What we’ll be doing

Throughout the day, you will be guided through a series of structured yet open-ended practices:

• • Movement as dialogue

Improvised and free movement is the core of our work. We do not share language with plants — we share presence, receptivity, and subtle embodied attention. Movement allows us to drop out of human noise and listen with the body.

• • Sensory tuning

Exercises using touch, smell, taste, and listening help you step out of cognitive dominance and tune into the plant world through your bodily sensations.

• • Meeting plants directly

We will meet one individual plant at a time as a group, engaging through a variety of doorways such as blindfolded encounters, sensory tea tasting, smudging, touching, drawing, or other creative practices. The specific exercises will depend on the plant chosen. This unhurried, attentive approach allows the plant to communicate through sensation, gesture, and bodily awareness.

• • Choosing and meeting plants in the local park

You will also be invited to wander in the local park and follow the plants that call to you. Spending time with them outdoors, you will notice how your body receives their presence.

• • Group plant meetings

We will meet 3–4 plants collectively, allowing the group’s attention to amplify what is perceived. Observing differences between each plant deepens both individual and collective experience.

• • Embodied expression

What is received can be expressed through gentle movement, gesture, stillness, poetic words, or drawing — making invisible communication visible without the need to interpret or rationalise. There is no pressure to “see” or “feel” anything in a particular way.

• • Seasonal attunement

Working consciously with the spring equinox, we will attune to themes of emergence, renewal, vitality, and balance, reflecting the energy of the season as plants push upward and outward.

The plants we will work with

The specific plants we work with will be chosen closer to the time, in response to what is actually growing, calling, and present. Names will often remain hidden until the end to prevent preconceived notions from overriding direct perception.

All plants are non-toxic, non-psychedelic, and commonly found growing in the UK. The emphasis is on building relationships with plants as collaborators and equals, not objects of study. 

What you might gain

Participants often leave with:

• • A deepened capacity for sensory awareness and presence
  • Greater trust in bodily intuition
  • A felt understanding of plants as relational beings rather than resources
  • The ability to develop ongoing relationships with certain plants as guides
  • A softened, more porous sense of self in relation to the land
  • Renewed energy and clarity aligned with the rhythms of spring
  • A fresh perspective on human assumptions of dominance — a chance to feel relief in letting them go

This work does not promise transcendence. It offers attention. And attention, practised well, changes how you live.

Who this is for

This workshop is for you if:

• • You are curious about plant connection beyond books or intellectual knowledge
  • You want to develop intuition through movement and embodied awareness
  • You are tired of human-centred spirituality and want something more honest
  • You work with plants, movement, land, healing, or art and want to deepen your practice
  • You are willing to slow down, feel awkward, and embrace uncertainty
  • You are drawn to spring as a time of fragile emergence, not forced positivity
  • No previous experience is required — only a willingness to listen and meet plants directly and honestly.