Do you push to make things happen and end up exhausted? Do you love to connect but find yourself scattered? Do you arrange everything but get too rigid? Do you hang out and never do anything?

These questions point to four ways to engage with life: thrust, swing, shape, and hang. These four movement patterns provide opportunities and challenges.

In this short course we will explore our innate tendencies with an emphasis on how easy focus and the wisdom of hangers can lighten and inform how we move in the world.

We may wonder if there’s time for this, when so much change is necessary in the world. Rebecca Parker suggests we need time to engage with the world, learn from the margins, have a community of support for reflection, and time to restore our souls. In this class you may learn, teach, reflect, grow, and become more effective in caring for yourself and impacting our communities.

We will play with ideas of success, satisfaction, effort, and ease. We will imagine rolling rocks uphill, downhill, and on the level, along with flowing, evaporating, and washing away. We won’t ask you to change. You don’t have to change. But if we play around with these ideas, something surprising might happen.

We will use the InterPlay tools of easy focus, exformation, body data, and inner authority. We’ll play with warm-up, babbling, dance-talk, and some combinations of hang-thrust, hang-swing, and hang-shape, along with others that we are still improvising.

No InterPlay experience is necessary. If you’re jumping in for the first time, tiptoe or splash!

Come join the exploration!