Intention
An Open Floor day retreat
Saturday March 28th 2026
11am - 5pm
Irishtown Gospel Hall, Dublin 4, Ireland
This day of movement & dance meditation is designed to connect us with the intelligence of our heart centre and the creative power of our intentionality.
Exploring the art of consciously shaping our intention and focusing the direction of our creative life force energy out into the world.
There are two bursary places available for this day workshop, please email to apply.
At this time of Spring Equinox all are welcome to this heart centred day of dynamic movement, ritual and stillness meditation. During this session we will be exploring the art of consciously shaping the expression of life force through us and directing it into the world.
This is an opportunity to engage with the power of choice, awareness and intention so as to experience our ability to focus our creative life force energy and manifest the dreams, desires and vision held within.
Supported by the movement map of Open Floor practice, along with teachings from the chakra system we will take time to move rest and connect with the intuitive body, the dreaming mind and the heart centre. Calling on the element of fire to remind us of our divinity and ignite our creative spark.
The dynamic and restorative moving meditation practices are designed to resource us to embody heart, mind and soul and to allow us to listen for what is arising within and offer it into motion. As we move with attention on what is emerging and how we are feeling, it is possible to alchemise energy, raise courage and create something new within and around us.
In the current climate of these modern times humanity needs good medicine, one that connects us to our hearts, to our essential selves and to each other. Movement & dance as meditation offers an embodied medicine, one that can resource us deeply and expand our capacity to be present, to love, to share our gifts and engage wholeheartedly with the mystery of life.
This day is open to all and no previous experience is needed.
€125
There are two bursary places open for this day, please get in touch to avail of them.
The Sacred Opening
An Open Floor residential retreat
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.
Dates: 3rd - 6th September 2026
Venue: De Dieken, Holten, The Netherlands
Booking : [email protected] or
0031 612602244 / www.embodieddance.nl
More info on the Retreat
Becoming Visible
An Open Floor womb-centric movement series
Mondays February 2nd - 23rd
7pm - 8.30pm
Online
Beginning at Imbolc with the first stirrings of springtime and awakening life in the belly this series of 4 classes is designed to connect us with our creative life force and intuitive expression.
Through winter we have been seeding the next stage of our growth and evolution, both personally and collectively, and we will take the time each week to connect to what is gestating within us.
The practices are designed to offer breath, simple movement and resting space to what is preparing to birth through us over the next few months. This is not the time to have to know exactly what that is, but to simply be and move with what arises in the moment, to encourage fluidity and call the medicine of the dance and our moving bodies to resource us.
This series of classes will draw upon a blend of Open Floor movement and Womb Presence® practices to support our journey over the month.
Open Floor movement is an embodiment dance practice, an enjoyable pathway to the essential self with a practical focus on how to resource ourselves in modern day living through connection with our body wisdom.
Womb Presence is a modality that deepens connection to the power source and primal creative centre of the body through somatic enquiry, free form movement, simple breath work and stillness. It is designed to enhance intuition, self-trust and authentic expression.
As we move with the slow awakening energy of spring time we will listen for what is becoming visible within us and how to support its emergence and blossoming in our lives. Taking time to engage in practices that enliven the vital and sexual energy that ignites our passion to create and bring our truth, medicine and gifts into form.
Inviting our attention to the root of the body deepens trust of our inner knowing, strengthens expression of the feminine aspect of our soul and encourages our wisdom, natural wildness and compassionate nature.
Having the intention to connect with the womb centre can ease symptoms and bring insight and relief from menstrual and menopausal challenges as we bring presence and kind awareness to this vital centre.
All stages of cycles and physical womb situations are welcome.
The sessions will be recorded and available to the group for the full week until the next session.
€125
There are two bursary places available for this series, please get in touch if you would like to avail of it.
Ongoing Group 2025 - 2026
Rebirth - dance of death, eros and desire
*fully booked*
A 3 module committed series carrying us from the descent of Samhain through to the early emergence of Spring.
Dates:
Samhain : November 15th/16th 2025 - Death
Mid-Winter: January 10th/11th 2026 - Eros
Equinox: March 7th/8th 2026 - Desire
Our human bodies belong to the earth and are intimately connected to the seasons and cycles of the natural world. We can access deep rooted wisdom, purpose and the joy of co-creation when we connect to the cycle of nature within ourselves and act as conscious participants in the annual winter/spring journey from death to rebirth.
Venue:
Irishtown Gospel Hall, Ringsend, Dublin 4, Ireland
This group is open to all genders.
Places are booked by email application through the button below, or alternatively through our contact page.