchy books on Walking​
 
All Triarchy books on Movement and Somatics

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