InterPlay Atlanta & InterPlay Sustaining International Sisters (SIS) present

InterPlay Life Practice Program Atlanta, GA In-Person/Online 2026

Jennifer Denning, MSW and Ruth Schowalter

Decatur, GA

Online Friday Sessions April 17, April 17, June 26, August 21
Weekend Gatherings in Atlanta - May 22-24, July 10-12, September 4-6

Assisted by Aarti Tejuja

Unlock the Wisdom of your Body! • Have more fun!
• Decrease stress and increase ease.
• Make wiser, more grounded decisions.
• Thrive by getting body, mind, heart and spirit to all work together.
• Find easy ways to change what you want to change in your life: relationships, work, community, home, spirit, body image.…
Discover your hidden resources.

The InterPlay Life Practice Program is an active, creative way to change your life and change your world. Immerse yourself in the system of InterPlay—ideas and practices that can move you from where you are to where you would like to be. You will be meeting regularly over a period of time with a group of fellow InterPlayers. You may use this supportive, affirming community to help you shape your life in ways that are best for you. You will get individual attention from the Program leaders who will help you identify your personal desires and intentions.

Although some previous experience with InterPlay is encouraged, there are no prerequisites for taking part in the InterPlay Life Practice Program.

Elements of the Life Practice Program
• A series of meetings with your Life Practice Program group for play, presentation, discernment, and interaction, where you will have a chance to explore new options in a supportive community. • Three focus sessions during which you receive personal support from the program leaders to get more of what you want. • Reading, writing, and sharing practices which will help us apply InterPlay insights to our own life, based on the digital texts: Having it All-Body, Mind, Heart & Spirit Together at Last and The Wisdom of the Body. These reflections can take many different forms: writings, letters, artwork, poetry, photography, video/audio recordings, etc. • The Core Elements Self-Study and the InterPlay Life Practice Booklet which will give you a more in-depth understanding of the InterPlay system.

Schedule (all times ET)

ONLINE Sessions Fridays 6:30-8:30 pm (ET) April 17, June 26, August 21

Weekend Gatherings Atlanta, GA May 22-24, July 10-12, September 4-6

Fridays - 6:30 – 9:30 pm
Saturdays - 9:30 am – 9:00 pm
Sundays - 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.

Life Practice Program Attendance
Community building is an integral part of the InterPlay system. To receive the most from this Life Practice Program, 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 over the course of the program. If you are considering becoming a Certified InterPlay Leader, this 40-hour Life Practice Program plus a 15-hour Secrets of InterPlay (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.

Financial Assistance
Financial support and payment plans are available. To set up a payment plan, make a deposit 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.

Registrations due by April 3. Pay deposit to secure your spot.

Monthly payment plans (if needed) should be set up by March 5th and completed by September 5th.

Cost: $1,800 Full tuition; $1,260 Equity Rate; $1000 for Repeaters

Registration/Information: Registration Questions, email: office@interplay.org. For financial assistance, email Ruth at interplaysis@gmail.com

Venue

Decatur First Christian Church

601 West Ponce de Leon Avenue
Decatur, GA 30030
Ample free parking. Go to the second floor and class meets in the Jerusalem room.
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.
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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