Spirit Play: A monthly InterPlay session at the Atlanta Shambhala Center

Sitting meditation, spiritual text and poetry will provide the springboard for this time of deep play. What is the “big story” moving through your life? How do we practice partnership with that “something more”? The practice of InterPlay makes room for the fullness we each embody.

InterPlay recognizes and playfully engages the challenging aspects of our humanity as well. Bring your full self out to play, explore, dream and rest through the easy forms of InterPlay.

InterPlay is an artform that anyone can do, a spiritual practice for some, and a way to create community based on improvisation and play. Through simple incremental forms, participants are invited into movement, storytelling, song and connection. Find out more at http://www.interplay.org

WHEN: from 10:30- noon, the 4th Friday of every month

WHERE: The Atlanta Shambhala Center, 1447 Church St., Decatur, 30030

COST: Sliding scale $12-15 (No one turned away for lack of funds)

Jennifer Denning is the co-founder of Atlanta InterPlay and Director of the InterPlay performance group, Soulprint Players. As well as leading playshops throughout the metro area, Jennifer leads InterPlay at Lee Arrendale State Prison in partnership with Reforming Arts. Jennifer incorporates InterPlay into her work as a lead teaching artist with Synchronicity Theatre’s “Playmaking for Girls” program. Playmaking for Girls empowers incarcerated and “with hope” girls through the medium of play-writing, theatre games, and performance. Jennifer has a BFA in acting from Ohio University and worked professionally as an actor and improviser for many years. She is also an ordained New Church minister.

Debra Hiers comes to Interplay with a performance background in poetry and improvisational music. She is a certified Integral Coach with a MA in Humanistic Psychology and BA in Theater. Debra is a long-time student of Tibetan Buddhism, and a member of the Atlanta Shambhala Center since 1997. She is keenly interested in the relationship between meditation practice, mindfulness awareness, and creativity. As a Shambhala Guide she is authorized to give group meditation instruction.