Group Offerings
Programmes, retreats and collaborations.
Retreat
Enriching Focusing through Yoga and Conscious Breath
A residential retreat with Kay Hoffmann and Kathryn Davies
The Purley Chase Centre, September 19-22, 2025
‘The body in its infinite wisdom knows its way back to wholeness’
Eugene Gendlin
This residential event is open to anyone wishing to explore movement and conscious breathing together with Whole bodied focusing. Throughout the retreat we will weave back and forth between these three practices. Each full day will include three movement sessions and two focusing exchanges. Our aim is to provide a framework to support deep rest, nourishment and physical, mental and emotional unfurling. We will delve into the following areas together:
• Using movement and breath to support and enhance the focusing process
• Letting the innate intelligence of the ‘whole body’ guide our focusing
• Taking time and space to fully immerse in our own direct embodied experience
• Leaving space for silence and rest in our focusing exchanges
• Opening to a deeper felt connection between focuser and listener
• Exploring how being in nature can expand our inner process
• Incorporating focusing as a way of being in everyday life
The programme will include focusing in pairs or triads (prior experience of this is needed) and free time for walks or naps after lunch on Saturday and Sunday.
I am offering reduced rate sessions in Whole Body Focusing for anyone who has no expereince of this and would like to attend the retreat. Please do contact for more details
Practical details
Venue: The Purley Chase Centre, near Mancetter, Warwickshire (nearest train station Atherstone; nearest airport Birmingham International). Address and directions here: https://www.purleychasecentre.org.uk/directions
Times: The event will commence with dinner at 6.30pm on Friday (arrivals from 4pm) and end after lunch on Monday (lunch at 1pm, departures around 2pm)
Costs: Retreat fee: £220 / early bird fee £200 up to March 31st 2025
Accommodation fee: £297 payable by donation directly to the venue. This figure (£99 per night) is the suggested donation for single ensuite accommodation including all meals and refreshments - you are invited to give what you can afford.
Food: The venue serves excellent vegetarian and non-vegetarian options. Please let me know your preference in advance and any dietary intolerances.
Booking and Payment: To secure your place please check availability with myself and then transfer a non-refundable £40 deposit to Sort code 09-01-28; account no 57 97 53 05.
The £180/£160 balance is due by August 31st.
We will pre-book accommodation for the whole group. You are invited to make your donation to the venue either during or after the event by bank transfer, cheque or cash. Transfer details for your venue donation will be provided nearer the time.
Cancellations: Full balance refunded if we are able to fill your place.
For further details and to book please contact via the contact page.
Listen with the Land - Land in the Body - Anna Murray Preece
From July 2025 I will be assisting Anna Murray Preece on a year long journey through the seasons
Anna shares her words about the retreat….This is an opportunity to explore how you are touched by the turning of the seasons - using movement, meditation and creativity in an embodied dialogue in relationship with nature. The course also emerges from my wish to share these movement practices with others who work therapeutically as I have found them to be so very supportive and transformational in my own therapy practice - both to support myself as well as my clients.
This will be the third time I have taken a group through a year's process of attuning to their relationship with this natural flow of life, both internally and in relation to nature. Giving time and space to be more fully present though each season I have found has opened me to an increasing intimacy, both with myself and the ever changing nature of the seasons. It has helped me to attune to the innate support available from the different elements of nature while honouring their gifts.
There is an early bird discount till 9th April. If you would like to know more please email Anna directly annamurraypreece@gmail.com
More details can be found on annas website https://www.healingfromthesource.co.uk/copy-of-retreats
Weekly and monthly group sessions, workshops
A Call to Being …
Weekly
45 minute Movement, Breath and Meditation
Lets start the day together, dropping into our bodies, heart, deepest nature and discover whats really here. This will include a practice that can used at any moment in the day when you need to drop in and recenter.
Sessions from Wednesday April 23rd 2025, 8.15 am -9.00am GMT
Monthly
Embodied enquiry practice with its roots in the Tantric Shastras. Incorporated are yoga postures, deep relaxation, breath work, enquiry and meditation. We will explore our experience of increasing subtlety : physical including sensations, density, tensions and contractions; energy and breath; feelings and emotions; the intellect, including thoughts; beliefs and images and finally our deepest nature, awareness.
We welcome layers of conditioning, that appear to obscure our peace. Simply through welcoming, space can open, conditioning, and tensions in the body untangle and unwind. We may glimpse directly an embodied knowing that we are not the limited selves that we mistakenly take ourselves to be.
Less bound by these fears and habits we can experience a natural residing into ‘our deepest fulfilled nature’ and expression of this in life.
Next session - Wednesday 30th April 2025 6-7.30pm GMT
‘The discovery that peace, happiness and love are ever-present within our own Being, and completely available at every moment of experience, under all conditions, is the most important discovery that anyone can make.’
Rupert Spira
‘‘What is, right now, is perfection.Presence has not arisen from the past and is not leading to the future. All appears presently as a play in awareness. The apparently separate individual may be involved with self-improvement, spiritual life or anything else throughout the unfolding of that life. Only the clarity of what You really are undermines the search for awakening or for being anything other than what already is’.
Nathan Gill