All Sarah’s classes are on Zoom for now. If we’re able to dance together in September we’ll update the info here. ReSource online ongoing group starts in September for those that want to deepen this dancing journey online. (Update: July 2020)
Upcoming Events…
november
25nov5:00 pm- 6:30 pmReSource Online Ongoing Closed Group - WednesdaysResourced from the source5:00 pm - 6:30 pm OnlineLocation:Worldwide
Event Details
Every week for ten weeks, on:
Wednesday 5–6.30 UK time see it in your timezone here
(a parallel group on Thursday [...]
Event Details
Every week for ten weeks, on:
Wednesday 5–6.30 UK time see it in your timezone here
(a parallel group on Thursday morning 9–10.30am UK time see it in your timezone here Link to information for Thursdays is here.
ReSource; we’re getting resourced, supported, aided. At this point in 2020 many of us are looking for ways to recover, reassess and realign ourselves, finding our place back in this ‘new normal’.
Looking at the word differently, re-source, the source, the beginning, the place of origin. My hunch is that this source is the place we do resource ourselves, nourish our souls, tend to our spirits, nurture our life force.
The Core Movement Resources that we utilise in Open Floor are: Activate & Settle, Centre, Dissolve, Expand & Contract, Ground, Pause, Release, Spatial Awareness, Towards & Away and Vector. Each of these movement resources can help us learn about our own embodiment as well as offering us tools to resource on the dancefloor and also in our daily lives.
In each hour and a half session there’ll be time for dancing (nearly an hour) and about 20 mins for resourcing, whatever that might be for anyone. It may be time for creativity, meditating, reading, resting. For each of us what is resourcing may look very different, it may be none of those things I’ve mentioned, an impulse might arise in the moment, perhaps inspired by the ‘Core Movement Resource’ of the week and the ability to really tune in to what you need after dancing. I will be showing some images and offering an idea for an art exercise for those that want to do that.
There will be a facebook group for the two groups, Wednesday and Thursday, to share what’s resourcing them over these ten weeks.
Dates: 16 / 17th September for 10 weeks until 18 / 19th November
There will be a limit on group size, a minimum of 9 and a maximum of 20 in each group, enough people to dance together and feel the support and inspiration of each other and time enough for group sharing.
Cost: £160 / Concessions & Open Floor Teachers £144
This is an ongoing group, your commitment to being there for as many of the ten weeks as you can is preferable. It is a closed group, once we start others won’t be joining, this helps to hold a clear container.
You don’t need to have any prior experience of movement to join this group, beginners welcome and also those with experience welcome.
These sessions will not be recorded, it’ll be live, in-the-moment. However the music will be recorded for you to access later should you wish, also the link imagery that Sarah shows will also be available to you.
What you get from joining this group:
-
Embodiment practice, from your own home, connected online
-
Each week a focus on one of the Core Movement Resources
-
Time to explore how you get resourced, nourished & replenished straight after dancing (using the dance as a gateway to nourishment)
-
A suggestion of an art exercise for those that want to do it
-
Link to the soundscape of the week to relisten at any time
-
Link to a resource document for each Core Movement Resource
-
The support of being in an ongoing group with other committed movers.
-
A private facebook group to show what is resourcing you and to be inspired by others
Any questions email Sarah: heart@sarahdavies.org
Time
(Wednesday) 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Organizer
Sarah Davies
heart@sarahdavies.org
26nov9:00 am- 10:30 amReSource Online Ongoing Closed Group - ThursdaysResourced from the source9:00 am - 10:30 am OnlineLocation:Worldwide
Event Details
Every week for ten weeks, on:
Thursday morning 9–10.30am UK time see it in your timezone here
(a parallel group on Wednesday 5–6.30 UK [...]
Event Details
Every week for ten weeks, on:
Thursday morning 9–10.30am UK time see it in your timezone here
(a parallel group on Wednesday 5–6.30 UK time see it in your timezone here Link to information for Wednesday is here.
ReSource; we’re getting resourced, supported, aided. At this point in 2020 many of us are looking for ways to recover, reassess and realign ourselves, finding our place back in this ‘new normal’.
Looking at the word differently, re-source, the source, the beginning, the place of origin. My hunch is that this source is the place we do resource ourselves, nourish our souls, tend to our spirits, nurture our life force.
The Core Movement Resources that we utilise in Open Floor are:
Activate & Settle, Centre, Dissolve, Expand & Contract, Ground, Pause, Release, Spatial Awareness, Towards & Away and Vector. Each of these movement resources can help us learn about our own embodiment as well as offering us tools to resource on the dancefloor and also in our daily lives.
In each hour and a half session there’ll be time for dancing (nearly an hour) and about 20 mins for resourcing, whatever that might be for anyone. It may be time for creativity, meditating, reading, resting. For each of us what is resourcing may look very different, it may be none of those things I’ve mentioned, an impulse might arise in the moment, perhaps inspired by the ‘Core Movement Resource’ of the week and the ability to really tune in to what you need after dancing. I will be showing some images and offering an idea for an art exercise for those that want to do that.
There will be a facebook group for the two groups, Wednesday and Thursday, to share what’s resourcing them over these ten weeks.
Dates: 17th September for 10 weeks until 19th November
There will be a limit on group size, a minimum of 9 and a maximum of 20 in each group, enough people to dance together and feel the support and inspiration of each other and time enough for group sharing.
Cost: £160 / Concessions & Open Floor Teachers £144
You don’t need to have any prior experience of movement to join this group, beginners welcome, also those with experience welcome.
These sessions will not be recorded, it’ll be live, in-the-moment. However the music will be recorded for you to access later should you wish, also the link imagery that Sarah shows will also be available to you.
What you get from joining this group:
-
Embodiment practice, from your own home, connected online
-
Each week a focus on one of the Core Movement Resources
-
Time to explore how you get resourced, nourished & replenished straight after dancing (using the dance as a gateway to nourishment)
-
A suggestion of an art exercise for those that want to do it
-
Link to the soundscape of the week to relisten at any time
-
Link to a resource document for each Core Movement Resource
-
The support of being in an ongoing group with other committed movers.
-
A private facebook group to show what is resourcing you and to be inspired by others
Any questions email Sarah: heart@sarahdavies.org
Time
(Thursday) 9:00 am - 10:30 am
Organizer
Sarah Davies
heart@sarahdavies.org
27nov9:15 am- 10:30 amOpen Floor - Forest Row - Friday MorningsFriday Morning Dance9:15 am - 10:30 am Peter Griffiths HallLocation:Forest Row
Event Details
We're back! Smaller, more spacious and longing to dance.
Please note, there are two smaller shorter groups. We'll try it like this for [...]
Event Details
We’re back! Smaller, more spacious and longing to dance.
Please note, there are two smaller shorter groups. We’ll try it like this for a few weeks and see how we get on.
Group 1: 9–10 am
30 mins change over
Group 2: 10.30-11.30 am
Arrive 15 mins before the start of your group.
Tickets can only be purchased in advance, no sales on the door.
Cost: £14 / Concession: £12
Bring your own water bottle.
Wear comfortable clothes to move in.
Dance barefoot or in soft-soled indoor shoes.
Please wear a mask when entering & exiting the building. Masks should not be worn while dancing in accordance with the World Health Organisation – “People should NOT wear masks when exercising, as masks may reduce the ability to breathe comfortably. Sweat can make the mask become wet more quickly which makes it difficult to breathe and promotes the growth of microorganisms. The important preventive measure during exercise is to maintain a physical distance of at least one meter from others.” original WHO information here
Feel free to purchase tickets in advance for the following weeks. If we have to cancel the event you will be given the option to hold the ticket until we are next open or to have your ticket refunded to you minus the Eventbrite admin fee.
Open Floor is a dance mediation practice. Using core movement resources such as grounding, centering, releasing, our aim is to become more embodied, to be more comfortable in our own skin, present for anything and everything. When we live an embodied life we are fluid, flexible and free to experience all of the wild and subtle moments that go by, the ones that are heavenly as well as the ones that have us dragging our feet.
Getting to Peter Griffiths Hall
Peter Griffiths Hall is in the centre of Forest Row with parking in the surrounding area.
Peter Griffiths Hall is round the back of the Freshfield Village Hall. It’s on the ‘Island’ between Tesco’s garage and Lloyds Chemist.
What is an Open Floor class?
It’s dancing, it’s a way of practicing being embodied (learning to listen to ourselves) so it’s called a movement meditation (bringing our attention back to the body over and over again). We explore moving in a variety of ways, moving towards freedom, whatever that might mean for us, it can be quite intimate and personal, or wild and expansive, different for us at different times and each class will have its own particular flavour.
We’re practicing flexiblity of our whole selves, emotionally and soulfully as well as physically.
Any questions do email us: heart@sarahdavies.org
Time
(Friday) 9:15 am - 10:30 am
Location
Peter Griffiths Hall
(small village hall), Lewes Rd, Forest Row, East Sussex RH18 5ES
Organizer
Sarah Davies
heart@sarahdavies.org
december
2dec5:00 pm- 6:30 pmReSource Online Ongoing Closed Group #2 - WednesdaysResourced from the source - Term 25:00 pm - 6:30 pm OnlineLocation:Worldwide
Event Details
Every week for ten weeks, on:
Wednesday 5–6.30 UK time see it in your timezone here
or in a parallel-group on
Event Details
Every week for ten weeks, on:
Wednesday 5–6.30 UK time see it in your timezone here
or in a parallel-group on
Thursday morning 9–10.30am UK time see it in your timezone here
Term #2 Dates:
Week 1: December 2nd or 3rd
Week 2: December 9th or 10th
Week 3: December 16th or 17th
Week 4: December 23rd or 24th
Week 5: December 30th or 31st
Week 6: January 6th or 7th
Week 7: January 13th or 14th
Week 8: January 20th or 21st
Week 9: January 27th or 28th
Week 0: February 3rd or 4th
ReSource; we’re getting resourced, supported, aided. At this point in 2020 many of us are looking for ways to recover, reassess and realign ourselves, finding our place back in this ‘new normal’.
Looking at the word differently, re-source, the source, the beginning, the place of origin. My hunch is that this source is the place we do resource ourselves, nourish our souls, tend to our spirits, nurture our life force.
Each week will be focused on a Core Movement Resources that we utilise in Open Floor. These are: Activate & Settle, Centre, Dissolve, Expand & Contract, Ground, Pause, Release, Spatial Awareness, Towards & Away and Vector. These help us learn about our own embodiment as well as offering us tools to resource on the dancefloor and also in our daily lives.
In each hour and a half session there’ll be time for dancing (nearly an hour) and time for anything else that is resourcing (about 15 mins) whatever that might be for anyone. It may be time for creativity, meditating, reading, resting. For each of us what is resourcing may look very different, it may be none of those things I’ve mentioned, an impulse might arise in the moment, perhaps inspired by the ‘Core Movement Resource’ of the week and the ability to really tune in to what you need after dancing. I will be offering an idea for an art exercise for those that want to do that.
There will be a facebook group for the two groups, Wednesday and Thursday, to share what’s resourcing over these ten weeks.
Cost: £160 / Concessions & Open Floor Teachers £144
This is an ongoing group, your commitment to being there for as many of the ten weeks as you can is preferable. It is a closed group, once we start others won’t be joining, this helps to hold a clear container.
There will be a limit on group size of approx 20 in each group.
The request is that you choose one group to join, either the Wednesday or Thursday. If there are dates you cannot make, you are welcome to join the other group that week.
You don’t need to have any prior experience of movement to join this group, beginners welcome and also those with experience welcome.
These sessions will not be recorded, it’ll be live, in-the-moment. However the music will be recorded for you to access later should you wish, also the link imagery that Sarah shows will also be available to you.
What you get from joining this group:
-
Embodiment practice, from your own home, connected online
-
Each week a focus on one of the Core Movement Resources
-
Time to explore how you get resourced, nourished & replenished straight after dancing (using the dance as a gateway to nourishment)
-
A suggestion of an art exercise for those that want to do it
-
Link to the soundscape of the week to relisten at any time
-
Link to a resource document for each Core Movement Resource
-
The support of being in an ongoing group with other committed movers.
-
A private facebook group to show what is resourcing you and to be inspired by others
Any questions email Sarah: heart@sarahdavies.org
Time
(Wednesday) 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Organizer
Sarah Davies
heart@sarahdavies.org
3dec9:00 am- 10:30 amReSource Online Ongoing Closed Group #2 - ThursdaysResourced from the source9:00 am - 10:30 am OnlineLocation:Worldwide
Event Details
Every week for ten weeks, on:
Wednesday 5–6.30 UK time see it in your timezone here
or in a parallel-group on
Event Details
Every week for ten weeks, on:
Wednesday 5–6.30 UK time see it in your timezone here
or in a parallel-group on
Thursday morning 9–10.30am UK time see it in your timezone here
Term #2 Dates:
Week 1: December 2nd or 3rd
Week 2: December 9th or 10th
Week 3: December 16th or 17th
Week 4: December 23rd or 24th
Week 5: December 30th or 31st
Week 6: January 6th or 7th
Week 7: January 13th or 14th
Week 8: January 20th or 21st
Week 9: January 27th or 28th
Week 0: February 3rd or 4th
ReSource; we’re getting resourced, supported, aided. At this point in 2020 many of us are looking for ways to recover, reassess and realign ourselves, finding our place back in this ‘new normal’.
Looking at the word differently, re-source, the source, the beginning, the place of origin. My hunch is that this source is the place we do resource ourselves, nourish our souls, tend to our spirits, nurture our life force.
Each week will be focused on a Core Movement Resources that we utilise in Open Floor. These are: Activate & Settle, Centre, Dissolve, Expand & Contract, Ground, Pause, Release, Spatial Awareness, Towards & Away and Vector. These help us learn about our own embodiment as well as offering us tools to resource on the dancefloor and also in our daily lives.
In each hour and a half session there’ll be time for dancing (nearly an hour) and time for anything else that is resourcing (about 15 mins) whatever that might be for anyone. It may be time for creativity, meditating, reading, resting. For each of us what is resourcing may look very different, it may be none of those things I’ve mentioned, an impulse might arise in the moment, perhaps inspired by the ‘Core Movement Resource’ of the week and the ability to really tune in to what you need after dancing. I will be offering an idea for an art exercise for those that want to do that.
There will be a facebook group for the two groups, Wednesday and Thursday, to share what’s resourcing over these ten weeks.
Cost: £160 / Concessions & Open Floor Teachers £144
Time
(Thursday) 9:00 am - 10:30 am
Organizer
Sarah Davies
heart@sarahdavies.org
4dec9:15 am- 10:30 amOpen Floor - Forest Row - Friday MorningsFriday Morning Dance9:15 am - 10:30 am Peter Griffiths HallLocation:Forest Row
Event Details
We're back! Smaller, more spacious and longing to dance.
Please note, there are two smaller shorter groups. We'll try it like this for [...]
Event Details
We’re back! Smaller, more spacious and longing to dance.
Please note, there are two smaller shorter groups. We’ll try it like this for a few weeks and see how we get on.
Group 1: 9–10 am
30 mins change over
Group 2: 10.30-11.30 am
Arrive 15 mins before the start of your group.
Tickets can only be purchased in advance, no sales on the door.
Cost: £14 / Concession: £12
Bring your own water bottle.
Wear comfortable clothes to move in.
Dance barefoot or in soft-soled indoor shoes.
Please wear a mask when entering & exiting the building. Masks should not be worn while dancing in accordance with the World Health Organisation – “People should NOT wear masks when exercising, as masks may reduce the ability to breathe comfortably. Sweat can make the mask become wet more quickly which makes it difficult to breathe and promotes the growth of microorganisms. The important preventive measure during exercise is to maintain a physical distance of at least one meter from others.” original WHO information here
Feel free to purchase tickets in advance for the following weeks. If we have to cancel the event you will be given the option to hold the ticket until we are next open or to have your ticket refunded to you minus the Eventbrite admin fee.
Open Floor is a dance mediation practice. Using core movement resources such as grounding, centering, releasing, our aim is to become more embodied, to be more comfortable in our own skin, present for anything and everything. When we live an embodied life we are fluid, flexible and free to experience all of the wild and subtle moments that go by, the ones that are heavenly as well as the ones that have us dragging our feet.
Getting to Peter Griffiths Hall
Peter Griffiths Hall is in the centre of Forest Row with parking in the surrounding area.
Peter Griffiths Hall is round the back of the Freshfield Village Hall. It’s on the ‘Island’ between Tesco’s garage and Lloyds Chemist.
What is an Open Floor class?
It’s dancing, it’s a way of practicing being embodied (learning to listen to ourselves) so it’s called a movement meditation (bringing our attention back to the body over and over again). We explore moving in a variety of ways, moving towards freedom, whatever that might mean for us, it can be quite intimate and personal, or wild and expansive, different for us at different times and each class will have its own particular flavour.
We’re practicing flexiblity of our whole selves, emotionally and soulfully as well as physically.
Any questions do email us: heart@sarahdavies.org
Time
(Friday) 9:15 am - 10:30 am
Location
Peter Griffiths Hall
(small village hall), Lewes Rd, Forest Row, East Sussex RH18 5ES
Organizer
Sarah Davies
heart@sarahdavies.org
5dec7:30 pm- 9:30 pmSaturday Night Sweat - online7:30 pm - 9:30 pm BST The Gym, Michael Hall SchoolLocation:Forest Row
Event Details
Event Details
This will be online until further notice.
Our venue is closed to bookings for the time being. We look forward to being back in-person, in the meantime it’ll be online.
Our registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/u50rcu6qqDwtlDXlj5no0cGBHDxH7Yhz6A
Please email Sarah to be put on the mailing list for updates.
Info below is relevant if we are in the hall.
First Saturday of the month
7.30 pm–9.30 pm (doors open 7.15, class starts at 7.30, doors closed 7.45pm)
Due to social distancing, we will be a smaller group, tickets are limited and can only be purchased in advance, no sales on the door.
Cost: £16 / £14 / £12
Bring your own water bottle.
Wear comfortable clothes to move in.
Dance barefoot or in soft-soled indoor shoes.
Come and spread your wings in the huge and lovely gym at Michael Hall School. It is a glorious space, a great group that has built up over many years. Join us!
To see what others have said see our video here
1st Saturday of the Month
The Gym, Michael Hall School, Kidbrooke Park, Forest Row RH18 5JA.
Parking is plentiful, it is easy to find the gym door from the car-park.
Time
(Saturday) 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm BST
Location
The Gym, Michael Hall School
Priory Road, Forest Row RH18 5JE
Organizer
Beam
earthbeam@gmail.com
Buy ticket via Paypal
9dec5:00 pm- 6:30 pmReSource Online Ongoing Closed Group #2 - WednesdaysResourced from the source - Term 25:00 pm - 6:30 pm OnlineLocation:Worldwide
Event Details
Every week for ten weeks, on:
Wednesday 5–6.30 UK time see it in your timezone here
or in a parallel-group on
Event Details
Every week for ten weeks, on:
Wednesday 5–6.30 UK time see it in your timezone here
or in a parallel-group on
Thursday morning 9–10.30am UK time see it in your timezone here
Term #2 Dates:
Week 1: December 2nd or 3rd
Week 2: December 9th or 10th
Week 3: December 16th or 17th
Week 4: December 23rd or 24th
Week 5: December 30th or 31st
Week 6: January 6th or 7th
Week 7: January 13th or 14th
Week 8: January 20th or 21st
Week 9: January 27th or 28th
Week 0: February 3rd or 4th
ReSource; we’re getting resourced, supported, aided. At this point in 2020 many of us are looking for ways to recover, reassess and realign ourselves, finding our place back in this ‘new normal’.
Looking at the word differently, re-source, the source, the beginning, the place of origin. My hunch is that this source is the place we do resource ourselves, nourish our souls, tend to our spirits, nurture our life force.
Each week will be focused on a Core Movement Resources that we utilise in Open Floor. These are: Activate & Settle, Centre, Dissolve, Expand & Contract, Ground, Pause, Release, Spatial Awareness, Towards & Away and Vector. These help us learn about our own embodiment as well as offering us tools to resource on the dancefloor and also in our daily lives.
In each hour and a half session there’ll be time for dancing (nearly an hour) and time for anything else that is resourcing (about 15 mins) whatever that might be for anyone. It may be time for creativity, meditating, reading, resting. For each of us what is resourcing may look very different, it may be none of those things I’ve mentioned, an impulse might arise in the moment, perhaps inspired by the ‘Core Movement Resource’ of the week and the ability to really tune in to what you need after dancing. I will be offering an idea for an art exercise for those that want to do that.
There will be a facebook group for the two groups, Wednesday and Thursday, to share what’s resourcing over these ten weeks.
Cost: £160 / Concessions & Open Floor Teachers £144
This is an ongoing group, your commitment to being there for as many of the ten weeks as you can is preferable. It is a closed group, once we start others won’t be joining, this helps to hold a clear container.
There will be a limit on group size of approx 20 in each group.
The request is that you choose one group to join, either the Wednesday or Thursday. If there are dates you cannot make, you are welcome to join the other group that week.
You don’t need to have any prior experience of movement to join this group, beginners welcome and also those with experience welcome.
These sessions will not be recorded, it’ll be live, in-the-moment. However the music will be recorded for you to access later should you wish, also the link imagery that Sarah shows will also be available to you.
What you get from joining this group:
-
Embodiment practice, from your own home, connected online
-
Each week a focus on one of the Core Movement Resources
-
Time to explore how you get resourced, nourished & replenished straight after dancing (using the dance as a gateway to nourishment)
-
A suggestion of an art exercise for those that want to do it
-
Link to the soundscape of the week to relisten at any time
-
Link to a resource document for each Core Movement Resource
-
The support of being in an ongoing group with other committed movers.
-
A private facebook group to show what is resourcing you and to be inspired by others
Any questions email Sarah: heart@sarahdavies.org
Time
(Wednesday) 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Organizer
Sarah Davies
heart@sarahdavies.org
10dec9:00 am- 10:30 amReSource Online Ongoing Closed Group #2 - ThursdaysResourced from the source9:00 am - 10:30 am OnlineLocation:Worldwide
Event Details
Every week for ten weeks, on:
Wednesday 5–6.30 UK time see it in your timezone here
or in a parallel-group on
Event Details
Every week for ten weeks, on:
Wednesday 5–6.30 UK time see it in your timezone here
or in a parallel-group on
Thursday morning 9–10.30am UK time see it in your timezone here
Term #2 Dates:
Week 1: December 2nd or 3rd
Week 2: December 9th or 10th
Week 3: December 16th or 17th
Week 4: December 23rd or 24th
Week 5: December 30th or 31st
Week 6: January 6th or 7th
Week 7: January 13th or 14th
Week 8: January 20th or 21st
Week 9: January 27th or 28th
Week 0: February 3rd or 4th
ReSource; we’re getting resourced, supported, aided. At this point in 2020 many of us are looking for ways to recover, reassess and realign ourselves, finding our place back in this ‘new normal’.
Looking at the word differently, re-source, the source, the beginning, the place of origin. My hunch is that this source is the place we do resource ourselves, nourish our souls, tend to our spirits, nurture our life force.
Each week will be focused on a Core Movement Resources that we utilise in Open Floor. These are: Activate & Settle, Centre, Dissolve, Expand & Contract, Ground, Pause, Release, Spatial Awareness, Towards & Away and Vector. These help us learn about our own embodiment as well as offering us tools to resource on the dancefloor and also in our daily lives.
In each hour and a half session there’ll be time for dancing (nearly an hour) and time for anything else that is resourcing (about 15 mins) whatever that might be for anyone. It may be time for creativity, meditating, reading, resting. For each of us what is resourcing may look very different, it may be none of those things I’ve mentioned, an impulse might arise in the moment, perhaps inspired by the ‘Core Movement Resource’ of the week and the ability to really tune in to what you need after dancing. I will be offering an idea for an art exercise for those that want to do that.
There will be a facebook group for the two groups, Wednesday and Thursday, to share what’s resourcing over these ten weeks.
Cost: £160 / Concessions & Open Floor Teachers £144
Time
(Thursday) 9:00 am - 10:30 am
Organizer
Sarah Davies
heart@sarahdavies.org
11dec9:15 am- 10:30 amOpen Floor - Forest Row - Friday MorningsFriday Morning Dance9:15 am - 10:30 am Peter Griffiths HallLocation:Forest Row
Event Details
We're back! Smaller, more spacious and longing to dance.
Please note, there are two smaller shorter groups. We'll try it like this for [...]
Event Details
We’re back! Smaller, more spacious and longing to dance.
Please note, there are two smaller shorter groups. We’ll try it like this for a few weeks and see how we get on.
Group 1: 9–10 am
30 mins change over
Group 2: 10.30-11.30 am
Arrive 15 mins before the start of your group.
Tickets can only be purchased in advance, no sales on the door.
Cost: £14 / Concession: £12
Bring your own water bottle.
Wear comfortable clothes to move in.
Dance barefoot or in soft-soled indoor shoes.
Please wear a mask when entering & exiting the building. Masks should not be worn while dancing in accordance with the World Health Organisation – “People should NOT wear masks when exercising, as masks may reduce the ability to breathe comfortably. Sweat can make the mask become wet more quickly which makes it difficult to breathe and promotes the growth of microorganisms. The important preventive measure during exercise is to maintain a physical distance of at least one meter from others.” original WHO information here
Feel free to purchase tickets in advance for the following weeks. If we have to cancel the event you will be given the option to hold the ticket until we are next open or to have your ticket refunded to you minus the Eventbrite admin fee.
Open Floor is a dance mediation practice. Using core movement resources such as grounding, centering, releasing, our aim is to become more embodied, to be more comfortable in our own skin, present for anything and everything. When we live an embodied life we are fluid, flexible and free to experience all of the wild and subtle moments that go by, the ones that are heavenly as well as the ones that have us dragging our feet.
Getting to Peter Griffiths Hall
Peter Griffiths Hall is in the centre of Forest Row with parking in the surrounding area.
Peter Griffiths Hall is round the back of the Freshfield Village Hall. It’s on the ‘Island’ between Tesco’s garage and Lloyds Chemist.
What is an Open Floor class?
It’s dancing, it’s a way of practicing being embodied (learning to listen to ourselves) so it’s called a movement meditation (bringing our attention back to the body over and over again). We explore moving in a variety of ways, moving towards freedom, whatever that might mean for us, it can be quite intimate and personal, or wild and expansive, different for us at different times and each class will have its own particular flavour.
We’re practicing flexiblity of our whole selves, emotionally and soulfully as well as physically.
Any questions do email us: heart@sarahdavies.org
Time
(Friday) 9:15 am - 10:30 am
Location
Peter Griffiths Hall
(small village hall), Lewes Rd, Forest Row, East Sussex RH18 5ES
Organizer
Sarah Davies
heart@sarahdavies.org
16dec5:00 pm- 6:30 pmReSource Online Ongoing Closed Group #2 - WednesdaysResourced from the source - Term 25:00 pm - 6:30 pm OnlineLocation:Worldwide
Event Details
Every week for ten weeks, on:
Wednesday 5–6.30 UK time see it in your timezone here
or in a parallel-group on
Event Details
Every week for ten weeks, on:
Wednesday 5–6.30 UK time see it in your timezone here
or in a parallel-group on
Thursday morning 9–10.30am UK time see it in your timezone here
Term #2 Dates:
Week 1: December 2nd or 3rd
Week 2: December 9th or 10th
Week 3: December 16th or 17th
Week 4: December 23rd or 24th
Week 5: December 30th or 31st
Week 6: January 6th or 7th
Week 7: January 13th or 14th
Week 8: January 20th or 21st
Week 9: January 27th or 28th
Week 0: February 3rd or 4th
ReSource; we’re getting resourced, supported, aided. At this point in 2020 many of us are looking for ways to recover, reassess and realign ourselves, finding our place back in this ‘new normal’.
Looking at the word differently, re-source, the source, the beginning, the place of origin. My hunch is that this source is the place we do resource ourselves, nourish our souls, tend to our spirits, nurture our life force.
Each week will be focused on a Core Movement Resources that we utilise in Open Floor. These are: Activate & Settle, Centre, Dissolve, Expand & Contract, Ground, Pause, Release, Spatial Awareness, Towards & Away and Vector. These help us learn about our own embodiment as well as offering us tools to resource on the dancefloor and also in our daily lives.
In each hour and a half session there’ll be time for dancing (nearly an hour) and time for anything else that is resourcing (about 15 mins) whatever that might be for anyone. It may be time for creativity, meditating, reading, resting. For each of us what is resourcing may look very different, it may be none of those things I’ve mentioned, an impulse might arise in the moment, perhaps inspired by the ‘Core Movement Resource’ of the week and the ability to really tune in to what you need after dancing. I will be offering an idea for an art exercise for those that want to do that.
There will be a facebook group for the two groups, Wednesday and Thursday, to share what’s resourcing over these ten weeks.
Cost: £160 / Concessions & Open Floor Teachers £144
This is an ongoing group, your commitment to being there for as many of the ten weeks as you can is preferable. It is a closed group, once we start others won’t be joining, this helps to hold a clear container.
There will be a limit on group size of approx 20 in each group.
The request is that you choose one group to join, either the Wednesday or Thursday. If there are dates you cannot make, you are welcome to join the other group that week.
You don’t need to have any prior experience of movement to join this group, beginners welcome and also those with experience welcome.
These sessions will not be recorded, it’ll be live, in-the-moment. However the music will be recorded for you to access later should you wish, also the link imagery that Sarah shows will also be available to you.
What you get from joining this group:
-
Embodiment practice, from your own home, connected online
-
Each week a focus on one of the Core Movement Resources
-
Time to explore how you get resourced, nourished & replenished straight after dancing (using the dance as a gateway to nourishment)
-
A suggestion of an art exercise for those that want to do it
-
Link to the soundscape of the week to relisten at any time
-
Link to a resource document for each Core Movement Resource
-
The support of being in an ongoing group with other committed movers.
-
A private facebook group to show what is resourcing you and to be inspired by others
Any questions email Sarah: heart@sarahdavies.org
Time
(Wednesday) 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Organizer
Sarah Davies
heart@sarahdavies.org
17dec9:00 am- 10:30 amReSource Online Ongoing Closed Group #2 - ThursdaysResourced from the source9:00 am - 10:30 am OnlineLocation:Worldwide
Event Details
Every week for ten weeks, on:
Wednesday 5–6.30 UK time see it in your timezone here
or in a parallel-group on
Event Details
Every week for ten weeks, on:
Wednesday 5–6.30 UK time see it in your timezone here
or in a parallel-group on
Thursday morning 9–10.30am UK time see it in your timezone here
Term #2 Dates:
Week 1: December 2nd or 3rd
Week 2: December 9th or 10th
Week 3: December 16th or 17th
Week 4: December 23rd or 24th
Week 5: December 30th or 31st
Week 6: January 6th or 7th
Week 7: January 13th or 14th
Week 8: January 20th or 21st
Week 9: January 27th or 28th
Week 0: February 3rd or 4th
ReSource; we’re getting resourced, supported, aided. At this point in 2020 many of us are looking for ways to recover, reassess and realign ourselves, finding our place back in this ‘new normal’.
Looking at the word differently, re-source, the source, the beginning, the place of origin. My hunch is that this source is the place we do resource ourselves, nourish our souls, tend to our spirits, nurture our life force.
Each week will be focused on a Core Movement Resources that we utilise in Open Floor. These are: Activate & Settle, Centre, Dissolve, Expand & Contract, Ground, Pause, Release, Spatial Awareness, Towards & Away and Vector. These help us learn about our own embodiment as well as offering us tools to resource on the dancefloor and also in our daily lives.
In each hour and a half session there’ll be time for dancing (nearly an hour) and time for anything else that is resourcing (about 15 mins) whatever that might be for anyone. It may be time for creativity, meditating, reading, resting. For each of us what is resourcing may look very different, it may be none of those things I’ve mentioned, an impulse might arise in the moment, perhaps inspired by the ‘Core Movement Resource’ of the week and the ability to really tune in to what you need after dancing. I will be offering an idea for an art exercise for those that want to do that.
There will be a facebook group for the two groups, Wednesday and Thursday, to share what’s resourcing over these ten weeks.
Cost: £160 / Concessions & Open Floor Teachers £144
Time
(Thursday) 9:00 am - 10:30 am
Organizer
Sarah Davies
heart@sarahdavies.org
18dec9:15 am- 10:30 amOpen Floor - Forest Row - Friday MorningsFriday Morning Dance9:15 am - 10:30 am Peter Griffiths HallLocation:Forest Row
Event Details
We're back! Smaller, more spacious and longing to dance.
Please note, there are two smaller shorter groups. We'll try it like this for [...]
Event Details
We’re back! Smaller, more spacious and longing to dance.
Please note, there are two smaller shorter groups. We’ll try it like this for a few weeks and see how we get on.
Group 1: 9–10 am
30 mins change over
Group 2: 10.30-11.30 am
Arrive 15 mins before the start of your group.
Tickets can only be purchased in advance, no sales on the door.
Cost: £14 / Concession: £12
Bring your own water bottle.
Wear comfortable clothes to move in.
Dance barefoot or in soft-soled indoor shoes.
Please wear a mask when entering & exiting the building. Masks should not be worn while dancing in accordance with the World Health Organisation – “People should NOT wear masks when exercising, as masks may reduce the ability to breathe comfortably. Sweat can make the mask become wet more quickly which makes it difficult to breathe and promotes the growth of microorganisms. The important preventive measure during exercise is to maintain a physical distance of at least one meter from others.” original WHO information here
Feel free to purchase tickets in advance for the following weeks. If we have to cancel the event you will be given the option to hold the ticket until we are next open or to have your ticket refunded to you minus the Eventbrite admin fee.
Open Floor is a dance mediation practice. Using core movement resources such as grounding, centering, releasing, our aim is to become more embodied, to be more comfortable in our own skin, present for anything and everything. When we live an embodied life we are fluid, flexible and free to experience all of the wild and subtle moments that go by, the ones that are heavenly as well as the ones that have us dragging our feet.
Getting to Peter Griffiths Hall
Peter Griffiths Hall is in the centre of Forest Row with parking in the surrounding area.
Peter Griffiths Hall is round the back of the Freshfield Village Hall. It’s on the ‘Island’ between Tesco’s garage and Lloyds Chemist.
What is an Open Floor class?
It’s dancing, it’s a way of practicing being embodied (learning to listen to ourselves) so it’s called a movement meditation (bringing our attention back to the body over and over again). We explore moving in a variety of ways, moving towards freedom, whatever that might mean for us, it can be quite intimate and personal, or wild and expansive, different for us at different times and each class will have its own particular flavour.
We’re practicing flexiblity of our whole selves, emotionally and soulfully as well as physically.
Any questions do email us: heart@sarahdavies.org
Time
(Friday) 9:15 am - 10:30 am
Location
Peter Griffiths Hall
(small village hall), Lewes Rd, Forest Row, East Sussex RH18 5ES
Organizer
Sarah Davies
heart@sarahdavies.org
23dec5:00 pm- 6:30 pmReSource Online Ongoing Closed Group #2 - WednesdaysResourced from the source - Term 25:00 pm - 6:30 pm OnlineLocation:Worldwide
Event Details
Every week for ten weeks, on:
Wednesday 5–6.30 UK time see it in your timezone here
or in a parallel-group on
Event Details
Every week for ten weeks, on:
Wednesday 5–6.30 UK time see it in your timezone here
or in a parallel-group on
Thursday morning 9–10.30am UK time see it in your timezone here
Term #2 Dates:
Week 1: December 2nd or 3rd
Week 2: December 9th or 10th
Week 3: December 16th or 17th
Week 4: December 23rd or 24th
Week 5: December 30th or 31st
Week 6: January 6th or 7th
Week 7: January 13th or 14th
Week 8: January 20th or 21st
Week 9: January 27th or 28th
Week 0: February 3rd or 4th
ReSource; we’re getting resourced, supported, aided. At this point in 2020 many of us are looking for ways to recover, reassess and realign ourselves, finding our place back in this ‘new normal’.
Looking at the word differently, re-source, the source, the beginning, the place of origin. My hunch is that this source is the place we do resource ourselves, nourish our souls, tend to our spirits, nurture our life force.
Each week will be focused on a Core Movement Resources that we utilise in Open Floor. These are: Activate & Settle, Centre, Dissolve, Expand & Contract, Ground, Pause, Release, Spatial Awareness, Towards & Away and Vector. These help us learn about our own embodiment as well as offering us tools to resource on the dancefloor and also in our daily lives.
In each hour and a half session there’ll be time for dancing (nearly an hour) and time for anything else that is resourcing (about 15 mins) whatever that might be for anyone. It may be time for creativity, meditating, reading, resting. For each of us what is resourcing may look very different, it may be none of those things I’ve mentioned, an impulse might arise in the moment, perhaps inspired by the ‘Core Movement Resource’ of the week and the ability to really tune in to what you need after dancing. I will be offering an idea for an art exercise for those that want to do that.
There will be a facebook group for the two groups, Wednesday and Thursday, to share what’s resourcing over these ten weeks.
Cost: £160 / Concessions & Open Floor Teachers £144
This is an ongoing group, your commitment to being there for as many of the ten weeks as you can is preferable. It is a closed group, once we start others won’t be joining, this helps to hold a clear container.
There will be a limit on group size of approx 20 in each group.
The request is that you choose one group to join, either the Wednesday or Thursday. If there are dates you cannot make, you are welcome to join the other group that week.
You don’t need to have any prior experience of movement to join this group, beginners welcome and also those with experience welcome.
These sessions will not be recorded, it’ll be live, in-the-moment. However the music will be recorded for you to access later should you wish, also the link imagery that Sarah shows will also be available to you.
What you get from joining this group:
-
Embodiment practice, from your own home, connected online
-
Each week a focus on one of the Core Movement Resources
-
Time to explore how you get resourced, nourished & replenished straight after dancing (using the dance as a gateway to nourishment)
-
A suggestion of an art exercise for those that want to do it
-
Link to the soundscape of the week to relisten at any time
-
Link to a resource document for each Core Movement Resource
-
The support of being in an ongoing group with other committed movers.
-
A private facebook group to show what is resourcing you and to be inspired by others
Any questions email Sarah: heart@sarahdavies.org
Time
(Wednesday) 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Organizer
Sarah Davies
heart@sarahdavies.org
24dec9:00 am- 10:30 amReSource Online Ongoing Closed Group #2 - ThursdaysResourced from the source9:00 am - 10:30 am OnlineLocation:Worldwide
Event Details
Every week for ten weeks, on:
Wednesday 5–6.30 UK time see it in your timezone here
or in a parallel-group on
Event Details
Every week for ten weeks, on:
Wednesday 5–6.30 UK time see it in your timezone here
or in a parallel-group on
Thursday morning 9–10.30am UK time see it in your timezone here
Term #2 Dates:
Week 1: December 2nd or 3rd
Week 2: December 9th or 10th
Week 3: December 16th or 17th
Week 4: December 23rd or 24th
Week 5: December 30th or 31st
Week 6: January 6th or 7th
Week 7: January 13th or 14th
Week 8: January 20th or 21st
Week 9: January 27th or 28th
Week 0: February 3rd or 4th
ReSource; we’re getting resourced, supported, aided. At this point in 2020 many of us are looking for ways to recover, reassess and realign ourselves, finding our place back in this ‘new normal’.
Looking at the word differently, re-source, the source, the beginning, the place of origin. My hunch is that this source is the place we do resource ourselves, nourish our souls, tend to our spirits, nurture our life force.
Each week will be focused on a Core Movement Resources that we utilise in Open Floor. These are: Activate & Settle, Centre, Dissolve, Expand & Contract, Ground, Pause, Release, Spatial Awareness, Towards & Away and Vector. These help us learn about our own embodiment as well as offering us tools to resource on the dancefloor and also in our daily lives.
In each hour and a half session there’ll be time for dancing (nearly an hour) and time for anything else that is resourcing (about 15 mins) whatever that might be for anyone. It may be time for creativity, meditating, reading, resting. For each of us what is resourcing may look very different, it may be none of those things I’ve mentioned, an impulse might arise in the moment, perhaps inspired by the ‘Core Movement Resource’ of the week and the ability to really tune in to what you need after dancing. I will be offering an idea for an art exercise for those that want to do that.
There will be a facebook group for the two groups, Wednesday and Thursday, to share what’s resourcing over these ten weeks.
Cost: £160 / Concessions & Open Floor Teachers £144
Time
(Thursday) 9:00 am - 10:30 am
Organizer
Sarah Davies
heart@sarahdavies.org
25dec9:15 am- 10:30 amOpen Floor - Forest Row - Friday MorningsFriday Morning Dance9:15 am - 10:30 am Peter Griffiths HallLocation:Forest Row
Event Details
We're back! Smaller, more spacious and longing to dance.
Please note, there are two smaller shorter groups. We'll try it like this for [...]
Event Details
We’re back! Smaller, more spacious and longing to dance.
Please note, there are two smaller shorter groups. We’ll try it like this for a few weeks and see how we get on.
Group 1: 9–10 am
30 mins change over
Group 2: 10.30-11.30 am
Arrive 15 mins before the start of your group.
Tickets can only be purchased in advance, no sales on the door.
Cost: £14 / Concession: £12
Bring your own water bottle.
Wear comfortable clothes to move in.
Dance barefoot or in soft-soled indoor shoes.
Please wear a mask when entering & exiting the building. Masks should not be worn while dancing in accordance with the World Health Organisation – “People should NOT wear masks when exercising, as masks may reduce the ability to breathe comfortably. Sweat can make the mask become wet more quickly which makes it difficult to breathe and promotes the growth of microorganisms. The important preventive measure during exercise is to maintain a physical distance of at least one meter from others.” original WHO information here
Feel free to purchase tickets in advance for the following weeks. If we have to cancel the event you will be given the option to hold the ticket until we are next open or to have your ticket refunded to you minus the Eventbrite admin fee.
Open Floor is a dance mediation practice. Using core movement resources such as grounding, centering, releasing, our aim is to become more embodied, to be more comfortable in our own skin, present for anything and everything. When we live an embodied life we are fluid, flexible and free to experience all of the wild and subtle moments that go by, the ones that are heavenly as well as the ones that have us dragging our feet.
Getting to Peter Griffiths Hall
Peter Griffiths Hall is in the centre of Forest Row with parking in the surrounding area.
Peter Griffiths Hall is round the back of the Freshfield Village Hall. It’s on the ‘Island’ between Tesco’s garage and Lloyds Chemist.
What is an Open Floor class?
It’s dancing, it’s a way of practicing being embodied (learning to listen to ourselves) so it’s called a movement meditation (bringing our attention back to the body over and over again). We explore moving in a variety of ways, moving towards freedom, whatever that might mean for us, it can be quite intimate and personal, or wild and expansive, different for us at different times and each class will have its own particular flavour.
We’re practicing flexiblity of our whole selves, emotionally and soulfully as well as physically.
Any questions do email us: heart@sarahdavies.org
Time
(Friday) 9:15 am - 10:30 am
Location
Peter Griffiths Hall
(small village hall), Lewes Rd, Forest Row, East Sussex RH18 5ES
Organizer
Sarah Davies
heart@sarahdavies.org
30dec5:00 pm- 6:30 pmReSource Online Ongoing Closed Group #2 - WednesdaysResourced from the source - Term 25:00 pm - 6:30 pm OnlineLocation:Worldwide
Event Details
Every week for ten weeks, on:
Wednesday 5–6.30 UK time see it in your timezone here
or in a parallel-group on
Event Details
Every week for ten weeks, on:
Wednesday 5–6.30 UK time see it in your timezone here
or in a parallel-group on
Thursday morning 9–10.30am UK time see it in your timezone here
Term #2 Dates:
Week 1: December 2nd or 3rd
Week 2: December 9th or 10th
Week 3: December 16th or 17th
Week 4: December 23rd or 24th
Week 5: December 30th or 31st
Week 6: January 6th or 7th
Week 7: January 13th or 14th
Week 8: January 20th or 21st
Week 9: January 27th or 28th
Week 0: February 3rd or 4th
ReSource; we’re getting resourced, supported, aided. At this point in 2020 many of us are looking for ways to recover, reassess and realign ourselves, finding our place back in this ‘new normal’.
Looking at the word differently, re-source, the source, the beginning, the place of origin. My hunch is that this source is the place we do resource ourselves, nourish our souls, tend to our spirits, nurture our life force.
Each week will be focused on a Core Movement Resources that we utilise in Open Floor. These are: Activate & Settle, Centre, Dissolve, Expand & Contract, Ground, Pause, Release, Spatial Awareness, Towards & Away and Vector. These help us learn about our own embodiment as well as offering us tools to resource on the dancefloor and also in our daily lives.
In each hour and a half session there’ll be time for dancing (nearly an hour) and time for anything else that is resourcing (about 15 mins) whatever that might be for anyone. It may be time for creativity, meditating, reading, resting. For each of us what is resourcing may look very different, it may be none of those things I’ve mentioned, an impulse might arise in the moment, perhaps inspired by the ‘Core Movement Resource’ of the week and the ability to really tune in to what you need after dancing. I will be offering an idea for an art exercise for those that want to do that.
There will be a facebook group for the two groups, Wednesday and Thursday, to share what’s resourcing over these ten weeks.
Cost: £160 / Concessions & Open Floor Teachers £144
This is an ongoing group, your commitment to being there for as many of the ten weeks as you can is preferable. It is a closed group, once we start others won’t be joining, this helps to hold a clear container.
There will be a limit on group size of approx 20 in each group.
The request is that you choose one group to join, either the Wednesday or Thursday. If there are dates you cannot make, you are welcome to join the other group that week.
You don’t need to have any prior experience of movement to join this group, beginners welcome and also those with experience welcome.
These sessions will not be recorded, it’ll be live, in-the-moment. However the music will be recorded for you to access later should you wish, also the link imagery that Sarah shows will also be available to you.
What you get from joining this group:
-
Embodiment practice, from your own home, connected online
-
Each week a focus on one of the Core Movement Resources
-
Time to explore how you get resourced, nourished & replenished straight after dancing (using the dance as a gateway to nourishment)
-
A suggestion of an art exercise for those that want to do it
-
Link to the soundscape of the week to relisten at any time
-
Link to a resource document for each Core Movement Resource
-
The support of being in an ongoing group with other committed movers.
-
A private facebook group to show what is resourcing you and to be inspired by others
Any questions email Sarah: heart@sarahdavies.org
Time
(Wednesday) 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Organizer
Sarah Davies
heart@sarahdavies.org
31dec9:00 am- 10:30 amReSource Online Ongoing Closed Group #2 - ThursdaysResourced from the source9:00 am - 10:30 am OnlineLocation:Worldwide
Event Details
Every week for ten weeks, on:
Wednesday 5–6.30 UK time see it in your timezone here
or in a parallel-group on
Event Details
Every week for ten weeks, on:
Wednesday 5–6.30 UK time see it in your timezone here
or in a parallel-group on
Thursday morning 9–10.30am UK time see it in your timezone here
Term #2 Dates:
Week 1: December 2nd or 3rd
Week 2: December 9th or 10th
Week 3: December 16th or 17th
Week 4: December 23rd or 24th
Week 5: December 30th or 31st
Week 6: January 6th or 7th
Week 7: January 13th or 14th
Week 8: January 20th or 21st
Week 9: January 27th or 28th
Week 0: February 3rd or 4th
ReSource; we’re getting resourced, supported, aided. At this point in 2020 many of us are looking for ways to recover, reassess and realign ourselves, finding our place back in this ‘new normal’.
Looking at the word differently, re-source, the source, the beginning, the place of origin. My hunch is that this source is the place we do resource ourselves, nourish our souls, tend to our spirits, nurture our life force.
Each week will be focused on a Core Movement Resources that we utilise in Open Floor. These are: Activate & Settle, Centre, Dissolve, Expand & Contract, Ground, Pause, Release, Spatial Awareness, Towards & Away and Vector. These help us learn about our own embodiment as well as offering us tools to resource on the dancefloor and also in our daily lives.
In each hour and a half session there’ll be time for dancing (nearly an hour) and time for anything else that is resourcing (about 15 mins) whatever that might be for anyone. It may be time for creativity, meditating, reading, resting. For each of us what is resourcing may look very different, it may be none of those things I’ve mentioned, an impulse might arise in the moment, perhaps inspired by the ‘Core Movement Resource’ of the week and the ability to really tune in to what you need after dancing. I will be offering an idea for an art exercise for those that want to do that.
There will be a facebook group for the two groups, Wednesday and Thursday, to share what’s resourcing over these ten weeks.
Cost: £160 / Concessions & Open Floor Teachers £144
Time
(Thursday) 9:00 am - 10:30 am
Organizer
Sarah Davies
heart@sarahdavies.org
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1jan9:15 am- 10:30 amOpen Floor - Forest Row - Friday MorningsFriday Morning Dance9:15 am - 10:30 am Peter Griffiths HallLocation:Forest Row
Event Details
We're back! Smaller, more spacious and longing to dance.
Please note, there are two smaller shorter groups. We'll try it like this for [...]
Event Details
We’re back! Smaller, more spacious and longing to dance.
Please note, there are two smaller shorter groups. We’ll try it like this for a few weeks and see how we get on.
Group 1: 9–10 am
30 mins change over
Group 2: 10.30-11.30 am
Arrive 15 mins before the start of your group.
Tickets can only be purchased in advance, no sales on the door.
Cost: £14 / Concession: £12
Bring your own water bottle.
Wear comfortable clothes to move in.
Dance barefoot or in soft-soled indoor shoes.
Please wear a mask when entering & exiting the building. Masks should not be worn while dancing in accordance with the World Health Organisation – “People should NOT wear masks when exercising, as masks may reduce the ability to breathe comfortably. Sweat can make the mask become wet more quickly which makes it difficult to breathe and promotes the growth of microorganisms. The important preventive measure during exercise is to maintain a physical distance of at least one meter from others.” original WHO information here
Feel free to purchase tickets in advance for the following weeks. If we have to cancel the event you will be given the option to hold the ticket until we are next open or to have your ticket refunded to you minus the Eventbrite admin fee.
Open Floor is a dance mediation practice. Using core movement resources such as grounding, centering, releasing, our aim is to become more embodied, to be more comfortable in our own skin, present for anything and everything. When we live an embodied life we are fluid, flexible and free to experience all of the wild and subtle moments that go by, the ones that are heavenly as well as the ones that have us dragging our feet.
Getting to Peter Griffiths Hall
Peter Griffiths Hall is in the centre of Forest Row with parking in the surrounding area.
Peter Griffiths Hall is round the back of the Freshfield Village Hall. It’s on the ‘Island’ between Tesco’s garage and Lloyds Chemist.
What is an Open Floor class?
It’s dancing, it’s a way of practicing being embodied (learning to listen to ourselves) so it’s called a movement meditation (bringing our attention back to the body over and over again). We explore moving in a variety of ways, moving towards freedom, whatever that might mean for us, it can be quite intimate and personal, or wild and expansive, different for us at different times and each class will have its own particular flavour.
We’re practicing flexiblity of our whole selves, emotionally and soulfully as well as physically.
Any questions do email us: heart@sarahdavies.org
Time
(Friday) 9:15 am - 10:30 am
Location
Peter Griffiths Hall
(small village hall), Lewes Rd, Forest Row, East Sussex RH18 5ES
Organizer
Sarah Davies
heart@sarahdavies.org
2jan7:30 pm- 9:30 pmSaturday Night Sweat - online7:30 pm - 9:30 pm BST The Gym, Michael Hall SchoolLocation:Forest Row
Event Details
Event Details
This will be online until further notice.
Our venue is closed to bookings for the time being. We look forward to being back in-person, in the meantime it’ll be online.
Our registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/u50rcu6qqDwtlDXlj5no0cGBHDxH7Yhz6A
Please email Sarah to be put on the mailing list for updates.
Info below is relevant if we are in the hall.
First Saturday of the month
7.30 pm–9.30 pm (doors open 7.15, class starts at 7.30, doors closed 7.45pm)
Due to social distancing, we will be a smaller group, tickets are limited and can only be purchased in advance, no sales on the door.
Cost: £16 / £14 / £12
Bring your own water bottle.
Wear comfortable clothes to move in.
Dance barefoot or in soft-soled indoor shoes.
Come and spread your wings in the huge and lovely gym at Michael Hall School. It is a glorious space, a great group that has built up over many years. Join us!
To see what others have said see our video here
1st Saturday of the Month
The Gym, Michael Hall School, Kidbrooke Park, Forest Row RH18 5JA.
Parking is plentiful, it is easy to find the gym door from the car-park.
Time
(Saturday) 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm BST
Location
The Gym, Michael Hall School
Priory Road, Forest Row RH18 5JE
Organizer
Beam
earthbeam@gmail.com
Buy ticket via Paypal
6jan5:00 pm- 6:30 pmReSource Online Ongoing Closed Group #2 - WednesdaysResourced from the source - Term 25:00 pm - 6:30 pm OnlineLocation:Worldwide
Event Details
Every week for ten weeks, on:
Wednesday 5–6.30 UK time see it in your timezone here
or in a parallel-group on
Event Details
Every week for ten weeks, on:
Wednesday 5–6.30 UK time see it in your timezone here
or in a parallel-group on
Thursday morning 9–10.30am UK time see it in your timezone here
Term #2 Dates:
Week 1: December 2nd or 3rd
Week 2: December 9th or 10th
Week 3: December 16th or 17th
Week 4: December 23rd or 24th
Week 5: December 30th or 31st
Week 6: January 6th or 7th
Week 7: January 13th or 14th
Week 8: January 20th or 21st
Week 9: January 27th or 28th
Week 0: February 3rd or 4th
ReSource; we’re getting resourced, supported, aided. At this point in 2020 many of us are looking for ways to recover, reassess and realign ourselves, finding our place back in this ‘new normal’.
Looking at the word differently, re-source, the source, the beginning, the place of origin. My hunch is that this source is the place we do resource ourselves, nourish our souls, tend to our spirits, nurture our life force.
Each week will be focused on a Core Movement Resources that we utilise in Open Floor. These are: Activate & Settle, Centre, Dissolve, Expand & Contract, Ground, Pause, Release, Spatial Awareness, Towards & Away and Vector. These help us learn about our own embodiment as well as offering us tools to resource on the dancefloor and also in our daily
november
Event Details
Every week for ten weeks, on: Wednesday 5–6.30 UK time see it in your timezone here (a parallel group on Thursday [...]
Event Details
Every week for ten weeks, on:
Wednesday 5–6.30 UK time see it in your timezone here
(a parallel group on Thursday morning 9–10.30am UK time see it in your timezone here Link to information for Thursdays is here.
ReSource; we’re getting resourced, supported, aided. At this point in 2020 many of us are looking for ways to recover, reassess and realign ourselves, finding our place back in this ‘new normal’.
Looking at the word differently, re-source, the source, the beginning, the place of origin. My hunch is that this source is the place we do resource ourselves, nourish our souls, tend to our spirits, nurture our life force.
The Core Movement Resources that we utilise in Open Floor are: Activate & Settle, Centre, Dissolve, Expand & Contract, Ground, Pause, Release, Spatial Awareness, Towards & Away and Vector. Each of these movement resources can help us learn about our own embodiment as well as offering us tools to resource on the dancefloor and also in our daily lives.
In each hour and a half session there’ll be time for dancing (nearly an hour) and about 20 mins for resourcing, whatever that might be for anyone. It may be time for creativity, meditating, reading, resting. For each of us what is resourcing may look very different, it may be none of those things I’ve mentioned, an impulse might arise in the moment, perhaps inspired by the ‘Core Movement Resource’ of the week and the ability to really tune in to what you need after dancing. I will be showing some images and offering an idea for an art exercise for those that want to do that.
There will be a facebook group for the two groups, Wednesday and Thursday, to share what’s resourcing them over these ten weeks.
Dates: 16 / 17th September for 10 weeks until 18 / 19th November
There will be a limit on group size, a minimum of 9 and a maximum of 20 in each group, enough people to dance together and feel the support and inspiration of each other and time enough for group sharing.
Cost: £160 / Concessions & Open Floor Teachers £144
This is an ongoing group, your commitment to being there for as many of the ten weeks as you can is preferable. It is a closed group, once we start others won’t be joining, this helps to hold a clear container.
You don’t need to have any prior experience of movement to join this group, beginners welcome and also those with experience welcome.
These sessions will not be recorded, it’ll be live, in-the-moment. However the music will be recorded for you to access later should you wish, also the link imagery that Sarah shows will also be available to you.
What you get from joining this group:
-
Embodiment practice, from your own home, connected online
-
Each week a focus on one of the Core Movement Resources
-
Time to explore how you get resourced, nourished & replenished straight after dancing (using the dance as a gateway to nourishment)
-
A suggestion of an art exercise for those that want to do it
-
Link to the soundscape of the week to relisten at any time
-
Link to a resource document for each Core Movement Resource
-
The support of being in an ongoing group with other committed movers.
-
A private facebook group to show what is resourcing you and to be inspired by others
Any questions email Sarah: heart@sarahdavies.org
Time
(Wednesday) 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Organizer
Sarah Davies heart@sarahdavies.org
Event Details
Every week for ten weeks, on: Thursday morning 9–10.30am UK time see it in your timezone here (a parallel group on Wednesday 5–6.30 UK [...]
Event Details
Every week for ten weeks, on:
Thursday morning 9–10.30am UK time see it in your timezone here
(a parallel group on Wednesday 5–6.30 UK time see it in your timezone here Link to information for Wednesday is here.
ReSource; we’re getting resourced, supported, aided. At this point in 2020 many of us are looking for ways to recover, reassess and realign ourselves, finding our place back in this ‘new normal’.
Looking at the word differently, re-source, the source, the beginning, the place of origin. My hunch is that this source is the place we do resource ourselves, nourish our souls, tend to our spirits, nurture our life force.
The Core Movement Resources that we utilise in Open Floor are:
Activate & Settle, Centre, Dissolve, Expand & Contract, Ground, Pause, Release, Spatial Awareness, Towards & Away and Vector. Each of these movement resources can help us learn about our own embodiment as well as offering us tools to resource on the dancefloor and also in our daily lives.
In each hour and a half session there’ll be time for dancing (nearly an hour) and about 20 mins for resourcing, whatever that might be for anyone. It may be time for creativity, meditating, reading, resting. For each of us what is resourcing may look very different, it may be none of those things I’ve mentioned, an impulse might arise in the moment, perhaps inspired by the ‘Core Movement Resource’ of the week and the ability to really tune in to what you need after dancing. I will be showing some images and offering an idea for an art exercise for those that want to do that.
There will be a facebook group for the two groups, Wednesday and Thursday, to share what’s resourcing them over these ten weeks.
Dates: 17th September for 10 weeks until 19th November
There will be a limit on group size, a minimum of 9 and a maximum of 20 in each group, enough people to dance together and feel the support and inspiration of each other and time enough for group sharing.
Cost: £160 / Concessions & Open Floor Teachers £144
You don’t need to have any prior experience of movement to join this group, beginners welcome, also those with experience welcome.
These sessions will not be recorded, it’ll be live, in-the-moment. However the music will be recorded for you to access later should you wish, also the link imagery that Sarah shows will also be available to you.
What you get from joining this group:
-
Embodiment practice, from your own home, connected online
-
Each week a focus on one of the Core Movement Resources
-
Time to explore how you get resourced, nourished & replenished straight after dancing (using the dance as a gateway to nourishment)
-
A suggestion of an art exercise for those that want to do it
-
Link to the soundscape of the week to relisten at any time
-
Link to a resource document for each Core Movement Resource
-
The support of being in an ongoing group with other committed movers.
-
A private facebook group to show what is resourcing you and to be inspired by others
Any questions email Sarah: heart@sarahdavies.org
Time
(Thursday) 9:00 am - 10:30 am
Organizer
Sarah Davies heart@sarahdavies.org
Event Details
We're back! Smaller, more spacious and longing to dance. Please note, there are two smaller shorter groups. We'll try it like this for [...]
Event Details
We’re back! Smaller, more spacious and longing to dance.
Please note, there are two smaller shorter groups. We’ll try it like this for a few weeks and see how we get on.
Group 1: 9–10 am
30 mins change over
Group 2: 10.30-11.30 am
Arrive 15 mins before the start of your group.
Tickets can only be purchased in advance, no sales on the door.
Cost: £14 / Concession: £12
Bring your own water bottle.
Wear comfortable clothes to move in.
Dance barefoot or in soft-soled indoor shoes.
Please wear a mask when entering & exiting the building. Masks should not be worn while dancing in accordance with the World Health Organisation – “People should NOT wear masks when exercising, as masks may reduce the ability to breathe comfortably. Sweat can make the mask become wet more quickly which makes it difficult to breathe and promotes the growth of microorganisms. The important preventive measure during exercise is to maintain a physical distance of at least one meter from others.” original WHO information here
Feel free to purchase tickets in advance for the following weeks. If we have to cancel the event you will be given the option to hold the ticket until we are next open or to have your ticket refunded to you minus the Eventbrite admin fee.
Open Floor is a dance mediation practice. Using core movement resources such as grounding, centering, releasing, our aim is to become more embodied, to be more comfortable in our own skin, present for anything and everything. When we live an embodied life we are fluid, flexible and free to experience all of the wild and subtle moments that go by, the ones that are heavenly as well as the ones that have us dragging our feet.
Getting to Peter Griffiths Hall
Peter Griffiths Hall is in the centre of Forest Row with parking in the surrounding area.
Peter Griffiths Hall is round the back of the Freshfield Village Hall. It’s on the ‘Island’ between Tesco’s garage and Lloyds Chemist.
What is an Open Floor class?
It’s dancing, it’s a way of practicing being embodied (learning to listen to ourselves) so it’s called a movement meditation (bringing our attention back to the body over and over again). We explore moving in a variety of ways, moving towards freedom, whatever that might mean for us, it can be quite intimate and personal, or wild and expansive, different for us at different times and each class will have its own particular flavour.
We’re practicing flexiblity of our whole selves, emotionally and soulfully as well as physically.
Any questions do email us: heart@sarahdavies.org
Time
(Friday) 9:15 am - 10:30 am
Location
Peter Griffiths Hall
(small village hall), Lewes Rd, Forest Row, East Sussex RH18 5ES
Organizer
Sarah Davies heart@sarahdavies.org
december
Event Details
Every week for ten weeks, on: Wednesday 5–6.30 UK time see it in your timezone here or in a parallel-group on
Event Details
Every week for ten weeks, on:
Wednesday 5–6.30 UK time see it in your timezone here
or in a parallel-group on
Thursday morning 9–10.30am UK time see it in your timezone here
Term #2 Dates:
Week 1: December 2nd or 3rd
Week 2: December 9th or 10th
Week 3: December 16th or 17th
Week 4: December 23rd or 24th
Week 5: December 30th or 31st
Week 6: January 6th or 7th
Week 7: January 13th or 14th
Week 8: January 20th or 21st
Week 9: January 27th or 28th
Week 0: February 3rd or 4th
ReSource; we’re getting resourced, supported, aided. At this point in 2020 many of us are looking for ways to recover, reassess and realign ourselves, finding our place back in this ‘new normal’.
Looking at the word differently, re-source, the source, the beginning, the place of origin. My hunch is that this source is the place we do resource ourselves, nourish our souls, tend to our spirits, nurture our life force.
Each week will be focused on a Core Movement Resources that we utilise in Open Floor. These are: Activate & Settle, Centre, Dissolve, Expand & Contract, Ground, Pause, Release, Spatial Awareness, Towards & Away and Vector. These help us learn about our own embodiment as well as offering us tools to resource on the dancefloor and also in our daily lives.
In each hour and a half session there’ll be time for dancing (nearly an hour) and time for anything else that is resourcing (about 15 mins) whatever that might be for anyone. It may be time for creativity, meditating, reading, resting. For each of us what is resourcing may look very different, it may be none of those things I’ve mentioned, an impulse might arise in the moment, perhaps inspired by the ‘Core Movement Resource’ of the week and the ability to really tune in to what you need after dancing. I will be offering an idea for an art exercise for those that want to do that.
There will be a facebook group for the two groups, Wednesday and Thursday, to share what’s resourcing over these ten weeks.
Cost: £160 / Concessions & Open Floor Teachers £144
This is an ongoing group, your commitment to being there for as many of the ten weeks as you can is preferable. It is a closed group, once we start others won’t be joining, this helps to hold a clear container.
There will be a limit on group size of approx 20 in each group.
The request is that you choose one group to join, either the Wednesday or Thursday. If there are dates you cannot make, you are welcome to join the other group that week.
You don’t need to have any prior experience of movement to join this group, beginners welcome and also those with experience welcome.
These sessions will not be recorded, it’ll be live, in-the-moment. However the music will be recorded for you to access later should you wish, also the link imagery that Sarah shows will also be available to you.
What you get from joining this group:
-
Embodiment practice, from your own home, connected online
-
Each week a focus on one of the Core Movement Resources
-
Time to explore how you get resourced, nourished & replenished straight after dancing (using the dance as a gateway to nourishment)
-
A suggestion of an art exercise for those that want to do it
-
Link to the soundscape of the week to relisten at any time
-
Link to a resource document for each Core Movement Resource
-
The support of being in an ongoing group with other committed movers.
-
A private facebook group to show what is resourcing you and to be inspired by others
Any questions email Sarah: heart@sarahdavies.org
Time
(Wednesday) 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Organizer
Sarah Davies heart@sarahdavies.org
Event Details
Every week for ten weeks, on: Wednesday 5–6.30 UK time see it in your timezone here or in a parallel-group on
Event Details
Every week for ten weeks, on:
Wednesday 5–6.30 UK time see it in your timezone here
or in a parallel-group on
Thursday morning 9–10.30am UK time see it in your timezone here
Term #2 Dates:
Week 1: December 2nd or 3rd
Week 2: December 9th or 10th
Week 3: December 16th or 17th
Week 4: December 23rd or 24th
Week 5: December 30th or 31st
Week 6: January 6th or 7th
Week 7: January 13th or 14th
Week 8: January 20th or 21st
Week 9: January 27th or 28th
Week 0: February 3rd or 4th
ReSource; we’re getting resourced, supported, aided. At this point in 2020 many of us are looking for ways to recover, reassess and realign ourselves, finding our place back in this ‘new normal’.
Looking at the word differently, re-source, the source, the beginning, the place of origin. My hunch is that this source is the place we do resource ourselves, nourish our souls, tend to our spirits, nurture our life force.
Each week will be focused on a Core Movement Resources that we utilise in Open Floor. These are: Activate & Settle, Centre, Dissolve, Expand & Contract, Ground, Pause, Release, Spatial Awareness, Towards & Away and Vector. These help us learn about our own embodiment as well as offering us tools to resource on the dancefloor and also in our daily lives.
In each hour and a half session there’ll be time for dancing (nearly an hour) and time for anything else that is resourcing (about 15 mins) whatever that might be for anyone. It may be time for creativity, meditating, reading, resting. For each of us what is resourcing may look very different, it may be none of those things I’ve mentioned, an impulse might arise in the moment, perhaps inspired by the ‘Core Movement Resource’ of the week and the ability to really tune in to what you need after dancing. I will be offering an idea for an art exercise for those that want to do that.
There will be a facebook group for the two groups, Wednesday and Thursday, to share what’s resourcing over these ten weeks.
Cost: £160 / Concessions & Open Floor Teachers £144
Time
(Thursday) 9:00 am - 10:30 am
Organizer
Sarah Davies heart@sarahdavies.org
Event Details
We're back! Smaller, more spacious and longing to dance. Please note, there are two smaller shorter groups. We'll try it like this for [...]
Event Details
We’re back! Smaller, more spacious and longing to dance.
Please note, there are two smaller shorter groups. We’ll try it like this for a few weeks and see how we get on.
Group 1: 9–10 am
30 mins change over
Group 2: 10.30-11.30 am
Arrive 15 mins before the start of your group.
Tickets can only be purchased in advance, no sales on the door.
Cost: £14 / Concession: £12
Bring your own water bottle.
Wear comfortable clothes to move in.
Dance barefoot or in soft-soled indoor shoes.
Please wear a mask when entering & exiting the building. Masks should not be worn while dancing in accordance with the World Health Organisation – “People should NOT wear masks when exercising, as masks may reduce the ability to breathe comfortably. Sweat can make the mask become wet more quickly which makes it difficult to breathe and promotes the growth of microorganisms. The important preventive measure during exercise is to maintain a physical distance of at least one meter from others.” original WHO information here
Feel free to purchase tickets in advance for the following weeks. If we have to cancel the event you will be given the option to hold the ticket until we are next open or to have your ticket refunded to you minus the Eventbrite admin fee.
Open Floor is a dance mediation practice. Using core movement resources such as grounding, centering, releasing, our aim is to become more embodied, to be more comfortable in our own skin, present for anything and everything. When we live an embodied life we are fluid, flexible and free to experience all of the wild and subtle moments that go by, the ones that are heavenly as well as the ones that have us dragging our feet.
Getting to Peter Griffiths Hall
Peter Griffiths Hall is in the centre of Forest Row with parking in the surrounding area.
Peter Griffiths Hall is round the back of the Freshfield Village Hall. It’s on the ‘Island’ between Tesco’s garage and Lloyds Chemist.
What is an Open Floor class?
It’s dancing, it’s a way of practicing being embodied (learning to listen to ourselves) so it’s called a movement meditation (bringing our attention back to the body over and over again). We explore moving in a variety of ways, moving towards freedom, whatever that might mean for us, it can be quite intimate and personal, or wild and expansive, different for us at different times and each class will have its own particular flavour.
We’re practicing flexiblity of our whole selves, emotionally and soulfully as well as physically.
Any questions do email us: heart@sarahdavies.org
Time
(Friday) 9:15 am - 10:30 am
Location
Peter Griffiths Hall
(small village hall), Lewes Rd, Forest Row, East Sussex RH18 5ES
Organizer
Sarah Davies heart@sarahdavies.org
Event Details
Event Details
This will be online until further notice.
Our venue is closed to bookings for the time being. We look forward to being back in-person, in the meantime it’ll be online.
Our registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/u50rcu6qqDwtlDXlj5no0cGBHDxH7Yhz6A
Please email Sarah to be put on the mailing list for updates.
Info below is relevant if we are in the hall.
First Saturday of the month
7.30 pm–9.30 pm (doors open 7.15, class starts at 7.30, doors closed 7.45pm)
Due to social distancing, we will be a smaller group, tickets are limited and can only be purchased in advance, no sales on the door.
Cost: £16 / £14 / £12
Bring your own water bottle.
Wear comfortable clothes to move in.
Dance barefoot or in soft-soled indoor shoes.
Come and spread your wings in the huge and lovely gym at Michael Hall School. It is a glorious space, a great group that has built up over many years. Join us!
To see what others have said see our video here
1st Saturday of the Month
The Gym, Michael Hall School, Kidbrooke Park, Forest Row RH18 5JA.
Parking is plentiful, it is easy to find the gym door from the car-park.
Time
(Saturday) 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm BST
Location
The Gym, Michael Hall School
Priory Road, Forest Row RH18 5JE
Organizer
Beam earthbeam@gmail.com
Buy ticket via Paypal
Event Details
Every week for ten weeks, on: Wednesday 5–6.30 UK time see it in your timezone here or in a parallel-group on
Event Details
Every week for ten weeks, on:
Wednesday 5–6.30 UK time see it in your timezone here
or in a parallel-group on
Thursday morning 9–10.30am UK time see it in your timezone here
Term #2 Dates:
Week 1: December 2nd or 3rd
Week 2: December 9th or 10th
Week 3: December 16th or 17th
Week 4: December 23rd or 24th
Week 5: December 30th or 31st
Week 6: January 6th or 7th
Week 7: January 13th or 14th
Week 8: January 20th or 21st
Week 9: January 27th or 28th
Week 0: February 3rd or 4th
ReSource; we’re getting resourced, supported, aided. At this point in 2020 many of us are looking for ways to recover, reassess and realign ourselves, finding our place back in this ‘new normal’.
Looking at the word differently, re-source, the source, the beginning, the place of origin. My hunch is that this source is the place we do resource ourselves, nourish our souls, tend to our spirits, nurture our life force.
Each week will be focused on a Core Movement Resources that we utilise in Open Floor. These are: Activate & Settle, Centre, Dissolve, Expand & Contract, Ground, Pause, Release, Spatial Awareness, Towards & Away and Vector. These help us learn about our own embodiment as well as offering us tools to resource on the dancefloor and also in our daily lives.
In each hour and a half session there’ll be time for dancing (nearly an hour) and time for anything else that is resourcing (about 15 mins) whatever that might be for anyone. It may be time for creativity, meditating, reading, resting. For each of us what is resourcing may look very different, it may be none of those things I’ve mentioned, an impulse might arise in the moment, perhaps inspired by the ‘Core Movement Resource’ of the week and the ability to really tune in to what you need after dancing. I will be offering an idea for an art exercise for those that want to do that.
There will be a facebook group for the two groups, Wednesday and Thursday, to share what’s resourcing over these ten weeks.
Cost: £160 / Concessions & Open Floor Teachers £144
This is an ongoing group, your commitment to being there for as many of the ten weeks as you can is preferable. It is a closed group, once we start others won’t be joining, this helps to hold a clear container.
There will be a limit on group size of approx 20 in each group.
The request is that you choose one group to join, either the Wednesday or Thursday. If there are dates you cannot make, you are welcome to join the other group that week.
You don’t need to have any prior experience of movement to join this group, beginners welcome and also those with experience welcome.
These sessions will not be recorded, it’ll be live, in-the-moment. However the music will be recorded for you to access later should you wish, also the link imagery that Sarah shows will also be available to you.
What you get from joining this group:
-
Embodiment practice, from your own home, connected online
-
Each week a focus on one of the Core Movement Resources
-
Time to explore how you get resourced, nourished & replenished straight after dancing (using the dance as a gateway to nourishment)
-
A suggestion of an art exercise for those that want to do it
-
Link to the soundscape of the week to relisten at any time
-
Link to a resource document for each Core Movement Resource
-
The support of being in an ongoing group with other committed movers.
-
A private facebook group to show what is resourcing you and to be inspired by others
Any questions email Sarah: heart@sarahdavies.org
Time
(Wednesday) 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Organizer
Sarah Davies heart@sarahdavies.org
Event Details
Every week for ten weeks, on: Wednesday 5–6.30 UK time see it in your timezone here or in a parallel-group on
Event Details
Every week for ten weeks, on:
Wednesday 5–6.30 UK time see it in your timezone here
or in a parallel-group on
Thursday morning 9–10.30am UK time see it in your timezone here
Term #2 Dates:
Week 1: December 2nd or 3rd
Week 2: December 9th or 10th
Week 3: December 16th or 17th
Week 4: December 23rd or 24th
Week 5: December 30th or 31st
Week 6: January 6th or 7th
Week 7: January 13th or 14th
Week 8: January 20th or 21st
Week 9: January 27th or 28th
Week 0: February 3rd or 4th
ReSource; we’re getting resourced, supported, aided. At this point in 2020 many of us are looking for ways to recover, reassess and realign ourselves, finding our place back in this ‘new normal’.
Looking at the word differently, re-source, the source, the beginning, the place of origin. My hunch is that this source is the place we do resource ourselves, nourish our souls, tend to our spirits, nurture our life force.
Each week will be focused on a Core Movement Resources that we utilise in Open Floor. These are: Activate & Settle, Centre, Dissolve, Expand & Contract, Ground, Pause, Release, Spatial Awareness, Towards & Away and Vector. These help us learn about our own embodiment as well as offering us tools to resource on the dancefloor and also in our daily lives.
In each hour and a half session there’ll be time for dancing (nearly an hour) and time for anything else that is resourcing (about 15 mins) whatever that might be for anyone. It may be time for creativity, meditating, reading, resting. For each of us what is resourcing may look very different, it may be none of those things I’ve mentioned, an impulse might arise in the moment, perhaps inspired by the ‘Core Movement Resource’ of the week and the ability to really tune in to what you need after dancing. I will be offering an idea for an art exercise for those that want to do that.
There will be a facebook group for the two groups, Wednesday and Thursday, to share what’s resourcing over these ten weeks.
Cost: £160 / Concessions & Open Floor Teachers £144
Time
(Thursday) 9:00 am - 10:30 am
Organizer
Sarah Davies heart@sarahdavies.org
Event Details
We're back! Smaller, more spacious and longing to dance. Please note, there are two smaller shorter groups. We'll try it like this for [...]
Event Details
We’re back! Smaller, more spacious and longing to dance.
Please note, there are two smaller shorter groups. We’ll try it like this for a few weeks and see how we get on.
Group 1: 9–10 am
30 mins change over
Group 2: 10.30-11.30 am
Arrive 15 mins before the start of your group.
Tickets can only be purchased in advance, no sales on the door.
Cost: £14 / Concession: £12
Bring your own water bottle.
Wear comfortable clothes to move in.
Dance barefoot or in soft-soled indoor shoes.
Please wear a mask when entering & exiting the building. Masks should not be worn while dancing in accordance with the World Health Organisation – “People should NOT wear masks when exercising, as masks may reduce the ability to breathe comfortably. Sweat can make the mask become wet more quickly which makes it difficult to breathe and promotes the growth of microorganisms. The important preventive measure during exercise is to maintain a physical distance of at least one meter from others.” original WHO information here
Feel free to purchase tickets in advance for the following weeks. If we have to cancel the event you will be given the option to hold the ticket until we are next open or to have your ticket refunded to you minus the Eventbrite admin fee.
Open Floor is a dance mediation practice. Using core movement resources such as grounding, centering, releasing, our aim is to become more embodied, to be more comfortable in our own skin, present for anything and everything. When we live an embodied life we are fluid, flexible and free to experience all of the wild and subtle moments that go by, the ones that are heavenly as well as the ones that have us dragging our feet.
Getting to Peter Griffiths Hall
Peter Griffiths Hall is in the centre of Forest Row with parking in the surrounding area.
Peter Griffiths Hall is round the back of the Freshfield Village Hall. It’s on the ‘Island’ between Tesco’s garage and Lloyds Chemist.
What is an Open Floor class?
It’s dancing, it’s a way of practicing being embodied (learning to listen to ourselves) so it’s called a movement meditation (bringing our attention back to the body over and over again). We explore moving in a variety of ways, moving towards freedom, whatever that might mean for us, it can be quite intimate and personal, or wild and expansive, different for us at different times and each class will have its own particular flavour.
We’re practicing flexiblity of our whole selves, emotionally and soulfully as well as physically.
Any questions do email us: heart@sarahdavies.org
Time
(Friday) 9:15 am - 10:30 am
Location
Peter Griffiths Hall
(small village hall), Lewes Rd, Forest Row, East Sussex RH18 5ES
Organizer
Sarah Davies heart@sarahdavies.org
Event Details
Every week for ten weeks, on: Wednesday 5–6.30 UK time see it in your timezone here or in a parallel-group on
Event Details
Every week for ten weeks, on:
Wednesday 5–6.30 UK time see it in your timezone here
or in a parallel-group on
Thursday morning 9–10.30am UK time see it in your timezone here
Term #2 Dates:
Week 1: December 2nd or 3rd
Week 2: December 9th or 10th
Week 3: December 16th or 17th
Week 4: December 23rd or 24th
Week 5: December 30th or 31st
Week 6: January 6th or 7th
Week 7: January 13th or 14th
Week 8: January 20th or 21st
Week 9: January 27th or 28th
Week 0: February 3rd or 4th
ReSource; we’re getting resourced, supported, aided. At this point in 2020 many of us are looking for ways to recover, reassess and realign ourselves, finding our place back in this ‘new normal’.
Looking at the word differently, re-source, the source, the beginning, the place of origin. My hunch is that this source is the place we do resource ourselves, nourish our souls, tend to our spirits, nurture our life force.
Each week will be focused on a Core Movement Resources that we utilise in Open Floor. These are: Activate & Settle, Centre, Dissolve, Expand & Contract, Ground, Pause, Release, Spatial Awareness, Towards & Away and Vector. These help us learn about our own embodiment as well as offering us tools to resource on the dancefloor and also in our daily lives.
In each hour and a half session there’ll be time for dancing (nearly an hour) and time for anything else that is resourcing (about 15 mins) whatever that might be for anyone. It may be time for creativity, meditating, reading, resting. For each of us what is resourcing may look very different, it may be none of those things I’ve mentioned, an impulse might arise in the moment, perhaps inspired by the ‘Core Movement Resource’ of the week and the ability to really tune in to what you need after dancing. I will be offering an idea for an art exercise for those that want to do that.
There will be a facebook group for the two groups, Wednesday and Thursday, to share what’s resourcing over these ten weeks.
Cost: £160 / Concessions & Open Floor Teachers £144
This is an ongoing group, your commitment to being there for as many of the ten weeks as you can is preferable. It is a closed group, once we start others won’t be joining, this helps to hold a clear container.
There will be a limit on group size of approx 20 in each group.
The request is that you choose one group to join, either the Wednesday or Thursday. If there are dates you cannot make, you are welcome to join the other group that week.
You don’t need to have any prior experience of movement to join this group, beginners welcome and also those with experience welcome.
These sessions will not be recorded, it’ll be live, in-the-moment. However the music will be recorded for you to access later should you wish, also the link imagery that Sarah shows will also be available to you.
What you get from joining this group:
-
Embodiment practice, from your own home, connected online
-
Each week a focus on one of the Core Movement Resources
-
Time to explore how you get resourced, nourished & replenished straight after dancing (using the dance as a gateway to nourishment)
-
A suggestion of an art exercise for those that want to do it
-
Link to the soundscape of the week to relisten at any time
-
Link to a resource document for each Core Movement Resource
-
The support of being in an ongoing group with other committed movers.
-
A private facebook group to show what is resourcing you and to be inspired by others
Any questions email Sarah: heart@sarahdavies.org
Time
(Wednesday) 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Organizer
Sarah Davies heart@sarahdavies.org
Event Details
Every week for ten weeks, on: Wednesday 5–6.30 UK time see it in your timezone here or in a parallel-group on
Event Details
Every week for ten weeks, on:
Wednesday 5–6.30 UK time see it in your timezone here
or in a parallel-group on
Thursday morning 9–10.30am UK time see it in your timezone here
Term #2 Dates:
Week 1: December 2nd or 3rd
Week 2: December 9th or 10th
Week 3: December 16th or 17th
Week 4: December 23rd or 24th
Week 5: December 30th or 31st
Week 6: January 6th or 7th
Week 7: January 13th or 14th
Week 8: January 20th or 21st
Week 9: January 27th or 28th
Week 0: February 3rd or 4th
ReSource; we’re getting resourced, supported, aided. At this point in 2020 many of us are looking for ways to recover, reassess and realign ourselves, finding our place back in this ‘new normal’.
Looking at the word differently, re-source, the source, the beginning, the place of origin. My hunch is that this source is the place we do resource ourselves, nourish our souls, tend to our spirits, nurture our life force.
Each week will be focused on a Core Movement Resources that we utilise in Open Floor. These are: Activate & Settle, Centre, Dissolve, Expand & Contract, Ground, Pause, Release, Spatial Awareness, Towards & Away and Vector. These help us learn about our own embodiment as well as offering us tools to resource on the dancefloor and also in our daily lives.
In each hour and a half session there’ll be time for dancing (nearly an hour) and time for anything else that is resourcing (about 15 mins) whatever that might be for anyone. It may be time for creativity, meditating, reading, resting. For each of us what is resourcing may look very different, it may be none of those things I’ve mentioned, an impulse might arise in the moment, perhaps inspired by the ‘Core Movement Resource’ of the week and the ability to really tune in to what you need after dancing. I will be offering an idea for an art exercise for those that want to do that.
There will be a facebook group for the two groups, Wednesday and Thursday, to share what’s resourcing over these ten weeks.
Cost: £160 / Concessions & Open Floor Teachers £144
Time
(Thursday) 9:00 am - 10:30 am
Organizer
Sarah Davies heart@sarahdavies.org
Event Details
We're back! Smaller, more spacious and longing to dance. Please note, there are two smaller shorter groups. We'll try it like this for [...]
Event Details
We’re back! Smaller, more spacious and longing to dance.
Please note, there are two smaller shorter groups. We’ll try it like this for a few weeks and see how we get on.
Group 1: 9–10 am
30 mins change over
Group 2: 10.30-11.30 am
Arrive 15 mins before the start of your group.
Tickets can only be purchased in advance, no sales on the door.
Cost: £14 / Concession: £12
Bring your own water bottle.
Wear comfortable clothes to move in.
Dance barefoot or in soft-soled indoor shoes.
Please wear a mask when entering & exiting the building. Masks should not be worn while dancing in accordance with the World Health Organisation – “People should NOT wear masks when exercising, as masks may reduce the ability to breathe comfortably. Sweat can make the mask become wet more quickly which makes it difficult to breathe and promotes the growth of microorganisms. The important preventive measure during exercise is to maintain a physical distance of at least one meter from others.” original WHO information here
Feel free to purchase tickets in advance for the following weeks. If we have to cancel the event you will be given the option to hold the ticket until we are next open or to have your ticket refunded to you minus the Eventbrite admin fee.
Open Floor is a dance mediation practice. Using core movement resources such as grounding, centering, releasing, our aim is to become more embodied, to be more comfortable in our own skin, present for anything and everything. When we live an embodied life we are fluid, flexible and free to experience all of the wild and subtle moments that go by, the ones that are heavenly as well as the ones that have us dragging our feet.
Getting to Peter Griffiths Hall
Peter Griffiths Hall is in the centre of Forest Row with parking in the surrounding area.
Peter Griffiths Hall is round the back of the Freshfield Village Hall. It’s on the ‘Island’ between Tesco’s garage and Lloyds Chemist.
What is an Open Floor class?
It’s dancing, it’s a way of practicing being embodied (learning to listen to ourselves) so it’s called a movement meditation (bringing our attention back to the body over and over again). We explore moving in a variety of ways, moving towards freedom, whatever that might mean for us, it can be quite intimate and personal, or wild and expansive, different for us at different times and each class will have its own particular flavour.
We’re practicing flexiblity of our whole selves, emotionally and soulfully as well as physically.
Any questions do email us: heart@sarahdavies.org
Time
(Friday) 9:15 am - 10:30 am
Location
Peter Griffiths Hall
(small village hall), Lewes Rd, Forest Row, East Sussex RH18 5ES
Organizer
Sarah Davies heart@sarahdavies.org
Event Details
Every week for ten weeks, on: Wednesday 5–6.30 UK time see it in your timezone here or in a parallel-group on
Event Details
Every week for ten weeks, on:
Wednesday 5–6.30 UK time see it in your timezone here
or in a parallel-group on
Thursday morning 9–10.30am UK time see it in your timezone here
Term #2 Dates:
Week 1: December 2nd or 3rd
Week 2: December 9th or 10th
Week 3: December 16th or 17th
Week 4: December 23rd or 24th
Week 5: December 30th or 31st
Week 6: January 6th or 7th
Week 7: January 13th or 14th
Week 8: January 20th or 21st
Week 9: January 27th or 28th
Week 0: February 3rd or 4th
ReSource; we’re getting resourced, supported, aided. At this point in 2020 many of us are looking for ways to recover, reassess and realign ourselves, finding our place back in this ‘new normal’.
Looking at the word differently, re-source, the source, the beginning, the place of origin. My hunch is that this source is the place we do resource ourselves, nourish our souls, tend to our spirits, nurture our life force.
Each week will be focused on a Core Movement Resources that we utilise in Open Floor. These are: Activate & Settle, Centre, Dissolve, Expand & Contract, Ground, Pause, Release, Spatial Awareness, Towards & Away and Vector. These help us learn about our own embodiment as well as offering us tools to resource on the dancefloor and also in our daily lives.
In each hour and a half session there’ll be time for dancing (nearly an hour) and time for anything else that is resourcing (about 15 mins) whatever that might be for anyone. It may be time for creativity, meditating, reading, resting. For each of us what is resourcing may look very different, it may be none of those things I’ve mentioned, an impulse might arise in the moment, perhaps inspired by the ‘Core Movement Resource’ of the week and the ability to really tune in to what you need after dancing. I will be offering an idea for an art exercise for those that want to do that.
There will be a facebook group for the two groups, Wednesday and Thursday, to share what’s resourcing over these ten weeks.
Cost: £160 / Concessions & Open Floor Teachers £144
This is an ongoing group, your commitment to being there for as many of the ten weeks as you can is preferable. It is a closed group, once we start others won’t be joining, this helps to hold a clear container.
There will be a limit on group size of approx 20 in each group.
The request is that you choose one group to join, either the Wednesday or Thursday. If there are dates you cannot make, you are welcome to join the other group that week.
You don’t need to have any prior experience of movement to join this group, beginners welcome and also those with experience welcome.
These sessions will not be recorded, it’ll be live, in-the-moment. However the music will be recorded for you to access later should you wish, also the link imagery that Sarah shows will also be available to you.
What you get from joining this group:
-
Embodiment practice, from your own home, connected online
-
Each week a focus on one of the Core Movement Resources
-
Time to explore how you get resourced, nourished & replenished straight after dancing (using the dance as a gateway to nourishment)
-
A suggestion of an art exercise for those that want to do it
-
Link to the soundscape of the week to relisten at any time
-
Link to a resource document for each Core Movement Resource
-
The support of being in an ongoing group with other committed movers.
-
A private facebook group to show what is resourcing you and to be inspired by others
Any questions email Sarah: heart@sarahdavies.org
Time
(Wednesday) 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Organizer
Sarah Davies heart@sarahdavies.org
Event Details
Every week for ten weeks, on: Wednesday 5–6.30 UK time see it in your timezone here or in a parallel-group on
Event Details
Every week for ten weeks, on:
Wednesday 5–6.30 UK time see it in your timezone here
or in a parallel-group on
Thursday morning 9–10.30am UK time see it in your timezone here
Term #2 Dates:
Week 1: December 2nd or 3rd
Week 2: December 9th or 10th
Week 3: December 16th or 17th
Week 4: December 23rd or 24th
Week 5: December 30th or 31st
Week 6: January 6th or 7th
Week 7: January 13th or 14th
Week 8: January 20th or 21st
Week 9: January 27th or 28th
Week 0: February 3rd or 4th
ReSource; we’re getting resourced, supported, aided. At this point in 2020 many of us are looking for ways to recover, reassess and realign ourselves, finding our place back in this ‘new normal’.
Looking at the word differently, re-source, the source, the beginning, the place of origin. My hunch is that this source is the place we do resource ourselves, nourish our souls, tend to our spirits, nurture our life force.
Each week will be focused on a Core Movement Resources that we utilise in Open Floor. These are: Activate & Settle, Centre, Dissolve, Expand & Contract, Ground, Pause, Release, Spatial Awareness, Towards & Away and Vector. These help us learn about our own embodiment as well as offering us tools to resource on the dancefloor and also in our daily lives.
In each hour and a half session there’ll be time for dancing (nearly an hour) and time for anything else that is resourcing (about 15 mins) whatever that might be for anyone. It may be time for creativity, meditating, reading, resting. For each of us what is resourcing may look very different, it may be none of those things I’ve mentioned, an impulse might arise in the moment, perhaps inspired by the ‘Core Movement Resource’ of the week and the ability to really tune in to what you need after dancing. I will be offering an idea for an art exercise for those that want to do that.
There will be a facebook group for the two groups, Wednesday and Thursday, to share what’s resourcing over these ten weeks.
Cost: £160 / Concessions & Open Floor Teachers £144
Time
(Thursday) 9:00 am - 10:30 am
Organizer
Sarah Davies heart@sarahdavies.org
Event Details
We're back! Smaller, more spacious and longing to dance. Please note, there are two smaller shorter groups. We'll try it like this for [...]
Event Details
We’re back! Smaller, more spacious and longing to dance.
Please note, there are two smaller shorter groups. We’ll try it like this for a few weeks and see how we get on.
Group 1: 9–10 am
30 mins change over
Group 2: 10.30-11.30 am
Arrive 15 mins before the start of your group.
Tickets can only be purchased in advance, no sales on the door.
Cost: £14 / Concession: £12
Bring your own water bottle.
Wear comfortable clothes to move in.
Dance barefoot or in soft-soled indoor shoes.
Please wear a mask when entering & exiting the building. Masks should not be worn while dancing in accordance with the World Health Organisation – “People should NOT wear masks when exercising, as masks may reduce the ability to breathe comfortably. Sweat can make the mask become wet more quickly which makes it difficult to breathe and promotes the growth of microorganisms. The important preventive measure during exercise is to maintain a physical distance of at least one meter from others.” original WHO information here
Feel free to purchase tickets in advance for the following weeks. If we have to cancel the event you will be given the option to hold the ticket until we are next open or to have your ticket refunded to you minus the Eventbrite admin fee.
Open Floor is a dance mediation practice. Using core movement resources such as grounding, centering, releasing, our aim is to become more embodied, to be more comfortable in our own skin, present for anything and everything. When we live an embodied life we are fluid, flexible and free to experience all of the wild and subtle moments that go by, the ones that are heavenly as well as the ones that have us dragging our feet.
Getting to Peter Griffiths Hall
Peter Griffiths Hall is in the centre of Forest Row with parking in the surrounding area.
Peter Griffiths Hall is round the back of the Freshfield Village Hall. It’s on the ‘Island’ between Tesco’s garage and Lloyds Chemist.
What is an Open Floor class?
It’s dancing, it’s a way of practicing being embodied (learning to listen to ourselves) so it’s called a movement meditation (bringing our attention back to the body over and over again). We explore moving in a variety of ways, moving towards freedom, whatever that might mean for us, it can be quite intimate and personal, or wild and expansive, different for us at different times and each class will have its own particular flavour.
We’re practicing flexiblity of our whole selves, emotionally and soulfully as well as physically.
Any questions do email us: heart@sarahdavies.org
Time
(Friday) 9:15 am - 10:30 am
Location
Peter Griffiths Hall
(small village hall), Lewes Rd, Forest Row, East Sussex RH18 5ES
Organizer
Sarah Davies heart@sarahdavies.org
Event Details
Every week for ten weeks, on: Wednesday 5–6.30 UK time see it in your timezone here or in a parallel-group on
Event Details
Every week for ten weeks, on:
Wednesday 5–6.30 UK time see it in your timezone here
or in a parallel-group on
Thursday morning 9–10.30am UK time see it in your timezone here
Term #2 Dates:
Week 1: December 2nd or 3rd
Week 2: December 9th or 10th
Week 3: December 16th or 17th
Week 4: December 23rd or 24th
Week 5: December 30th or 31st
Week 6: January 6th or 7th
Week 7: January 13th or 14th
Week 8: January 20th or 21st
Week 9: January 27th or 28th
Week 0: February 3rd or 4th
ReSource; we’re getting resourced, supported, aided. At this point in 2020 many of us are looking for ways to recover, reassess and realign ourselves, finding our place back in this ‘new normal’.
Looking at the word differently, re-source, the source, the beginning, the place of origin. My hunch is that this source is the place we do resource ourselves, nourish our souls, tend to our spirits, nurture our life force.
Each week will be focused on a Core Movement Resources that we utilise in Open Floor. These are: Activate & Settle, Centre, Dissolve, Expand & Contract, Ground, Pause, Release, Spatial Awareness, Towards & Away and Vector. These help us learn about our own embodiment as well as offering us tools to resource on the dancefloor and also in our daily lives.
In each hour and a half session there’ll be time for dancing (nearly an hour) and time for anything else that is resourcing (about 15 mins) whatever that might be for anyone. It may be time for creativity, meditating, reading, resting. For each of us what is resourcing may look very different, it may be none of those things I’ve mentioned, an impulse might arise in the moment, perhaps inspired by the ‘Core Movement Resource’ of the week and the ability to really tune in to what you need after dancing. I will be offering an idea for an art exercise for those that want to do that.
There will be a facebook group for the two groups, Wednesday and Thursday, to share what’s resourcing over these ten weeks.
Cost: £160 / Concessions & Open Floor Teachers £144
This is an ongoing group, your commitment to being there for as many of the ten weeks as you can is preferable. It is a closed group, once we start others won’t be joining, this helps to hold a clear container.
There will be a limit on group size of approx 20 in each group.
The request is that you choose one group to join, either the Wednesday or Thursday. If there are dates you cannot make, you are welcome to join the other group that week.
You don’t need to have any prior experience of movement to join this group, beginners welcome and also those with experience welcome.
These sessions will not be recorded, it’ll be live, in-the-moment. However the music will be recorded for you to access later should you wish, also the link imagery that Sarah shows will also be available to you.
What you get from joining this group:
-
Embodiment practice, from your own home, connected online
-
Each week a focus on one of the Core Movement Resources
-
Time to explore how you get resourced, nourished & replenished straight after dancing (using the dance as a gateway to nourishment)
-
A suggestion of an art exercise for those that want to do it
-
Link to the soundscape of the week to relisten at any time
-
Link to a resource document for each Core Movement Resource
-
The support of being in an ongoing group with other committed movers.
-
A private facebook group to show what is resourcing you and to be inspired by others
Any questions email Sarah: heart@sarahdavies.org
Time
(Wednesday) 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Organizer
Sarah Davies heart@sarahdavies.org
Event Details
Every week for ten weeks, on: Wednesday 5–6.30 UK time see it in your timezone here or in a parallel-group on
Event Details
Every week for ten weeks, on:
Wednesday 5–6.30 UK time see it in your timezone here
or in a parallel-group on
Thursday morning 9–10.30am UK time see it in your timezone here
Term #2 Dates:
Week 1: December 2nd or 3rd
Week 2: December 9th or 10th
Week 3: December 16th or 17th
Week 4: December 23rd or 24th
Week 5: December 30th or 31st
Week 6: January 6th or 7th
Week 7: January 13th or 14th
Week 8: January 20th or 21st
Week 9: January 27th or 28th
Week 0: February 3rd or 4th
ReSource; we’re getting resourced, supported, aided. At this point in 2020 many of us are looking for ways to recover, reassess and realign ourselves, finding our place back in this ‘new normal’.
Looking at the word differently, re-source, the source, the beginning, the place of origin. My hunch is that this source is the place we do resource ourselves, nourish our souls, tend to our spirits, nurture our life force.
Each week will be focused on a Core Movement Resources that we utilise in Open Floor. These are: Activate & Settle, Centre, Dissolve, Expand & Contract, Ground, Pause, Release, Spatial Awareness, Towards & Away and Vector. These help us learn about our own embodiment as well as offering us tools to resource on the dancefloor and also in our daily lives.
In each hour and a half session there’ll be time for dancing (nearly an hour) and time for anything else that is resourcing (about 15 mins) whatever that might be for anyone. It may be time for creativity, meditating, reading, resting. For each of us what is resourcing may look very different, it may be none of those things I’ve mentioned, an impulse might arise in the moment, perhaps inspired by the ‘Core Movement Resource’ of the week and the ability to really tune in to what you need after dancing. I will be offering an idea for an art exercise for those that want to do that.
There will be a facebook group for the two groups, Wednesday and Thursday, to share what’s resourcing over these ten weeks.
Cost: £160 / Concessions & Open Floor Teachers £144
Time
(Thursday) 9:00 am - 10:30 am
Organizer
Sarah Davies heart@sarahdavies.org
january
Event Details
We're back! Smaller, more spacious and longing to dance. Please note, there are two smaller shorter groups. We'll try it like this for [...]
Event Details
We’re back! Smaller, more spacious and longing to dance.
Please note, there are two smaller shorter groups. We’ll try it like this for a few weeks and see how we get on.
Group 1: 9–10 am
30 mins change over
Group 2: 10.30-11.30 am
Arrive 15 mins before the start of your group.
Tickets can only be purchased in advance, no sales on the door.
Cost: £14 / Concession: £12
Bring your own water bottle.
Wear comfortable clothes to move in.
Dance barefoot or in soft-soled indoor shoes.
Please wear a mask when entering & exiting the building. Masks should not be worn while dancing in accordance with the World Health Organisation – “People should NOT wear masks when exercising, as masks may reduce the ability to breathe comfortably. Sweat can make the mask become wet more quickly which makes it difficult to breathe and promotes the growth of microorganisms. The important preventive measure during exercise is to maintain a physical distance of at least one meter from others.” original WHO information here
Feel free to purchase tickets in advance for the following weeks. If we have to cancel the event you will be given the option to hold the ticket until we are next open or to have your ticket refunded to you minus the Eventbrite admin fee.
Open Floor is a dance mediation practice. Using core movement resources such as grounding, centering, releasing, our aim is to become more embodied, to be more comfortable in our own skin, present for anything and everything. When we live an embodied life we are fluid, flexible and free to experience all of the wild and subtle moments that go by, the ones that are heavenly as well as the ones that have us dragging our feet.
Getting to Peter Griffiths Hall
Peter Griffiths Hall is in the centre of Forest Row with parking in the surrounding area.
Peter Griffiths Hall is round the back of the Freshfield Village Hall. It’s on the ‘Island’ between Tesco’s garage and Lloyds Chemist.
What is an Open Floor class?
It’s dancing, it’s a way of practicing being embodied (learning to listen to ourselves) so it’s called a movement meditation (bringing our attention back to the body over and over again). We explore moving in a variety of ways, moving towards freedom, whatever that might mean for us, it can be quite intimate and personal, or wild and expansive, different for us at different times and each class will have its own particular flavour.
We’re practicing flexiblity of our whole selves, emotionally and soulfully as well as physically.
Any questions do email us: heart@sarahdavies.org
Time
(Friday) 9:15 am - 10:30 am
Location
Peter Griffiths Hall
(small village hall), Lewes Rd, Forest Row, East Sussex RH18 5ES
Organizer
Sarah Davies heart@sarahdavies.org
Event Details
Event Details
This will be online until further notice.
Our venue is closed to bookings for the time being. We look forward to being back in-person, in the meantime it’ll be online.
Our registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/u50rcu6qqDwtlDXlj5no0cGBHDxH7Yhz6A
Please email Sarah to be put on the mailing list for updates.
Info below is relevant if we are in the hall.
First Saturday of the month
7.30 pm–9.30 pm (doors open 7.15, class starts at 7.30, doors closed 7.45pm)
Due to social distancing, we will be a smaller group, tickets are limited and can only be purchased in advance, no sales on the door.
Cost: £16 / £14 / £12
Bring your own water bottle.
Wear comfortable clothes to move in.
Dance barefoot or in soft-soled indoor shoes.
Come and spread your wings in the huge and lovely gym at Michael Hall School. It is a glorious space, a great group that has built up over many years. Join us!
To see what others have said see our video here
1st Saturday of the Month
The Gym, Michael Hall School, Kidbrooke Park, Forest Row RH18 5JA.
Parking is plentiful, it is easy to find the gym door from the car-park.
Time
(Saturday) 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm BST
Location
The Gym, Michael Hall School
Priory Road, Forest Row RH18 5JE
Organizer
Beam earthbeam@gmail.com
Buy ticket via Paypal
Event Details
Every week for ten weeks, on: Wednesday 5–6.30 UK time see it in your timezone here or in a parallel-group on
Event Details
Every week for ten weeks, on:
Wednesday 5–6.30 UK time see it in your timezone here
or in a parallel-group on
Thursday morning 9–10.30am UK time see it in your timezone here
Term #2 Dates:
Week 1: December 2nd or 3rd
Week 2: December 9th or 10th
Week 3: December 16th or 17th
Week 4: December 23rd or 24th
Week 5: December 30th or 31st
Week 6: January 6th or 7th
Week 7: January 13th or 14th
Week 8: January 20th or 21st
Week 9: January 27th or 28th
Week 0: February 3rd or 4th
ReSource; we’re getting resourced, supported, aided. At this point in 2020 many of us are looking for ways to recover, reassess and realign ourselves, finding our place back in this ‘new normal’.
Looking at the word differently, re-source, the source, the beginning, the place of origin. My hunch is that this source is the place we do resource ourselves, nourish our souls, tend to our spirits, nurture our life force.
Each week will be focused on a Core Movement Resources that we utilise in Open Floor. These are: Activate & Settle, Centre, Dissolve, Expand & Contract, Ground, Pause, Release, Spatial Awareness, Towards & Away and Vector. These help us learn about our own embodiment as well as offering us tools to resource on the dancefloor and also in our daily