GRAVITY & GRACE
an International Open Floor retreat
a somatic, emotional and cognitive
learning experience
Aluenda, Spain
June 10-14, 2026
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This is a retreat that puts the body at the foreground of living in the world.
It may be perfect for you if you want…
to rest, reset and remember that your body is your home.
to learn more about the Open Floor curriculum contributions.
To add more movement and dance in your life.
to help you navigate life’s challenges and joys thru a body-based practice.
to have time away from everyday pressures in a beautiful environment.

about the retreat
Life invites us to hold paradox — to be grounded and spacious, soft and strong, tender and resilient.

Join us for an immersive Open Floor retreat where we explore the dynamic interplay between gravity and grace—the grounding force that anchors us and the uplifting energy that frees us.
Through guided movement inquiries, we’ll invite the body into presence, dancing with what holds us back and what propels us forward.
This exploration will give you tools to meet life with more resilience and openness, finding balance in how we can be a solid presence for ourselves and others and surrender to the beauty of grace.
Whether you come feeling heavy or light, curious or cautious, this is a place where your movement is welcome — where your dance and presence is always enough. It is a space of breath, to pause, to cradle with tenderness all the fragments that make us whole.
All bodies, all stories, all rhythms welcome. No previous dance experience necessary.

“Gravity and Grace” is a term that is often used to describe a duality of opposing forces. While gravity roots us to the earth, giving us weight and solidity, grace lifts us up, freeing us to connect with something larger – be it spirit, nature, or community. Where gravity provides stability, grace brings flow and fluidity. Where gravity anchors the body, grace invites freedom of movement.
In essence, “Gravity and Grace” explores seemingly opposing forces; the struggles and joys of the earthy human condition with the melting and dissolving into a divine-like grace, a natural surrendering into something more profound.
“Grace is the elegance of the soul in Motion”
Anonymous

for those who
would like a welcoming space to explore the body’s innate wisdom, cultivating presence, creativity, and connection.
Dedicated Movers
Individuals who are committed to ongoing movement practice and want to deepen their understanding of Open Floor principles.
Professionals
People in fields like coaching, social care, healthcare, and education who want to incorporate embodiment and mindfulness into their work.
Mental Health Professionals
Those who work with embodied approaches or want to integrate them into their practice.
Anyone seeking mindful movement
Individuals looking to explore their bodies, emotions, and connection with others through movement and mindfulness.
why join?
This is a retreat that puts the body at the foreground of living in the world.
It may be perfect for you if you want…
-
to rest, reset and remember that your body is your home.
-
to learn more about the Open Floor curriculum contributions.
-
to add more movement and dance in your life.
-
to help you navigate life’s challenges and joys thru a body-based practice.
-
to have time away from everyday pressures in a beautiful environment.
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to celebrate life in movement.
“I’m not so much interested in how they move,
but rather in what moves them.”
Pina Bausch

about Open Floor
Open Floor International is a global organization that inspires people to move.
What is Open Floor?
Open Floor is a conscious movement practice that offers a series of resources that allows us to connect, explore and express ourselves freely and authentically through dance, music and mindfulness. This practice offers tools to support ourselves and contribute meaningfully to others and our communities.
This practice integrates all dimensions of our being—mind, body, emotions, and soul—by connecting breath, movement, and present-moment awareness. It nurtures our need for expression, enhances our presence, awakens creativity, and fulfils our relational and belonging needs, allowing us to fully engage and flow with life.
The Open Floor core curriculum offers us tools to navigate everyday life through embodied awareness – embedding in the body experiences of fluidity and fixedness, expansion and contraction, stillness and action, presence and absence, moving towards what we wish for or away from what does not serve… and much more. During the retreat we will share the core foundations of the Open Floor movement curriculum.
Core Movement Resources – CMR
- Center
- Ground
- Activate & Settle
- Expand & Contract
- Towards & Away
- Spatial Awareness
- Release
- Dissolve
- Vector
- Pause
The Core Movement Resources (CMR) offer a flexible framework to enhance wellbeing on and off the dance floor. In the dance we use these to expand our range of movement, explore our patterns, increase spontaneity, creativity and relational capacity – embedding new neural pathways through movement.
There is a direct relationship to movement and our ability to adapt to the environment. As we expand our ‘movement vocabulary’ we enhance our resources to adapt to life with flexibility, resilience and ease.
“Dance is the hidden language
of the soul.”
Martha Graham

Kinesis Collective, a team of three Open Floor teachers united by our shared passion for movement as a path to self-development and awareness.

What is Kinesis Collective?
Rooted in the Greek word kinesis — meaning motion — our name reflects the dynamic energy, connection, and transformation that arise when bodies, emotions, and life rhythms meet.
As a collective, we bring together our experience and creativity to offer spaces where growth unfolds through the power of movement, collaboration, and embodied presence.

Sevanti Jo Attwood
I have taught dance, yoga, massage and healing since 1998. With a dance degree at Laban, and 25 yrs of somatic movement inc Open Floor, I lead global retreats, events & professional trainings.
I’m passionate about inclusivity, where embodied movement creates an opportunity for joy, self-awareness and profound rest. I enjoy holding sacred spaces, inviting compassionate self-awareness in a grounded, yet spiritually embodied way.
Dance is my innermost passion, since a child it has brought me deep peace and happiness. I love weaving in beautiful music, poetry & ritual to provide a healing space for others to connect and shine.
“Dance is movement, it is action, and like all action, it reveals ourselves in the act.”
Gabrielle Roth

Jorge Xapa
I have had the privilege of accompanying individuals and groups across countries including Mexico, Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, and Spain—guiding them through individual Ontological and Somatic Coaching sessions, as well as facilitating group Expressive Movement workshops rooted in energy centers and the Open Floor Conscious Movement & Mindfulness Practice.
“In my experience embodiment has a unique way to support personal processes in a deep and a subtle way, and with the help of music the sensations and emotions become alive to express what the mind is not capable to articulate.”

Jenny England
My holistic journey began in the 1980s with the practice and teaching of homeopathy and various bodywork modalities.
In my mid-thirties with a young family, I shifted towards music and dance – opening a new path into teaching music through the body and collective and improvised music practices.
I’ve since trained as an Open Floor teacher, and alongside teaching dance, I am completing a doctoral study exploring music and movement for people living with dementia. In addition, I continue to practise homeopathy.
I bring to the floor decades of teaching experience and a love for the beauty of life moving through the body in movement.

about the venue
La Casa Toya… personal growth courses, residential groups, yoga, therapies, ovo-lacto-vegetarian buffet.



Location:
Located in the Vicor Sierra close to the beautiful town of Aluenda, Spain.
With more than 12 years of experience in holding space for personal growth courses, residential groups, yoga, therapies in their exceptional meeting / dance spaces.
Offering to their guests an incredible lodging offerings and an exceptional Ovo-Lacto-Vegetarian buffett.
Choose your lodging option:
- Single 89€— 4 nights for 356€
- Double 83€— 4 nights for 332€
- Triple 65€— 4 nights for 260€
- Quadruple 56€ — 4 nights for 224€
* all meals included in a ovo-lacto- vegetarian buffet. Prices are subject to change without notice.
Details for paying La Casa Toya for food and accommodation will be sent to you once you have reserved your place.

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program is subject to change according to the needs of the group.

program /schedule
Wednesday June 10th, 2026
- Arrive– 14:00 @ 17:00 hrs.
- Rooms allocation / Free time.
- Welcome Dance – 18:00 @ 19:30 hrs.
- Dinner – 19:30 @ 20:30 hrs.
Thursday June 11th, 2026
- Breakfast – 8:30 @ 9:00 hrs.
- Morning Session – 10:00 @ 13:00 hrs.
- Lunch – 13:30 @ 15:00 hrs.
- Afternoon Session – 16:00 @ 19:00 hrs.
- Dinner – 19:30 @ 20:30 hrs.
Friday June 12th, 2026
- Breakfast – 8:30 @ 9:00 hrs.
- Morning Session – 10:00 @ 13:00 hrs.
- Lunch – 13:30 @ 15:00 hrs.
- Afternoon off – massage, thermal, walk, etc.
- Dinner – 19:30 @ 20:30 hrs.
Saturday June 13th, 2026
- Breakfast – 8:30 @ 9:00 hrs.
- Morning Session – 10:00 @ 13:00 hrs.
- Lunch – 13:30 @ 15:00 hrs.
- Afternoon Session – 16:00 @ 19:00 hrs.
- Dinner – 19:30 @ 20:30 hrs.
Sunday June 14th, 2026
- Breakfast – 8:30 @ 9:00 hrs.
- Morning Session – 10:00 @ 13:00 hrs.
- Lunch – 13:30 @ 15:00 hrs.
- Departure





“Be patient with yourself, self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground,
there’s no greater investment.” – Stephen Covey.
Choose your rate:
- Access — 290€ *
- Standard — 400€
- Generosity — 515€
A 100€ deposit require upon booking and balance by April 10th 2026.
For bookings after April 10th 2026 full payment is required.
Open Floor teachers 10% discount of selected rate.
We have some Crew spaces available, please ask.
* only a few spots are available at this price.
Choose your lodging option:
- Single 89€— 4 nights for 356€
- Double 83€— 4 nights for 332€
- Triple 65€— 4 nights for 260€
- Quadruple 56€ — 4 nights for 224€
* all meals included in a ovo-lacto- vegetarian buffet. Prices are subject to change without notice.
Details for paying Casa Toya for food and accommodation will be sent to you once you have reserved your place.
Name
Kinesis Collective
Account Number
46722076
Sort code
23-08-01 (only for UK domestic transfers)
IBAN
GB53 TRWI 2308 0146 7220 76
SWIFT / BIC
TRWIGB2LXXX
Address
Wise Payments Limited,
1st Floor, Worship Square,
65 Clifton Street, London,
EC2A 4JE,
United Kingdom

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frequently asked questions
if you still have a question please contact us.
LANGUAGE - Retreat will be taught in English, some Italian & Spanish
DEPOSIT - I still have to set up things, can make a deposit to pre reserve my place?
EXTRA SUPPORT – I do not have enough money to cover the retreat, is there any support?
DISCOUNTS - Is there a discount for Open Floor Teachers?
For other conscious dance teachers as 5Rhythms, Dance Medicine, etc there is a 5% off the retreat
– Not applicable for lodging or travel expenses.
INSTALLMENTS - Is it possibly to pay in installments ?
Regarding the accomodotation & board is not possible to pay in installments, sorry.
I DONT HAVE PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE - Can i still participate?
For sure!
You just need to be willing to explore and open. All bodies, all stories, all rhythms welcome. No previous dance experience necessary.
I DO HAVE EXPERIENCE - Can i participate if I'm an avid dancer?
We will dig deep into Open Floor’s curriculum, you may find some similarities but maybe you will find many differences as well that maybe you may want to include them in your daily practice.
IS THERE A MAXIMUM NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS?
No, we have plenty of places either in the dance floor and as for accomdation & board.

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