Are you ready to dive into the depths of your creative potential?
Join us for 5 days of transformative movement in this immersive 5Rhythms dance programme, designed to liberate your body, open your heart, and awaken the creative self within.
✨ Free Your Body – Discover movement as a gateway to unlocking physical freedom and creative flow.
✨ Express Authentically – Dance through self-imposed boundaries and limiting beliefs.
✨ Connect Deeply – Explore the power of community and shared movement.
✨ Awaken Creativity – Tap into limitless inspiration as you discover and recover your innate: poet, musician, artist and more.
✨ Engage the intuitive mind to unlock your spontaneous poet
✨ Unlock inhibitions to release your musician: your voice, your music or your beat
✨ Unleash your artist’s visual expression in colour, shape, texture, working in different dimensions
✨ Give form to your creative blocks as masks, allowing them to be understood, embodied and released.
Just five miles from Glastonbury, on the edge of Compton Dundon village in Somerset, EarthSpirit Centre has won awards as a retreat centre, and as an ethical business.
The centre is situated in a beautiful landscape between two nature reserves; and just two minutes walk from St Andrew’s church, which has within its cemetery a yew tree of 1,800 years old. The seventeenth century farm buildings have been restored and specially converted for use as a venue. They are set within seven acres of fields and gardens.
The complex is based around a converted long barn, with oak timbers, reed torching (lining the inside of the roof) and stone walls. The feeling is medieval, but with modern comforts such as under-floor heating and a large woodstove. The high roof and skylights create a light, airy atmosphere.
For more details see: EarthSpirit Website.
EarthSpirit has a variety of accommodation in different buildings. All is comfortable, warm, and well furnished and maintained.
Options and pricing are as follows:
Standard: included in workshop fee.
(shared accommodation)
Ensuite: +£48
Single rooms:
Standard (single supplt): +£80.00
Ensuite (single supplt): +£128.00
Camping/Campervan: -£44.00
For those familiar with EarthSpirit (or looking on the EarthSpirit website), the standard accommodation is in the Dairy or Barn Dorm, while the ensuite is in Cow-sheds, SkyLights or Cordwood.
Click on a heading for more info and links:
There are direct trains from Bristol, London and the South-West to nearby Castle Cary (from there either lifts or cabs can be arranged), or to Bridgewater from Wales.
National Rail website.
There are also direct buses from Bristol Temple Meads (for example).
There are flights direct to Bristol Airport from many European cities and even farther afield. (And if you have to fly to one of the London airports, Heathrow is only a 2 hour bus ride away – can be quicker, and certainly easier than getting to central London!) Then train or bus from there.
We can usually arrange car shares from Bristol, and sometimes farther afield 🙂
For more travel info see:
EarthSpirit Website > Getting here
Dates: 12 – 16 February, 2025
Times:
Arrival from 6pm Wed.
Departure by 3:30pm Sun.
There will be a Wed evening session – further details t.b.c.
Venue: EarthSpirit Centre, Compton Dundon, nr Glastonbury
Prices: £650 early bird until Jan 8
* incl food & accommodation *
Booking: £100 deposit payable online
Format: 5 day residential
Level: Waves
Workshop:
£650 early bird paid in full by Jan 8
£695 full price thereafter.
5RTA members: 15% discount on tuition element.
(=£56.25 off early bird)
Price includes:
Booking deposit:
£100 secures your place.
Deposit payable online or by bank transfer.
Balance payable by bank transfer or cash.
Please note that deposits on residentials are usually non-refundable.
There are no formal prerequisites for this workshop, but it is suggested that you have attended at least a few drop-in classes with an accredited 5Rhythms Teacher beforehand. Related ecstatic dance practices such as Movement Medicine, Soul Motion and Open Floor are also helpful, as are other practices which bring focus to movement, attention and breath, such as yoga.
5Rhythms is both a very ‘free’ individual practice which offers significant permission – while simultaneously being a group/community practice which calls for consideration and respect for the group process.
“Do you have the discipline to be a free spirit?” – Gabrielle Roth
This is a meditation/embodiment practice which has clear boundaries which need to be honoured if the full potential of this work is to be achieved:
“Learn to enjoy the process of being a creative channel and to surrender your need to control the result.”
– Julia Cameron
This workshop fulfils the requirements for a 4 day Waves Workshop prerequisite (24 Waves hours) for those on the Teaching path – please let us know if this is your intention, so we can ensure that everything is correctly documented, and that you are aware of any specific detailed requirements.
NOTE: If you are looking to complete the 5 day Waves prerequisite, do contact us to pre-register for The Deepening, a popular residential workshop with Bernadette from June 13-17, 2025, also at EarthSpirit Centre – full details and booking will be available soon.
IMAGE CREDITS:
Images are courtesy of EarthSpirit Centre, public domain, or ©In-Rhythm. Details available on request.