Open Floor Workshops
States of Being – weekend workshop – ONLINE
with Deborah Jay-Lewin & Masha Kozlovskaya (Russia) assisting
26 – 27 June 2021, 4 – 7pm GMT
Two sessions of 3 hours each (the commitment is to attend both sessions). Saturday and Sunday, 4 – 7pm UK.
The state of your being influences your capacity to focus, relate and be authentically engaged with life.
This unique Open Floor Therapy in Motion workshop will provide you with tools to bring your physical and emotional experiences into embodied expression. Over the course of these two 3 hour sessions, a few people will have the opportunity to work individually with Deborah, supported by the rest of the group. There will be time for dancing, witnessing, verbal inquiry and reflection. We will invite the wisdom of the body to be our guiding principle, benefiting from a deepening of moving in community.
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COST: £20 non-refundable deposit to secure your place.
LINK TO REGISTER: www.eventbrite.com/e/states-of-being-open-floor-therapy-in-motion-weekend-with-deborah-jay-lewin-tickets-147577846311
At the end of the workshop, Deborah will guide a financial attunement where you will be invited to contribute more, if you are able to.
Pre-booking is essential. Places are limited to 24.
Any other questions, email Mena.
with Deborah Jay-Lewin & Masha Kozlovskaya (Russia) assisting
26 – 27 June 2021, 4 – 7pm GMT
Two sessions of 3 hours each (the commitment is to attend both sessions). Saturday and Sunday, 4 – 7pm UK.
The state of your being influences your capacity to focus, relate and be authentically engaged with life.
This unique Open Floor Therapy in Motion workshop will provide you with tools to bring your physical and emotional experiences into embodied expression. Over the course of these two 3 hour sessions, a few people will have the opportunity to work individually with Deborah, supported by the rest of the group. There will be time for dancing, witnessing, verbal inquiry and reflection. We will invite the wisdom of the body to be our guiding principle, benefiting from a deepening of moving in community.
_____________________________________________________________________________
COST: £20 non-refundable deposit to secure your place.
LINK TO REGISTER: www.eventbrite.com/e/states-of-being-open-floor-therapy-in-motion-weekend-with-deborah-jay-lewin-tickets-147577846311
At the end of the workshop, Deborah will guide a financial attunement where you will be invited to contribute more, if you are able to.
Pre-booking is essential. Places are limited to 24.
Any other questions, email Mena.
Ground Floor Lab
with Deborah Jay-Lewin & Heather Ehlers (USA)
15 - 20 May 2020 - ONLINEA foundation in the most up to date approaches to embodiment and mindful movement, our Ground Floor Lab is an intensive, experiential, five-day introduction to the Open Floor Curriculum. You’ll come away with an understanding of the core teachings and practical skills to use in your movement practice and beyond.
You will learn:
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with Deborah Jay-Lewin & Heather Ehlers (USA)
15 - 20 May 2020 - ONLINEA foundation in the most up to date approaches to embodiment and mindful movement, our Ground Floor Lab is an intensive, experiential, five-day introduction to the Open Floor Curriculum. You’ll come away with an understanding of the core teachings and practical skills to use in your movement practice and beyond.
You will learn:
- The key concepts and foundational principles of Open Floor movement practice.
- An understanding of how the body moves and shapes our experience of life from an embodied perspective.
- With an experiential session dedicated to each of ten Open Floor Movement Resources, you will practice moving with intention and self awareness and understand how to call on these resources to build resilience, flexibility and ease both on and off the dance floor.
- A taste of how we move on the Open Floor through the Four Dimensions of Embodiment (the body, the mind, the heart and the soul) and the Four Relational Hungers (solitude, connection, belonging and spirit)
- Each movement session includes a look ‘behind the scenes’ from a professional perspective for an understanding of the intention, structure and purpose of each experience.
- An overview of the philosophy and core values that inform the Open Floor teachings. This includes Dynamic Governance, our non-hierarchical, transparent organizational structure.
- You’ll have ample opportunity to ask the teachers questions and to make connections with your peers.
- For those wishing to take the Open Floor training path further, this foundational training fills the requirement for acceptance.
Dates & Times: - Saturday 15 May 2021
Thursday 20 May 2021
Flexible hours between 9am – 6pm UK Time
Cost for tuition: - USD $650 (€590 / £530 / AUD $985). If you cancel after acceptance and payment there will be a $25 processing fee.
Please note that Open Floor International donates into a scholarship/ bursary fund to support those with challenging financial circumstances wishing to attend this lab.
Click here to apply.
The Movement Project 2021
Living closer to the dreaming
with Sarena
Saturday afternoons 3 pm -6 pm
Online at the moment
Two blocks:
Block 1: 20 March - 24 April - 22 May
Block 2: 4 Sept - 2 Oct - 6 Nov
What it is about
We will work in movement and spoken word creating the poetry that comes through our bodies.
At times we notice a particular way we are or behave that no longer serves us well enough. I want more, I want different. Life feels stale and unappealing or I am tired of the same conflicts, those little - big fights that no longer feel right. But, how do I change this? How do I gain a new perspective of an old situation and can I trust my body to provide this wisdom?
During our time together we will dance together, feeling into our current physical state, our mental mood and we will gather together to hold space, witness and have an opportunity to explore something bothersome, or something that feels like a new possibility. To witness we feel into those same places in ourselves and being witnessed we step into a new layer of trust in our bodies.
We work in movement trusting what the body is already doing, our particular movement sequence and explore with words and movement what the next step is or how we can hold (get to know) a new sequence in our body.
I love this way of working as it provides safety in a small group, connecting in ways we don't normally do in everyday life. It opens up to how else we can be in communion with the world and those close to us.
Cost: £50 per session or or pay upfront for one block £120. Or book for both blocks £240.
The group will be between 4 -6 people.
Who is it for
Those who are interested in discovering more about their own life journey, and wanting to explore it more fully in movement and being a witness. Movement is a physical and emotional language and we listen and respond to our bodies in the moment with presence. Witnessing and being witnessed support us to grow with integrity. In the one to one we work with what emerges, this could be a challenging issue or bringing awareness to what is ready to be received, or you might explore and deepen something that arises in the moment through the dance. This is a combination of dance and Process Work (underpinned by Open Floor Therapy in Motion), we create change in ourselves and therefore support change in the world around us.
To book email me.
Living closer to the dreaming
with Sarena
Saturday afternoons 3 pm -6 pm
Online at the moment
Two blocks:
Block 1: 20 March - 24 April - 22 May
Block 2: 4 Sept - 2 Oct - 6 Nov
What it is about
We will work in movement and spoken word creating the poetry that comes through our bodies.
At times we notice a particular way we are or behave that no longer serves us well enough. I want more, I want different. Life feels stale and unappealing or I am tired of the same conflicts, those little - big fights that no longer feel right. But, how do I change this? How do I gain a new perspective of an old situation and can I trust my body to provide this wisdom?
During our time together we will dance together, feeling into our current physical state, our mental mood and we will gather together to hold space, witness and have an opportunity to explore something bothersome, or something that feels like a new possibility. To witness we feel into those same places in ourselves and being witnessed we step into a new layer of trust in our bodies.
We work in movement trusting what the body is already doing, our particular movement sequence and explore with words and movement what the next step is or how we can hold (get to know) a new sequence in our body.
I love this way of working as it provides safety in a small group, connecting in ways we don't normally do in everyday life. It opens up to how else we can be in communion with the world and those close to us.
Cost: £50 per session or or pay upfront for one block £120. Or book for both blocks £240.
The group will be between 4 -6 people.
Who is it for
Those who are interested in discovering more about their own life journey, and wanting to explore it more fully in movement and being a witness. Movement is a physical and emotional language and we listen and respond to our bodies in the moment with presence. Witnessing and being witnessed support us to grow with integrity. In the one to one we work with what emerges, this could be a challenging issue or bringing awareness to what is ready to be received, or you might explore and deepen something that arises in the moment through the dance. This is a combination of dance and Process Work (underpinned by Open Floor Therapy in Motion), we create change in ourselves and therefore support change in the world around us.
To book email me.