Let us gather together as a global community, to dream for the world we want to live in. Through movement, story and voice, and the InterPlay practices, we will ignite our gifts and celebrate our body spirits on the land together. Join us for exploring our ability, power and capacity to make a difference in what matters to you.

We will use the InterPlay practice to explore the many facets of our individual and collective journeys. Social change is a spiritual practice where we must come together in love, community and compassion using the simple “sneaky deep” InterPlay forms. From teachers to students, artists to politicians, from the streets to your home, we will explore the many facets of social justice and how our stories and full-selves can play with changing the world for the better.

This weekend will gently immerse you in the easy-body practices of InterPlay, a practice that teaches groups and individuals to tap into their artistic authority and positively affect other people. In InterPlay you will find new ways to access to your stories, movement and voice. This is an easy way to experience the powerful integration of mind, body, heart and spirit. Plus, you learn concrete tools that you can apply in your daily life and work.

InterPlay is something that anybody and any body can do—regardless of size, shape, ability, race, culture, gender, sexuality, belief, or nationality. All you need is a little willingness. Expect to laugh, savor and relax. Expect to be surprised by what you can do!

InterPlay is a worldwide community of artist-activists who believe in their ability to change the world through creative expression. Developed over the last twenty-five years by Phil Porter and Cynthia Winton-Henry, InterPlay is a practice that teaches groups and individuals to tap into their artistic authority and positively affect other people. For more info, visit www.interplay.org

We will also wake up each morning with Moving in Grace, a sacred movement practice cultivated by Hilary as a Buddhist and shamanistic inspired ritual movement and sounding practice that is offered with the intention to bring grace and transformational awareness into the cycle of one’s daily life with the expression of our embodied dreams. As a synthesis of aspects of Tibetan Buddhist philosophy, Buddhist insight meditation, shamanic journeying, Authentic Movement, Body Mind Centering and improvisational dance and sounding this practice moves from guided meditation into visualization and then physical expression through the breath that carries the body into its own unique dance and song. While using the guide of a Tibetan mandala we’ll be led by music through the cycle of a day. We will move in and out of our inner experience while meeting others in their journeys and always returning back to our own breath and the movement as our guides to return home as we give more of ourselves to our day and the embodiment of our dreams in community for the awakening of all beings. No experience with dance, meditation, yoga or any spiritual practice is needed. All that is needed is an open mind, heart and a body that is ready to explore with intention.

Hilary Lake is a healing artist and community minister who spans her ministry across diverse communities through bringing her embodied awareness and expression and by honoring the land and our relationships to the larger forces of our beings as we organize for more sustainable and generative lives in community. She graduated from Harvard Divinity School with an MDiv in Buddhist Ministry, has been dancing and singing from a young age, studying many forms, from the classical to improvisational. Most recently she journeyed to India and Nepal this past year to study tantric Buddhism and dance. She currently lives, works, and plays as a co-owner and manager of Nine Mountain Retreat Center. She regularly co-facilitates Mandala Dance, a co-creative sacred community dance and is a member of the Spirit Play Collective, an improvisational music, vocalization and movement collective that expresses the sacred through the movement of play. She continues to deepen and expand her ministry in service for the well being of All. For more information about Hilary and Moving in Grace, please visit: http://www.movingingrace.com