Women's space

Move to live cello while it plays for you... A semi-structured exploration of improvised music/sound, and dance/movement.

Release your thoughts, drop into your senses, and let your body lead.

Join us to explore:  • curiosity about sound and movement • focusing on listening • self-attunement - how does the music make you feel? 

• Facilitator: Bela Emerson
• Location: Women's space
• Suitability: 
• When: tbc

Think on your feet, be present in the moment, collaborate with others.

You don't need to be an actor or an extrovert, and you certainly don't need to be funny. 

It's about listening, connecting and cooperating.

Learn simple exercises and games that will build on skills you already have.  

• Facilitator: Belski
• Location: Women's space
• Suitability: 
• When: tbc

A beginners' introduction to comedy writing. Learn how to write short-form material, using simple structures and examples.

Experience the pleasure and enjoyment of being fully present, as you engage with the prompt in hand.

Many people find that the creative process helps them to re-connect with themselves. 

• Facilitator: Belski
• Location: Women's space
• Suitability: 
• When: tbc

Join Brighton Cuddle Space's cuddle therapist Bela for a soft exploration of heart-led platonic intimacy via touch structures (eg: group spooning).

Integral to the session is practising compassionate communication techniques for consent and boundary-setting.

Everything is in choice, with no expectation for you to do anything you don't want to (including touch). 

• Facilitator: Bela Emerson
• Location: Women's space
• Suitability: 
• When: tbc

Let's create love and light in music together.

Music making is for everyone, so come and share instruments, and vibe, sit, dance, move, lie down, float away....whatever you're feeling.

Bring mat/blanket/pillow/ instruments if you have, but we provide many: Hand pan, tongue drum, kalimba, berimbau, shruti box, darbuka, daf, singing bowl, guitar and various other cymbals, shakers, drums, and gentle percussion. 

• Facilitator: Sophie Fishwick
• Location: Women's space
• Suitability: 
• When: tbc

This workshop will be an introduction to this ancient Chinese art which is known to support health, relaxation, resilience, and sacred connection to the Earth.

Working with body alignment and grounding energy, we'll be focusing on releasing blocked Chi by relaxing the body from head to toe, using preparation exercises, Tai Ji Standing, and a full body guided relaxation meditation.

We'll complete the session with some Qi Gong , and an exercise in gratitude, connecting the 3 Heavenly circles: Earth, Sky and all living things. 

• Facilitator: Sophie Fishwick
• Location: Women's space
• Suitability: 
• When: tbc

What becomes possible in the expression of our desires when we feel truly held by ourselves and each other? 

Through slow guided practice, and optional partner play, we'll explore how our kinky desires and personal power can become pathways to authentic pleasure Wild & Held centres queer experience, honours diverse desires, and celebrates the many ways we access pleasure, agency, and connection. 

• Facilitator: Abi Denyer - Bewick
• Location: Women's space
• Suitability: 
• When: tbc

What does it mean to live in right relationship with all of life?

Through embodied ritual practice we can return to the natural rhythm of expansion and contraction Rooted in queer ways of knowing, Wild Belonging honours fluidity, and the wisdom of transformation. 

Come as you are, and leave a little more deeply woven into the wider web of belonging. 

• Facilitator: Abi Denyer - Bewick
• Location: Women's space
• Suitability: 
• When: tbc