Minding Movement

 

Minding Movement

An embodied tool kit for professionals

 

 

‘a Step Up’ 6 week group

Thursdays, 22 October - 26 November 2026

1.5h Drop-In Taster Session

Next date TBC

 
 
 

Minding Movement might be right for you if you want to…

  • Develop an enhanced embodied tool kit, using the curriculum from Open Floor Movement Practice, to resource you personally & professionally.

  • Experience the delightful efficiency of problem-solving when foregrounding the language of the body.

  • Be in a community of practitioners.

  • Take the opportunity to be in a space where you are held rather than doing the holding.

What’s included

  • Minding Movement provides insight and support for practitioners through a creative and embodied lens.

  • We work with various online tools to enhance the group experience, including time in Breakout Rooms.

  • Every session offers time for movement, 1:1 coaching from Deborah, time for sharing, evaluating, and questions in the main Zoom Room.

  • All sessions count as hours towards Open Floor Teacher Training.

 
 
 
 

 
 
 

“Learning, understanding and embodying the content of Deborah’s 6 week programme continues beyond the actual online sessions through the recording of each session context, for us to revisit in our own time, offering us opportunity to review/study the teachings again and again.”

-ANITA M., PARTICIPANT 2026

 
 

 

‘A STEP UP’
An intimate 6 week closed group for 6 professionals

SIX SESSION SERIES/SIX PLACES - Oct/Nov 2026

  • An opportunity to journey with a group of like-minded professionals, learning and growing together.

  • Gain a more thorough understanding of the Open Floor curriculum, its usefulness, and relevance in your professional teaching practices. 

  • Meeting together regularly over the 6 weeks increases shared trust and safety, contributing to a more creative and curious learning environment.

  • Open to participants from previous MM groups or Drop-In sessions, so that everyone begins with a mutual understanding and intention.

  • A private Telegram group is offered to support a sense of belonging and a place to pose questions. It’s also a place for you to engage between sessions, if you choose.


 “Recognising similarities in the vulnerability of others peeled away my confining protective shell.”

-ANITA M. CYPRUS, PREVIOUS PARTICIPANT


DROP IN
Embodied supervision taster sessions

1.5 HOURS/ONLINE, NEXT DATE - TBD

What are drop-in sessions?

  • 1.5 hour online taster session focusing on embodied supervision.

  • Open for all practitioners (including Open Floor Teachers) looking for somatically informed supervision.

  • Attending a Taster Session is a prerequisite for joining the 6 week ‘A Step Up’ series.

Date and Time:
 TBC

Price per session:
£35, deposit of £15 secures your place. Two subsidized places are available, to enquire email: info@vitalmoves.co.uk

 

Emma Bradford speaks about her experience, and working online with Deborah Lewin.

 

(video length 3:39 minutes)

 
 
“To recognise the common ground between all of us - so many of us work in different ways but then there were all these common threads and recognising that shared humanity amongst us all was really powerful…”
— Emma Bradford
 
 

What others are saying about Minding Movement

 
“I have just listened to the recording again. So much wisdom in it. It is an important learning point for me to live life in another way. Many thanks Deborah for the teaching and for the nourishing space, that allows us to evolve whilst we feel supported in community🙏🙏🙏”
— Marta C., 2026
 
“Deborah Lewin is a masterful teacher with decades of experience that show in her gentle confidence and intuitive heartfelt mentorship. It was very enjoyable and satisfying.”
— Lisa, Canada, 2024
“I loved Minding Movement with Deborah. A wonderful, safe and inspiring place to be held as a professional and connect with other professionals. Seeing each person go through their journey and Deborah’s skillful guidance, support and wisdom made these weekly sessions a joy to attend. (...) Seeing the expertise in simple guidance that helped each person find points of reflection and integration. Thank you!”
— Emma B., SPAIN, 2023
“Being taught by someone who is 100% present with herself and with you, Deborah’s Minding Movement is a powerful teaching modality created through her lifetime of movement study, conscious enquiry, embodied practice, her dedication to healing through the wisdom of the body. ”
— Anita Michaelidis Psychotherapist Movement for Change, CYPRUS
 
“[I would recommend to] any fellow dancing friends and professionals that are looking for extra support and somatic work.”
— Emma B., spain, 2023
“What was most of value to you?

- Observing Deborah’s skills, body language, pace, how she responds to the unique moment, how she holds the teaching space.
- Hearing the Open Floor language and some of its core principles.
- The ‘initiations’ themselves.
- ‘Echoing’ the words/expressions the ‘client’ used during their process made me feel i was contributing to/participating in their absorption process, helping it land in my body as well.”
— Anita Michaelidis Psychotherapist Movement for Change, CYPRUS
“I have found this group incredibly rich. I’ve been inspired by the skill and presence, the perspectives and metaphors, the creativity and spontaneity within this group. I have been deeply touched, challenged and sustained by our time together.”
— Rachel, 5Rhythms Teacher, ENGLAND
 
“Minding Movement has given me the opportunity to feel into new ways of working with clients. By observing Deborah utilising body movements with reflective communication I’ve witnessed mental and emotional shifts in feeling and thought processes in a short period of time. This is exciting and inspiring and feeling dynamically relevant to the work I do. ”
— Victoria, England 2024
“I appreciated the clear transitions and flow of each part. It felt defined and intentional to me, while also spacious enough to allow the unknown and unexpected to make themselves known.”
— Sarah, Open Floor teacher, 2024
 
“It felt like we were witnessing a ‘liturgy’ in your facilitation of her initiation.
In our breakout room conversation we articulated ways of incorporating your skills in our own practice.”
— Anita Michaelidis Psychotherapist Movement for Change, CYPRUS
“Each initiation has been a discovery of more of myself, over and above becoming more familiar with the MM Supervision process.”
— MM - a Step Up participant, March 2025
 
 

Get in touch with us to register, or enquire about Minding Movement.

Whichever hemisphere you are in, we invite you to join us in virtual community for this 6 week journey; to commit to yourself, to presence, to move and reconnect with your body, and sow seeds of awareness and intention for your professional work.