WILD SELF
A Body Soul Creative Journey
12 month program with Kat Nantz and Tessa Fleming
Program begins: April 20th 2025
Time: 1pm - 5pm EST
if you’ve landed here on this page, you likely feel a longing that you want to become more aquatinted with.
That longing, the feelings of being lost, misplaced, not quite right, numb, agitated, feeling outside your body like you can never quite land, are all ways your soul beckons you to listen, to come home.
What is a body soul creative journey?
It's a potent Re-membering ritual.
A song we sing over our bodies, a song that when we hear it,
it reminds us of something we abandoned long ago,
it tugs at a deep familiarity and beckons us to follow it to the rich underworld of a woman's inner psyche.
The program calls all our wild and wise, our lost and hidden parts of ourselves home.
Through art, intuitive writing, movement, somatics, meditation, and storytelling, we tend to the deeper longings within ourselves and our society.
This is an initiatory program, which invites you to come
in direct contact with your own instinctive intuitive nature.
This program invites us to reintroduce the creative, playful, curious, wild, embodied parts of ourself.
It’s a soft yet honest landing, an opportunity to fully inhabit our body's within a beautifully contained community that will be nurtured over a 12 month period.
WHAT THE PROGRAM IS ABOUT
With Clarissa Pinkola Estés’s Women Who Run With the Wolves as our guide the program will be structured each month around one chapter, or in some cases just one myth or story.
Honouring the celebration of animal instinct in the book and our own nature, the program will also be structured around the different seasons, honouring our body's cyclical nature.
The myths and stories will sound and support us into the changing rhythms each new month brings.
This book is a powerful resource, a sacred text.
The book is a love letter to the wild women in each of us- an archetypal force and energy that each of us has.
Together in a community of women we will unearth the book’s wisdom through listening, sharing, discussion, dance, movement, writing, art making. It is through these practices in a community of seekers that we begin to see ourselves in the stories, begin to listen for, heel to and live with the Wild Self within.
Now we are going to speak to you soul…
The program is a vital life force.
It is a song sung over lifetimes and ancestors. It's the lullaby to comfort and the anthem to stand tall.
Domestication is the water we swim in.
To truly know yourself you must be willing to leap from the waters you know.
To breathe bigger and deeper than ever before, to speak with a breath so strong it moves the trees, to plant your feet so firmly on the ground that the roots beneath come up to meet you.
You are more than the life you are living.
You feel it in your bones.
The program is uninterrupted time with parts of you.
Parts and beings that are long forgotten. The program is time to come into direct contact with your deep knowing.
We don’t do this work alone.
The soul is shy but comes alive in community.
In community our truth is reflected back to us in each other’s lives and the stories and myths we will read.
We are pack animals, we are a co-regulating species.
We need each other, and that is why this program centres relationships and we do this work together. This is an honest space.
This is a space where you’ll be invited to shed the layers and stories of who you were told to be, to put your feet in the rich soil of your own growth and be witness to the story of your own becoming.
This description is a story.
Do you see yourself in it?
MEET YOUR FACILITATORS
Hi, I'm Kat Nantz
I'm a somatic pleasure coach & Somatic Experiencing trained at the Advanced level. My passion is bringing more pleasure and freedom to folks who struggle to be in their body or who have experienced trauma (Hint! This is most of us!).
It is an incredible privilege to be a trusted guide in this work. I feel deeply honoured to hold folks in their most tender moments, to return them home to their body's and pleasure, to witness them in their bravest and scariest moments of becoming.
I offer this work because it transformed my life, completely. I hope it will offer you the same gifts.
Tessa Fleming is a writer, workshop facilitator, teacher, coach and filmmaker. Tessa’s passion for self expression takes different forms. After teaching high school for 13 years Tessa is now taking her passion for creativity and working with others into new frontiers. One of its main pathways is supporting other people getting into a relationship with their inner world and their creativity. Tessa’s workshop offerings and inspired editing and coaching sessions help people see their own creativity as the portal through which a truer, freer life awaits. A long time film lover, Tessa also loves working with artists who want to bring their stories and songs to the screen. Tessa and her partner cinematographer, Daniel Grant love working with compelling ideas and bringing them into visual fruition.
Now we are going to speak to that part of your brain that wants to know all the details…
What is the Structure of the Program? STRUCTURE OF THE PROGRAM
- Once a month 4 hour online facilitated group video call (Consists of somatic body based exercises, creative practices, intuitive writing, story telling, movement, spacious lunch break, breakout rooms)
- 30 min - 75 min bi-weekly zoom call - These calls will offer a group sharing opportunity after, led by participants which will be an additional 30-90min, depending how long the group would like to stay, you get to decide this. This time is for the participants, the facilitators will not be present
- Optional 20 min coaching call every month with either Kat or Tessa (this is a good time to check in, ask questions, receive coaching on a specific topic, ask for support, share any feedback)
- Circle platform for community building
- Office hours - every week (Both Kat and Tessa will each offer a window of time biweekly in the shared group chat where they will make themselves available for office hours to answer any questions about the content, share where you're at, etc)