Ongoing residential Conscious Movement course, 3 x 3 days in Orval
in English
We humans are relational creatures. Our relationships – all of them, sexual and otherwise - grow us, challenge us, can show us our core woundings as well as some of our deepest joys and pleasures. They can teach us about where our longings are guiding us to. They teach us about the vast force of love and it’s many aspects.
This ongoing group will explore the innate support and resources we have to enter relationship again and again. Within our own individual circle, from this planet we live on, our community and the essential, creative and boundless nature of the Soul.
Over our time together on this closed, residential group we will anchor deep into a dance with our own tendencies and perspectives through the lens of simple teachings on the Medicine Wheel and a dive into the poetry of several movement portals or doorways.
We will explore ways and styles of communication, open up an understanding of how, why and when we may get triggered/reactive – and, most importantly, how we get back to a sense of balance and presence.
On our first module at the end of November as we enter the darkest time of the year, the first relationship we will explore is to ourselves. We will gather, slow down and dare to pause. Give ourselves over to some deep rest and ritual, moving with the art of Acceptance and surrender.
The second module in February will see us dancing and moving into the fire and oncoming light of the next year, moving with our patterns/styles of communication and perspectives, inviting fluidity.
The third module in April will bring an opening exploration of our individual experience of Soul’s power and presence, through our longings and a celebration of them, an invitation to joy, pleasure, sensuality and creativity.
Our guide will be the land, each other and the Body in Soul conscious movement map, full of movement doorways, rhythm, space, breath, attention and movement. The Body in Soul map rests on the poetry that the body and all the systems that run through it - emotional, mental, imaginal and energetic - are moving through the vast and boundless landscape of Soul. Whilst we’re here, alive and breathing, we are passing through the Soul matrix in a particular, unique and evolving form – our selves.
Cathy has been working with conscious movement practices for 30 years.
For more details on her work see www.humans-being.co.uk and www.openfloor.org
The Dive
Winter sun hangs all day, unchanging
it’s glaze of quiet light; do nothing.
The seal is dead—grey, mottled skin
licked sea smooth on the milky sand.
She is not long gone, untouched
unbroken. Further along the beach
lumbering, equipped divers
sink off the pier out of sight.
One splash and gone.
Silence. We walk on
to the headland, our boots sink
to the bog-suck deep
our faces cast open by wind
un-photographable blue, snow-pudding peaks.
Impossible to catch - you lift
your lens, hold still; and dive.
Orbs of green light find their way to your eye
the colour of wings moving faster than light.
You catch them against the sky
against the mountains.
Later, the earth-burn of rough turf,
the smoke spice of hardwood,
boots drying out.
Climb me inside you,
let my slippers fall off
at your mouth.
Workshop venue: la ferme du Bois-le-Comte
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.
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Subscription information
Cost includes full-board accommodation (100% organic & vegetarian) in 4-bedded room. Single, double or twin room: + 306 EUR.Planned sessions (12)
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Session 1: Thursday 27 November 2025 - Orval - Bois-le-Comte
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Session 2: Friday 28 November 2025 - Orval - Bois-le-Comte
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Session 3: Saturday 29 November 2025 - Orval - Bois-le-Comte
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Session 4: Sunday 30 November 2025 - Orval - Bois-le-Comte
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Session 5: Thursday 5 February 2026 - Orval - Bois-le-Comte
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Session 6: Friday 6 February 2026 - Orval - Bois-le-Comte
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Session 7: Saturday 7 February 2026 - Orval - Bois-le-Comte
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Session 8: Sunday 8 February 2026 - Orval - Bois-le-Comte
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Session 9: Thursday 23 April 2026 - Orval - Bois-le-Comte
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Session 10: Friday 24 April 2026 - Orval - Bois-le-Comte
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Session 11: Saturday 25 April 2026 - Orval - Bois-le-Comte
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Session 12: Sunday 26 April 2026 - Orval - Bois-le-Comte
