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 Leora Weitzman

Leora’s professional history is a series of unexpected “yes, and…” twists, as love of listening, thinking, feeling, and moving led from music to philosophy to massage to yoga, with teaching as the common thread expressing an instinct to create and connect. Now mostly a yoga teacher and freelance editor, Leora hangs out with animals and nature whenever possible. InterPlay helps her make sense and beauty of what she can and play with the rest in a community that values the humor and mystery of the (not just) human condition.

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Portraits of Love, Collage Based Avatars and Dances of Fullness

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Portraits of Love, Collage Based Avatars and Dances of Fullness

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w/ Leah Mann
Saturday, May 27th | 10AM to Noon PST

In this workshop, we will mine BODY DATA, body weather, and the BIG BODY stories we hold in our muscle memory to create visual representations of our INNER AUTHORITY. Like seeding our gardens in spring, we will cultivate the PHYSICALITY OF GRACE to nourish ourselves as we live, move and affirm our be-ing. No experience with InterPlay necessary. Participants are asked to bring a picture of themself and collaging materials - magazines, glue, markers, etc.

Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83956173773?pwd=V3krV2txbDJqWkpZelZvS214RlcwUT09

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w/ Katie Hymans
Tuesday, June 6 | 6:30-8:00pm PT

Do you, like me, struggle with having to take all the baby steps necessary to create change in your life? I always want to take a flying giant leap to the result I want, which leaves me frustrated and not moving forward at all. I forget about the InterPlay tool of incrementality that can get me there, just slower than I want. Join me to play with incrementality and how it can bring us closer to the change we desire.

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85224027407?pwd=Y0kzS0swTHlZd3FrSDBOR1JXb0ZQUT09

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Wakoh Shannon Hickey has been InterPlaying for 20 years. She is a Board Certified professional chaplain, currently working in hospice care; a Zen priest; an interfaith educator and activist; a scholar; an amateur kayaker and stunt-kite pilot; and staff to two felines.

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w/ Wakoh Shannon Hickey
Sunday, June 11th | 11:30am to 12:30pm Pacific Time

Introduction to InterPlay at CrossWalk Community Church in Napa, Gymnasium

Zoom Link: IN PERSON

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Introduction to Revolutionary Love Compass

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Introduction to Revolutionary Love Compass

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w/ Wai-Chin Matsuoka & Karen Hatch
Wednesday, May 17th | 6PM CT

Wondering how one sustain a life practice that promote social transformation? Wai-Chin Matsuoka and Karen Hatch will use InterPlay tools & forms and Valarie’s Kaur’s Revolutionary Love Compass to introduce a counter-intuitive approach to transforming the world, and making Love a public ethic. We will explore the framework of Loving Self, Others & Opponents and have a brief overview of the 10 practices in the Revolutionary Love Compass; and play with one of the practices that sustain all practices.

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88157214163?pwd=Z2svbkhBRTZSY01SeHdlNm1CYkRKdz09

Meeting ID: 881 5721 4163
Passcode: RevLove

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Loeka Wiltz (he/him/kanē) is a Keeper (Kahu) of Aboriginal Hawaiian Aloha Va Mana Wellness and Medicinal Cultural Neuroeconomic Principles. During his “Honi” Rite of Passage, Loeka received his kuleana (responsibility) to share both his acquired and inherited mana. After beginning his InterPlay Voyage he launched an integrative mana workshop at the San Antonio Botanical Garden.

The workshop integrates ancient Hawaiian healing protocols with narrative medicine, interplay and slow medicine. Loeka shares that InterPlay found him as he began his journey to become a Kahu after years of being a healthcare practitioner (i.e. Flight Medic, Nurse, Healthcare Administrator, Public Health Educator and Environmental Health Project Manager).

Loeka’s key interest are OC6 Team Wellness and Performance Improvement which integrates ancient Pacific Islander medicinal practices (inherited mana) with modern medicine (acquired mana). Especially, how Mo’olelo (Storytelling) empowers narrators to convert workplace stress to team wellness through Lei making, Kapa Canvas Art, Kapala Fabric Printing, or Alo’ha Breathwork.

In his spare time, Loeka enjoys Ohana time connecting with nature, spending time with friends and co-creating sacred moments with his daughter, son and mo’opuna (grandchild).

Loeka has completed the Life Practice for Helping Professionals and is looking forward to beginning leader training.

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w/ Lucy Young, Sharie Bowman & Other Leaders
Wednesday, May 17, 24 , 31 + June 7 & 14 | 8am - 8:30am PT

Start your day with an extra dose of fun. We will shake off tension, stretch ourselves, and warm up to new possibility. 30 Min Class.

Zoom Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81130053712?pwd=clFBM1I3cTZKcERWa01yQkdBdjJDQT09

Meeting ID: 811 3005 3712
Passcode: vitamin

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w/ Lucy Young, Sharie Bowman, & Other Leaders
Tuesday, May 16, 23, 30 + June 6 & 13 | 8am - 8:30am PT

Start your day with an extra dose of fun. We will shake off tension, stretch ourselves, and warm up to new possibility. 30 Min Class.

Zoom Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81130053712?pwd=clFBM1I3cTZKcERWa01yQkdBdjJDQT09

Meeting ID: 811 3005 3712
Passcode: vitamin

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w/ Lucy Young, Sharie Bowman & Other Leaders
Monday, May 15, 22 & 29 + June 5 & 12  | 8am - 8:30am PT

Start your day with an extra dose of fun. We will shake off tension, stretch ourselves, and warm up to new possibility. 30 Min Class.

Zoom Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81130053712?pwd=clFBM1I3cTZKcERWa01yQkdBdjJDQT09

Meeting ID: 811 3005 3712
Passcode: vitamin

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w/ Sheila Collins
Fridays, May 26 + June 2 & 9 | 10AM EST

In this drop in class started during the pandemic, people from all over the country and beyond play with the events and details of their own lives and with the zoom platform.

*We will not be meeting Friday, May 19th due to my granddaughter's graduation from college!

Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/3701856662?pwd=bVA3LzhTWmo1QTdwT0plRTRLSGZaQT09

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Dancing on Behalf of: Welcome to the InterPlayful Dance Chapels

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Dancing on Behalf of: Welcome to the InterPlayful Dance Chapels

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w/ Cynthia Winton-Henry
Monday, June 12th | 4:30-5:30 PST

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8257481773?pwd=R0c2dmN3dDhsbnMxYUh1aEpPNkZiQT09
Password: wedance

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Online Global Sustaining International Sisters (SIS)

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Online Global Sustaining International Sisters (SIS)

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w/ Ruth Schowalter + Canan Arikan & Gwynneth VanLaven
Friday, May 19 | 7:30 to 8:45 PM EDT

Join our group of women from around the world to play with the theme of inner authority and finding confidence. Guest facilitator Gwynneth VanLaven joins us to share her take on this theme with her play offering, "I Signed My Own Permission Slip."

Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/4047478377?pwd=cTVqRkV0ZU4xOVlJRk9MWmhGKzJidz09
Meeting ID: 404 747 8377
Passcode: sister

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Eileen Khouw comes from a long lineage of Teachers. She is learning to truly Be Human and enjoys co creating spacious environments for being , discovery, joy and deepening connections in Community.

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The amazing wisdom, beauty and grace of the individuals who make up the Big Body of InterPlay.

Ruth Garwood finds the sacred in liminal spaces, including between life and death, in times of change, and in gender fluidity. She delights in building community, telling and hearing stories, and journeying with people and churches in transition.

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Hazel is an artist, activist whose passion is to create safe and nourishing spaces.  PLAY continues to be an integral part in her work on gender, sexuality and restorative justice.  Playing with communities at the margins in India have continued to give her the courage to show up and lead play in different spaces and context with the common desire to belong to community.

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Gwynneth VanLaven is an artist and educator in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She uses InterPlay with values of inclusivity and accessibility. Her experiences with illnesses and a disabling accident heighten her awareness of resilience of all kinds. She leads and plays not as erasure but a dance deeply woven in challenge and delight.

VanLaven’s existent art practice responds to ills like ableism, mental health stigma, body disparagement, and othering. Gwynneth holds special care for body autonomy and body attentiveness, so safety in play can be both deliciously awkward and embodying. InterPlay will be a powerful tool toward participants’ growth and the artful forging of community― with humor, curiosity, and joy.

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Elena Khazanova is a life coach, a licensed psychotherapist, a teacher, a bodyworker, and an energy worker; she has graduate degrees in counseling and education and 18 years of experience in the human potential and integrative healthcare field. She is a long-term Interplayer and was certified as a leader in 2019.

Elena uses leading-edge mind-body techniques to create change quickly, gently, and elegantly. She uses her skills of deep observation and well-honed intuition to bypass some of the common pitfalls of the process of spiritual and psychological transformation.

Her teaching style is experiential and light-hearted; she connects deeply to her audience and uses humor to enhance the experience of learning.

Mike Perz has been doing improvised partner dance (Swing, Blues, Fusion) since the late 90s and has been doing improv (The Harold and narrative) for 10 years. In 2014, Mike went to his first InterPlay retreat. He noticed that although he could do the InterPlay improvisation forms technically well enough, there was something missing that many of the other participants brought to their "doing" of the forms. Through more InterPlaying, he eventually realized that there was an authenticity that other InterPlayers were able to allow, that his trying to do the forms "right" got in the way of.

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Joan Greenwood is the founder of the LovingKindness Week in Cleveland Ohio. She is also recognized in this city as a respected InterPlay Leader inTraining. Joan was born in Jamaica. Joan's Caribbean upbringing led her to develop her passion for movement, her love of nature and her embodied learning skills to support others to be able to tune into the wisdom of their own body. Joan Greenwood's academic history includes a degree in Human Services from Bunker Hill College, and two Bachelor of Science degrees, one in Sports Management from the American University and the other degree in Health and Wellness from Kaplan University. Having been an InterPlayer since 2014, Joan's skillfulness manifests in her teaching others how to be joyful, how to develop playfulness skills, how to honor their own Body Spirit, and how to have the experience of loving their own body more deeply. Joan's students learn to be aware of the frequencies of energy vibrations in their body as they grow in developing forms of dance movements, and mindfulness breathing practices. It can be said of her programs that many participants may learn to experience the wisdom of their own body creating healing within themselves and for the well being of others.

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Cynthia Winton-Henry, co-founder of InterPlay with Phil Porter, has researched "what the body wants" in the arts, in jails, shelters, slums, hospitals, churches, businesses, classrooms, doctoral programs in theology and the arts, and in multicultural education. She develops somatic curriculums to address racism, leadership for the Earth, and spiritual intelligence with an eye to supporting millennials. A featured speaker on the Body Intelligence Summit and a keynoter at conferences, Cynthia is the author of What the Body Wants, Having It All: Body, Mind, Heart & Spirit Together Again at Last; Dance - A Sacred Art: Discovering the Joy of Movement as Spiritual Practice; and Chasing the Dance of Life: A Faith Journey. Currently writing on Body Wisdom and Social Justice and on "Ensoulment," she coaches leaders seeking spiritual intelligence for our time at cynthiawinton-henry.com.

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Canan Arikan is an entrepreneur, women’s advocate, and InterPlayer Leader-in-Training. She has more than 16 years of volunteer work supporting and empowering women and youth. Since arriving in the United States four years ago, she has earned the Level-1 Certificate in Applied InterPlay and co-created 4 InterPlay workshops and one English-language 5-workshop series to support international women and her wider community. In 2018, asylee Canan and her collaborator Ruth Schowalter founded “Sustaining International Sisters” (SIS) to bring together asylum seekers, other international women, and U.S. citizens in the metro-Atlanta. In 2019, they launched online Global SIS: InterPlay to continue to connect with and support women who left Atlanta and returned their countries. Canan holds an MBA and completed graduate studies for a PhD in Management and Organization.

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Bobbie Wynn Bolden is a Certified InterPlay Leader, Licensed Practitionerat Centers for Spiritual Living and a Professor Emeritus from the University of California Davis. In the 1980's, Bobbie was founder and Artistic Director of Bobbie Wynn & Company of San Jose. Prior to retiring from UCD, she taught classes in dance improvisation, choreography, modern and jazz dance, African Caribbean Dance and Culture and History of African American Dance. She also researched sacred dance forms of the African diaspora. Bobbie currently performs as a member of "Wing It" and as a soloist in other venues. Throughout her career as dancer, choreographer and teacher, she has been passionate about the connection between creativity and spirituality.

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Donna M. Mazzola is an InterPlay Leader in training. Over the last ten years, she has recovered her creativity, humor, and "sprite" energy through InterPlay. She is a dreamworker and educator. As a passionate advocate for the power of dreams and their ability to transform waking-life experience, she facilitates ongoing dream groups in the Cleveland area. Her vision is to germinate dream groups in Northeast Ohio and beyond, assist in their rooting, and support their growth through embodied creative practices. She provides individual sessions for people interested in a one-on-one experience via Skype, phone or in-person. She welcomes processes that deepen the understanding of the dream and the power of the dream image. These include poetry, journaling, SoulCollage®, art, active imagination, and intuitive body movement. Donna is a member of the Mystic Tech Hidden Monastery.

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Producer and Creative Director of the Body Wisdom, 2023 Play-a-thon!, Marla is a creative entrepreneur, leadership coach and facilitator. With over 25 years in the field of personal growth and development, Marla's expertise ranges from BioGeometry and shamanic dowsing, to Spiritual Intelligence Coaching and Integral Leadership, Spiritual Direction, Circle facilitation, Energy Shamanism and InterPlay.

She runs a creative psycho-spiritual practice from Seattle, Washington. Her offerings include: workshops and retreats, embodied spiritual direction, ceremonial and community facilitation, creative consultation and more.

Learn more at ModernRootWoman.com

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Megan Sims, aka Me-Again, is owner and operator of Me-Again Dance Wellness. She has been teaching Dance, Nia, Gentle Nia and other classes/workshops/retreats to a wide range of folks: Kids, Teens, Adults, Dancers, Elders, those with Alzeimer’s, Parkinson’s and more for over 20 years. An InterPlay certification is the latest gem in her treasure chest full of shiny tools and techniques for wholeness. As a mystic, wild woman, and teacher/guide, Me-Again uses InterPlay to widen the horizon with more fun, freedom and flow.

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Mike Perz has been doing improvised partner dance (Swing, Blues, Fusion) since the late 90s and has been doing improv (The Harold and narrative) for 10 years. In 2014, Mike went to his first InterPlay retreat. He noticed that although he could do the InterPlay improvisation forms technically well enough, there was something missing that many of the other participants brought to their "doing" of the forms. Through more InterPlaying, he eventually realized that there was an authenticity that other InterPlayers were able to allow, that his trying to do the forms "right" got in the way of.

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Monisha is a somatic coach and Embodied Play Architect who comes to Play as a recovering overachiever. She began her professional walk in community development finance, where she advocated for empowering local leadership, micro-finance and affordable housing finance in North Philadelphia, northern India, and at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. She is firmly convinced of the equality of each life and the sacredness of its unique expression in the world. As an Embodied Play Architect, she provides people the opportunity to experience their authentic self through their Physicality and avail themselves of the multi-dimensional resources therein so they can experience Living with greater Presence, Flow, Fullness and Ease. Monisha supports your authentic unfolding through her Embodied Enquiry Playgroup and one-on-one Holy Playdate sessions; she also serves as a Dance Champlain for the Hidden Monastery on Tuesday nights. As a mystic and writer, she writes regularly for her weekly newsletter Stories of an Embodied Heart.

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Nancy has had carriers as a Registered Nurse and an Ordained Pastor. But her real passion has always been Dance. She fell in love with InterPlay almost before it was born, sharing classes with Cynthia Winton Henry when she was on an extended sabbatical.

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I am a cross pollinator who finds the sacred through the body and the earth. Living in different parts of the world, I've been blessed by various faith traditions and spiritual practices including yoga and capoeira.  I've been an educator, community organiser, activist and caregiver and am currently balancing these sides and worlds through art and witnessing. I love sharing movement and sustainable living and see both as a journey to wholeness. Through the Returning Wild Dance Chapel, I welcome you to re-member parts of yourself and our world, to dance on behalf of whatever wants to show up.

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Olaf was one of the weekly Oakland men's group initiators in 2008. Olaf became a certified InterPlay Leader in 2017 and has led groups in Missoula Montana, and now in Naples, Florida. He has an interest in men's work and has led Men's InterPlay sessions himself and with other male leaders. He believes that InterPlay is to 21st Century spirituality what 12 Step has been to 20th Century spirituality. Whee!!

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Randy Newswanger has degrees in physics and divinity. His experience includes teaching high school math and physics, working in philanthropy, and turning doodles into fine art prints. He desires to build just and sustainable communities, is exploring forest gardening, and tries to incorporate InterPlay philosophy as a core decision making tool in his life.

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Ruth Schowalter, visionary folk artist, communications educator and creativity coach, started The Daily Creative Practice to insure that her own art, dreams, and creative ideas get priority. Within InterPlay, an improvisational system that unlocks the wisdom of the body, she found all the tools she needed to put grace and an ethic of play at the center of life.

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Sharie Bowman, MA, LMHC is a Mental Health Counselor and also InterPlay's Regional Coordinator for the Seattle area. She finds InterPlay to be foundational in building and maintaining her personal resilience, as well supporting her work with clients. In her private practice she regularly weaves InterPlay’s life-enhancing forms and philosophies with counseling wisdom to help individuals and families thrive.

Sharie also finds great joy in bringing her organizational and instructional skills to the InterPlay classroom, and leads InterPlay's Life Practice Program and helps mentor other InterPlay leaders. She delights in sharing the gifts of InterPlay far and wide, and supporting each participant to integrate InterPlay into their own lives!

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Author Sheila K. Collins, PhD knows grief, having lost her son to AIDS and daughter to breast cancer, which she chronicled in her award-winning memoir, Warrior Mother: Fierce Love, Unbearable Loss and the Rituals that Heal, published by She Writes Press in 2013. Through the process, Sheila discovered InterPlay and how the arts, and art making, helps express and metabolize grief in healthy ways. A grief consultant, social worker, and improvisation performer, she's delighted audiences worldwide with demonstrations about how art-based expressions, such as dance, storytelling, song and music, can help anyone turn life’s toughest challenges into growth opportunities. Her first book, revised in 2018 for a second edition, Stillpoint: A Self-Care Playbook for Caregivers to Find Ease, and Time to Breathe and Reclaim Joy, and co-authored with Christine Gautreaux, has become the basis of popular online course for family caregivers, school nurses, social activists and social workers. Sheila currently directs the Wing & A Prayer Pittsburgh Players, an InterPlay-based improvisational troupe, that helps individuals and organizations to tell their stories in transforming ways and to accomplish their noble purposes. Sheila and her partner of 43 years, organizational psychologist Richard Citrin, live in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Sophie Spiral is a dance and earth justice researcher based in Berlin, Germany. They have been leading InterPlay since 2016 after participating in the InterPlay Arts & Social Change for Millennial Leaders program. Sophie experiences dance as a guide for being with change and transformation.

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Spruce's life is like a delicious soup made from a variety of ingredients that she shares with others - Life Coaching, InterPlay, OMNI Hypnosis, Reiki Energy Healing, Laughter Yoga, Visual Art, Poetry, Meditation and other good stuff. Spruce has an M.A. in Counseling Psychology and is Certified in Laughter Yoga and InterPlay.
To reach Spruce: www.happywayhealing.com

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Lois Toni McClendon has been a certified InterPlay leader since 2012 and A Life Practice Leader for the past 5 years. She is a Storyteller in the African American Oral Tradition; a member of Abafasi, a West African-style Women's Drumming & Performance Group; and is a founder of New Voices for Reproductive Justice. She was one of the co-leaders for the first InterPlay BIPOC Life Practice Program, and currently serves on the Body Wisdom Board.

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Trish Watts A singer, songwriter, educator and community choir director, with over 40 years experience as a performer, animator and creative arts facilitator in Australia and overseas. Co-founder of InterPlay Australia, she has completed studies in Voice Movement Therapy in the US. Trish has published over 10 collections of original music. She offers workshops and retreats in singing, creativity, spirituality and body wisdom.

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Wai-Chin Matsuoka is Singaporean Chinese, who was transplanted to the U.S.A. 38 years ago when she came to do her graduate studies, and met her American-Japanese husband.She’s a spiritual director who comes alive whenever there’s an opportunity to midwife what’s ready to be birthed. She’s particularly experienced in bringing forth new life from the ashes of change and transition. Mentored and credentialed as an Ensoulment Coach, and a certified InterPlay leader, Wai-Chin loves to weave spirituality, somatic practices, soul-tending and InterPlay tools and forms into a tapestry of Love and Play. She especially enjoys shaping these tapestries into retreats, ongoing Body Wisdom Playgroup, and soul care workshops specifically for social reform activists. (Lombard, IL, United States)

Karen Hatch identifies as both a "free agent" and healing justice advocate and wants to play with everyone! With a background in hospice nursing and youth ministry she is dedicated to being present to the unbelievable beauty of being human in all people across the lifespan. She is particularly committed to racial equity and transformation and is an activist, facilitator, community organizer and student at home in rural Virginia and beyond. Karen is a Certified InterPlay leader and singer/songwriter. (Franktown, VA, United States)

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Christine (she/her) is dedicated to the pursuit of play, joy, art & social justice. Christine’s superpowers include connecting people, helping folks manifest their dreams, standing up against injustice and using art to make a difference in the world.

Christine Gautreaux (pronounced gō trō) , MSW holds a Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Social Work and is a professional speaker, coach, author and entrepreneur.

Christine is the co-author of Stillpoint: A Caregivers Playbook to find ease and to take a deep breath and reclaim joy and her latest book Women Connected in Wisdom stories and resources rooted in the 8 dimensions of wellness. She believes in the power of body wisdom and somatic play to help heal trauma and live our best lives.

Christine coaches professional caregivers, activists and artists to maintain balance and self-care during these intense times we find ourselves living.

Christine is currently serving as the InterPlay Integrity and Innovation Coordinator

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Coran Klaver (they/them or she/her) is a parent, professor, recovering-serious-person, seeker-after-justice. Coran finds InterPlay's incrementality and improvisation freeing and its commitment to racial transformation crucial.

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Facilitator Jane Siarny, is dedicated to uplifting the human spirit through creativity, community building and body wise practices. She continues to be an advocate for embodied spirituality and helping individuals and groups find health and well-being.

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Karen identifies as both a "free agent" and healing justice advocate and wants to play with everyone! With a background in hospice nursing and youth ministry she is dedicated to being present to the unbelievable beauty of being human in all people across the lifespan. She is particularly committed to racial equity and transformation and is an activist, facilitator, community organizer and student at home in rural Virginia and beyond. Karen is a Certified InterPlay leader and singer/songwriter.

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Katie Hymans is a certified InterPlay leader who is passionate about building connections between people. She is a bridge builder who loves people and community and loves is passionate about the power of InterPlay to change lives.

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Laurece West is a Business Consultant, Entrepreneur, Voice and Performance Coach, Recording Artist and InterPlay Leader. She is married to Terry McCarthy and together they have lead the InterPlay Life Practice Program and directed the InterPlay performance troupe Impromptu Players in Durham, NC. Impromptu Players was primarily a service organization performing in Ronald McDonald Houses, children and adolescent hospital psych wards, convalescent centers, and libraries, with one public performance a season. Through her work with vocalists Laurece has cataloged the benefits of InterPlay for performers and presenters. These findings apply to everyone! Read more about the results of practicing InterPlay on the Session Structure page at www.laureceweststudios.com

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Leah Mann is a multidisciplinary artist, embodied social justice and trauma informed somatic practitioner, and InterPlayer for over 30 yrs. They are co-director of Lelavision (SEA), a performance and production company utilizing sculpture, music, dance, and playfulness for delight. They are co founder of Moving in the Spirit (ATL) an urban youth mentorship program utilizing dance to develop life skills.

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Leora’s professional history is a series of unexpected “yes, and…” twists, as love of listening, thinking, feeling, and moving led from music to philosophy to massage to yoga, with teaching as the common thread expressing an instinct to create and connect. Now mostly a yoga teacher and freelance editor, Leora hangs out with animals and nature whenever possible. InterPlay helps her make sense and beauty of what she can and play with the rest in a community that values the humor and mystery of the (not just) human condition.

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Leroy Petunia (gay/gem/ger, they/them/their, they/she/he~fluidly) is a is a neurodivergent Judeo-Slavic Sparkle Witch, Ritualist, and Queer Cheerleader, a Co-Creator with The Limitless, Student of Life, and Certified InterPlay Leader. Leroy’s deepest commitment is to nurturing inter(personal) healing for the thriving of all beings. Rooted in practices of humility, relationship, and ongoing self-accountability, gay believe that our individual healing is inextricably connected and vital to the transformation of unjust systems of hierarchy and domination.

Randy Newswanger has degrees in physics and divinity. His experience includes teaching high school math and physics, working in philanthropy, and turning doodles into fine art prints. He desires to build just and sustainable communities, is exploring forest gardening, and tries to incorporate InterPlay philosophy as a core decision making tool in his life.

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Lucy Young has been a Hatha Yoga Teacher for over 20 years, as well as taught Aerobics and Kundalini Yoga. She also studied ballet and dance for many years. Ever since she discovered InterPlay in early 2018, she has been exploring it widely and enthusiastically to learn as much as she can from this exquisite system. She has found meaningful connections and more grace and ease with the lightheartedness and improvisation inherent within.

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CC King is a certified InterPlay Master Leader and trainer and grateful mentor to Leaders in Training and divinity school students. She has been practicing the joyous unfolding of InterPlay for over 20 years and currently serves on the Body Wisdom Board and the Integrity & Innovation Council. CC is an expressive therapist, visual artist, teacher and community activist. She is dedicated to inviting respectful & celebratory relations with Earth, via workshops, organic sculpture and public performance. Play with elders and Memory Cafes are a special interest, as are cancer support and racial healing & transformation. Her background includes nonprofit management, art and family therapy, trauma-informed InterPlay and a life-long commitment to finding sustenance, creative activism, and joyful reverence in the natural world.

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Carolyn Renée Morris (she/her) is a teaching and healing artist with more than a decade of performing, teaching and uplifting others with her art. She’s the former executive director of the ArtsXchange, a cultural arts organization, and Alternate ROOTS where she both ran the organization, and practiced as an artist. Carolyn Renée is committed to the pursuit of art and social justice, health, and well-being for BIPOC on the frontlines of advancing justice. She is a certified InterPlay Leader, and has been instrumental in using the InterPlay system to create Sacred Space for BIPOC through an art-based Loving Container where she along with other art leaders hold space for healing and exploration. With a passion for helping artists on their healing journey, she partners with USA/Ghana-based A Life of Peace Wellness Education Institute to help ensure their mission of a healer in every home. She goes by "Carolyn Renée."

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w/ Jane Siarny & Olaf Elander
Tuesday, May 16th | 9-10:15 am

Around the World with InterPlay. Join this International group for connection and creativity! We are bridging distances, creating threads of connection, and exploring the diverse faces of InterPlay!

Zoom Link: Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2814431231?pwd=YXNqZWRTQVpURng4Z0ZHRWljb3pjZz09

Meeting ID: 281 443 1231
Passcode: 5017

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{HIP HOP Dance Chapel} Dancing on Behalf of: Welcome to the InterPlayful Dance Chapels

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{HIP HOP Dance Chapel} Dancing on Behalf of: Welcome to the InterPlayful Dance Chapels

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w/ Marla Durden
Wednesday, May 31st | 9-10AM PST

Y'all ready to get your embodied prayers on...... with an attitude of
gratitude and celebration? Join me for some soulful, praiseworthy dance
church, as we celebrate the divine in each other and all things!

LAST WEDNESDAY of the MONTH

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8257481773?pwd=R0c2dmN3dDhsbnMxYUh1aEpPNkZiQT09
Password: wedance

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w/ Toni McClendon (Lois) w/ Loeka Wiltz
Sunday, May 28th | 4:00 - 5:30 pm EST

Stillness is one of the cornerstones of InterPlay. We need stillness as much as we need movement, voice, and stories in our lives to be whole - for the integration of body, mind, heart, and spirit as we navigate through this world. We will explore Stillness through various InterPlay forms, and learn ways to incorporate stillness into your InterPlay practice, as well as in your own life.

Zoom Link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8746552661?pwd=VlhqbzNNbWtxTkxrT1ljNUtabWUxZz09

Meeting ID: 874 655 2661
Passcode: 101548

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w/ Lucy Young
Wednesday, May 17 & 24 | 9am -10:15am PT

We will do some InterPlay forms combined with Journaling Prompts and optional sharing. Lucy had a Journaling group for 2 years that met almost weekly and really enriched her life. Looking forward to combing the two practices. Bring a journal or spiral and an easy pen to write with.

Zoom Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82863978094?pwd=TitpUmhRaTlPMHRIeHZrZ3VkU1A0Zz09

Meeting ID: 828 6397 8094
Passcode: voices

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Sandbox Time (for Overcautious Grown-Ups)

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Sandbox Time (for Overcautious Grown-Ups)

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w/ Elena Khazanova
Saturday, June 10th | 12pm EST

Toddlers play in a sandbox without worry or commitment, but all the sand-in-your-eyes and pressure-to-share-toys stuff makes us increasingly cautious and protective. Luckily, there's now an Interplay way to experience both ease and safety with your playmates. You can have your connection cake and eat it too!

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6304785238

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w/ Elena Khazanova
Saturday, May 27th | 12pm EST

Let's play with hunger, nourishment, deliciousness, and each other! Dance on behalf of each other's appetites, and feast on each other's loving attention. No actual food-eating required. We'll serve your favorite main dish of kindness with a side of fun!

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6304785238

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w/ Elena Khazanova
Saturday, May 20 | 10am EST

Come play with procrastination, mind wandering, and bleary-eyed underachievement. We provide a gentle space to embrace the part of you that resists the culture of constant productivity and pressure. After this session, you'll feel refreshed and reenergized, able to get things done without effort or leave them undone without guilt.

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6304785238

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w/ Katie Hymans + Bobbie Bolden
Tuesday, May 16 | 7:00-8:15 pm PST

Looking for a way to connect with others with ease while bring some playfulness into your life? Come join us for some time to disconnect from the stress of life and decompress with movement, storytelling, stillness, and sound to access your body's wisdom.

Zoom Link: IN PERSON

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w/ Christine Gautreaux + Sheila K. Collins
Tuesdays, May 16, 23, 30 + June 6, 13 | 11:30-12:30 AM ET

Join us for an hour of playful body wisdom, exformation, and radical self-care tools & techniques taught by two dancing social workers. Learn & practice the five skills of Self-Care. This is an applied InterPlay class.

Zoom Link:  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84685370328?pwd=a3g3cHVndEZ4M3pjUjY4NnpyTTZ4UT09.

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w/ Laurence West
Friday, June 9 | 3:30 - 5:00 pm PT

Play and perform group creations together. Supportive, loving, laughing community.

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/239201287

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w/ Eileen Khouw, Randy Newswanger & Ruth Garwood
Wednesday, June 7 & 14 | 1pm PST

Come discover and play with what is alive within You . Experience BodyWisdom tools and InterPlay Forms to have more ease and joy in your life!

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/794173752

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w/ Ruth Garwood, Donna Mazzola, Eef Kolkman & Joan Greenwood
Tuesday, May 16 | 7:00-8:15PM EST

Do you long to misbehave, even once in a while? Here’s your chance! In InterPlay, we welcome mischief into our play by inviting our “evil twin” to mess around with our stories and movement. We delight in the creativity this unleashes.

Zoom Link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85416855257?pwd=YUxTQnVUKzgvZVVLRjdrTEFSS3Jpdz09

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Shhh... It's a Secret! Embodiment skills for Helping Professionals

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Shhh... It's a Secret! Embodiment skills for Helping Professionals

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w/ Marla Durden, Christine Gautreaux + Leroy Petunia
Tuesday, June 6th | 4-5:15pm PST | 7-8:15 EST

Are you a helping professional? A Social Worker, Therapist, Nurse, Teacher, and/or Coach? Join us to experience how we use InterPlay forms for self-care & community care with our clients. We'll also be chatting a bit about the upcoming Secrets of Interplay for Helping Professionals (June/July) and Life Practice Program for Helping Professionals (August-Nov). CEU's available for both programs.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7702569191?pwd=QS9CVEUwTkg4VHFtakVJWGN0NmVIdz09

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Introduction to Revolutionary Love Compass

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Introduction to Revolutionary Love Compass

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w/ Wai-Chin Matsuoka & Karen Hatch
Monday, May 15, May 22 & June 12 | 6PM CT

Wondering how one sustain a life practice that promote social transformation? Wai-Chin Matsuoka and Karen Hatch will use InterPlay tools & forms and Valarie’s Kaur’s Revolutionary Love Compass to introduce a counter-intuitive approach to transforming the world, and making Love a public ethic. We will explore the framework of Loving Self, Others & Opponents and have a brief overview of the 10 practices in the Revolutionary Love Compass; and play with one of the practices that sustain all practices.

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88157214163?pwd=Z2svbkhBRTZSY01SeHdlNm1CYkRKdz09

Meeting ID: 881 5721 4163
Passcode: RevLove

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w/ Trish Watts + Hazel Lobo
Tuesday, May 23 | 7-8:15PM AEST

Cultivating safe spaces for our Spiritual values and inner authority to be voiced & heard

Zoom Link:  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81809111938

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w/ Trish Watts + Simon Cox
Tuesday, May 23rd | 9:30-10:15AM AEST

Singing carries so much joy, liberation and comfort. InterPlay helps us drop our terror of making mistakes and celebrates our quirky unconventional selves

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81809111938

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w/ Trish Watts + Simon Cox
Monday, May 22nd | 7-8:15PM AEST

Singing carries so much joy, liberation and comfort. InterPlay helps us drop our terror of making mistakes and celebrates our quirky unconventional selves

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81809111938

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w/ Spruce Krause +  Leora Weitzman
Saturday, May 27 & June 10 | 1:30PM CT

Everywhere in everything is a story waiting to be known. Welcome to the land of Once Upon A Time. With live violin music and a dash of mischief.

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87890858851
Meeting ID: 878 9085 8851

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Mark Making for the Timid Yearning Artist Within

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Mark Making for the Timid Yearning Artist Within

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w/ Ruth Schowalter
Thursday, June 1st | 9 - 10:30AM  EDT

Celebrate your creative birthrights in this workshop! You are invited to play your way into visual art making through movement and InterPlay forms. Bring sheets of paper (any size) and whichever mark making tools (pencils, colored pencils, markers, crayons, paints) you would like to experiment with. We practice curiosity over outcome and discovery instead of perfection. Everyone welcome, no experience required.

Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/4047478377?pwd=cTVqRkV0ZU4xOVlJRk9MWmhGKzJidz09
Meeting ID: 404 747 8377
Passcode: sister

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Dancing on Behalf of: Welcome to the InterPlayful Dance Chapels

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Dancing on Behalf of: Welcome to the InterPlayful Dance Chapels

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w/ Ruth Schowalter
Wednesday, May 24th | 7:30 - 8:30PM EDT

InterPlayers are finding deep solace and joy when movement, poetry, and music is at the center of our spiritual practice. Come explore and learn how easy focus and "dancing on behalf of,” one another supports body and soul. Bring some paper and media to make marks for this Dancing Hand Dance Chapel where we blend movement with art of the heart.

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8257481773?pwd=R0c2dmN3dDhsbnMxYUh1aEpPNkZiQT09
Password: wedance

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w/ Olaf Elander
Saturday, May 20 & May 27 + June 3 & 10 | 7PM - 8 PM EDT

Weekly Zoom Family from Naples, Florida USA

We hope you will join us for some creative play and improvisational ex-formation every Saturday evening!

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81778380832?pwd=S1I3ZDlRdzNGVWg0WEllQlVFZjRZdz09 Meeting ID: 817 7838 0832 Passcode: NaplesFun!

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(EDIT) 2023 Playathon PADLET classes  (10)

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Men’s Across the Continent Zoom InterPlay

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Men’s Across the Continent Zoom InterPlay

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w/ Olaf Elander + Mike Perz
Sunday, May 21st | 7 - 8:15 pm (EDT)

Enjoy the authentic power of compassionate men doing InterPlay! All males are welcome to join in the spontaneous and sometimes rowdy fun (along with the sneaky transformational effect of InterPlay). All from your own home over Zoom!

Zoom Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86756455867?pwd=MmZwMjdvdmNibU41VnN5bmJsNXorZz09

Meeting ID: 867 5645 5867
Passcode: MensIP!

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Dancing on Behalf of: Welcome to the InterPlayful Dance Chapels

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Dancing on Behalf of: Welcome to the InterPlayful Dance Chapels

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w/ Neesha Noronha
Thursday, June 1st | 7:30AM IST

InterPlayers are finding deep solace and joy when movement, poetry, and music is at the center of our spiritual practice. Come explore and learn how easy focus and "dancing on behalf of,” one another supports body and soul.

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8257481773?pwd=R0c2dmN3dDhsbnMxYUh1aEpPNkZiQT09
Password: wedance

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Dancing on Behalf of: Welcome to the InterPlayful Dance Chapels

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Dancing on Behalf of: Welcome to the InterPlayful Dance Chapels

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w/ Nancy Zoelzer Pfaltzgraf
Thursday, June 8th | 9:30AM - 10:30PM Pacific Time

InterPlayers are finding deep solace and joy when movement, poetry, and music is at the center of our spiritual practice. Come explore and learn how easy focus and "dancing on behalf of,” one another supports body and soul.

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8257481773?pwd=R0c2dmN3dDhsbnMxYUh1aEpPNkZiQT09
Password: wedance

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The Way of Wonder: Moving with your Body Voice

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The Way of Wonder: Moving with your Body Voice

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w/ Monisha Mittal
Thursday, June 8th | 6PM - 7:30PM

This is an introduction to my 7-week course, the Embodied Enquiry Playgroup. By regularly experiencing their authentic self through Embodied Play in a small group format, participants gain access to a wealth of multi-dimensional resources that allows them to navigate Life with more Love, Lightness and Ease. People emerge in greater partnership with their Body. In this 90 minute class we explore Wonder not so much as a primary language of the Body but as a vibe or frequency which your Body is attuned to. Connecting to the frequency of Wonder allows you to more readily expereince the inner wisdom of your unique Body Voice. Participants have intentional time to pose a question or enquiry to their Body and journal their insights.

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85263549160?pwd=cW40YllscENjZ0R3QjQzc2pzM2g3UT09

Meeting ID: 852 6354 9160
Passcode: wonder

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w/ Megan Sims
Wednesday , June 14th | 8-9PM EST

Unleash the Wisdom of your body as your instrinsically creative and frisky nature unfurls with easy grace. Be You-Again in all the ways that feel good phsycially, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8224253589

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w/ Marla Durden
Tuesday, May 23, 30 + June 6th | 9-10AM PST

Come enjoy a weekly cup of Soul Food. We will play, journal, share in community and celebrate the things that we love, and that make our hearts sing. We access deep body wisdom with carefully crafted music, meditations, story sharing, embodied practices and more.This class is steeped in affirmation, positive intention and self-love. Join Us!

Zoom Meeting ID:  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89842180319?pwd=MVRZMC83RHQvZEdTYm9NLy9sYWVJZz09

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w/ Leroy Petunia + Randy Newswanger
Thursday, May 18th | 7pm EST

Looking for connection with yourself? Looking for connection with other queer beings? Looking for connection between your body, mind, heart, and spirit? Look no further!

Queer InterPlay is a space for LGBTQIA2SP+ people to connect the dots of our own intergalactic constellations, color outside the lines, and explore our questions, feelings, thoughts, and stories in affinity space with one another. First time InterPlayers* and long-haulers welcome!

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84364901518

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Portraits of Love, Collage Based Avatars and Dances of Fullness

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Portraits of Love, Collage Based Avatars and Dances of Fullness

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w/ Leah Mann
Saturday, May 27th | 10:15AM to 12NN PT

In this workshop, we will mine BODY DATA, body weather, and the BIG BODY stories we hold in our muscle memory to create visual representations of our INNER AUTHORITY. Like seeding our gardens in spring, we will cultivate the PHYSICALITY OF GRACE to nourish ourselves as we live, move and affirm our be-ing. No experience with InterPlay necessary. Participants are asked to bring a picture of themself and collage materials - magazines, glue, markers, etc.

Zoom Link:
https://zoom.us/j/126792055?pwd=ODBqTTNrOHN0Ukxuem9NUzduS1RWQT09

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Dancing on Behalf of: Welcome to the InterPlayful Dance Chapels

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Dancing on Behalf of: Welcome to the InterPlayful Dance Chapels

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w/ Jane Siarny
Thursday, May 18th | 9:30AM PT

InterPlayers are finding deep solace and joy when movement, poetry, and music is at the center of our spiritual practice. Come explore and learn how easy focus and "dancing on behalf of,” one another supports body and soul.

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8257481773?pwd=R0c2dmN3dDhsbnMxYUh1aEpPNkZiQT09
Password: wedance

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InterPlay White Awake: Racial Inheritances and Reassembled Legacies

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InterPlay White Awake: Racial Inheritances and Reassembled Legacies

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w/ Coran Klaver + Karen Hatch
Sunday, June 4th | 2-3:30PM EST

As white people we are inheritors of a range of legacies--gifts and privileges; spaces and assets; responsibilities and relationships. Some of these are personal, others are national or regional. Still others might be considered "world historical." In this month's White Awake Space, we will acknowledge these legacies and provide forms and spaces to allow us to hold and be held by these legacies without being bound by them. Using the model of an assemblage, we will invite one another to reassemble these legacies by releasing some pieces, adding new elements, and recreating the relationships between these elements.

Zoom Link:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4813347309?pwd=MkFzZlFSUFVnMEtuVFJ3SHd1MlVwZz09

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(EDIT) 2023 Playathon PADLET classes  (3)-down

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w/ C.C. King
Wednesday, May 31 & June 7 | 5PM EST

We will tune to qualities, sounds, movements and tellings offered by our Whale Friends. What do weight and a slow tempo suggest to us? How does the faith to communicate across a wide watery world invite play toward a future which welcomes all beings? Let's move; sound and dive.

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84885740846

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w/ Carolyn Renee Morris
Wednesday, May 24 & 31 + June 7 & 14 | 7PM ET

Melanated Play is an hour of InterPlay that welcomes and engages Black Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC), who in some circles are known not to play or be playful. https://www.tiktok.com/@comicpun/video/7059354543271759110?lang=en This one hour and fifteen minute (1:15) intergenerational playtime is a return a remembrance of the birthright practices that have shaped the BIPOC experience—that of storytelling, dancing, singing and honoring the culture of playfulness that’s so much a part of the BIPOC family/community experience. This space is where Melanated Play is amplified and the power of play is woven back into everyday life.

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6590884231?pwd=Q3FCU2JtdWdaRVFRQWVmaVpLRUJKUT09

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w/ Sophie Spiral
Tuesday, May 30th | 7:30-9pm UK

Do you care about the Earth? Do you play enough? InterPlay is a method of improv movement and expression that can help regenerate ourselves and the earth.

Regenerate your bodymindsoul through InterPlay with Sophie Spiral - We move along the spiral journey coming home in our bodies. By regenerating the cells through our movement, storytelling, sound, and stillness - we tune into what our earth body needs to heal and find the strength to protect against further harm and exploitation. With the help of InterPlay and Eco-somatic practices, together we craft cultures of InterBeing where we learn to self-, co-, collectively-, and earth-regulate our nervous systems and spark the creative forces deep within.

Website: https://www.interculturalroots.org/product/playful-regeneration-with-sophie-spiral