Retreats
Supporting Deep Personal Inquiry
The retreat environment allows us the time to immerse ourselves in different techniques and extended explorations in a variety of settings, whilst also allowing structured space for rest and replenishment. For more indepth information about our retreats and when they are scheduled to run please read below.
If you have further questions or wish to make a booking please contact me.
Somatic Movement Retreat
with Mary Abrams & Penny Collinson
Tending Heart Fires, Finding Magic in the Ashes
This new 4 day retreat is specifically designed for movement and somatic-informed practitioners who work within teaching, in therapeutic, creative or performative contexts.
Duration: Friday to Monday (over 4 days with 3 nights away)
Fee: £300 - £400 (includes lunch Saturday to Monday)
* This is a sliding scale please pay according to your income
Location: The River Room, Halton Mill, near Lancaster, LA2 6ND
Dates: 18th - 21st April 2025
Somatic Movement Retreat
with Mary Abrams & Penny Collinson
Breathing through difficulty, moving with grace
Duration: Friday to Monday (over 4 days with 3 nights away)
Fee: £300 (includes lunch Saturday to Monday)
Location: Rowen Memorial Hall, Rowen, Conwy, N. Wales LL32 8YP
Dates:
This workshop has already taken place (May 2024) but keep checking back onto this page as I will post details on the next one as and when plans come to fruition.
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Biographies​
Penny and Mary have known one another for 17 years, and taught together on the MA Dance & Somatic Wellbeing programmes, which ran in UCLan, Preston and in New York, until 2021. They look forward to reconnecting with graduates, colleagues and practitioners on this retreat, offering a depth of expertise in holding creative processes and supporting personal and collective inquiry with care and compassion.
Mary Abrams - www.movingbodyresource.com
Mary brings passion, skill, and an inquisitive spirit to her work with clients, group classes, and workshops and is founder/director of Moving Body Resources in New York City. Mary recently launched a 6-module program The Odyssey of Embodied Spiritual Learning; and teaches on the Continuum Teacher Training at the Somatic Academy of Berlin (Germany). From 2007-2020 Mary taught and was USA course leader on the Masters in Dance & Somatic Well-being course at the University of Central Lancashire (UK) and in the NYC.
She comes from a lifelong dance background and 20 years of Continuum with Emilie Conrad and Susan Harper, and ongoing work with epistemologist Gary David, Ph.D.
Penny Collinson - www.pennycollinson.com
Penny is a movement artist and registered Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist in private therapeutic, community and educational settings. Penny also works extensively with professional movement practitioners, therapists and teachers as a collaborator, mentor, consultant and supervisor, and has recently co-created the Community Interest Company, Shoreline Health in Motion, CIC, which will collaboratively create dance for health initiatives in and around Morecambe Bay. Penny has studied with Linda Hartley (IBMT), and Miranda Tufnell for over 20 years.
Her publications on the application of somatic practice in health and wellbeing contexts can be found at https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2869-7132
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