The Sacred Opening

An Open Floor residential retreat

Sept 3rd - 6th 2026

De Dieken, The Netherlands

'The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure that you seek' -Joseph Campbell

All of us enter this world through the gateway of the female body, carried and birthed by the innate intelligence and life giving force of the womb. For thousands of years the grace and wisdom of the womb centre has been denied and suppressed. Modern culture moves many of us out of right relationship with our physical bodies, with our sensuality and with our sexuality as a sacred, natural and healing force.

This residential weekend of movement, somatic dance and meditation for women and womb-bodied people is an opportunity for us to gather, move, rest and sit in circle together. Supported by the embodiment practices of Open Floor movement and the restorative wisdom of Womb Presence
practices, we will journey with compassion and curiosity through the potent landscape of our primal source of life force energy, awakening and enlivening our places of power, passion and wisdom.

Book Your Place

This residential weekend of movement, somatic dance and meditation for women and womb-bodied people is an opportunity for us to gather, move, rest and sit in circle together.

Supported by the embodiment practices of Open Floor movement and the restorative wisdom of Womb Presence practices, we will enter the cave with curiosity and listen for what arises.

In conscious dance as meditation we
meet the intelligence of the life force moving through us and offer it into motion;
this opens doorways to our essential self and helps us to awaken and align with what matters most to us.

With our feet planted on the earth, breath in the belly and an aligned mind we can make a choice for wholehearted, embodied living where we can express the full force of our creativity and be here now, in all our beauty.

This retreat is open to women & womb-bodied people at all stages of life and cycles and takes
place in the natural surrounds of De Dieken, with delicious food, 3 night accommodation, 4 days
practice and labyrinth walk included in the price.

€720 early bird by July 1st 2026 (first 10 applicants)

€795 (2nd early bird by August 24th)

€825 full price.

This retreat is joyfully co-created with Monika Korschner, 5Rhythms, OpenFloor & Libido teacher in the Netherlands

For information & booking : [email protected] or 0031 612602244 / www.embodieddance.nl

Carol is an accredited counsellor, movement therapist, Open Floor teacher and founder of Womb Presence® practice.