The next step in your embodiment education
A foundation in the most up to date approaches to embodiment and mindful movement, our Ground Floor Lab is an intensive, experiential, 30 hour introduction to the Open Floor curriculum. You’ll come away with an understanding of the core teachings and practical skills to use them in your movement practice, your everyday life, workplace and communities.
Our Ground Floor Labs attract people from a wide range of professional backgrounds interested in expanding their skills and knowledge of using the body in movement as a resource for both personal and professional applications.
Benefits
Bring the Benefits of Open Floor Movement Practice Into Your Life, Your Work, and Your Community.
Open Floor movement practice has the power to:
• improve physical and emotional health
• reduce isolation and loneliness by increasing a sense of belonging
• build new, more resilient neural pathways in the face of perceived differences and conflict
• slow cognitive decline
• mitigate the deleterious effects of our increasingly sedentary lifestyles
• reduce the effects of trauma
The time is now. Will you join the movement revolution?
Curriculum Highlights
• The key concepts and foundational principles of Open Floor movement practice.
• An experiential session dedicated to each of ten Open Floor Movement Resources,
• A taste of how we move on the Open Floor through the Four Dimensions of Embodiment and the Four Relational Hungers.
• An overview of the philosophy and core values that inform the Open Floor teachings.
Each movement session includes a look ‘behind the scenes’ from a professional perspective for an understanding of the intention, structure and purpose of each experience.
Who is it for?
All Open Floor content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY-SA 4.0). This means you can put what you have learned into immediate good use in your personal and professional environments once you have completed the Lab.
This training is particularly suited to:
• Dedicated, long-term movers interested in knowing more about Open Floor movement practice and how it works. It is also a part of our ongoing training curriculum and serves as a prerequisite in any future training offered through Open Floor International.
• Professionals of any field who want to bring embodiment into their work and communities, including:
1. Coaches, trainers, or teachers of an embodiment, movement, or dance meditation practice looking for inspiration and new skills
2. Professionals in social care, health care, mind-body therapies, education, and emergency services, who want to integrate embodiment and mindful movement into their work
3. Mental health professionals who already work with an embodied approach, or want to do so
Open Floor practice can support professionals in the corporate sector to be in their authority, authenticity, and integrity in an embodied, considerate, and empathic way to improve efficiency, understanding, and productivity in teamwork and leadership.
This program is taught in English.
Schedule :
Day 1: Tuesday February 17
Arrival and registration: 17:00-19:00
Dinner and Opening session: 19:00
Day 2: Wednesday February 18
2 sessions: 10:00-13:00 & 16:00-19:00
Day 3: Thursday February 19
2 sessions: 10:00-13:00 & 16:00-19:00
Day 4: Friday February 20
2 sessions: 10:00-13:00 & 16:00-19:00
Day 5: Saturday February 21
2 sessions: 10:00-13:00 & 16:00-19:00
Day 6: Sunday February 22
1 session: 10:00-12:30 & closing session: 14:30-16:00
This is a residential program. Evening session(s) might be added.
Cost
The pricing structure of the Ground Floor Lab aligns with Open Floor's value of inclusivity. There are differences among our participants geographically, in social status, and privilege. We offer more flexible and inclusive price options to embody economic justice. Together we can make this programme accessible and inclusive! The costs will cover the fees for two trainers and a crew of assistants and general costs for promotion and material. And it will be supporting the Open Floor International non-profit organization.
1250 EUR: normal rate 1600 EUR: generosity rate 1070 EUR: subsidised rate
Please choose the rate which feels fair for you. The rate includes the costs for accommodation and food full board in shared rooms (single room + 170 EUR) See below for more information.
Registration process
- Complete the application form.
- You will receive a copy of your registration immediately and within two weeks an email if you are accepted with the payment details.
- After your acceptance and when the payment is done, your registration will be confirmed by email.
Subscription information
Standard rate: 1250 EUR. Generosity rate: 1600 EUR. Discounted rate: 1070 EUR. Cost includes full-board accommodation (100% organic & vegetarian) in 4-bedded room. There is a 10% discount on the course fee for payments received before 17/10/25. Single, double or twin room: + 170 EUR. (Double or twin room is only possible if you have a person to share the room with, we need the name of the second person when you book the room.)Planned sessions (6)
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Session 1: Tuesday 17 February 2026 - Orval - Bois-le-Comte
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Session 2: Wednesday 18 February 2026 - Orval - Bois-le-Comte
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Session 3: Thursday 19 February 2026 - Orval - Bois-le-Comte
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Session 4: Friday 20 February 2026 - Orval - Bois-le-Comte
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Session 5: Saturday 21 February 2026 - Orval - Bois-le-Comte
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Session 6: Sunday 22 February 2026 - Orval - Bois-le-Comte
