Workshops and Retreats

with Hayley Matthews


Hayley teaches classes, workshops and retreats in movement, dance and wellness. Informed by her work in Rolfing, dance and feminist practice.

Below you will find

  • Upcoming workshops and retreats with booking links

  • Recordings of past workshops and retreats available to purchase

  • A link to 33 FREE 5-10 minute movement lessons on her YouTube channel

  • Past workshops

  • About Hayley’s teaching

Upcoming Rolfing & Dance Workshops & Retreats

Sparking a Dance - for women dancers moving or interested in the Sanctuary on the Fault Line movement. May 7-9, 2025. Write for info


Recordings of Past Rolfing & Dance Workshops

The Dance of Being January 2023

‘Sanctuary on the Fault Line’ three day lab. Movement movement classes, talks, meditation and discussions. Curated by Hayley with teachers, speakers and dancers John Stirk, Barbara Kane, Andrew Sanger, Bayo Akomolafe and dancers of the Sanctuary on the Fault Line movement.

To purchase a full recording click to the event page here , purchase a ticket and you’ll be emailed the full lab recordings within a few days.

The Dancer In Between

An afternoon retreat with Rolfer and Dancer Hayley J S Matthews and Yoga Teacher and Rolfer Tara Fraser. Getting the strong structures of our bodies in the right place. And investigating how and where our dance of grace, space, ease and silence can emerge.

(4.5 hours with breaks, recording without breaks runs 3 hours 22 minutes)

£35

The Cosmic Dancer

An afternoon retreat with Rolfer and Dancer Hayley J S Matthews and Yoga Teacher and Rolfer Tara Fraser. Explore the cosmic dancer yoga posture through Rolfing principles, yoga & meditation. Think buoyancy, resilience, balance and directness. Strength, devotion & letting go, on your own terms.

(4.5 hrs including breaks)

£35

Homing ~ Finding Our Way into the Mystery of Who We Are

A three part series of one day retreats with Mark Burrows, poet and scholar and Hayley J S Matthews Rolfer and Dancer. Originally hosted by The Meditatio Centre, London. Each retreat explores the concept of “homing”~ how we can come home to who we are and belong in ourselves, to each other and in the world. Mark and Hayley open us to meditation and art to help us on this journey.

The first one day retreat explores “homing” as “anchoring;” how we can anchor ourselves in our bodies, our lives and our history. The second explores “flowing;” how we flow in our bodies and our lives, challenges and all. And the third explores “belonging;” how we can belong in our bodies, our lives and in the world with others.

Mark and Hayley draw upon literature, folklore and history, dance, music, simple movements we do together and practicing meditation. Including poetry by Rilke, ancient legends as recounted by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, dance by Anna Teresa de Keersmaeker, writing by activist and poet Alistair McIntosh, and music by Anna Von Hausswolf, Nina Simone and Voces8, as well as their own work in dance and poetry. Together we listen, reflect, are guided in meditation and inspired by art on the journey of how we can become who we are.

£35 per retreat or £80 for all three

Recordings range from 3.5 to 4.5 hours. Allow 5.5 hours for each retreat to include breaks and meditation time (stop and start the recording at your own pace, breaks are announced)


Free Movement Lessons with Rolfer and Dancer Hayley Matthews

About Hayley’s teaching

When teaching Hayley’s focus is on helping people improve strength, balance, ease, grace and body awareness. And on helping participants improve and get comfortable with how they express themselves and move and hold themselves in the world.

Participants may also learn that their mental health, attitude and behaviour lives in their bodies, and can therefore be effected through the body. Participants can begin to get to know their habits and patterns of movement more intimately so they can adapt, grow and address the pain or discomfort these habits may cause.

As a professional dancer herself at times Hayley integrates dance performance as a didactic tool and poetic communication when running workshops and retreats, as well as performing in her professional life as a dancer. And teaches class to professional and training dancers. Dancers explore how to prevent injury and recover injuries, express their uniqueness, dance with ease and health, and access their power, agency and grace.

And both Hayley’s meditation practice and feminist work in the dance sector also filter through.