Channels of Play!
Seattle, WA
Saturday, July 23rd 9:30 am to 4:00 pm
This playshop will explore the 4 universal energies as they relate to primary energies we experience on a human level via our emotions. It will examine through movement processes and improvisational forms, the ways in which we “carry” these energies through the tissues and fluids of our body.
Using InterPlay forms, Focused Energy Balance Indicators and 30 yrs of mindbodyspirit integrations of modern dance, workshop facilitator, Leah Mann, will guide deep freeing playfulness. Sharie Bowman joins Leah bringing wisdom from 12 years of leading InterPlay, her experience working with clients in counseling, and her own healing journey and exploration of mindbodyspiritheart.
The material is a meditation on the book Hands of Life, by Reiki master, Julie Motz. It is also loosely inspired by the work of Ginny Whitelaw, founder of Focused Leadership and Betsy Wetzig, founder of Coordinated Pattern training.
This workshop material is being explored as choreographic tool for a new dance / theater piece to premiere October 2016. The work is called Shatter Zone. It is an artful attempt to understand universal survival instincts, the physical process of the human heart’s capacity to shatter, to be broken and to heal, perhaps even stronger than before. Kintsugi is a Japanese art form in which shattered pottery is mended with gold and becomes more valuable in the process. This will be the overall metaphor as we collect data from our body wisdom to then release anger through our muscles, fear through our nerves, love through our bone marrow and even joy through our ligaments.
The day will include an information session about the upcoming Life Practice Program for Helping Professionals from 3:30 to 4:00 pm.
Cost: $100 (or pay as you can)
Registration/Information: Sharie Bowman at infoseattle@interplay.org
Queen Anne Christian Church
Sharie Bowman, MA, LMHC is a Mental Health Counselor and also InterPlay's Regional Coordinator for the Pacific Northwest. In 2006, Sharie completed her training as an InterPlay leader and also received her degree in mental health counseling, so InterPlay and counseling have been woven together in her bodyspirit from the start. 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.
Prior to 2006, Sharie worked as a high school math teacher and found InterPlay to be the best Teacher Training she ever received. The improvisational skills that she developed immediately brought more play, creativity, and expression to her teaching as well as to classroom management.
Now Sharie finds great joy in bringing her organizational and instructional skills to the InterPlay classroom, and she often leads the foundational InterPlay Life Practice Program and mentors new leaders. She relishes sharing the joy of InterPlay far and wide, and supporting each participant in integrating InterPlay into their own lives!
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!!