Move in common: with land and others, human and more-than-human
Sunday 29th June, 10am – 6pm
£55 Early bird until 15th June
£65 Full price
An invitation to move together—with others, human and more-than-human—on land that belongs to no one and to everyone.
Rodborough Common is common land. A place of porous boundaries, shaped not by ownership but by centuries of shared use—grazing animals, shifting weather, and the quiet rhythms of plants and soil. It is a threshold where worlds meet and intermingle, where presence is negotiated rather than imposed.
To move here is to enter into relationship. To practise reciprocity rather than dominance. To attune to the more-than-human in all its forms.
In this one-day movement workshop, we will explore commonality not just as an idea, but as an embodied experience. Through gentle, improvised movement with the land, we will:
- Investigate what it means to move with the land, not just on it—where every step is in relation.
- Tune in to the presences of animals, plants, wind, and weather—and allow them to shape how we move.
- Practise attunement and responsiveness through solo, paired, and group explorations.
- Experience movement as dialogue: reciprocal, relational, rooted in the moment.
What changes when we move with others—human and more-than-human—in a spirit of co-existence? What does it mean to share ground, not just with other people, but with the wider living world? What can movement teach us about dialogue when moving together on common land?
Location: Rodborough common and old endowment school, Stroud.
We will move outdoors for most of the day but we will start and close indoors at the old endowment school.
Please note that the workshop will go ahead no matter what the weather. If it rains that is the condition we will be working with. You will be asked to bring waterproof trousers and top, enough warm layers and a change of clothing just in case of bad weather. The same is true if it’s really hot, make sure to bring suncream and hat and appropriate clothing.
What to expect
Expect a gentle, exploratory day of moving and sensing, mostly outdoors, and mostly together. We will start and finish indoors but most of the day will take place outdoors on Rodborough commons.
We will move with the land, not just on it — inviting our bodies to listen to place, to weather, to the quiet company of nonhuman kin. There will be time for solo movement, paired or group explorations, and periods of rest, reflection, and conversation. Movement will be guided, but also open to improvisation, chance, and response.
We will draw on ecological awareness, sensory awareness and intuitive movement to attune to the environment and to one another.
The pace will be slow, spacious, and responsive to the group, the land, and the day itself.
Potential benefits
- Deepened connection with land: Learn to sense and move with the landscape as a living participant, not a passive backdrop.
- Expanded perception: Develop sensitivity to the subtle presences of animals, plants, wind, weather, soil and many other inhabitants of the land.
- Repatterning movement: Let go of habitual, goal-driven ways of moving and experiment with being in motion relationally and responsively.
- Embodying commonality: Experience what it means to share space—not only with other humans, but with the more-than-human world—through your own moving body.
- Ecological attunement: Cultivate practices that support reciprocity, humility, and co-existence on shared land.
- Community and creativity: Engage with others through shared movement, dialogue, and reflection. You may leave with new questions or inspirations.
- Restoration and rewilding: This is also a time to rest into your body, rewild your senses, and remember how to belong—to land, to others, and to something larger than yourself.
Who is it for?
This workshop is for movers, artists, ecologists, and anyone curious about how movement can deepen our relationship with land and others. No previous movement experience is necessary, only a willingness to listen, move, and be moved.
What to bring
Comfortable clothes to move in, waterproof trousers and top, sun hat, suncream, water, lunch, snacks to share.