Sands of Time
Open Floor workshop
IN-PERSON in DUNCAN, VANCOUVER ISLAND, Canada
Easing and loosening the fixed shapes of our story about ‘The Past’, ‘The Present’, ‘The Future’.
Our own past, our own present, our own future are these set in stone? How would it be to soften that which we think we know about them? Be it in the body, in the emotions, in the mind, or at the soul level, might we consciously loosen those places where we find fixed beliefs. Inviting the ease and fluidity of more spacious possibilities?
Date 8 February 2025
Venue The Anglican Parish of St. Peter Quamichan, 5800 Church Rd, DUNCAN, VANCOUVER ISLAND, Canada
Times Sat 10am - 5pm PST time (Open Session: Fri 7pm - 9pm PST time)
Price $100 (Open Session Drop In: $20)
Enquiries Email Shauna: info@shaunadevlin.net
Minding Movement - 'a Step Up' - ONLINE
6 week online supervision group for professionals
Insight and support for practitioners through a creative and embodied lens.
Minding Movement - ‘a Step Up’
Develop an enhanced embodied tool kit, using the curriculum from Open Floor Movement Practice, to resource you personally & professionally.
Experience the delightful efficiency of problem solving when including the language of the body.
Open to professionals who have taken part in a previous Minding Movement group or Drop-In Session
Dates 20 February - 27 March 2025
Times Sessions are every Thursday 2.00 PM - 3.30 PM, UK time (check your timezone here).
Price £300 for 6 sessions, deposit of £55 secures your place.
Places 6 places available per group. Instalment payments are possible and 1 subsidised place is available, to enquire email: beth@vitalmoves.co.uk
Beyond Polarities
1 Day Open Floor workshop
IN-PERSON in Glasgow
In this experiential workshop we will explore the concept of polarities - the opposing forces that shape our lives - and how we can transcend (integrate) them through embodied movement.
Participants will learn to recognise how these dualities (such as mind/body, action/rest, masculine/feminine energies) manifest in the body and affect their physical and emotional well-being.
Date 8 March 2025
Venue The Fairfield Hall, The Pearce Institute, Glasgow
Times 10.30am-5.30pm
Price Early Bird £65 until 26 January | Full Price £90 from 27 January 2025
Optional Dinner There will be a group meal arranged at a local restaurant after the workshop. Full details provided after booking.
Enquiries email Subhanaya: subhanayadance@gmail.com
Congruency Retreat
4 Day Dance Retreat in Nature with Deborah Lewin + Anaïs Tamen
IN-PERSON in Aljezur, PORTUGAL
Leaning into Open Floor Movement Practice, our natural environment, and our inherent somatic intelligence.
Dates 24 - 27 April 2025
Times Registration Thursday 2pm - Sunday ending 1pm
Venue Essencia Nature Retreat, ALJEZUR, Portugal
Tuition Price
4 options available according to your financial means and economy:
Book by 1st March: Re-balancing 350€ | Balanced 250€ | Fair 200€ | Accessible 160€
Book from 2nd March: Re-balancing 400€ | Balanced 300€ | Fair 250€ | Accessible 180€
Accommodation + Meals Price
Organic vegan meals 40€ per day | Accommodation 10-40€ per night
Enquiries: email Anaïs: anais@anaistamen.com
Embracing Change
5 Day Open Floor Workshop
IN-PERSON in Findhorn, SCOTLAND
Embracing Change
Embrace life’s changes with a dance and movement workshop
Change is inevitable, unpredictable, and often out of our control. The enormity and pace of personal and planetary change can leave us feeling helpless and off-balance. How do we adapt to shifting circumstances without losing our footing? Can we face change from a place of resource?
Embody change with seasoned conscious movement practitioner, Deborah Lewin and learn to meet yourself and your response to change with compassion and curiosity. Pay a deposit today to reserve your place and discover how to embrace change from a place of emotional and physical equilibrium and strength.
Dates: 18 - 22 August 2025
Times: Registration 9.45am, first session 10.30am, closing at 1.30pm on Friday
Venue: Universal Hall, The Park Ecovillage, FINDHORN, Scotland
'becoming ~ where to from here?'
4 Day Open Floor Movement Retreat
IN-PERSON in Findhorn, Scotland
becoming is for you if ...
You are called to nourish yourself this midwinter.
You’d appreciate being in a space where rest and stillness is as valued as outward action.
You hunger for the connection of dancing with others.
You have a longing for some space for you, solitude, new encounters, wonderful music and nature.
You have been a bit stuck when thinking about 'where to from here’ and next steps? There's a sense in you that to drop into your body would support you in opening up to possibilities and answers ...
Dates 4-7 December 2025
Prices TBC
Deposit £150 non-refundable deposit secures your place.
Open Floor Meditation Cycle
Deborah will be leading an Open Floor Meditation Cycle in Universal Hall, The Park Ecovillage, FINDHORN, Scotland. Session will Deborah will be starting at 5.00pm.This Meditation Cycle is a simple Open Floor score/framework.
Over the course of the session we will ~ Sit * Walk * Move * Sit * Walk * Move * Sit
Close to the Winter Solstice let’s come together to open to this inwards turning time. Bring water, a cushion if you can, and extra layers. There will be a few chairs available in the space for those that need one.
WE HAVE DECIDED TO GO BACK TO PAYING CASH ON THE DOOR RATHER THAN PAYING IN ADVANCE ONLINE. If you want to pay by card you are welcome to still pay in advance online.
£15 - Requested standard contribution (choose this option if you have sufficient financial resources and can pay this for dancing)
£12 - Discounted rate (choose this option if you sometimes struggle with limited financial resources and would benefit from supported access for dancing tonight)
£10 - Concession rate (choose this option if you have limited resources}
Everyone over 15 is welcome
Doors open at 4.45pm. Everyone needs to be in the Hall by 5.10pm.
Bare feet or dance shoes on the dance floor please. No talking on the dance floor please.
'becoming ~ where to from here?'
4 Day Open Floor Movement Retreat
IN-PERSON in Findhorn, Scotland
becoming is for you if ...
You are called to nourish yourself this midwinter.
You’d appreciate being in a space where rest and stillness is as valued as outward action.
You hunger for the connection of dancing with others.
You have a longing for some space for you, solitude, new encounters, wonderful music and nature.
You have been a bit stuck when thinking about 'where to from here’ and next steps? There's a sense in you that to drop into your body would support you in opening up to possibilities and answers ...
Dates 5 - 8 December 2024
Prices Early bird £235, before 7 November | Full Price £260, after 8 November
Deposit £150 non-refundable deposit secures your place.
Rewiring Unconscious Contracts
1 Day Open Floor + Systemic Constellations workshop with Deborah Lewin + Liane Maitland
IN-PERSON in Glasgow
The roots of the issues we struggle with the most lie deep in the unconscious of our wider familial, social and cultural systems.
Join us for an exploration of how intergenerational family narratives inform our every day, and how we can free ourselves from the hidden dynamics which contribute to keeping us stuck in a familiar story.
Date 24 November 2024
Venue YAMA Studios, Milnbank Street, Glasgow
Times 10.30am-5.30pm
Price Full price £90 | Concession £65
Tuesday Open Floor Online
Tuesday Open Floor Online - is a weekly class, established after the completion of my online series ‘Vessels of Love’. It is held in rotation by a collective of Open Floor Teachers: Zoë, Aileen & Jenny.
The teachers asked if I might join occasionally as a "Special Guest Teacher" - I said yes. I will teach this month on Tuesday 12 November 9am - 10.15am (UK time).
• Arrive 15 minutes before for warm-up. We invite you to arrive as close to 8.45am (UK time) as you can to allow the full 15 minutes to warm up your body and settle in to the class, feel free to join while you are still preparing your space if needed.
Date: Tuesday 12 November 2024
Time: 9am-10.15am (music on from 8.45am) UK time
Price: £15 / £12 / £10 whatever feels right for you, or simply your presence if that is what you have to offer right now.
Enquiries: email Aileen: aileen@aileendance.org
Open Floor Community Dance
Deborah will be leading an Open Floor Community Dance Class in Universal Hall, The Park Ecovillage, FINDHORN, Scotland.
• You pay in advance online via Eventbrite.
• Full price is £15.00 and concession £10.00. Everyone over 15 is welcome.
• Doors open at 6.45. Everyone needs to be in the Hall by 7.10pm.
• Bare feet or dance shoes on the dance floor please. No talking on the dance floor please.
Sands of Time
2 Day Open Floor workshop with SoulCollage® with Deborah Lewin + Aileen Reid
IN-PERSON in Edinburgh
Easing and loosening the fixed shapes of our story about ‘The Past’, ‘The Present’, ‘The Future’.
Our own past, our own present, our own future are these set in stone? How would it be to soften that which we think we know about them? Be it in the body, in the emotions, in the mind, or at the soul level, might we consciously loosen those places where we find fixed beliefs. Inviting the ease and fluidity of more spacious possibilities?
Date 2 - 3 November 2024
Venue The Harry Younger Hall, Lochend Close, Edinburgh, SCOTLAND
Times Sat 10.30am - 6.30pm | Sun 10.30am - 4.30pm UK time
Price Early bird £135 until 20 Sept | Full Price £165 on/after 21 Sept
Places This workshop is now FULL, to join the waiting list email Aileen.
Minding Movement - 'a Step Up' - ONLINE
6 week online supervision group for professionals
Insight and support for practitioners through a creative and embodied lens.
Minding Movement - ‘a Step Up’
Develop an enhanced embodied tool kit, using the curriculum from Open Floor Movement Practice, to resource you personally & professionally.
Experience the delightful efficiency of problem solving when including the language of the body.
Open to professionals who have taken part in a previous Minding Movement group or Drop-In Session
Current Group:
Times: Tuesdays 3pm-4.30pm UK time (check your timezone)
Dates: 29 October - 3 December 2024
Price: £300 for 6 sessions
Places: 6 places are available
Next Group: Dates TBC - to register interest, email beth@vitalmoves.co.uk
Open Floor Community Dance
Deborah will be leading an Open Floor Community Dance Class in Universal Hall, The Park Ecovillage, FINDHORN, Scotland.
• You pay in advance online via Eventbrite.
• Full price is £15.00 and concession £10.00. Everyone over 15 is welcome.
• Doors open at 6.45. Everyone needs to be in the Hall by 7.10pm.
• Bare feet or dance shoes on the dance floor please. No talking on the dance floor please.
Minding Movement - Drop-In Session - ONLINE
2 hour supervision session for professionals
Insight and support for practitioners through a creative and embodied lens.
Minding Movement - Drop-In Session
Open to professionals who have taken part in a previous Minding Movement group or are interested in joining ‘a Step Up’
Develop an enhanced embodied tool kit, using the curriculum from Open Floor Movement Practice, to resource you personally & professionally.
Each session will focus on one Core Movement Resource
Experience the delightful efficiency of problem solving when including the language of the body.
Core Movement Resource: Activate & Settle
Date: Tuesday 1 October 2024
Time: 3pm-5pm UK time (check your timezone)
Price: £40, deposit of £15 secures your place. Two subsidised places, to enquire email: beth@vitalmoves.co.uk
Open Floor International - Ground Floor Lab
6 Day Open Floor Introduction
IN-PERSON in London
Ground Floor Lab
Take your movement practice to the next level.
The Ground Floor Lab is an intensive, experiential, 30 hour non-residential introduction to the Open Floor curriculum. You’ll come away with an understanding of the core teachings and practical skills to use them in your movement practice, your everyday life, workplace and communities.
It is the starting point for anyone who wants to teach Open Floor movement practice and professionals who want to bring embodimemt into their work and communities.
Dates 27 August - 1 September 2024
Venue Poplar Union, London E14, ENGLAND
Teaching Faculty Bence Gáspár, Deborah Lewin, Jane Belshaw, Lucie Nerot and Monika Korschner
Enquiries email: navantiofproductions@gmail.com
Open Floor Community Dance
Deborah will be leading an Open Floor Community Dance Class in Universal Hall, The Park Ecovillage, FINDHORN, Scotland.
• You pay in advance online via Eventbrite.
• Full price is £15.00 and concession £10.00. Everyone over 15 is welcome.
• Doors open at 6.45. Everyone needs to be in the Hall by 7.10pm.
• Bare feet or dance shoes on the dance floor please. No talking on the dance floor please.
Embracing Change
5 Day Open Floor Workshop
IN-PERSON in Findhorn, SCOTLAND
Embracing Change
Embrace life’s changes with a dance and movement workshop
Change is inevitable, unpredictable, and often out of our control. The enormity and pace of personal and planetary change can leave us feeling helpless and off-balance. How do we adapt to shifting circumstances without losing our footing? Can we face change from a place of resource?
Embody change with seasoned conscious movement practitioner, Deborah Lewin and learn to meet yourself and your response to change with compassion and curiosity. Pay a deposit today to reserve your place and discover how to embrace change from a place of emotional and physical equilibrium and strength.
Dates: 9 - 13 August 2024
Times: Registration 6.45pm, first session begins at 7.30pm. Closing at 5.30pm on Tuesday.
Prices: Early bird price: £295, before 14 June | Full Price: £340, from 15 June
Deposit: £150, will secure your place.
Venue: Universal Hall, The Park Ecovillage, FINDHORN, Scotland
Open Floor Community Dance
Deborah will be leading an Open Floor Community Dance Class in Universal Hall, The Park Ecovillage, FINDHORN, Scotland.
• You pay in advance online via Eventbrite.
• Full price is £15.00 and concession £10.00. Everyone over 15 is welcome.
• Doors open at 6.45. Everyone needs to be in the Hall by 7.10pm.
• Bare feet or dance shoes on the dance floor please. No talking on the dance floor please.
Minding Movement - Drop-In Session - ONLINE
2 hour session for professionals
Insight and support for practitioners through a creative and embodied lens.
Minding Movement - Drop-In Session
Open to professionals who have taken part in a previous Minding Movement group or are interested in joining ‘a Step Up’.
Develop an enhanced embodied tool kit, using the curriculum from Open Floor Movement Practice, to resource you personally & professionally.
Each session will focus on one Core Movement Resource
Experience the delightful efficiency of problem solving when including the language of the body.
Core Movement Resource: Ground
Date: Tuesday 9 July 2024
Time: 3pm-5pm UK time (check your timezone)
Price: £40, deposit of £15 secures your place. Two subsidised places, to enquire email: beth@vitalmoves.co.uk
heartfulllife
A weekend Open Floor workshop to support you Access, Embody and Express the fullness of your heart.
IN-PERSON in Glasgow
heartfulllife
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.
What is it that makes a difference? Is it perception? Is it how you are feeling? Or how you feel about your feelings?
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.
“The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe.”
― Joanna Macy
Location: YAMA Studios, GLASGOW
Times: Fri 7-9.30pm | Sat 10.30am-5.30pm | Sun 10.30am-4.30pm UK time (check your timezone)
Price: Early bird £125, before 17 May | Full Price £155, after 18 May
Deposit: £50 secures your place.
Places: Workshop is now FULL, email Subhanaya to request to be added to the Waiting List
Enquiries: Email Subhanaya - subhanayadance@gmail.com
Open Floor Community Dance
Deborah will be leading an Open Floor Community Dance Class in Universal Hall, The Park Ecovillage, FINDHORN, Scotland.
• You pay in advance online via Eventbrite.
• Full price is £15.00 and concession £10.00. Everyone over 15 is welcome.
• Doors open at 6.45. Everyone needs to be in the Hall by 7.10pm.
• Bare feet or dance shoes on the dance floor please. No talking on the dance floor please.
Minding Movement - 'a Step Up' - ONLINE
6 week online supervision group for professionals
Insight and support for practitioners through a creative and embodied lens.
Minding Movement - ‘a Step Up’
Develop an enhanced embodied tool kit, using the curriculum from Open Floor Movement Practice, to resource you personally & professionally.
Experience the delightful efficiency of problem solving when including the language of the body.
Open to professionals who have taken part in a previous Minding Movement group or drop-in session
Times: Mondays 3pm-4.30pm UK time (check your timezone)
Dates: 20 May - 24 June 2024
Price: £240 for 6 sessions, deposit of £40 secures your place.
Places: This group is FULL, and has begun. For next dates see further down for October dates.
Congruency
An Open Floor Weekend Workshop
IN-PERSON in Newcastle
Congruency
Generally we grow up in cultures, family or societal where we are not encouraged to listen to and trust the impulse within us to be honest and authentic. We will learn about this through our bodies, the dance floor.
Having the choice to move towards or away is crucial for our own self-care and as a relational skill.
Dates: 10 - 12 May 2024
Times: Fri 7-9.30pm | Sat 10.30am-5.30pm | Sun 10.30am-4.30pm UK time (check your timezone)
Price: Early Bird £120, extended to 12 April
Full Price £145 from 13 April | Friday Night Only Price £15/£10 concession
Deposit: £50 secures your place.
Places: Places are limited, once workshop is full we will begin a waiting list.
Enquiries: Email Rachel: deeperdance5rhythms@gmail.com
Open Floor Community Dance
Deborah will be leading an Open Floor Community Dance Class in Universal Hall, The Park Ecovillage, FINDHORN, Scotland.
• You pay in advance online via Eventbrite.
• Full price is £15.00 and concession £10.00. Everyone over 15 is welcome.
• Doors open at 6.45. Everyone needs to be in the Hall by 7.10pm.
• Bare feet or dance shoes on the dance floor please. No talking on the dance floor please.
Open Floor Community Dance
Deborah will be leading an Open Floor Community Dance Class in Universal Hall, The Park Ecovillage, FINDHORN, Scotland.
• You pay in advance online via Eventbrite.
• Full price is £15.00 and concession £10.00. Everyone over 15 is welcome.
• Doors open at 6.45. Everyone needs to be in the Hall by 7.10pm.
• Bare feet or dance shoes on the dance floor please. No talking on the dance floor please.
Bare Bones
Fundamentals of Open Floor Movement Practice Weekend Workshop
IN-PERSON in Ljubljana, SLOVENIA
Bare Bones
This workshop will provide you with a physical language enabling you to easily and enjoyably broaden your range of movement on all levels. Moving mindfully, you’ll be guided to explore Core Movement Principles of Open Floor; to release stress, increase vitality and dance with fuller expression.
You will be given the tools to expand your confidence on and off the dance floor, engaged in and enlightening movement conversations with yourself and each other.
Counts as 14hrs towards OF teacher training.
Dates 15 - 17 March 2024
Times Fri 6.00pm-8.30pm | Sat 11.00am-6.00pm | Sun 10am-4.00pm
Price 210 EUR Full price | Early bird price: 170 EUR available until 15 February
Enquiries Doris Novak: dorisnov@gmail.com | +386 31 843 866
States of Being
An Open Floor Therapy In Motion Weekend Workshop
IN-PERSON in Zagreb, CROATIA
States of Being
This Open Floor Therapy in Motion workshop will be focusing on your physical and emotional embodiment and expression; giving you tools to explore lesser-known paths, so your dance reflects more of the essence of you. The state of your being influences your capacity to focus, relate and be authentically engaged with life.
During the course of the weekend, space will be created for some dancers to have the opportunity to work individually with Deborah. Witnessed and supported by the rest of the group, our compassionate field will amplify the possibility of palpable transformation for all present.
Dates: 8 - 10 March 2024
Price: 250 EUR Full price | Early bird price: 200 EUR available until 1 February.
Enquiries: Email Nina - ninasenecic@gmail.com
Open Floor Community Dance
Deborah will be leading an Open Floor Community Dance Class in Universal Hall, The Park Ecovillage, FINDHORN, Scotland.
• You pay in advance online via Eventbrite.
• Full price is £15.00 and concession £10.00. Everyone over 15 is welcome.
• Doors open at 6.45. Everyone needs to be in the Hall by 7.10pm.
• Bare feet or dance shoes on the dance floor please. No talking on the dance floor please.
IMCTA CPD Session - ONLINE
Shining a light on working 1:1
What are the joys & pitfalls of working one-to-one with clients?
The Turning of the Season - the ICMTA quarterly Continuing Professional Development session is offered by specialist teachers in their field focusing on a very particular area of professional development and education.
I will teach this year on Friday 1 March 4.30pm-6.30pm (UK time) with theory and practice on working individually.
“Deborah will transmit her life-long knowledge and know-how on how to craft heartful & soulful bespoke individual sessions.”
Date 1 March 2024
Times 4.30pm - 6.30pm (UK time) check your timezone here
Prices Free for IMCTA members and offered to non-members for 15€
Enquiries Email - info@icmta.com
Minding Movement II - ONLINE
A 6 week online supervision group for professionals
Minding Movement II
Insight and support for practitioners through a creative and embodied lens.
Open for all professionals looking for somatic informed supervision.
Develop an enhanced embodied tool kit, using the curriculum from Open Floor Movement Practice, to resource you personally & professionally.
Experience the delightful efficiency of problem solving when including the language of the body.
Places: The current group is full and in progress and the next dates are TBC for Autumn 2024.
Times: Tuesdays 3pm-4.30pm GMT (check your timezone)
Dates: 20 February - 26 March 2024
To be placed on the Waiting List and informed first about the next group dates, email beth@vitalmoves.co.uk
States of Being ONLINE Therapy in Motion Workshop
This Therapy-in-Motion workshop is where I weave in 1:1 work within a group context.
ONLINE 1 day Workshop
Join me to explore lesser known pathways of movement so that your dance can express more of the essence of you.
During this Therapy in Motion workshop, space will be created for some dancers to work individually with Deborah. Witnessed and supported by the rest of the group, our compassionate field will amplify the possibility of palpable transformation for all of the group.
The state of your being influences your capacity to focus, relate, and be authentic in life.
Open Floor Community Dance
Deborah will be leading an Open Floor Community Dance Class in Universal Hall, Findhorn, Forres.
You can either pay in cash at the door or pay in advance online.
Full price is £15.00 and concession £10.00. Everyone over 15 is welcome.
• Doors open at 6.45. Everyone needs to be in the Hall by 7.00pm.
• Dancing will continue to 8.25 with everyone having left by 8.45
Bare feet or dance shoes on the dance floor please. No talking on the dance floor please.
'becoming ~ where to from here?' Open Floor Movement Retreat
IN-PERSON in Findhorn, Scotland
becoming is for you if ...
You are called to nourish yourself this midwinter.
You’d appreciate being in a space where rest and stillness is as valued as outward action.
You hunger for the connection of dancing with others.
You have a longing for some space for you, solitude, new encounters, wonderful music and nature.
You have been a bit stuck when thinking about 'where to from here’ and next steps? There's a sense in you that to drop into your body would support you in opening up to possibilities and answers ...
This retreat is NOW FULL - to be added to the waiting list, email beth@vitalmoves.co.uk
Open Floor Community Dance
Deborah will be leading an Open Floor Community Dance Class in Universal Hall, Findhorn, Forres.
You can either pay in cash at the door or pay in advance online.
Full price is £15.00 and concession £10.00. Everyone over 15 is welcome.
• Doors open at 6.45. Everyone needs to be in the Hall by 7.00pm.
• Dancing will continue to 8.25 with everyone having left by 8.45
Bare feet or dance shoes on the dance floor please. No talking on the dance floor please.
'Congruency' - Open Floor Movement Workshop
A 1 Day Open Floor Workshop
IN-PERSON in Glasgow
Generally we grow up in cultures, family or societal where we are not encouraged to listen to and trust the impulse within us to be honest and authentic. We will learn about this through our bodies, the dance floor.
Having the choice to move towards or away is crucial for our own self-care and as a relational skill.
Open to all, recommendation is for at least 1 conscious movement class participation.
Times: Sunday 10.30am-5.30pm UK time (check your timezone)
Date: 5 November 2023
Price: £85-£65 sliding scale, deposit of £30 secures your place.
Places: This workshop is now FULL. To be added to the waiting list, email Subhanaya.