Authentic Movement Retreat:
18 August until Sunday, 24 August 2025
R E T R E A T I N F O R M A T I O N
This is a six night retreat at the beautiful Balabrook Retreat Centre in South Dartmoor in August 2025 led by Dr Eila Goldhahn and with helpers Stuart J Young and Dominique Olney.
We will have use of two gorgeous studios, well-appointed accommodation, a generous kitchen/diner and library. A small river runs through the grounds providing a calming companion to all we do and the open moors are within a three-minute wander. The exquisite, private indoor and outdoor spaces help to connect to ourselves and with nature in this special site. Our food is home cooked by Stuart and Dominique, delicious and vegetarian. If you haven't been before, here is a link to Balabroo https://balabrook.org.uk
We will be living a type of 'utopia' for a week!
This annual MoverWitness Retreat offers you guidance to deepen your individual 'authentic’ movement practice and to develop your inner witness. You will practice to discern between different layers of perception and use percept language to describe your experiences. In collective circles you will be able to savour the richness that a group of trusting movers create together and the poetics that emerge when weaving the moving and spoken narratives. We will sometimes work in smaller circles, for example break out into MoverWitness diads or triads, and all mens' and all womens’ groups. There will also be the opportunity for individual feedback and witnessing.
Participants will have worked either with me or with another Authentic Movement teacher. Please email me.
Partners are welcome, as we have several double rooms available. They will join in the contemplative atmosphere of the retreat and can contribute to evening entertainment, musical instruments or bring other creative pursuits. We can have outdoor fire circles under starry skies, song and dance to home-made music and, as we go inwards, we also go up and out in joy and hope! We intend to make this a very special time together and look forward to connecting with you.
VENUE: Bala Brook Retreat Centre is a beautiful eco-venue on Dartmoor. It is comfortable and has been lovingly designed to a very high standard.
DATES: 18 August 2024 until 24 August 2025 (6 nights/ 5 days)
Arrival 6.30 pm followed by dinner. Departure 12 noon preceded by brunch.
RETREAT FEES:
Tier 1: £ 350
Tier 2: £ 450
Tier 3: £ 550
Choose what you can afford, no questions asked.
Step 1: Buy your retreat ticket as soon as possible to reserve your place. Email me.
FEES FULL BOARD (six nights)
Tier 1: £ 350 shared room and bathroom with one or two (of the same gender)
Tier 2: £ 400 single room near nature shared bathroom
Tier 3: £ 450 single room with own bathroom
Tier 4: £ 500 double room with own bathroom, one person
Tier 5: £ 700 double room with own bathroom, two partners share
All accommodation is clean, lovely and generous
Our food is homemade and great, my cakes renowned!
Step 2: Buy your accommodation ticket latest by 30 April 2025, earlier if you want
to secure a specific tier or a double. Email me.
FOOD Food is delicious, home cooked and vegetarian. We will serve petit dejeuner, brunch and dinner. No alcoholic drinks are served or allowed at the retreat centre. No
smoking or drugs permitted.
BRING: Comfortable clothing; walking boots for around the grounds and Dartmoor;
swim suits for wild water bathing and river swimming.
CPD: After completion of the retreat we issue a signed certificate of Continuing Professional Development (CPD). The retreat can form a module of a three-year process in which trainees learn how to apply the methods within their own disciplines.
PARTNERS: Participants can bring their partner. This is Tier 5 and costs £ 700 per double room with own bathroom (full board for two). Partners will not take part in the studio teaching time of the retreat, unless registered to do so, but will be bound in every other respect to the atmosphere and rules of the retreat.
RETREAT LANGUAGE: English