Workshops & Retreats
Going Deeper - Dance of Awareness
29 May, 2026 - 5 June, 2026
Sold out with a waiting list
This 7 day retreat with Jane Belshaw & Subhanaya takes an embodied approach to the traditional Buddhist teaching of the four foundations of mindfulness - of body, feelings, thoughts and awareness - knows as the Satipatthana.
A Going Deeper retreat, for people who have been on retreat before or are familiar with meditation practice.
Led by: Subhanaya, Maitrivira, Jane Belshaw
Retreat Type: Going Deeper
This retreat will take an embodied approach to the traditional Buddhist teaching of the four foundations of mindfulness – of body, feelings, thoughts and awareness – known as the Sattipatthana.
We’ll practice slowing down and sensing into the subtle details of arising experience in movement and meditation, weaving between and combining these two aspects of practice – movement and stillness – to explore and deepen qualities of presence and aliveness.
Developing mindfulness of these aspects of unfolding experience grows our ability to embrace life fully – the painful and the beautiful – and to loosen fixed or limiting views of ourselves and others.
The dance sessions will usually be with music and will involve guided exploration, exercises and time to follow your own experience in movement. No experience of dance or movement is required, only a willingness to explore your experience of movement in the body you are living in. For more information, read the retreat information sheet.
This is a Going Deeper retreat, for people who have done an introductory retreat or have been attending a local Buddhist centre and are familiar with the Metta Bhavana and Mindfulness of Breathing meditation practices.
Booking Fee:
£100
Save the date
Bare Bones - An Open Floor workshop
with Audrey Boss & Jane Belshaw
Produced by Lisa Griffiths
Assisted by Killian Strong
Date 14th & 15th November 26
Venue TBC
In this workshop we will continue to work with the lived experience of the body itself.
Why Bare Bones?
In a world that calls us to be anywhere but in our own bodies, Bare Bones is an invitation to explore the physicality of your dance and discover the endless landscapes of the moving human body.
This workshop is an invitation to visit, or revisit, the building blocks of Open Floor movement practice. An opportunity for you to re-member yourself - from the inside out. As we build awareness through the moving body, we can move more freely and expressively and expand our movement vocabularies beyond what we think we already know.
All knowledge
until it's in the body
is still a rumour.
- Anonymous
Ground yourself in Open Floor beyond the theory. We will foreground the basic structures of our practice, inhabiting and moving with our embodied resources as ever present and accessible.
Allow your practice to unfold and reveal itself to you as a known, lived experience rather than a concept we strive to understand. Join us to place our extraordinary bodies centre stage and fully inhabit life.
In our first Bare Bones workshop, we spent three days practising with the body centre stage, developing awareness through movement to support greater freedom, clarity, and range. The emphasis was on grounding Open Floor practice in direct, embodied experience rather than theory.
We worked in depth with six core movement resources.
In this second workshop, the body again remains centre stage as we practise with the foundational structures of the work through the remaining four core movement resources.
This training offers a focused, embodied framework that supports personal practice, teaching, and the integration of movement awareness into everyday life.
Practitioners of other conscious movement practices are welcome
For those of you who enjoy the music I play here is a link to some playlists