Deep Ecology: Rewilding your Soul
Course Overview
Deep Ecology: Rewilding Your Soul is an invitation into regeneration as lived practice — not a conceptual environmental theory, but a return to the rhythmic intelligence of body, psyche, and more-than-human worlds. This course is designed for those who feel called to soften and reorganize the inner patterns of exhaustion, over-adaptation, and mental overdrive, and to re-inhabit life from a baseline of ecological, psychological, and somatic belonging.
Rather than a fixed short course, Rewilding Your Soul unfolds as a continuous field of inquiry over a minimum of 6 months, allowing space for deep embodiment, relational practice, and ongoing integration. The work moves through cycles of online teaching, community sharing, optional in-person immersion, and individual mentoring, creating a lived path of deep ecology — inner and outer.
Who This Course Is For
This journey is for seekers, ecologists, practitioners, embodied learners and anyone ready to:
Shift from doing ecology to being ecological
Reconnect with bodies, land, rhythms, and relational intelligences
Move beyond burnout into regenerative ways of living
Develop somatic, psychological, and ecological literacy and shift from mental dominance to a integral perspective embodying various structures of consciousness
No prior ecological training is required — just openness to experience over explanation, embodiment over abstraction, and community over isolation.
Investment & Participation Options
Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Pricing and package tiers reflect the level of engagement, from digital-only participation to full immersion:
Digital Program Only (monthly session + campfire) 120.- per session
Digital + Monthly Deep-Dive Circle 3 h. 180.- per month
Full Package (all elements combined) in a 6 months in-depth study 1200.-€
Individual Mentoring (separate option) 120.- per session
Solidarity and reduced-rate places are available to support accessibility and inclusive participation.
Course Format
Course Format & Schedule (you choose your starting point)
This course unfolds over six months, with the following components :
Monthly Sunday Online Sessions (last Sunday of the month 5 pm Berlin time)
Live group teaching
Shared inquiry into deep ecology, regeneration, ritual, and embodiment
Recording available for those who cannot attend live
Digital and Sound Campfire Community
Dedicated online space for reflection, discussion, and communal integration
Continuous connection between live gatherings and sonic deep dives with exclusively composed binaural tracks by Nadja Lind
Optional Engagements
Buddy system for co-exploration and mutual support
Monthly in-person immersions (Alsace / near Basel) with horses and land-based practices and deep retreat regeneration
Extended online integration sessions (three-hour deep dives)
Individual Mentoring
90-minute sessions (in person or digital) for focused, personal integration
Can complement or stand apart from the group journey
Curriculum — Deep Ecology Modules
Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Because Rewilding Your Soul is offered as a continuous field, the curriculum is relational and integrative, not discrete “weeks” of content. Below is a mapping of the core learning arcs and practices participants will engage with. Any section can indeepen according to your personal interest :
Module 1: Grounding in Ecology of Self and World
Theme: Reconnecting with Body, Breath, and Living Context
Focus:
Cultivating nervous system regulation and unlocking the limbic system
Somatic attunement to inner and outer landscapes and learning awareness about precortex (mental) dominance
Establishing presence as ecological orientation and learning about mindshifting by unlocking deeper potentials
Outcomes: Participants begin to feel relationships rather than analyze them, experiencing deep ecology as felt reality rather than abstract idea.
Module 2: Rhythms, Cycles, and the Living World
Theme: Seasonal and Land-Based Awareness
Focus:
Sensing natural rhythms in body and environment
Exploring temporal intelligence beyond clock time, explorations on deep state and lucid flow techniques
Initiating relationship with land, sites, and animal allies
Outcomes: Students learn to recognize the rhythms that sustain life, both internally and ecologically.
Module 3: Relational Embodiment and Horses (only on place in Alsace-Mulhouse)
Theme: Presence, Mirror, and Nonverbal Intelligence and slowing down into regeneration
Focus:
Working with horses as relational partners
Nervous system attunement through non-dominant enquiry
Restoring trust and presence through direct animal relationship
Outcomes: Participants develop embodied self-awareness, presence, and depth of listening — foundational to ecological living.
Module 4: Inner Ecology — Voice, Parts, and Multiplicity
Theme: Listening to the Inner Landscape
Focus:
Relating to inner parts (protectors, creatives, saboteurs, sages)
Voice Dialogue as a relational process
Healing inner fragmentation through dialogue, not control
Outcomes: Participants cultivate inner coherence and adaptive presence that supports deep ecological engagement.
Module 5: Ritual, Regeneration, and Lived Practice
Theme: Ritual as Ecological Orientation
Focus:
Embodied ritual practices that bridge psyche and land and learning about the art of remembering
Awakening archaic- and mystic parts of your brain and bring them to heart
Applying ecological insight into everyday living
Outcomes: Students leave with practical ways to weave ecology into life, not just understand it.
Integration & Community
Throughout the journey participants build:
Relational resilience
Grounded presence in body and land
Self-regulated nervous systems
Peer support networks
Ritual and ecological practices to sustain regeneration
The emphasis is integration before completion: the work unfolds organically, and participants are supported to embody their own ecology — not just intellectual insight.
About your facilitator
Cordula Frei is an author, editor, and facilitator whose life is lived at the intersection of culture, land, embodiment, and consciousness. Her work bridges deep ecology, neuroscience, ritual, myth, and somatic practice — inviting learners to reclaim wisdom not as abstract knowledge but as lived experience.
Based in the forests of the Southern Black Forest and the Vosges with her horses and companions, Cordula brings decades of integrative practice, deep relational teaching, and creative work in voice dialogue and ecological education. Her approach is grounded, compassionate, and oriented toward regeneration, not escape.
Credibility & Lineage
Cordula Frei is not simply a teacher, but a guide through thresholds of inner and outer transformation. Her life and work unfold at the intersection of culture, land, embodiment, and consciousness, reflecting the very themes at the heart of Deep Ecology – Rewilding the Soul.
Based in the forests of the Southern Black Forest and the Vosges, living in close relationship with her horses and dogs, Cordula embodies a way of life that is relational with the land rather than extractive from it. This lived ecology—where inner inquiry and outer field-work are inseparable—forms the foundation of her role as an educator, facilitator, and host of regenerative learning spaces.
Her scholarly and creative work is rooted in embodied consciousness and integrative practice. She is the author of several books exploring the relationship between psyche and body, nature and narrative, including Soulskin, a deep inquiry into embodied consciousness and evolutionary stages of the self. Her forthcoming work, Wild & Wunderbar, written in dialogue with women in midlife, explores exhaustion, regeneration, embodied wisdom, and the reconnection of body and earth.
Cordula’s writing weaves together neuroscience, ritual, ecology, myth, and embodiment, bridging scientific perspectives with lived experience in a way that resonates with contemporary human challenges.
For decades, she has shaped integrally oriented discourse as an editorial leader and curator, working with publications such as Integrale Perspektiven, Info3 Magazin, Achronon Magazin, and Parallax Media. As former head of the Integrale Akademie of the Integrales Forum, she helped create spaces where inner worlds, cultural meaning, and collective inquiry could meet.
Her work is in direct conversation with thinkers such as Jean Gebser, particularly his understanding of mutation—a qualitative shift in structures of consciousness rather than linear progress. Rewilding the Soul is grounded in this perspective: responding to the limits of mental-rational dominance by re-integrating mythic, somatic, ecological, and relational modes of knowing into a lived, integral presence.
Cordula is also an international Senior Teacher of Voice Dialogue, with over 30 years of experience working with inner multiplicity—protective parts, creative voices, saboteurs, and wisdom figures—not to suppress them, but to listen, dialogue, and integrate. This depth-psychological work supports self-leadership, nervous system regulation, and inner coherence, and forms a vital pillar of the course.
What distinguishes Cordula as a host is her capacity to hold multiple dimensions of transformation simultaneously—ecological, psychological, somatic, cultural, and spiritual—without collapsing one into another. Rewilding the Soul is offered not as a retreat from the world, but as an ethical and ecological return to life, where regeneration becomes a lived, embodied practice.