dance with me
monthly classes in Glasgow and online, workshops, and retreats at Dhanakosa
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Read about what to bring and what to expect from the class.
Safer Space Statement
It’s important to me that the dance spaces I hold are welcoming and safe enough for everyone who comes. I’ve created this statement to be clear about what I offer and what I ask of people dancing in my classes, workshops and retreats.
Dance together in Glasgow: monthly Saturdays
I hold a monthly Open Floor session in Glasgow on a Saturday - the 4th Saturday of each month. It’s a warm and friendly group of folk with mixed experience of movement and conscious dance practice. There are chairs to sit and move on during the session, so please feel welcome whatever your energy levels or mobility.
Dates 2024: 28 Dec.
Dates 2025: 25 Jan, 22 Feb, 22 Mar, 26 Apr, 24 May, 28 Jun (in 2025 the time and venue will change to 2.30-4.30pm at Yama Studios)
Time: 6.00pm-7.30pm
Venue: Top floor studio, 72 Berkeley Street, G3 7DS (press buzzer marked STMTS). The front access has steps, there is ramp access to the rear of building and a lift, let me know in advance if you’d prefer the ramp access so I can make sure the rear door is open.
Cost: Sliding scale - £8/£10/£12 - please choose what is right for your financial situation. Payment is by BACS, details in booking confirmation email.
Booking: To book your place click here - (online bookings open one month before class date)
To receive reminders a week before each class you can subscribe to my email news and choose Glasgow sessions.
Meditation Circle: online monthly Sunday mornings
Join me online for a simple and spacious session of dance and meditation to start your Sunday. We’ll begin with moving, then meditate, move again and close with meditation. No previous experience of meditation is necessary, only a willingness and curiosity to explore your experience in movement and stillness.
Dates 2024: 22 Dec.
Dates 2025: 26 Jan, 23 Feb, 23 Mar, 27 Apr, 25 May.
Time: 9.00-10.00am UK GMT / 10.00-11.00am CET
Music will be on from 10 minutes before the hour and there’s optional time to stay on and talk at the end.
Cost: Sliding scale - £5/£8/£10 - please choose what is right for your financial situation. Payment is by BACS, details in reminder email.
No need to book, register here to receive a reminder email and the Zoom link a few days before each session.
Beyond Polarities, 8 March 2025, Glasgow
In this experiential workshop with my teacher Deborah Lewin, we will explore the concept of polarities—the opposing forces that shape our lives—and how we can transcend (integrate) them through embodied movement.
Participants will learn to recognise how these dualities (such as mind/body, action/rest, masculine/feminine energies) manifest in the body and affect their physical and emotional well-being. Through a combination of mindful movement, breathwork, and reflective practices, this workshop offers a pathway to finding balance, integration, and flow beyond the limitations of either/or thinking.
Date: Saturday 8 March
Time: 10.30am - 5.30pm
Venue: Fairfield Hall, Pearce Institute, Glasgow G51 3UU
Cost: Early bird price £65, until 26 January. £90 from 27 January. £30 deposit secures your place. Two subsidised places available, contact me to apply.
More information on Deborah’s website here - and book your place here.
Heartful Movement, 8 June 2025, Inverness
A day of Open Floor movement and meditation - to meet and know the heart qualities of metta (loving-kindness) in your body and your dance, learning how you can deeply resource yourself through both meditation and movement to embody and cultivate metta in your life.
No experience of dance or movement is required, only a willingness to explore your experience of movement in the body you are living in.
Date: Sunday 8 June
Time: 10.30am - 4.30pm
Venue: Highlands Buddhist Centre, 62 Academy Street, Inverness IV1 1LP
Cost and bookings: TBC - email me to register interest
Day Workshop, 21 September 2025, London
A day-long workshop collaboration with Open Floor colleague Jane Belshaw - theme and more info to follow.
Date: Sunday 21 September
Time: TBC
Venue: Poplar Union, 2 Cotall Street, London E14 6TL
Cost and bookings: TBC - email me to register interest
Retreats at Dhanakosa
Dances of the Heart, 13-20 June 2025
This retreat takes an embodied approach to the traditional Buddhist practice of the Brahma Viharas – the cultivation of loving kindness, compassion, joyful resonance and equanimity. The invitation is to step into this mandala of the heart - to meet and know these qualities in our bodies and in our dance. We’ll be learning how we can deeply resource ourselves through meditation and movement to embody and cultivate these qualities in our lives. A Going Deeper retreat, suitable for people who have been on retreat before and have a regular meditation practice. Book here.
Wild swimming, embodied movement and meditation, 11-18 July 2025
This retreat will take a playful approach to reconnecting with the body through the elemental experience of water and weaving the resources of the Open Floor curriculum through meditation and movement. An introductory retreat, open to everyone. Book here.
Autumn rain on still waters: contemplating the five skandhas, 3-10 October 2025
The five skandhas are a description of human experience often evoked in both early and later Buddhism to point to the nature of reality through reflection. This retreat takes an integrated and holistic approach to this traditional model, through meditation, nature awareness practice and movement, exploring the nature of our bodies, minds and hearts. This is a Triratna regulars retreat, for people currently practicing within the Triratna Buddhist Community. Book here.
For more Dhanakosa retreats see the full calendar here.
On request
Interested in requesting or organising a workshop or retreat in your local area? Get in touch to find out more.
Available themes include:
Surrender - Workshop inviting release into movement and stillness, yielding and surrendering through dance and deep rest.
Alchemical Body - Workshop exploring the alchemy of movement - possibilities, change, transmutation - your unfolding dance.
Courage - Workshop to express and embody the shapes of courage for you.
Elemental Body - Retreat offering movement, meditation and Buddhist teaching around the elements of earth, fire, air, water and space.
Dances of the Heart - Retreat exploring the Buddhist heart qualities of love, compassion, joy and equanimity through movement and meditation.
