wild Being is a response to a cultural moment marked by fragmentation… of knowledge, of meaning, of our relationship to nature, and of our trust in our own lived experience.
wild Being responds to this fragmentation in these key ways:
Fuller Participation
It posits that meaning arises through participatory engagement with the world through body, imagination, intellect, relationship and ecology, rather than through rational processing alone.
Wild Being draws on philosophy, psychology, mythology, ancient cosmology and nature-based wisdom to explore forms of knowing that modern life has largely forgotten or marginalised. These include embodied awareness, imaginal perception, symbolic thinking, intuitive insight and ecological participation. Far from opposing rational thought, these modes restore it to a wider ecology of knowing, one capable of holding paradox, complexity and uncertainty without collapse.
A Binding Quality
At its heart, wild Being is a post-religious exploration of soul. Rather than transcendence, soul is a way of participating; of sensing meaning in the world as something that emerges through relationship. The word religion itself means “to bind” or “to reconnect” and in this sense, wild Being is concerned with re-binding meaning to the world we inhabit: to the body, the Earth, the stories we tell and the responsibilities we carry as human beings. It binds the real to the sacred; sacred in the sense of that which lies beyond the edges of what we know.
Shared Inner Trust
In the modern world, meaning is often outsourced to experts, institutions, influencers or belief systems, while personal experience is either dismissed as subjective or inflated into isolated certainty.
Rather than offering answers or a tidy belief system to adopt, wild Being invites the cultivation of a messy and very personal kind of perception. It supports a return to trustworthy inner orientation. Yet, strangely, this inner trust helps us trust others and the cosmos itself as it aims to help us cultivate a grounded capacity to notice, listen and know in new ways, reflect and respond wisely within a shared world. In this way it attempts to address the meaning crisis, the health crisis and the ecological crisis of our time.
Remembering, Discovering & Creating
wild Being explores how ancient perspectives can be remembered without foreclosing the freedom to discover and create ourselves. This unusual binding of tradition and innovation, fate and free will, cultivates a deeper comfort with ambiguity. It gestures toward a renewed participation mystique: not a regression into pre-modern consciousness, but a collective individuation, where we return to older ways of knowing through differentiation and synthesis, preserving what remains alive while consciously transforming what no longer suits our context.
The wild Being Ecology
Ultimately, wild Being is an ecology of knowing. By rejecting a linear path with a goal or certificate at the end, engaging in wild Being is itself a practice of embracing knotty entanglement.
The vision is to offer a living arrangement of practices, ideas and spaces that support different modes of understanding.
The Studios are places for practice without attachment to any expectation – pure experience.
The Journal and Podcast provoke the intellect more directly, approaching intellectually mysterious topics which deepens the mind’s capacity to hold paradox, complexity and uncertainty.
The Cauldron is where these strands are brought into relationship. We move beyond habitual ways of thinking and responding, metabolising insights so new ways of Being in the world can emerge.
Together these threads weave into an ecology in which experience, contemplation, reflection and integration continually and interdependently inform one another.
About Tosca
wild Being is a one-woman labour of love. Perhaps I should share my background… but remember, credentials don’t confer wisdom. Much of what has shaped me has emerged through experience, the words of impressionable people and from staring into the distance savouring what I’ve just read!
My path began in the sciences. I completed a Bachelor of Science in Nutrition at the University of Nevada, Reno as a Millennium Scholar, before training as a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner, a systems-based approach that looks beyond pathology to understand metabolism through resilience and optimal function.
From there, my work expanded into population health. I completed a Master’s in Health Promotion as a Rotary International Scholar, became a Certified Health Education Specialist, and spent five years working as a researcher in mental health promotion, including policy-focused work with the Government of Ireland on initiatives aimed at embedding mental wellbeing into society at large while addressing the social determinants of health.
Alongside this academic and research trajectory, I felt an increasing pull toward the embodied, intuitive and symbolic dimensions of human experience. I trained extensively in Yoga (200- and 300-hour certifications across the US, India and Ireland), completed an additional 200-hour Yin Yoga training in Switzerland, and became a Qigong instructor.
I undertook a specialist Certificate in Mythology at University College Cork, studied at the Jung Centre in Ireland, and completed a two-year apprenticeship in Traditional Community Plant Medicine. I also recently passed the Certificate exam at the Faculty of Astrological Studies.
I am currently in the final stages of my International Coaching Federation accreditation and undergoing a Master’s in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology with the Sophia Centre at University of Wales Trinity Saint David.
At every stage of my life, reading and hours of reflection have been constant companions. wild Being is shaped by the books I love, the thinkers who have challenged me and a lifelong curiosity about how and why humans seek meaning.
This work is my attempt to hold these worlds in dialogue: to honour scientific rigour without forsaking my insatiable soul.
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