A two-day journey back into the intelligence of your body; allow yourself to drop out of your head for a while and find the wholeness of your being again.
Cost £150-£250. Please contact Sarah or Candy to discuss concessions
August 1st @ 10.00 am -August 2nd @ 5pm
The Annex
Oxford OX3, United Kingdom
Why This Matters
In our fast-paced, head-driven culture, many of us live from the neck up — thinking more than sensing, reacting instead of responding and striving relentlessly with little rest. Such lives leave us tense, exhausted and disconnected from our bodies, each other and the living world. Life ceases to be enjoyable; we lose our sense of purpose and no longer have access to the body’s remarkable intelligence; we become vulnerable to illness and unhealthy relationships.
Although we may start from different places and have different needs and journeys to make, the insights and approaches of this workshop touch participants deeply and provide everyone with something useful
What This Workshop Offers
This weekend offers insights and practices that reconnect you with your core self and offer a new direction for your future. It builds on Philip Shepherd’s Radical Wholeness Workshops and Sarah and Candida’s training and experiences.
You’ll explore practices which help you reconnect with:
- 🌍 Groundedness — experience the earth’s support
- 💨 Spaciousness —feel lighter and freer
- 💧 Fluidity — flow freely round obstacles
- ⚖️ Balance — feel centred and aligned, balancing being and doing, sensing and thinking
- 🌟 Attunement — experience the subtleties of connectedness
The weekend offers insights, guided somatic practices and a safe and resourced space to:
- Learn about and gently meet stored patterns of tension and reactivity; giving yourself more choices in your future responses
- Develop your capacity for self-nurture, acceptance and integration
- Discover embodied resources to draw on in challenging moments
- Find a path to gradually make this embodied way of living your new normal
Practical Details
When: 1-2 August 2026
Where: Oxford OX3 7PJ
Cost: £150-£250 contact Sarah or Candy to discuss concessions
Booking: Sarah@wellbeing-ventures.co.uk
Bring: Loose clothing, water bottle, journal, packed lunch if you prefer although there are shops and restaurants in easy walking distance
Booking & Questions
Sarah Sarah@wellbeing-ventures.co.uk 07824 541126
Candida: Candida.March0@gmail.com 07809 100098
About the facilitators
Sarah and Candida weave embodied presence and trauma-informed guidance throughout the weekend. Sarah brings her unique understanding of health and illness developed from a lifetime working in the UK NHS and Universities combined with exploration of a range of alternative approaches to personal development. Candida brings her experience as a somatic movement practitioner, coach and facilitator.
About Sarah
Sarah has explored many different approaches to wellbeing at a personal level and trained to practice and teach those she was most impressed by, including Zero Balancing, and The Embodied Present Process. She has also trained to certification level in Deep Massage and Emotional Freedom Technique. She has explored trauma both for herself and with clients from Polyvagal, Autonomics and Internal Family Systems perspectives and her facilitation and coaching are grounded in a deep level of understanding of the impact of trauma on self and others. Sarah has been a student of the Ridhwan School of Human Development for 15 years. Combining expertise and experience from a lifetime of curiosity and exploration she now offers workshops on Wellbeing and Embodiment, as well as coaching and consultancy to those who are interested in developing greater wellbeing in the context of their work life, home, health or relationships.
Sarah is a retired doctor with a wide range of interests. She has worked in clinical, public health and academic settings and remains attached to Warwick University as Emeritus Professor and to the Faculty of Public Health as Fellow. She researched and developed public mental health with a focus on wellbeing and developed experiential teaching on wellbeing and its determinants for undergraduate and postgraduate students and staff.
More about Sarah here: https://wellbeing-ventures.co.uk/about-me/
About Candida
Candida March has been an embodied presence and somatic movement practitioner for over 30 years, practising connection with the natural world, using non-stylised movement and embodiment as a non-judgemental way of exploring our relationship to ourselves, our bodies, others and our greater environment. She is a qualified practitioner in somatic movement and healing through Move Into Life as well as BodyMind Attunement. She also has foundation training in Dance Movement Therapy, Integrative Bodywork and Authentic Movement, Group Analysis and Forest Ba As a professional coach with 20 years’ experience she has particular interest in embodied presence, somatic awareness and our ecological body, as well as NLP and Systemic Coaching & Constellations. She works in an organic and emergent fashion based on the way the client wants to work. She takes an ecological stance, knowing that we are all in dynamic relationship with greater systems, be that human or other natural living systems.She has also been a Director and Chair of a number of organsiations: in business, social enterprise and charity. She has brought her coaching and Embodied Presence work to enhance performance, values-led work and working relationships in commercial settings.
