Workshops, Courses and Events at Pen Pynfarch Centre in West Wales

Workshops, Courses & Events

2010 Body, Movement, Environment Programme

Leaflet 2010(pdf)

“Penpynfarch is set up to develop a deeper understanding and care for the living body, alongside care for the rhythms and needs of land . Set at the head of a steeply wooded valley, at the end of a road, it’s a unique place to learn and work together, a place where a passionate care for the ecology of our lives infuses everything that happens.” - Miranda Tufnell

September 1st - 4th Moving. Medicine from within.
Continuum Movement workshop with Jane Okondo.
In this moving retreat we will awaken our experience of fluidity and movement within and around us. Through exploring the different fluid systems within our body, we can access a deeper experience of ourselves as movers. The retreat is based in Penfarch, where the loudest sound is the stream and the wind through the trees. We will move from a more outward focus and enter into the soft ripples of movement within our tissue, through the practice of Continuum breath and fluid movement. We learn how the support of ground invigorates our tissue and experience movement at the micro level. As we slow down we become more receptive and can perceive how our body is communicating to us through undulating spirals of sensation and movement that invigorates and nourishes every cell. Having been nourished with our inner exploration we will bring this back into a more expressive movement and experience how moving from a fluid awareness frees both our body and our creativity.

FOR MORE INFO AND TO BOOK e-mail Jane on jane at lovesbody.co.uk

Jane Okondo is an authorised Continuum Movement teacher and cranio-sacral practitioner based in London. She teaches Continuum Movement throughout the UK and has recently completed an MA in Dance and Somatic Wellbeing at the University of Central Lancashire. From 2001-2009 Jane co-ran the InBreath Institute, leading residential programs in somatic wellbeing and transformation. Continuum movement brings together a range of subtle intrinsic movement, and a rich variety of breaths and sounds, to support you in experiencing the unfolding beauty and mystery of the body.
Jane Okondo website

2010 Other Events

Jan 29 - 31, Apr 30 - May 2, July 30 - Aug 1 and Oct 29 - 31
Wild Woman Wise Woman retreats
with Jules Heavens.
The Heroine's Journey...
Working with the turning seasons, a variety of creative processes for self-enquiry, the energies associated with the divine feminine through the year and calling on both old and contemporary rituals to inform us, we remember and reclaim our wild and wise woman. In recent years I have wanted to combine my more contemporary shamanic 'work' with forms from ancient rites or rituals to create and weave personal reflection and development with a connection to nature's changing year.
The energy and time of the Celtic fire festivals allows such an opportunity.
In these one day and weekend workshops we draw on the season to provide a mirror and catalyst for our own inner journey, honouring Mother Nature in the process. The circle invites you to take your heroine's journey of self transformation, walking the feminine path through the turning year. Come and enjoy these fire festival events as a weekend or as a day at the beautiful venue of Penpynfarch near Carmarthen.

First retreat Jan 29th - 31st: Imbolc - Clearing the Way
At Imbolc the invocation is to sweep all that hinders away, working with movement, voice, journey work, and more, we witness and aid each woman in the circle to step forward free from the past.......This is a powerful workshop preparing you to manifest your wishes for the coming year.

Cost for 2 days bed/breakfast/dinner, including workshop £ 95 (Limited to 6 places only residential )
Cost for 1 single day - donation (guideline £15-£35 )
TO BOOK contact Jules, jules at soundweaver.demon.co.uk
Jules Heavens website

“Pen Pynfarch is a tender place to immerse oneself in the forest and farm land of Wales. This fecundity nourishes the senses and helps bring alive a naturally resonant community. It is a place quiet enough for creativity to flourish and in which the movements within the body find reflection in the natural world.”
- Caryn McHose, Resources In Movement, New Hampshire, US

The Lake in December

"Penpynfarch is one of those rare places where improvisors working intensively can delve deeper into their personal journeys and public faces. The work in this safest of environments has ,over the past years been as deep and rich as the landscape that surrounds us. We have danced, laughed, cried, eaten (very well) played sumo on the beach and shouted at the sky
- Adam Benjamin