Travels into trance | 21 - 24 Sep 2023 | EWC

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3-day residential workshop in Orval (southern Belgium)

Travels into Trance is an exploration into form and formlessness, shape and shape shifting, matter and molecules.

Through moving and traveling with a number of movement portals, we will explore how we can expand into a lightness of being, journeying through the physical patterns  and movements that come through our body again and again. Inviting a dance of fluidity and the understanding that everything changes.

We will work with repetitions of breath and movement– all leading to free form, creative expression and presence in movement. 
Trance is deep focus on one thing, staying with it and embodying a fuller understanding of what that focus may be communicating to us.
We will dance together, talk together and be together, staying with what arises, letting it go and offering it to the intelligence of the moving body.

This workshop is suitable for all.

Cathy has been working in embodied movement practice for many years, with a background in theatre, writing and shamanic practice. She is a 5 Rhythms teacher, founding member of Open Floor International and co-founder of BISO, a conscious movement facilitator’s training. She works extensively in Europe and further afield, loving this ongoing exploration of how and what it is to be alive in these moving, humans bodies of ours. See www.humans-being.co.uk for more details.

 

Workshop venue: la ferme du Bois-le-Comte la ferme du Bois-le-Comte, eco-friendly venue for groups, Orval, Belgium

La ferme du Bois-le-Comte is an eco-friendly  venue for groups in the South of Belgium (close to the French border and at a 20-minute walk from the famous abbey of Orval). Superb position in the midst of nature. All meals are plant-based.

 

Questions?

Contact us, we will be happy to help you.

Subscription information

Cost includes full-board accommodation (100% organic & vegetarian) in 4-bedded room. Single, double or twin room: + 102 EUR.

Planned session (4)

  • Session 4: Sunday 24 September 2023 - Orval - Bois-le-Comte
    09:30 - 16:00 5 hrs

Passed sessions

  • Session 3: Saturday 23 September 2023 - Orval
    09:30 - 22:00 8 uur
  • Session 2: Friday 22 September 2023 - Orval
    09:30 - 22:00 8 uur
  • Session 1: Thursday 21 September 2023 - Orval
    19:00 - 22:00 2 uur
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Cathy Ryan
EIRE, IE

Cathy studied and apprenticed with Gabrielle Roth, the founder of the 5Rhythms® movement meditation map and has been working with the practice for 16 years. She is a founding member of Open Floor International. She works extensively in Europe and the UK. Her background is in theater, writing, and shamanic practice. For more details about her work and her background, see www.humans-being.co.uk

"Cathy's strength as a teacher is her ability to be completely present wherever she is and respond authentically to whatever and whoever is in the room with her. She creates a refreshingly non-judgmental, unsentimental, open space where people can discover themselves, others and the juiciness of the world around them."
(Suzy Willson, Artistic Director of Clod Ensemble, www.clodensemble.com)"

Cathy has so many years of experience and wisdom both on and off the dance floor. Her passion for life is inspiring, dance with her, bring your willingness to wake up, be switched on and enjoy the ride. You are in extremely capable hands and held in a compassionate heart."
(Sue Rickards, 5 Rhythms® teacher, www.acalltodance.com)

"I have danced and participated in and benefited from Cathy's classes and workshops in Oxford, London and Ireland. She works with clarity, openness, insight and precision. She tempers honesty with humour, challenge with grace and holds a space and a group with deep integrity which allows the human body to move and the soul to flourish in trust, safety and honesty. In deep appreciation."
(Annie Davy, facilitator and writer for human, organisational and community development, www.thenatureeffect.co.uk)

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