Tapping into Our True Nature: InterPlay's

8 Body Wisdom Tools in Kinship with the Earth

Monisha Mittal, CC King, and Linds West Roberts

ONLINE

8 Mondays: February 10 - May 19
6-8 pm ET (Tuesday am in Australia)

Please register by February 3

As human animals, we are also nature. Explore ways to play with the Body Wisdom tools in and through our human bodies with this Earth-oriented Tools class. As an online community of wise and playful humans, we’ll be remembering our kinship and interconnectedness with the Earth.

Come to expand your sense of self in play with the more than human world and to dance with the Earth body. Learn InterPlay's Body Wisdom Tools to support yourself in having more of what nourishes you and our world! Play with InterPlay forms of movement, voice, story, stillness and connection.

Engage InterPlay foundations as they are expressed in the natural world. These foundations inform our body data, knowledge, and wisdom to make healthy choices for ourselves and our planet, as human animals who honor our responsibility to and for one another.

We'll notice how the tools nurture our capacity to stay engaged and afloat, with compassion, as we navigate living and loving in the midst of the climate crisis.

Our online format offers us spaciousness for listening to our bodies, witnessing each other, choosing how much or how little to take in, noticing where our focus goes, and again and again, noticing what feels nurturing for our bodies.

Meeting dates/times:

Mondays: 3-5 pm PT/4-6pm MT / 5-7 CT/6-8 pm ET (Tuesday am in Australia)
Feb 10 & 24
Mar 10 & 24
April 7 & 21
May 5 & 19

This course can be an element of the Self-Paced Life Practice Program and is designed for people who need more flexibility to complete the components of the Life Practice Program. If you enroll in this course, the cost will be applied to the tuition for the whole Life Practice Program.
Interested in diving deeper into the InterPlay philosophy? You may take this course as a stand-alone experience or as a refresher if you have previously participated in the Life Practice Program or a Secrets of InterPlay and want to play with the Body Wisdom Tools of InterPlay in a fresh new way.

Financial Assistance
Diversity is a great gift in the InterPlay experience. Based on our commitment to Racial Equity and Transformation (read our statement here) and our understanding of other structural and personal inequalities that exist, Body Wisdom is committed to making our programs financially accessible.

Financial considerations need not be a barrier to your participation. Financial support and flexible payment plans are available. Please email info@interplay.org (or call 510/465-2797), or feel free to speak to one of the leaders of this program.

Continuing Education Credit
Up to 16 CE credits for various healthcare and allied healthcare professions are available for those practicing throughout the U.S. and for educators only practicing in Illinois. CE pre-registration is required before the start of your event. Email Jane Siarny directly at interplaychicago@sbcglobal.net (not the office) to APPLY for CEUs. There is a charge of $25 per program. CEUs are offered through Continuing Education Institute of Illinois

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For more information on the Life Practice Program in general click here.

Cost: Cost: $400 ($300 for repeaters) Cost included in the Self-Paced Life Practice Program tuition

Registration/Information: For registration or financial assistance questions email Lucia at office@interplay.org

Venue

Online Classes

ONLINE
Leaders
Monisha Mittal
Monisha Mittal is Certfied Leader (CL) and Life Practice Program Leader (LPL) in the Washington DC region. Since 2018, InterPlay and a regular Dance Chapel practice has been an integral part of her Being and Becoming. She proudly served as a Dance Chaplain for four years since the pandemic which turned her into a poetry addict and spawned her Poetic Revelations writing series (now named: The (tiny) Voice of Big Love). Now a Somatic Coach and Play Architect, she holds sacred space for others to tune into their Body Wisdom in one-on-one sessions, classes, and courses through her Center for Somatic Leadership and Communication. She is grateful to InterPlay for awakening her authenticity, for the exponential connection and laughter its given her, and for supporting her daily recovery as a recovering overachiever.
CC King
CC is a Certified InterPlay Leader Boston-area coordinator and grateful mentor to InterPlay Leaders in Training and Harvard Divinity School Students. She has been practicing the joyous unfolding of InterPlay for over 20 years and currently serves on the Body Wisdom Board and the Integrity & Innovation Council. CC is an expressive therapist, visual artist, teacher and community activist. Dedicated to inviting respectful & celebratory relations with Earth and her beings, CC designs workshops, organic sculpture and public performance. She values play with elders, Memory Cafes, cancer support and inclusive healing & transformation. Her background includes nonprofit management, art and family therapy, trauma-informed InterPlay and a life-long commitment to finding sustenance, creative activism, and joyful reverence in the natural world.
Linds West Roberts
Linds West (pronouns they/them/theirs), Certified InterPlay Leader, loves to collaborate in offering customized InterPlay classes, workshops, and retreats for groups and individuals through their work with Gather The Wild Collective (https://gatherthewild.love). Gather weaves InterPlay forms together with mindfulness and nature-based practices. Linds’ work is an offering towards collective liberation and social change that brings joy together with grief. Linds also offers one on one consultations and nature-based accompaniment to folks seeking companionship for transitions and shared holding of life's deep questions. They bring their fourteen years as an educator, librarian, and facilitator together with their InterPlay and eco-chaplaincy training.

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