HOW TO BE FERAL ONLINE COURSE WITH CLAIRE LOUSSOUARN

HOW TO BE FERAL
ONLINE COURSE
WITH CLAIRE LOUSSOUARN
OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 2026

How to Be Feral:
Movement Practices to Re-Wild Your Body
with Claire Loussouarn

 4th & 18th October and 1st & 15th November 2026 at 3-5pm (UK time)

How can we be feral in the age of modernity? Is that even possible? The body says yes. It never forgot.

Join us for a four-session online course exploring the feral intelligence of the body: how it listens, questions, adapts, resists habit, and remembers what modern life teaches us to forget.

Held fortnightly, this course invites you to explore unfamiliar ways of moving that unsettle what we think we know about our bodies. Drawing from Claire Loussouarn’s book How to Be Feral, we will practise trusting instinct before understanding, and learning from the more-than-human world.

Led by movement artist Dr Claire Loussouarn and hosted by IMT Gallery, each session uses movement as a mode of thinking and knowing in its own right, alongside simple forms of movement mapping: ways of tracing, recording and reflecting on what emerges through the body. We will explore how movement can open different perspectives, train attention, and reconnect us to parts of ourselves that have been quietened by social and cultural conditioning.

The focus will be on re-wilding the body, while approaching each immediate environment as something to be received, listened to and moved with. As this course takes place online, we will work with the spaces participants are already in: rooms, floors, walls, furniture, objects, screens, sounds, gravity, light and the atmosphere of the group.

Between sessions, you will be encouraged to continue small self-directed practices in everyday life — in familiar rooms, daily tasks, small gestures, and the body’s quiet rebellions against automatic habits.

Course Details

Live Sessions: Each session takes place online via Zoom from 3-5pm (UK time).

Recordings: All sessions will be recorded and made available to registered participants for a limited time. While attending live gives you the opportunity to take part in group discussions and creative exercises, recordings are available if you need to catch up.

Booking: Your booking includes access to all four sessions.

  🐦 Early Bird rates are available until 16 August at 11:59pm BST.

Claire Loussouarn. Photograph by Dominique Rivoal.

Session 1: Being a Biped Differently

We begin with something so familiar we rarely notice it: standing, walking and moving on two feet. In this session, we will bring fresh attention to our bodies as bipeds (animals that walk on two legs) — their balance, weight, rhythm, direction, head, arms, feet, eyes and spine — and ask what this everyday perspective makes possible, and what it limits.

Rather than taking uprightness for granted, we will explore how standing and walking can become more alive, responsive and surprising. What happens when we stop assuming that the world is only in front of us? How can we keep our biped abilities alive to the changing environment around us and avoid sleepwalking into automatic behaviour?

Together we will work with different perspectives, widening our attention and allowing the body to receive the space as a moving, 360-degree environment. This session opens the course by gently disrupting the head-on-top, eyes-forward, upright habits through which we often organise ourselves as humans.

Claire Loussouarn. Photograph by Dominique Rivoal.

Session 2: Moving Without Standing Upright

In the second session, we will remove standing upright from the movement vocabulary and ask what else becomes possible. We will explore crawling, folding, rolling, leaning, sliding, crouching, resting and other ways of travelling through space, not as regression, but as rediscovery.

Where the first session refreshes the perspective we use every day, this session turns towards perspectives we often neglect. Moving closer to the floor changes what we see, how we listen, how we receive space, and how the body understands itself in relation to gravity, surfaces, furniture and the room around us.

We will explore what happens when the body no longer performs the familiar image of the upright human. What other beings, memories, instincts or forgotten movement possibilities become available as we lower ourselves, change levels, and allow the body to meet the world from somewhere less habitual?

Claire Loussouarn. Photograph by Dominique Rivoal.

Session 3: Shaping/No Shaping

This session explores the dialogue between form and formlessness. What happens when the body makes clear shapes, structures, edges and statements? And what happens when it softens, blurs, melts, yields or becomes less legible? Moving between shaping and no shaping, we will question the need to be recognisable, composed or in control.

We will work with the body’s capacity for both structure and shapelessness: bones and fascia, clarity and blur. Rather than deciding in advance what movement should look like, we will explore how form can arise, dissolve, return and transform through attention.

This session invites us to experience the feral body not as chaotic, but as full of potential: sometimes clear, sometimes illegible, sometimes held, sometimes dissolving. It asks how we might stay open to the unknown without collapsing into vagueness, and how structure itself can become a doorway to freedom.

Claire Loussouarn. Photograph by Dominique Rivoal.

Session 4: Co-composing with Objects

In the final session, we will move with objects not as tools to be used, but as presences to be listened to. A chair, a scarf, a stone, a cushion, a bag, a piece of fabric or another everyday object can each bring a different weight, texture, resistance, rhythm, structure and invitation. We will explore how to enter into dialogue with objects rather than acting upon them too quickly. What can we learn from an object’s shape, balance, material, stillness or refusal? How does the body change when it receives first and acts second? What becomes possible when action comes from listening?

This session brings together the course’s wider questions: how to challenge habit, shift perspective, train attention and remain spontaneous. By co-composing with objects and the spaces we are in, we will ask how feral practice can continue beyond the class — in the rooms we inhabit, the things we touch, and the everyday movements we thought we already knew.

We’ll stay connected through a dedicated WhatsApp group, offering a space to share reflections, ideas and inspiration as the course unfolds.

About Claire Loussouarn:

Claire Loussouarn is a movement artist, filmmaker, herbalist, anthropologist and writer. Her practice is rooted in a long-term commitment to place, shaped by more than nine years of sustained movement practice with Hackney Marshes, a common land in the heart of London.

From this practice she wrote How to be Feral: Movement Practices to Re-wild Your Body (Triarchy Press, 2024) and co-created We are grass, we are plants, we are Hackney Marshes, a four-screen installation filmed monthly over six years by Dominique Rivoal, which invites audiences to become the landscape itself.

Her work brings together movement, ecological thinking, embodied research and creative practice to question what it means to be human, to have a body, and to be part of the more-than-human world.

Whether you are an artist, performer, writer, researcher, educator, somatic practitioner or ecologist, or simply curious about how the body can think, sense and know, this course invites you to discover new ways of moving, perceiving and relating to the world around you. It will be particularly useful if you’re developing a creative, movement or ecological practice, or simply looking to reconnect with your body in everyday life. You’ll leave with practical ways to challenge habit, expanding attention and rediscover the body’s capacity to learn from its environment.

Reserve your place here and join us in discovering what the body never forgot.