This retreat is the fruit of Padmadarshini and Inalu's shared interest and personal explorations over many years working with the body in movement, stillness and touch.
Each day we will explore how the body can be a 'doorway' into listening to ourselves and take us into a deeper, more open and easeful relationship to our experience. We will offer guided and improvised movement explorations, sometimes with music, solo and sometimes with a partner, which may include hands-on touch.
We will also introduce the practice of Authentic Movement, an embodied relational movement practice - which can be like the metta bhavana (loving-kindness meditation) as a movement practice. In a relational field the practice invites us to deeply attend to the body's impulses and follow this expression in movement. In this practice, life becomes more spontaneous, creative and more deeply personal, as we allow ourselves to become authentic to our own nature and to be witnessed as we truly are.
The retreat is suitable for people who have been on retreat before and have a regular meditation practice. Each day there will be meditation and free time, as well as periods of silence. No experience of movement or bodywork is necessary, simply a willingness to explore your embodied experience within the body you are living in.
For more information, read the retreat information sheet.
£100