May Day! May Day! Self-Care ExuberDance

Leah Mann

Seattle, WA

Saturday, May 3rd 10:30 am to 3:30 pm

ExuberDance is a daylong playshop party using InterPlay forms as a starting point to coax more joy and kinetic pleasure from ourselves and one another. We will particularly keep in play the theme of self care for this session. We will use writing, voice, storytelling and plenty of movement to explore the necessity of “securing our own oxygen mask before assisting others”. ExuberDance is an antidote to fear, fatigue, and the overall heaviness we can carry. We will remember the lightness of our being and the grounding support of gravity, while we practice forms of release. We will notice where we contract and practice keeping it all in play for greater ease and flow amid the details of life. We will play with incremental steps for greater well-being. We’ll play with forms that help us download the vital information, delete ineffective stable data as well as forms that help us purge and refresh our “systems”. It will be a time of nurturing, tending, and refreshing. Familiarity with InterPlay forms recommended for this experience of advanced playfulness.

Participants should wear comfortable layers of clothing, bring a journal, bring lunch and a water bottle. (Options to purchase food are in walking distance.)

Cost: $100 or whatever you can give

Registration/Information: Leah Mann lelavision@centurytel.net

Venue

Queen Anne Christian Church

1316 3rd Ave W & W Lee St
Seattle, WA 98119
Neighborhood parking. Along 3rd Ave W there is a single door entrance with a stained glass window beside it. Come in that door and go up the stairs and through the double doors to the Fellowship Hall. Wear layers!
Leaders
Leah Mann

Leah Mann (she, they) is a dancer, choreographer, somatic practitioner, and arts educator, focusing on embodied social justice. They are Co-Director of Lelavision", a performance and production company based on Vashon Island, WA, that combines kinetic sculpture, dance and music. Leah is Artistic Director Emeritus of Moving in the Spirit, a youth mentorship, urban outreach program, utilizing the praxis of dance to develop life skills (Atlanta, GA). Through their kinetic learning style, they work to cultivate community through the common denominators of the human experience.   Most recently they have been facilitating movement, music, and play with medically fragile youth, Muslim immigrants, and pregnant people in recovery. They are in an ongoing science-art collaboration with Morehouse College / Andrew Young Center for Global Leadership focusing on wellness and healthy ecosystems micro to macro.  Leah has been InterPlaying since its inception!!

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