How to get to us . . .

 

We are HERE!

you can also find us by putting GL17 9PA into googlemaps.  If you are using SatNav to get to us - please look at where the arrow is pointing so that you find the right road into the farm.  SatNav users usually take the wrong turning at the last minute . . .

If you are using public transport (well done)

Bus from Gloucester

The bus station is next to the train station. Travel from Gloucester Station to Ruardean Square. Click here for a list of bus timetables.

By Car

By car from the M4 come over the old severn bridge (M48) and take the Chepstow turn off. Go into Chepstow, over the bridge on the A48, and turn left onto the B4228 signposted to Coleford and the Forest of Dean. Follow the signs to Cinderford out of Coleford. Join the A4136 then take a left turning to Lydbrook. Drive through Lydbrook until you reach the River Wye and turn right. After half a mile there is a sharp right hand turn to Ruardean. We are the first right up this road.

By car from Gloucester and M40 Take the A40 from Glos as far as Huntley, then turn left onto A4136. Follow this until you reach Nailbridge (after Mithcheldean). Turn right to Ruardean. Go through Ruardean and come down the hill towards the river Wye. Go past Little Marstow Farm (left) and Great Marstow Farm (right). We are the next left after that.

By car from the M5 Come down the M5, turn onto the M50 and go to Junc 4. Take the ring road (A40) round the top of Ross. Turn left to Goodrich after 3 miles TAKE CARE it comes up fast! Drive past the post office and school, and turn left at the T Junction under the stone bridge, then over Kerne bridge crossing the river Wye. Turn right at T junc at Kerne Bridge onto the B4234 (signed to Lydbrook) then past a garage on your right. The second left fork after the garage is signposted to Ruardean. We are the first right on this road.

Useful telephone numbers:-

Stage Coach Buses (Gloucester) - 01452 783540 click here for website

National Rail Enquiries - 03457 484950 click here for website

National Express Coaches - 0871 781 8181 click here for website

Local Taxi Companies (near the farm) - CDS Taxis 01594 834834 / Crystal Travel 01594 832288 / K&T Taxis 01594 845913 / Road Runner 07778 277752

If you are attending a course or event that finishes on Sunday or late at night please consider arranging your travel home in advance.

Contact your course/event tutor to see if they can arrange a lift share for you.

If you need to get a bus or a train please consider booking a taxi to the bus/train station in advance. Rural bus services are scant in the evenings and on Sunday, and getting a taxi at short notice in this area can be difficult.

 

  • Ecstatic Awakening Dance Teacher Training

    1 - 6th August 2017

    Ecstatic Awakening Dance is a 5 stage guided method, warm-up, shake, energy dance, grounding & Heart meditation. This is a 9 month ON-LINE Teacher Training with a fully inclusive 6 day residential module.

    Which will:

    • Inspire you to be passionate about teaching;
    • Empower you with confidence to be a group leader;
    • Enable you to take a quantum leap in your own process of personal transformation.
    • Give you all the tools you need to become a successful teacher of Ecstatic Awakening Dance.

    This course is packed full of theoretical knowledge, bang up to date, scientific research and of course many practical exercises that will have you feeling all the benefits of following your own Bliss and then leading others to follow theirs.

    A Map of the Training

    Module 1: The building blocks and history of the Ecstatic Awakening Dance Method.
    Module 2: Coming Home to Your Body.
    Module 3: Shake awake!Module 4: Ecstatic Awakening Dance.
    Module 5: Grounding
    Module 6: Shamanic Techniques to Ecstasy
    Module 7 Residential 6 Day training with practical assessment.
    Module 8: Marketing & Running a transformational business
    Module 9: Certification

    Rebecca Hanscombe is Shamanic Practitioner, Director and Lead Trainer at the School of Ecstatic Movement She is also co-founder of the Wild Chocolate Club & Womb Wisdom Keepers. She draws from a deep pool of experience in varying body-mind systems, Her path into holding group space started in 1996, where she co- facilitated a pioneering path with Dance & Movement Therapy in Holloway Prison She loved the daily challenge of working in this intense environment, with the diverse and often opposite needs of the staff and the inmates giving her an opportunity to really harness and hone her skills of communicating with & encouraging all people no matter what has gone before assisting them to heal & empower themselves. She remained working within the Criminal Justice sector until 2010, developing and facilitating many diverse groups such as movement and relaxation, mindfulness, relapse prevention, health and well-being & safeguarding Children. While having an extensive 1:1 client list as a substance abuse counsellor.

    In 2006 she qualified as a Shamanic Practitioner with the Sacred Trust and has continued to develop and deliver many workshops weaving together all the knowledge gained from the last 20 years of holding space. She also holds space at the Sacred Trust with Simon & Naomi on occasion within their core syllabus.

    For further information or to book a space please click here 


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