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!

Lucia Young has been a Hatha Yoga teacher for over 20 years, as well as taught aerobics and Kundalini Yoga. Originally from Texas, now living in Arizona. Her journey began with ballet and other dance classes and now she is really loving sharing the joy and wonder of improvised movement. She became a non-denominational minister, focused on counseling for Heart & Living Wisdom in 2006.

Her career was as a C.P.A. where everything was prescribed and pretty serious. Lucy is very pleased to have found Interplay to help with spontaneity, light-heartedness and improvisation. She volunteers at her son’s school and she does Expressive Arts including SoulCollage and acrylic visionary painting.

Lucy has studied NLP, Energy Psychology and many more modalities due to her far-ranging curiosity for all things deep and transformational. Interplay is like the cohesion that brings many things together for her to explore deep play, connection and creativity. 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.