Sitting Buddha, Dancing Buddha
This retreat weaves the ancient wisdom of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness with conscious movement and embodied presence. We’ll explore how the profound stillness of sitting practice illuminates our capacity for embodied awakening, and how movement becomes meditation in motion—the body becoming our teacher, revealing the interconnectedness of breath, awareness, and presence. Listening deeply to our bodies allows awareness to expand in new, surprising, and liberated ways, awakening understanding and expression beyond habit.
Each day includes sitting and walking meditation, mindful movement, heart dialogue, silence, and outdoor practice—a complete immersion in embodied wholeness, cultivating integrated presence in both movement and stillness.
Cost:
Standard fees: €395
Subsidised fees: €335
Professional fees (Paid by a company): €445
(If your financial situation does not allow you to pay the standard fees, please feel free to pay lower fee)
Refund Policy:
Up to 14 days before the start of the event: refund -50%
Less than 14 days before the start of the event; no refund
If we cancel the event, you will receive a full refund.
Language: English
About the Teachers
Martin Aylward
Moulin resident and founding teacher Martin Aylward began dharma practice and study aged 19, spending several years in Asian monasteries and with Himalayan hermits. Teaching worldwide since 1999, Martin co-founded the Mindfulness Training Institute and the online dharma community Sangha Live. He is married with two adult children. Living full time at the Moulin with his wife Gail, Martin integrates dharma into daily life with programs like Work Sex Money Dharma. His latest book is Awake Where You Are (2021)
Jo Hardy
Jo Hardy is an international conscious dance facilitator, somatic psychotherapist, and transformational coach with over 25 years experience. Trained in 5Rhythms, Movement Medicine, Open Floor and Amerta Movement in Java, she integrates conscious dance with trauma-informed somatic practices. A former senior trainer at Karuna Institute and psychotherapist for 20 years, Jo offers embodiment facilitation training and leads transformational intensive workshops internationally
Member
Jo HardyEvent MemberI have worked with hundreds of wonderful people over the years as a psychotherapist, coach, mentor, supervisor, trainer, conscious dance teacher and group facilitator. Exploring what truly facilitates lasting transformation is my passion and has led me to study many perspectives, philosophies and modalities of transformational work. Having trained extensively in Contemplative Psychotherapy and Body Psychotherapy (Core Process Psychotherapy at the The Karuna Institute), (Biosynthesis Body Psychotherapy and Chiron, UK) my approach is integrative, phenomenological, process oriented, body based, rooted in mindfulness and informed by gestalt, archetypal psychology and dream work, embodied movement alongside Buddhist and Sufi spiritual practice and contemporary paths of awakening. From 1990 I held a private psychotherapy practice for 20 years and was a senior trainer on an MA program in Contemplative Psychotherapy for 12 years (Core Process Psychotherapy at the The Karuna Institute). Since 2009 I have been faculty, coach, mentor and supervisor for the The School of Movement Medicine + offering mentoring, coaching and professional supervision. Approaches I have studied to some depth – Voice Movement Therapy, Transpersonal Supervision, Facilitation for Leaders (CFOR (Process Work). I have explored and taught conscious dance and embodied movement since 2002 teaching workshops in many places, with a focus on regular programs in China (until covid). I am a 5 Rhythm teacher (Waves and Heartbeat Level), an Open Floor Teacher and TIM practitioner (Open Floor International), Movement Medicine teacher and facilitator The School of Movement Medicine. I love each of the practices and have also deeply inspired and influenced by many years of studying with Suprapto Suryodarmo (Prapto, Amerta Movement) Through engagement in the Transition Town movement (Transition Network) I have offered Joanna Macy’s Work That Reconnects, Personal Resilience training, Conflict Fundamentals, facilitation skills to support groups to effectively self-organise and co-facilitated several International Transition Network conferences. I have had the privilege of being a working member of ICMTA and Open Floor allowing me to gain experience in Dynamic Governance and enjoy working with amazing colleagues. As I gather years on planet earth what matters to me most is the joy and profound healing of movement and dance, the blessings of holding space, collaborations and connection with super amazing colleagues, playing great music for folks to dance to, the endless number of things to learn and be curious about, walking with my dog and specifically at present the potential of movement practice to profoundly enhance the skills of psychotherapists and coaches in the dance of presence, embodiment and relatedness.
