Bare Bones
the essentials of physical embodiment
an Open Floor class
with Audrey Boss & Jane Belshaw
Why Bare Bones?
In a world that calls us to be anywhere but in our own bodies, Bare Bones is an invitation to explore the physicality of your dance and discover the endless landscapes of the moving human body.
This 2.5 hour class is an invitation to to re-member yourself - from the inside out. As we build awareness through the moving body, we can move more freely and expressively and expand our movement vocabularies beyond what we think we already know.
All knowledge
until it's in the body
is still a rumour.
- saying inspired by the Asaro tribe of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea
Allow your practice to unfold and reveal itself to you as a known, lived experience rather than a concept we strive to understand. Join us to place our extraordinary bodies centre stage and fully inhabit life.
This class is being filmed for Open Floor International as part of a project to make professional, high quality video material to showcase Open Floor movement practice. Video Production by Artykfilm
Schedule
Date: Saturday 28 March, 2026
Time: 11.00am to 1.30pm (doors open 10.45am)
Venue: The Monkey House, 97-101 Seven Sisters Rd, Finsbury Park, London N7 7QP
Cost: £20 - advance booking and payment required
Meet the Bare Bones Team
Audrey Boss & Jane Belshaw
Jane Belshaw
Jane Belshaw is an Open Floor International (OFI) Movement Teacher & one of the creators of the OFI mentorship programme. She was a Mentor & Assistant Teacher for the European teacher training 23/24 & was recently a member of faculty on Ground Floor Lab London
Jane trained to teach 5Rhythms in 2001 with Gabrielle Roth & her team (Kathy Altman, Lori Saltzman & Andrea Juhan) & has run classes & workshops in the UK, Europe & further afield. Meditation has been part of Jane's practice for 30 years and more recently she trained to teach mindfulness with Tara Brach, Jack Kornfield, and their guest teachers. Jane has a background in drama, theatre, film and bodywork.
She has worked within an NHS practice for 26 years offering massage and therapeutic group and mindfulness sessions to patients in London.
You can read more about this part of her work here - www.therapeuticmassagee14.co.uk/
Jane currently works for an NHS flagship initiative entitled Healthy Island Partnership which aims to offer patients the opportunity to receive help and guidance from GPs, physios, massage therapists and social prescribers to ease waiting lists and hold patients in a web of support
Audrey Boss
I had been working as an advocate and educator in the field of body inclusivity and anti-dieting for 25 years before I became an Open Floor teacher. Expanding my work to include awareness through the moving body was a natural next step.
I chose dance as my teaching practice because it’s fun, creative and free-form - I can’t get it wrong. I chose Open Floor because the curriculum was designed by a think tank of highly experienced trainers, psychotherapists, mindfulness teachers, embodiment facilitators and some of the most skilled conscious dance teachers globally.
I completed the Open Floor Teacher Training in 2019 and continued to expand my teaching skills as Assistant Faculty and Mentor in the 2022-2024 Teacher Training. My work is informed by my many years as an avid student of embodiment in a variety of modalities and therapies, including 5Rhythms®, Iyengar Yoga, Alexander Technique, Feldenkrais®, Pilates, Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy, Experiential Anatomy and Somatic Experiencing.
As a lifelong learner, I continue to expand the quality of the support I offer to therapists and therapists in training. I completed the Certificate in Humanistic Counselling Skills at the Gestalt Centre in 2024 and am currently enrolled in a 2 year Gestalt Diploma in Counselling. My studies give me a unique therapeutic insight into how to provide supportive spaces for those who support.
