Wellness: The Joy of Movement Retreat

🌿 Firelight × The Movement Project - A Full-Day Immersive Retreat

A full day under the canvas of the Firelight Tipi. Movement, play, nourishment, and rest. A day designed to expand what you think your body can do, then land you somewhere softer than where you started.

Firelight are teaming up with Neil from The Movement Project, along with Ben from Sport in Mind and Jess, for something we've been wanting to create for a long time. We took Neil's sessions at a festival last year and were completely blown away. This isn't a fitness day. It's an invitation to rediscover what movement can mean, away from the gym, away from metrics, away from performance.

🗓 The Day

🌅 10:00 Open & Ground Arrive to snacks, a warm drink, and a gentle opening circle led by Neil. A taster of the day to come. A chance to land, breathe, and meet your fellow movers.

🏃 10:30 Shake-out Run with Sport in Mind Ben leads us on a moving meditation through the fields. Smiles not miles. No Strava. No pace. Walk, run, or somewhere in between. No one gets left behind.

🧠 11:00 The Movement Project Masterclass (90 mins) The heart of the day. Two chapters with Neil:

Morning Form — a 30-minute session on building your own morning movement practice, with Q&A and space to ask everything.

Movement Playground — a 60-minute tour of movement puzzles: balance, strength, coordination, adaptability. Expect to laugh. All entry points welcome, no prior experience necessary.

🔥 12:30 Long Lunch Greg cooks a seasonal lunch over the fire. No agenda. Journal, wander the fields, lie in the grass. This pause is as intentional as everything else.

🤸 14:00 Acro Yoga with Jess Connection, trust, and play in equal measure. Neil and Greg join in (and attempt to keep up). Community in motion.

🙏 15:30 Closing Circle A connected breathwork circle, a single word from everyone in the room, and a meditation to seal the day. Gratitude all round.

📍 Where The Firelight Tipi, Lopemede Farm, Oxfordshire. Full address and directions sent on booking confirmation. Around 60 minutes from London by car.

🎒 Bring Comfortable layers, trainers you can move in, a yoga mat (we have spares), a journal, a water bottle, an open heart. We've got the rest.

Seasonal lunch is included. Please flag any dietary requirements on booking.

More about the Movement Project 

We explore a multi-disciplinary approach in our sessions, inspired by rich experiences we have learnt through study, personal practice and the way we see the world. We shine a light on the tools that build an adaptable, efficient, co-ordinated and capable mover. 

The five cornerstones of our practice are:

Use it or lose it. Maintaining & developing strength, mobility, balance and neural pathways.

What fires together, wires together. Developing a more efficient, more competent system alongside experimenting with new movement patterns.

Open the piano lid and play all the keys. Exploring a range of movement skills so we can adapt to anything. keeping a sense of wonder through continual learning.

Seeking healthy doses of purposeful failure. Purposeful failure gently exposes your edge - training there with curiosity is how you adapt.

Learning through play. In the right environment, play [or being playful] unlocks learning faster.

Our values

The movement project is is exploring what's possible for everyBODY: how can we continue to expand our capability through curiosity and seek growth to continually enrich our lives.wellbeing. sustainable humans make sustainable communities.community and connection. being part of a shared experience.empathy and wonder. seeing things differently.continual and inquisitive learning. trying something new.problem solving. healthy doses of purposeful failure.Opportunity. reflection to improve.

More about Neil Frankel 
Neil Frankel is the founder of The Movement Project. He has an academic background in Human Biology, a lifetime of experience as a coach, is a Level 2 MovNat certified trainer, tennis instructor and accidental ultra-marathon runner. In his work as a movement coach he works outside the norms, exploring balance, co-ordination patterns & rhythm, agility, flow states and reactions that seek to redefine the relationship we have with ourselves, the people around us and the environments that we operate in. Neil has a deep curiosity of what's possible and his playful approach challenges preconceived expectations. He sees physical movement as a way of exploring our true nature - to evolve physically, emotionally, intellectually and spiritually. He understands the power of language and the ability to spark improvements through a 'what if' mindset. Alongside his movement work, Neil is a festival producer at Love Trails, works with the Ferus Animi // Terra Nova movement collective, coaches a Team GB wheelchair tennis player and leads a specialist Neuro & Physical Diversity programme with a vision to break down barriers to sport and create valuable connections for those who need it most.

🎟 Tickets

Early Bird £95 (first 10 tickets) Standard £115

Capped at 30 places. See you under the tipi. 🌿