The Sensual Body
An Open Floor movement residential retreat
Friday 21st to Sunday 23rd August 2026
Slí na Bandé, Co. Wicklow, Ireland
*Last two places available
A weekend retreat to nourish and rejuvenate the sensual body through moving meditation, dance, rest and stillness in the sanctuary of Slí na Bandé in the Wicklow hills.
It is through our senses that we engage with life. Our ability to sense and feel through the vessel of our human bodies offers us doorways into presence and connection to our environment, not only for physical survival and decision making, but also for the experience of pleasure, delight and joy.
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The Sacred Opening
An Open Floor movement & Womb Presence residential retreat
Sept 3rd - 6th 2026
De Dieken, The Netherlands
*final two places available
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
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Shame; doorway to Divinity
An Open Floor weekend workshop
Friday 25th - Sunday 27th September 2026
Irishtown Gospel Hall, Ringsend, Dublin 4
This weekend will be assisted by Martin Timpe, a professional Supervisor and Coach trained in Gestalt Therapy and Group Dynamics, and freedomDANCE teacher from Germany.
Shame is known as the ‘hidden’ emotion, difficult to recognise and even more difficult to stay present with. It often sits at the root of much of our suffering, feeding our internal critical voices and challenging us around feeling free, happy and sovereign. Most of us have grown up through cultures and systems that use shame to control the natural movement of our life force energy, to suppress our voices and dilute our free expression. We easily become dysregulated when shame shows up, we avoid life, run away from ourselves, blame others and/or disappear into addictions and behaviours that don’t serve us.
On the other side of the visceral experience of shame is the beauty of our divine nature, the shining radiant self that is who we truly are, waiting to be more fully embodied and express itself freely in this world. Connecting to this place is the underlying focus of our weekend exploration that is designed to be educational, enjoyable, soulful and kind.
Over the weekend we will draw on a blend of Open Floor movement practice, emotional intelligence skills and education around the patterning of shame and body armouring. We will explore somatic practices that help us to recognise what is happening in our systems and regulate ourselves with compassion when required.
Open Floor is an embodiment practice, an intuitive and free form movement pathway to the essential self. It offers practical ways to anchor awareness and resource our daily lives through connection with our body wisdom.
Our bodies are designed to be fluid and free, our somatic intelligence knows how to allow the physical energy of our emotions to cycle through to completion. Who we really are has nothing to do with an emotion, a thought or a temporary physical experience. When we can recognise shame and its accompanying fight/flight/freeze states in our system, we can make compassionate choices to change our state and align with our essential self.
When layers of stuck emotional energy that are so common with shame are freed up and allowed to dissolve, we may open to the embodied experience of lightness, spaciousness and clarity around our direction and purpose.
Over two decades of working therapeutically with shame, both personally and with others, has taught me that if we can simplify and understand this complex emotion, embrace it and regulate ourselves or co-regulate our systems with others, then we can transform this painful experience and receive a profound key to our liberation.
During this weekend we will
* Learn to differentiate between healthy shame and toxic shame
* Practice emotional intelligence skills
* Learn how shame shows up somatically in our systems and how to release it
* Learn to recognise shame based patterns in the body/mind and develop simple practices to allow them dissolve and create a better experience
* Cultivate attitudes of compassion, patience and kindness as antidote for challenging states and feelings
* Offer what is no longer serving us to the alchemy of our moving bodies, the power of our conscious breath and clear intention
* Enjoy the beauty and the sensate experience of pleasure, vitality and clarity that arises when we connect with our original self
* Heal in community and encourage our authentic creative expression in this world.
I am delighted to welcome Martin Timpe to assist on this workshop.
Workshop times:
Friday 7pm - 8.30pm
Saturday 11am - 5pm
Sunday 11am - 4pm
Workshop fee: €280
Your place on the workshop is secured once payment either in full or in instalments is made.
This weekend workshop is open to all genders and everybody is welcome.
There are two bursary places available for this workshop, please get in touch if you would like to avail of them.
Serpentine Soul
A day of movement, myth and magic
with Carol McInerney and Trish Cameron
Saturday October 9th 2026
11am - 5.30pm
Irishtown Gospel Hall, Dublin 4, Ireland
On the approach to Samhain all are welcome to this day of dynamic movement, ritual, myth and meditation co-facilitated by Carol and Trish.
In many cultures across the planet the serpent is one of the oldest symbols of creation and feminine power. It represents kundalini energy, the primal creative life force that lives and moves within all human beings irrespective of gender.
Trish Cameron (Lightning Star) is a mother, grandmother and medicine woman. She is an Elder and founding member of Temple of Eiriú which dedicates itself to honouring the land of Ireland as a living spiritual tradition.
'Serpentine Soul is awakened and restored, and you are welcome here.
Come, whispers serpent to your body. Tell me your stories, your journey. What is in your heart. What dream is waiting for birthing in your womb. Listen to my wisdom. Let us make love and remember.'.... Trish Cameron
In many cultures across the planet the serpent is one of the oldest symbols of creation and feminine power. It represents kundalini energy, the primal creative life force that lives and moves within all human beings irrespective of gender.
This energy flows from the core of our being and its movement can liberate us from unhelpful conditioning and limiting patters, while encouraging us to access joy and align with what has truth and meaning for us.
During this day workshop we will move to awaken and connect with this exciting and restorative energy, offering what arises within us into the container of the dance and calling upon it to encourage the free flow of our natural creative expression. We will engage with myth through somatic practice and call upon the magic of music and our intuitive movement to alchemise the old and open us up to possibility.
Open Floor movement is an embodiment practice, a healing pathway that is designed to resource and support us to remember the freedom that comes from being our authentic selves in our relationships, our work and our world.
This day is open to all and no previous experience is needed.
€150
There are two bursary places open for this day, please get in touch to avail of them.
Trish Cameron teaches and offers ceremonies within the medicine ways of this land, and holds sacred sexuality circles for women called 'Flight of the Feathered Serpent' exploring the union of heaven and earth within us.
Waters of the Womb
An Open Floor movement & Womb Presence residential retreat
Friday 30th October to Sunday 1st November 2026
Sli na Bande, Co. Wicklow, Ireland
A weekend of movement, delicious food, somatic practice and stillness to embody our wise nature and rejuvenate our creative, intuitive self.
Water is life, movement is life, and when we are in flow with our life force energy we feel balanced, resourced and nourished in ways that allow us to meet life's ups and downs from a grounded and centred place.
Open Floor movement is an embodiment dance practice that supports us to be authentic in our lives through connection to our body wisdom.
Womb Presence® practices are designed to bring connection and healing to our pelvic and womb centres, to awaken the sensual body and deepen our intuitive listening.
This weekend residential retreat is open to all women and womb bodied people, however your current relationship with your womb and pelvic centres is, and no previous experience of conscious movement or womb presence practice is required.
This retreat will draw upon a blend of Open Floor movement and Womb Presence® practices to support our journey over the weekend. We will move indoors and outdoors in nature and be nourished by delicious food, sauna and plenty of time for deep resting.
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.
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 embodiment of our wise and compassionate nature.
During our retreat we will enliven the intuitive intelligence of our elemental waters, to dissolve what no longer is serving us and encourage our truthful expression, self-trust and ability to resource ourselves at a fundamental level.
Having the intention to connect with the pelvic and womb centres 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.
As numbers for this retreat are limited and they are usually fully booked it is recommended to book your place early.
Price includes accommodation, all meals and optional hot tub/sauna.
€585 / €555 (when booked by October 5th)
Ongoing Group 2026 - 2027
Remembrance
A 3 module committed series carrying us from the descent of Samhain through to the emergence of Spring.
Dates:
November 14th/15th 2026 - Samhain
January 23rd/24th 2027 - Mid-Winter
March 20th/21st 2027 - Equinox
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.