The Art of Embodied Awakening

movement, nature & archetypes as pathways to presence and belonging


With Eline Kieft, PhD

“You were born to move!”

Eline Kieft

Welcome to Wild Soul!

In these fast and fragmented times, you may feel disconnected from your body and inner life, overwhelmed by constant demands or puzzled by relationships.

With movement as a way of knowing, you can return to the deep wisdom inside, connected to the natural and social worlds around you.

Wild Soul is a unique and contemporary way of life, a philosophy that is all about reconnection and belonging.

It gives you tools to move with life differently: to find a slower rhythm, reconnect with nature, find meaningful community and integrate creative practice in your life.

Here, you'll find simple and grounded practices like:

  • Movement to restore vitality, clarity and joy

  • Nature to ground and guide you in life’s cycles

  • Archetypal work for new inspiration and guidance

👋🏼 Hi, I’m Eline!

I’m a movement teacher, writer and mentor with a PhD in dance anthropology. I help conscious and creative professionals navigate modern life while staying grounded, healthy and connected.

My down-to-earth approach fosters joy, wonder and deep transformation with simple, nature-inspired tools and movement practices.

Feel free to reach out with any questions or ideas!

Featured Offerings

Here are three ways you can step into the work right now. Each offering has its own intention, from steady daily practice to archetypal work and deep nature immersion. Follow what feels timely for you.

Qi Studio Membership

Weekly live and replay classes that build strength, calm and emotional balance

This is my signature community for practising a Qi Gong lifestyle, in class and in daily life. A steady, nourishing way to return to your body and cultivate clarity, resilience and ease. Join live on ZOOM or watch the replays in your own time, from the comfort of home.

Goddess Qi Gong

A 9-week archetypal journey through movement, myth and energy practice

Meet the nine faces of the feminine in a safe group with other women in transition. from Maiden to Mystic, with Qi Gong symbolism and shared reflection. Discover new pathways to soul through your own body wisdom.

Avebury Retreat 2026

Women-only immersion at the Summer Solstice to resource yourself and reconnect with your roots

Are you ready to explore a sacred site with stone circles, avenues and long barrows? Experience Eline's unique blend of movement, nature immersion and ritual in a unique ritual landscape (with an optional ceremonial night inside the barrow)!

The Wild Soul Landscape

Wild Soul offers a range of transformative experiences to support your journey into deeper embodiment, self-discovery and spiritual awakening. Each pathway meets you in a different place, whether you need steadier energy, a return to nature or a more archetypal way of remembering who you are. You can also navigate via the menu at the top of the page.

Nature Spirituality

Discover Eline's unique flavour of nature awareness and immersion inspired by animist, shamanic, pagan and taoist practice to strengthen your connections with land and spirit.

Embodied Research

Discover the body as an active site of knowledge, presence and wellbeing throughout the research cycle, for students, researchers, artists, educators and somatic practitioners.

Personal Mentoring

Create space to grow, heal and realign as you navigate life's transitions in a sacred container to take stock of where you are and what you'd like to heal, learn or transform.

Connect!

I write a seasonal letter and weekly essays. You’re welcome to choose the rhythm that fits you best.

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The Wild Times

Seasonal newsletter (8x a year) with inspiration and resources to help you say in tune with Wild Soul developments, following the Celtic Wheel of the Year.

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Weekly on Substack

Weekly reflections that explore Self, World and Soul through the lens of movement. Delivered directly to your inbox, so you don't need to create a Substack account to receive them by email. Substack is the social media platform I love, and where I’m most active. See you there?

Did you know I wrote a book?

Dancing in the Muddy Temple: A Moving Spirituality of Land and Body is a heartfelt exploration of embodied spirituality, grounded in movement, nature, and story.

"In a time when the planet is hurting, we are given a book as medicine—a medicine for dreamers and dancers, scholars and seekers, philosophers and artists, but most of all, an embodied spirituality and an embodied scholarship that dances. This is nothing less than an exquisite offering to the world."

Celeste Snowber

Supporting Wild Soul Centre

Your contribution allows me to expand the Wild Soul curriculum and share these transformative practices with more people across the globe.

Whether through purchasing an online course or making a donation via PayPal, your generosity nurtures this vision and helps bring it to life—for all our relations.

Thank you for helping grow Wild Soul!