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👋🏼 Hi! I'm Eline

I help you guide and direct your energy and emotions through movement and nature.

Learn to shift overwhelm and burnout, reconnect with your body, and step into inner strength, joy and vitality. The Way of the Wild Soul Trail integrates around Qi Gong, Nature Spirituality and Story Dancing, as different ways to inquire into what is meaningful for us. Drawing from my personal and professional experience as a lifelong dancer and movement facilitator (trained in Movement Medicine and Qi Gong among other movement styles), medical anthropologist, shamanic practitioner, and person with an autoimmune condition, I weave those different strands into all the work I do. I help intuitive and sensitive achievers who are caring and creative to get out of survival mode, stress, anxiety and overwhelm. Navigate life’s challenges and regain your energy and clarity of purpose with
a set of embodied, creative and spiritual practices that create and sustain transformation and rekindle your inner spark! These practices rekindle your energy, life force, creativity, joy and sense of direction, so you can face life with calm confidence, re-sourced from deep within.

30/06/2025

You notice what you focus on: I am starting to see mermaids everywhere, even in French bakeries!

Can’t wait to dive into the soul-deeps with you end of July. It’s always a privilege to hold space for transformation, and the Sealskin Soulskin workshop is especially close to my heart.

Check out my Substack for some recent posts on Dancing with Stories, Myth and Movement and the Selkie story in particular…

Recently I became aware of another sea goddess Sedna, and I cant wait to learn more about her!

17/06/2025

Where do mermaids hang out? If your local mermaid pub isn’t available, come to Birmingham end July, to explore the Selkie myth in a safe circle with other women… listen to the call of the sea and retrieve your power of shape shifting.

This is where meets … immerse yourself in moving your life story, yearning for time in your soul home, and making sure you create pockets of time to nourish yourself and recharge…

Scroll down for the static prompt with all the info, find the details in the bio, or drop me a DM!

16/06/2025

Moving away from Facebook
Dear Wild Souls,

Slowly but surely, I’ve drifted away from Facebook to other places that feel more aligned with my work.

To be honest, Facebook has always felt a bit chaotic and cluttered to me. I’ve struggled to find things, the platform does my head in, and it just never felt like home.

I feel more flow and ease elsewhere, so I’m finally saying out loud that this page is no longer actively updated or monitored. It’ll stay visible for now, including automatic shares from my Instagram, but I won’t be responding to comments or messages here (which I haven’t really for a long time!).

If you'd like to stay connected, please come find me in one of these spaces (I’ll drop the links in the comments):
– Substack (my most regular writing space, with weekly posts and daily Notes)
– Instagram (for spontaneous glimpses of movement, nature and embodied spirituality)
– YouTube (for free movement practices and past conversations, especially my beginner Qi Gong series)
– LinkedIn (for my scholar-practitioner world, and weekly-ish posts on embodied ways through overwhelm)

If my work still resonates, I’d love to continue weaving connection in these other spaces.

With warmth and gratitude, Eline

(This image by Andy Murray felt like a cheeky peekaboo to mirror that this page is slowly disappearing, but to show that Wild Soul is still very much alive!)

04/06/2025

Some more Selkie inspiration. Isn’t it awesome how the mermaid archetype speaks to the imagination everywhere? I particularly like the second image of the mermaid in a wheelchair. I know I walked past it in many years ago but have no idea of the artist…

Reply SOUL SEA below if you’d like to dance through the Selkie story with me in in July and I’ll send you the details!

19/05/2025

One of the reasons mermaids and selkies inspire me so much is that they are an archetypal symbol of shape-shifting. A creature of legend who can often live on land as well as in the sea. Adaptable to different environments, what shapes and forms do we embody? And is that always beneficial to our health?

In many ways it’s great to be adaptable, flexible, changing… up to the point where it doesn’t erase who we are.

In your everyday life situations, as lover, partner, mother, teacher, researcher, care taker, healer, who are you underneath the skin you’re wearing? Does the work you do, or the roles you play, honour the essence of who you are?

These are some of the questions we’ll be dnaind with in Birmingham, 25-27 July. In a transformative workshop where conscious dance meets women who run with the wolves…

Are you ready to call back your unique Soulskin? Please comment below and I’ll send you the details!

11/05/2025

I love meeting mermaids wherever I go… here is a small selection… which one is your favourite?

You’ll notice more over the coming weeks as I’m preparing for my Sealskin Soulskin workshop 25-27 July in Birmingham, UK. If you’d like to dance your soulskin back or explore your inner mermaid, come@and dance with us!!!

25/04/2025

I’m delighted to teach an in person dance workshop again - and would for you to join me!

This is where conscious dance meets women who run with the wolves… what’s not to like?

You’ll find the link in the bio, with all info and how to register there.

24/03/2025

I have been away from Instagram and Facebook for many moons... Good to be back and share with you my new blog on Substack! One step closer to the centre of my offering! I'd love to hear what you think, there or here... with an awesome picture by my friend Andy Murray!
https://elinekieft.substack.com/p/my-love-for-dance?r=4fo8bq

28/10/2024

Shamanic practice is a big part of my life. As I’m preparing for a hysterectomy surgery next week, I’m in a deep liminal space. I’m blessed I could create so much time for ceremony, sacred art, tarot, painting, making clay sculptures, gathering my last menstrual blood, and the odd health preparations as well.

Last week I had an MRI scan to the lay of the inner lands, and I used this time to make a shamanic journey… check out the blog article for inspiration and how you could do the same!

26/10/2024

You know how I love a good exhibition. In fact I’m only halfway now, went outside for a cup of tea and will dive back into the world of mermaids after my Earl Grey! The Siren Song has captured the imagination since the beginning of time. Having been born in the polder, the land reclaimed from the sea, I’ve always felt a mermaid myself! Maybe that’s why it’s hard to grow roots somewhere, belonging to sea and land on equal measure.

Let me take you on an imaginary journey through some of these captivating artworks, in paper, clay, paint, etch, there was even a Mermaid Barby :-)

Which image is your favourite?

01/10/2024

Do you sometimes wish you could reset yourself like hitting a refresh button? Discover how resilience and a return to your original state can bring balance.
Read my latest blog post that includes the link to your Qi Gong YouTube Routine!

https://www.elinekieft.com/blog/do-you-sometimes-wish-you-could-reset-yourself

27/09/2024

We finally got the keys to our new home! Signed the last documents this week, celebrated with a lovely meal, and now the gateway is opening for a new chapter.

A lovely French country home that needs a lot of TLC! We’ll move in 2 phases, first to a temporary home for a few months and then the big move in Spring next year when the renovations are done. Lots of change on the horizon.

I love homes with history. This home, built in 1810, was an old roadside inn, with a kitchen to feed travelers between big cities. Since I love cooking I can totally relate to that, but thankfully we’re going to update the kitchen :-)

With huge thanks to our wonderful estate agent Maria from

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Path-Finding

You know how that goes, walking, trailing, looping, meandering, retracing your steps... Many years I searched for the ‘umbrella’ term under which all my interests in dance, movement, nature, shamanism, lucid dreaming, embodied academia, ceremony and sacred art could find a home...

Clover Trail introduces 13 inspiring ingredients to Thrive in Life. Each on its own offers an incredibly rich dish, a life-time practice and strong medicine. They have helped me stay healthy and well, and I hope they benefit you too. Some you will already know, others might be trails less traveled, but foremost I intend this to be a place where Soul is welcome and celebrated, at the very least through beautiful words, poetry and pictures, but also in our daily awareness of the extraordinary. Here is to Wonder-fulness and being filled with wonder... Happy Trailing!