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with Ana Barretxeguren
Sunday 7 September 2025 | Barcombe, Sussex
A four-day retreat for the practice of Moving Fascia, immersed in the ancient rainforest of Bodmin Moor.
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Reconnect with your kinaesthetic sense
Release unnecessary patterns of tension.
Unveil your movement habits and discover how they shape your possibilities for expression
Expand your movement ‘vocabulary’ and restore new movement pattterns
Support natural self-regulation for long-term well-being
Amplify your connection to self, nature, and the environment
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This one-day retreat offers a gateway to explore movement in its purest, most intuitive form while reconnecting with your habits, patterns, and rhythms.
Come as you are and leave with renewed awareness, a deeper sense of embodiment, and a fresh perspective on movement as a way of weaving your own reality.
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Doors open from 9:40am
Arrive and settle into the space at your own pace.
9:40–10:00am – Welcome Infusion
Lemon, ginger, cinnamon & honey, a gently warming drink to support grounding and arrival.
10:00–11:30am – Moving Fascia® Practice led by Ana
A guided movement session exploring relational awareness, proprioception and inner space through fascia-informed practice.
11:30am – Mid-morning break
Cacao date truffles & seasonal fruit, with space to rest and digest.
11:40am-1pm – Moving Fascia® practice led by Ana Barretxeguren
A second practice session to deepen into the day’s theme and build on the morning’s explorations.
Herbal tea selection available throughout the morning
All food is freshly prepared with seasonal, whole ingredients to support ease, digestion, and nourishment throughout the day.
Soup
Roasted red pepper & butternut squash
Buddha Bowl
Quinoa & beluga lentils
Purple sprouting broccoli, red pepper, cherry tomatoes, radish & spring onion
Tahini & lemon dressing
Toppings on the side: Feta cheese, toasted seeds, fresh herbs, pomegranate seeds
Lemon Bites
A shortcrust-style base with a zesty lemon topping
Herbal tea selection available throughout the day
2:00–2:45pm – Guided Walk to the River
A gentle walk inviting connection with nature through simple, responsive movement. An opportunity to attune to both your internal rhythms and the living landscape around you.
3:00–4:30pm – Moving Fascia® Practice led by Ana
Returning indoors, this session offers time to integrate, restore, and explore subtle movement and breath through the Moving Fascia® approach.
4:30–5:00pm – Closing Circle
A moment to reflect, journal, and share (if you wish), with cacao date truffles, fruit, and a final cup of tea before we part.
Cabilla’s off-grid wooden Koyts sit gently within the landscape, offering warmth, stillness, and a close connection to the natural world.
Each cabin has a log burner, soft Egiptian cotton bedding, hot water bottles, and windows that open to the trees and sky. Bathrooms are a short stroll away in the communal barn area.
Bespoke log burner, with firewood, kindling and matches
Comfortable cotton bed linen and towels provided
Hairdryers and Luxury Bramley toiletries
Individual shower in the communal barn area a short stroll away
Moonsoon shower with underfloor heating
Battery-powered lighting
Hot watter bottles
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Barcombe, Sussex
Join Ana Barretxeguren in the peaceful East Sussex countryside at Barcombe Village Hall – a light-filled, sustainably built space with panoramic views over the Ouse Valley and Ashdown Forest. Just outside Lewes, the hall offers a calm and spacious setting for embodied exploration and is easily accessible by car.
Barcombe Village Hall
Barcombe Mills Road | Barcombe
Lewes BN8 5BH
Free parking available on-site
Cabilla's rare temperate rainforest, an ancient oak woodland,
will be the home of our Moving Fascia retreat.
The soil, light and rhythm, will shape the atmosphere of our time together.
Our sessions won’t happen in a place, but with it,
inviting you to attune to the environment
and to how body and movement respond and co-create as a continuous, relational field.
Swipe through to get a feel for the land and spaces that will hold us.
Moving Fascia is a practice of relationship, a way of listening through movement, breath, and touch. As we soften to the pressure of the ball or the ground beneath something begins to reorganise. We restore ease, expand perception, and meet ourselves in motion in dialogue with self, and the environment.
This retreat brings the Moving Fascia practice into a spacious, immersive format four days of guided exploration, shared rhythm, and the quiet power of being in place.
I’m Ana Barretxeguren, the creator of Moving Fascia®, a fascia-focused somatic movement method that supports people in restoring ease, minimising pain, and deepening their relationship with breath and movement.
I’ve been teaching embodied anatomy to movement and manual therapy practitioners for the last two decades, and hold a Postgraduate Diploma in Anatomical Sciences from the University of Edinburgh.
But my path is more than academic. I live with catamenial pneumothorax, a rare condition of recurrent lung collapses, which continues to shape my understanding of breath, body, and fascia. Each collapse has been an opportunity to meet breath, rhythm, repair, and the quiet intelligence of cycle. This lived experience fuels my ongoing inquiry into the visceral body and the landscape within.
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“The practice of Moving Fascia speaks of movement as dialogue. We yield to the pressure of the ball, soften to the input of the environment, and restore movement not as isolated function, but as relationship.”
When the inside becomes subject rather than object, when we honour its motility, its hidden rhythms, something inside reorganises.
It feels important to offer an opportunity to connect with self, to relate with others, and to move with the more-than-human world around us.
I hope you can join me.
Blending fascial release with somatic exploration,
Moving Fascia® supports the body’s innate capacity to reorganise, restore and heal.
With the input of soft proprioceptive tools like the Moving Fascia® ball, we explore hidden patterns of tension, awaken dormant relationships within the body, and grow a more integrated sense of presence through movement.
Whether you’re a movement teacher, bodyworker, therapist or simply curious about fascia and embodiment, this retreat offers a nourishing pause. Come to deepen your felt sense, refresh your perspective, and be supported by nature, community and the rhythm of the land.
Our signature soft balls are designed to meet your body, not to force it. Their adaptability offers a responsive input that supports yielding rather than guarding and stimulates a deeper interoceptive awareness.
You’ll be provided with a full set during the retreat, and they’re yours to take home for continued support, practice, and exploration beyond the forest.
Over the four days, the Moving Fascia sessions will follow the rhythm of the Moving Fascia principles: SERI (Soften, Expand, Restore, Integrate).
Each session will carry its own tone and focus, guiding you through a journey that:
Soften unnecessary tension
Expands into new-found space
Restores relational movement patterns
Integrates a deeper connection to self, others, and the world around us
If you'd like to spread the cost of your retreat, you're welcome to book with a £250 non-refundable deposit and complete your payment in four monthly instalments.
Fill in the form below to request your payment plan.
Ana's knowledge and enthusiasm and commitment shine through; the huge amount of effort invested by the the team to give a high quality personal experience to students is really evident.
A comment on all the work and thought you have put into the manual - it’s amazing and I realise how invaluable it will be as I go over the techniques to really learn them - thank you!"
Everything has been a new experience for me which is great. I loved all of the sequences we've done today, I loved the scapula work, that was amazing. The feedback I was getting was just incredible and I feel great!
I am in awe of your set up, it's amazing. All the different angles available, that was really beneficial to be able to see so clearly exactly where the ball was - on your foot, on the scapula - that was really advantageous.
Informative; thought-provoking; absorbing; beneficial on a personal mind-body level but also providing a wealth of ideas which will inform my teaching.
It’s exciting! It has taken me to the next level in my personal development and now I can offer it to my clients. I see it as the jumping board of a lifelong exploration of fascia.
Immediate access to Moving Fascia® Foundations upon enrolment - 20 hours on demand content which serves as your your prep work
(worth £449)
6 core training days, starting in October 2025, with Ana Barretxeguren -
live streamed online
10 x monthly live online follow up sessions and group appraisals
Student online platform with all recordings and materials
1 year access to the Moving Fascia® LAB (worth £219)
Private Moving Fascia teacher community forum
Downloadable PDF Manual
Final assessment and review
12 month access to all online resources
Moving Fascia® teacher certificate after completion of final assessment
IICT Approved Training programme
Graduates are eligible for professional IICT membership and insurance
Approved continuing education provider with the National Pilates Certification Programme
(members receive 80 CECs)
You get the flexibility to sign up today and split your payment into monthly instalments.
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This retreat will be shared with a small group, and spaces are limited. Fill in your details below to receive an email with everything you need to confirm your place and pay your deposit via bank transfer.
