About wilding

Your Body is a Teacher

listen & it will teach you how to set yourself free

Bodyworkers Sage Cress & Zoë Kosovic dreamed Wilding into existence while learning to roller skate together in Santa Cruz, California.

While swapping embodiment tips and skating tricks, they connected over their shared passions for massage, movement, and nature-based wisdom. Sensing an opportunity to focus these three lenses onto the care of bodies navigating the complexities of modern life, they envisioned what their ideal somatic practice would be.

The result is Wilding.

Movement At The Speed of Care

Integrating the creators’ backgrounds in massage therapy, yoga instruction, and personal training, Wilding is a movement system that brings the therapeutic benefits and sensory pleasures of bodywork off the massage table and onto the exercise mat. By weaving together mindful movement, breath and voice-based nervous system training, meditation, and self-massage, Wilding allows you to tend to your whole self — body, mind, spirit, and emotions — through one practice.

Engaging with the body as a field for exploration and skill-building, Wilding turns patterns and behaviors observed in nature into embodied strategies for living in right-relationship with oneself, each other, and the planet. Wilding is an invitation to embody self-liberation and radical care, prompting the inquiries

What could freedom & aliveness feel like right now?

&

What would it feel like to move at the speed of care?

Wilding blends science and wisdom, grounding both into a physical practice that invites you to slow down, tune in, and skillfully tend to your individual body as a part of nature and the home of deep intelligence.

Wilding is a joyful celebration of embodiment.

    • Trauma-responsive yoga

    • Breathwork

    • Vocal toning & sound self-healing

    • Meditation & self-inquiry

    • Self-massage & percussive bodywork

    • Creative, intuitive, spontaneous movement AKA play

    • Movement & behaviors of non-human animals & more-than-human species

    • Pandiculation for body mapping, fascial unwinding & nervous system regulation

    • Polyvagal theory

    • Chakra theory

    • 3-diaphragm approach to pelvic floor conditioning

    • Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation

    • Functional Range Conditioning

    • Structural Integration

    • Interpersonal Neurobiology

    • Nervous system regulation & adaptation

    • Cultural Emergence

    • Nerve flossing

    • Biomechanical resilience-based tissue adaptation for strength and flexibility

    • Brain hemisphere balancing exercises

    • Traditional Chinese Medicine meridian theory

    • Qi Gong

    • Ortho-Bionomy

    • Internal Family Systems

    • Self-compassion training

    • Non-sleep deep rest meditation

Meet the Creators