Playful Living

Service Description

We can easily get in the cycle (trap) of pausing our day-to-day life every once in a while (when we feel out of balance) to connect with joy and play. These energies involve using imagination to explore life beyond limits, creating a joyful existence. Play allows us to choose our path, set personal rules, and focus on the present, valuing the journey over the destination while re-creating our experiences with a lighthearted approach. Engaging with others enhances this process. In this four-week course, we'll examine tools and practices that allow us to experience all facets of our lives as a playground, cultivating a more joyful, easeful, and content life. Each week, we guide you through practices that help you notice, build, and live in joy, using tools you already have in your daily life. We’ll meditate, play, and reflect together, creating a practice that lets joy flourish. According to research by Peter Gray PhD, a psychology professor at Boston College, true play has to meet five conditions; paraphrased here: - play is a choice; self-chosen & self-directed - self-created rules from our internal environment (heart/mind) not external - nonserious & imaginative - present moment awareness (alert, active, nonstressed frame of mind) - the act of play is more important than the outcomes Together we’ll explore how these five conditions of play can guide us to engage life with a light heart and an open mind, supported by the practices of mindfulness, meditation, gratitude, appreciation, imagination, and energy (qi). Joy is contagious! When we come together as a group, we amplify that energy, and it becomes easier to live in joy, every day. Our four weekly sessions are Tuesdays in March from 6:00p-7:00pm ET. Playful Living is offered for a $60 investment in mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being of your life (which results in more physical well-being, too)! Love what we do? Consider supporting us at the Patron Level for $90. This helps us continue this work and affords us the ability to offer scholarships. If the $60 investment is just too much right now, you can choose the $15 scholarship level. Sign-up Today!