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InterPlay Atlanta & InterPlay Sustaining International Sisters (SIS) present

Secrets of InterPlay - Atlanta GA 2026 In-Person

Jennifer Denning, MSW and Ruth Schowalter

Decatur, GA

Friday, January 16 at 6:30 pm -
Sunday, January 18 at 2:30 pm

Coming Home "Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your perceptions need you, your feelings need you... Go home and be there for all these things.” -Thich Nhat Hanh

Assisted by Aarti Tejuja

This in-person weekend is an opportunity to use InterPlay forms and ideas to connect deeply with yourself – to come home to body and soul – and explore who you are in these changing times. Discover how the InterPlay tools based in movement, voice, storytelling and stillness create ease, a sense of fun and new beginnings. Learn with experienced InterPlay leaders to presence all of you – body, mind, heart, and spirit. Tap into the energy, active curiosity, and healing that reside in you. InterPlay is an active creative way to unlock your body wisdom.

The Secrets of InterPlay Weekend is ideal for anyone seeking personal renewal, professional enrichment, or a deeper sense of connection whether you’re an artist, healer, leader, or simply someone longing for more ease and expression in life. The program will give you direct experience in many aspects of the InterPlay system. It is also an important element of the InterPlay Life Practice Program , which we will be offering in the Metro-Atlanta area in three additional weekends beginning in the spring of 2026 if you wish to continue and deepen your experience with a supportive community. More information can be received from the program leaders on or before the Secrets Weekend.

Schedule (all times ET)

Friday, January 16: Session #1 (6:30 – 9:30 pm)

Saturday, January 17 (9:30 am – 9:00 pm)
Session #2 9:30-12:30 pm
Session #3 2-5 pm
Session #4 6-9 pm

Sunday, August 18 Session #5 (9:30 am – 2:30 pm)

Inquiry for housing: Jennifer at atlantainterplay@gmail.com

Covid Policy: Masks are welcome and optional. Please do an at-home Covid test before attending the gathering and do not attend if you have symptoms of illness.

Racial Equity and Transformation
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 systemic inequalities that exist, Body Wisdom is committed to making our programs financially accessible.

Financial Assistance
Financial support and payment plans are available. To set up a payment plan, make your first payment using the Pay Now registration button below, then contact Lucia at the InterPlay office at 510/465-2797 or office@interplay.org to set up the remaining payments. For financial assistance and scholarship support, please contact Ruth at interplaysis@gmail.com

Secrets of InterPlay Attendance
Community building is an integral part of the InterPlay system. To receive the most from this Secrets of InterPlay, we recommend that you attend all of the sessions. This immersion program into the forms and tools of InterPlay is most effective when the group can stay together. If you are considering becoming a Certified InterPlay Leader, this 15 hour Secrets of InterPlay plus a 40 hour Life Practice Program (or equivalent 55 hours) is the first step. If you have questions about this please visit: InterPlay Leader Training Program and/or speak with the leaders of your program.

Registrations due by January 4! Pay deposit to secure your spot!

Payment in full is due by January 15th.

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Cost: Cost: $450 / $350 for repeaters

Registration/Information: Registration questions, email office@interplay.org. Financial assistance and any other questions, email interplaysis@gmail.com

Venue

First Christian Church of Decatur

601 West Ponce De Leon Avenue
Decatur, GA 30030
Leaders
Jennifer Denning, MSW
Jennifer is the co-founder of InterPlay Atlanta. She is keenly interested in using the InterPlay forms to promote racial justice and healing and has collaborated in developing and leading the workshops “Sankofa Communities” and “Using Body Wisdom to Build Just Communities.” She directs InterPlay Atlanta's performance group, Soulprint Players. She launched InterPlay Atlanta’s programming with women in prison and has taught regularly at Trinity House and The Friendship Center. Jennifer has also worked as a professional actor and taught and directed with Synchronicity Theatre’s “Playmaking For Girls” program for over fifteen years. Her work has long centered on the intersection of creativity, spirituality and social justice. Jennifer is a former co-president of the Body Wisdom Board of Directors and a founding member of InterPlay's Racial Equity and Transformation committee. She is a part of Body Wisdom's InterPlay Leader Training team, and has been training InterPlay leaders and leading Life Practice Programs for over a decade.
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Ruth Schowalter
Ruth Schowalter, visionary folk artist, certified InterPlay Leader and Life Practice Program Leader, co-founded InterPlay Sustaining International Sisters (SIS). Ruth is dedicated to bringing together women from diverse backgrounds (geographical, cultural, spiritual, racial, educational, and generational) through play. Through InterPlay SIS, she found the structure to connect women in ways that support them and allows them to share, learn, and inspire one another. Ruth has an M.S. in Applied Linguistics and ESL and taught international students English communication at the university level for 30 plus years, applying InterPlay to her instruction for more than a decade. In addition to InterPlay SIS, she leads a Deep Play group twice monthly. Ruth is a certified Art of Ensoulment coach and has been a dance chaplain for six years, leading CPR for the Soul every Monday through Cynthia Winton-Henry's Hidden Monastery, where she leads participants to blend dance, prayer, and making marks. In 2022, Ruth co-led a monthly Ensoulment Creativity Studio with Cynthia Winton-Henry and is currently co-leading with Cynthia the Art of Ensoulment Wisdom Circle. She is in the process of creating art work to accompany Cynthia's intergenerational book, The Great Dance, to be published in 2026. Ruth's colorful figurative paintings and drawings express her inner world of dreams and psychological meanderings. She lives in Decatur, Georgia, with her author husband, Anthony J. Martin and four cats, Tao, Sapelo, Ossabaw, and Durga.
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