An Open Floor Movement Workshop

28 - 30 June 2024 ~ GLASGOW, Scotland

 
 

A weekend Open Floor workshop to support you Access, Embody and Express the fullness of your heart.

There are plenty of reasons to guard your heart these days. You don’t have to look far to see the inhabitants of this earth are troubled; on a screen, down the street, through the window of a train. Then again, almost every day I see or hear something that makes me smile, feel peaceful or excited about the innovative times I am living in.

Come spend the weekend on the Open Floor using movement consciously, to liberate your body and become the most tender, inspiring, engaged being you can humanly be.

This is the first time I've offered this workshop since 2019, where I will be incorporating my deeper understanding of the importance of the regulation of the nervous system and the window of presence, the work of Stephen Porges and Dan Siegal.

This Open Floor workshop is where we bring into focus our embodied emotional intelligence.

This workshop will take place at YAMA Studios in Glasgow, SCOTLAND - see below for information.

Discover…

  • What is it that makes a difference? Is it perception? Is it how you are feeling? Or how you feel about your feelings?

“The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe.”
— Joanna Macy
 

Who the workshop is for

  • This workshop is open to all aged 18+ and to those who have an appreciation or curiosity for the inherent wisdom found in our somatic intelligence.

  • Experience Level: Beginners and advanced dancers are welcome. At least one class of an Embodied Movement Practice (eg. Open Floor, 5Rhythms®, or Movement Medicine) is recommended.

  • This workshop counts for the Open Floor Teacher Training.

 

Our dance space

YAMA Studio

The Shape of Our Time Together

There will be time to move, reflect, and engage with others, both verbally and without words.

Each session will include time for dancing and will be taught in such a way as to encourage pacing yourself. There will be guided input from Deborah and space for your own free exploration.

The Practicalities

  • 28 - 30 June 2024

  • Fri 7-9.30pm | Sat 10.30am-5.30pm | Sun 10.30am-4.30pm UK time

  • Early bird £125, before 17 May

    Full Price £155, after 18 May

    Deposit £50 secures your place

    Solidarity payments: if you are able to contribute to a solidarity fund, to join with us so that we can offer places to those with less financial resources who want to attend, then please indicate this on the booking form.
    Subsidised places - if you feel a strong call to join this group and your finances are significantly stretched there are two subsidised places available. Contact Subhanaya to apply: subhanayadance@gmail.com

  • YAMA Studio, 7 Milnbank St, Glasgow G31 3AQ

  • We encourage travel by public transport and car sharing.

    We aim to coordinate lift sharing and taxis amongst the participants.

    Local travel information will be emailed to you directly after booking.

  • We appreciate that this group is being offered within the context of continuing uncertainty around Covid.

    The priority is that we can all arrive, relax and be in community and dance for each module, staying safe and well; to that end, we will implement smart and sensible practices for health and safety.

    Requirements around testing will be informed by the wider formal health and safety guidance and we will make this clear before the workshop. It’s likely that we’ll ask everyone to do a lateral flow test before arrival.

    There is more information on the booking form about the cancellation policy and Covid.

  • We recommend bringing:

    • Loose / comfortable clothing

    • Warm clothes

    • Refillable water bottle

    • Notebook and pen

 
 

Meet Deborah

Professionally, Deborah has been working in the field of movement and embodiment for 30+ years. She qualified as a Sesame Movement and Drama Therapist in her early 20s, soon broadening into the field of conscious movement and teaching 5Rhythms® for over 25 years. In 2014, she was one of a group of 15 Founding Teachers of Open Floor International (OFI) and in 2016 attended OFI’s Therapy in Motion training with Andrea Juhan and Irit Ziv-Ron. In 2023, she completed a Foundation Training with The Centre for Systemic Constellations.

She has a blended professional life, working online and in-person, with large groups, small groups, and one-to-one. Her respect for the wisdom of the creative body is incisive and contagious.

“I am committed to personal development, and nurturing individual and collective transformation….. I hold the teaching space with deep attentiveness, clear instruction, and an absolute delight and love of movement.”

 
 
“Heartfullife still remains one of my profound Open Floor experiences…...Your workshop gave me the insight and clarity to return to Melbourne after a year of being in perpetual chaos and emotional pain in Brisbane. I haven’t regretted that decision and now feel much more embodied and settled.”
— Lucy F., past participant
“What’s been very positive for me it is atmosphere of kindness in the group. Deborah, I particularly appreciate the clarity in your teaching, as well as the fine attention that you give to each, and to the group itself.

Your empathic look and your way, so right, to put words on what you observe, creates a safe container for the suggested explorations. All of that contributes to the atmosphere of kindness.

Having physical pain (shoulder and arm), it was important to be able to share it at the beginning of the workshop; I felt heard and this allowed me to trust. Although the pain did not allow me to move and unfold completely into movement, I slowly let go of the concern about hurting myself to be more present to my dance and that of the others.”
— Fabienne A., past participant