dance with me
monthly classes in Glasgow and online, workshops, and retreats at Dhanakosa
Coming to an Open Floor class for the first time?
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 2025: 26 Apr, 24 May, 28 Jun, 26 Jul, 23 Aug, 27 Sep, 25 Oct, 22 Nov, 27 Dec.
Time: 2.30-4.30pm
Venue: Yama Studios, 7 Milnbank Street, Glasgow G31 3AQ. The studio is on the first floor, with steps to access.
Cost: Sliding scale - £12/£15/£18 - please choose what is right for your financial situation. Payment is by BACS, details in booking confirmation email. If cost is a barrier to attending, please get in touch.
Booking: To book your place click here - (online bookings open one month before class date)
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Meditation Circle: online monthly Sundays
Join me online for a simple and spacious session of dance and meditation to start your Sunday - the 4th Sunday of each month. 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 2025: 27 Apr, 25 May, Jun (no class), 27 Jul, 24 Aug, 28 Sep, 26 Oct, 23 Nov, 28 Dec.
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. If cost is a barrier to attending, please get in touch.
No need to book, sign up to the monthly Meditation Circle emails to receive a reminder email and the Zoom link a few days before each session.
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: 10.00am - 4.30pm
Venue: Highlands Buddhist Centre, 62 Academy Street, Inverness IV1 1LP
Cost: Offered by donation, suggested donation £40-£60, and you are welcome to give more or less, including no donation if funds are tight for you. Book your place here.
Embracing Change, 18-22 August 2025, Findhorn
Assisting Deborah Lewin's annual summer workshop. Change is inevitable, unpredictable, and often out of our control. The enormity and pace of personal and planetary change can leave us feeling helpless and off-balance. How do we adapt to shifting circumstances without losing our footing? Can we face change from a place of resource?
Discover how to embrace change from a place of emotional and physical equilibrium and strength. We will dance as we learn how to embrace the changes in our lives.
More info and booking on Deborah’s website here.
Day Workshop, 21 September 2025, London
Co-teaching a day workshop with Open Floor colleague Jane Belshaw, themed around the heart and loving-kindness meditation practice.
Date: Sunday 21 September
Time: TBC
Venue: Poplar Union, 2 Cotall Street, London E14 6TL
Cost and bookings: TBC - email me to register interest
Bare Bones Workshop, 12-14 December 2025, London
Assisting Audrey Boss and Jane Belshaw. This workshop is an invitation to visit or revisit the building blocks of Open Floor Movement Practice. An opportunity for you to re-member yourself - from the inside out. As we build awareness through the moving body, we can move more freely and expressively and expand our movement vocabularies beyond what we think we already know. Join us to place our extraordinary bodies centre stage and fully inhabit life.
Date: Friday-Sunday 12-14 December
Time: 10am-5pm
Venue: Poplar Union, 2 Cotall Street, London E14 6TL
Cost and bookings: Registration opens 15 April - 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.
