United Kingdom Medicine Dance Immersions

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Pack your bags for a major field trip through the  magical lands of England, Scotland, and this year for the first time, Ireland. 

This year we will be presenting sessions in Edinburgh, the Universal Hall in Findhorn, the Big Shed at Loch Tay, Bolton Village Hall in Northumberland, Hebden Bridge Sanctuary in Hebden Bridge, Sambogaya Retreat Center in Glastonbury, the Scout Hut in Bristol, and Goddess-willing, a to-be-determined hall in Southwest Ireland.

During these one, two, three, four and six-day Immersions in the UK, we work with particular themes (to be announced), and:

  • Inner-directed self guided fluid movement through the Body supported by Thought and Feeling and Sensation, Word and Witness and Music
  • Silence and Stillness and Sound
  • Spontaneous Ceremony, Ground and extraordinary Breath
  • Mindful touch with more and less contact with partners, always optional based on your level of comfort, sense of safety and desire

Colleen and Fred’s relationship to the United Kingdom began at the beginning of this century, when Jane Virginia, on a month’s long visit to see her daughter and two sons in Southern California, landed in a Medicine Dance session in Santa Monica. For the next ninety days, Jane engaged in everything Medicine Dance. By the time she was ready to return to her small rural village in Northumberland, England, she expressed desire to share the work with an existing group of her women friends. They had been regularly studying Qi Gong and Matriarchal Studies together. Fast forward to 2008 when Colleen asked Jane if her chums would like to immerse themselves in a 5-day version of the work.

The warm worn timbers of Bolton Village Hall have been home base for our yearly sojourn to the UK for the past 15 years, and it now hosts the flagship 6-day program scheduled around Beltaine, an ancient celebration of fire, fertility, and rebirth.

The Settings

Universal Hall, Findhorn, Scotland

The Big Shed, on Loch Tay, Scotland

Bolton Village Hall, Northumberland, England

Hebden Bridge Sanctuary, Hebden Bridge, England

Sambogaya Retreat Center, Glastonbury, England

Scout Hut 6388, Bristol, England

Details

Dates and Times for UK Tour 2025

Upcoming

Edinburgh, Scotland
with Scott Young
April 19, 2025

Universal Hall, Findhorn, Scotland
with Audicia Lynne and Derek Morley 
April 24-27, 2025

Big Shed at Loch Tay, Scotland
with Scott Young and Blanche Mulholland 
May 1-4, 2025

Bolton Village Hall, Northumberland, England
with Jane Virginia
May 10-15, 2025

Hebden Bridge Sanctuary, Hebden Bridge, England
with Blanche Mulholland and Francis Michael Eliot
May 23-25, 2025

Sambogaya, Glasonbury, England
with Blanche Mulholland and Francis Michael Eliot
May 30-1, 2025

Scout Hut, Bristol, England
with Leeza Jessie
June 4, 2025

Ireland
with Leeza Jessie  
June 7-9, 2025

Previous

Letting go of this – Moving into that
The Scout Hut, Bristol, England
in-person
10 April, 2024, 10am-5pm
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Finding Ground
Sambogaya, Glastonbury

in-person
12 April 7pm – 14 April 6pm, 2024
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Medicine Dance
Hebden Bridge
in-person
19 April – 20 April, 2024
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Time
Bolton Village Hall, Northumberland, England

in-person
27 April – 2 May, 2024
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Elemental: Restoring Essential Nature
Universal Hall, Findhorn, Scotland
in-person
10 May – 12 May, 2024
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Refuge Through Movement
Traquair Village Hall, Inverness, Scotland
in-person
17 May – 19 May, 2024
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Check the Medicine Dance Calendar to view the upcoming UK Immersion. Generally, this Immersion falls in May of each year. We have held 7 annual immersions to date.

Location

Bolton Hall
Alnwick, Northumberland, UK

My heart is leaping Northward in such happy anticipation of the Dance in beautiful Northumberland, land of my ancestors. This 5-day event has become my most important renewal point of the year: a place where my body can deeply relax, be itself, express its beauty and its passion, be in stillness and to top it all, be fully witnessed and admired!
Clare G.
The reverberations within me of our work are immense. I came with no expectations and have left speechless. And all I want to do is dance. Thank you dear friends, thank you for more then words can express…it has been an absolute pleasure to have had the opportunity to meet you both
Leeza J.
It was extraordinary, an overused adjective I know, but the three days for me were extraordinary.

So much I could report, describe, define but the words would only point to what I experienced. At times hard, easy, ecstatic, boring and…….

Thank you for your honesty, skill, compassion and humour.

And of course the beautiful energy, commitment and plain gotta dance of all the other bodies, minds & spirits in the room.

Gordon S.
Each experience I have undergone through this magic of your Dance has brought a deeper connection and awareness of the I-Thou relationship which is, I feel, the only authentic means of real communication between Beings. Words cannot possibly enhance or describe an experience that has to be undertaken by individuals which, ultimately, ends with the collective “Ahhhh!” I wish I could dance with [Fred] and Colleen every week. So, until next [year]…Thank you, so very much.
Margaret D.