Being A Body is a series of intentional offerings inspired by seasonal shifting - and designed to meet both the people who fill the room, as well as the broader context of our collective experience.
Through various movement classes and creative exercises, participants are invited into deeper intimacy with themselves, with each other, and with the fabric of the surrounding landscape. We are interested in play, connection, physicality, and rest - and how each season mentors our minds and bodies, and stewards the way we see, think, and move. Your facilitators, Madeleine Leonard-Rose, Sayer Mansfield, and Charlotte Stickles, uphold an opt in / opt out structure, allowing participants to take space as they need throughout the weekend. Come for ecosomatic and dance-inspired practice, creative activities, access to sauna and cold plunging, and lots of space to wander, explore, rest, and settle - however you feel moved to do so.
What People Are Saying
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"When I look back on the last decade, there are a few experiences that punctuate, shine bright line planets in a starry sky. This retreat is one of them. To exist in community, in nature, in summer, in movement, to be cared for so graciously and attentively– is a gift valuable beyond measure. Maddie, Charlotte and Sayer are all so exuberantly gifted– each class was a dance between subtlety and joy, strength and softness. Thank you for caring for us, for sharing yourselves, your gifts, your energy, your presence with us. My cells feel subtly shifted. They are shaking and dancing with a little more ease."
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"Thank you, thank you thank you. For organizing and making a thing happen, but also for listening, allowing emergence, inviting, offering, adjusting. It has been a delight to watch how your facilitation creates permission for people and gives them lasting tools for healing, embodiment, and joy."
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"Truly loved every moment of this retreat -thank you! Incredibly eye opening, profound, silly, playful, deep and AWESOME."
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"You cultivated the most exquisite, beautiful group of people, then subtly shaped that group into something larger than itself, and greater than the sum of its parts, as evidenced by the felt forest - we were so united, curious, compassionate, and alive together in that moment. And then the final song. Get out. Embodiment of love. The food was incredible- really. The care + love you put into every offering was palpable, edible, and felt."