I help organizations cultivate authenticity and deeper connections within their communities. Using an improvisational tool-set that taps into each person's unique somatic intelligence, I guide groups and individuals toward more authentic expressions of themselves, with unexpected ease.
Each experience is custom-designed to align with the unique needs and themes of your community, fostering growth and strengthening interpersonal dynamics. Participants experience gifts such as Safety and Play to have their full experience beyond the boundaries of right and wrong. Interactive and engaging, participants experience a rare blend of connection, intimacy, and lightness. Within this context, we work with larger issues affecting the group. No prior experience is required. All bodies are welcome.
Each experience is custom-designed to align with the unique needs and themes of your community, fostering growth and strengthening interpersonal dynamics. Participants experience gifts such as Safety and Play to have their full experience beyond the boundaries of right and wrong. Interactive and engaging, participants experience a rare blend of connection, intimacy, and lightness. Within this context, we work with larger issues affecting the group. No prior experience is required. All bodies are welcome.
Monisha has had the honor of serving these raving clients:
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Unity oF FairfaxPlay as Pathway: Body, Heart, Mind, and Spirit
August 11th, 2024, 45 minute introductory workshop The purpose of this workshop was for participants to discover Joy and Ease while experience connection with Unity community members in surprising ways. We creatively activated Unity's I AM principle using gentle movement and simple storytelling forms. Participants reported feeling:Connection, Euphoria, Comforted, and Enough-ness. |
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Embodied Enquiry Playgroup First Playgroup: March - May 2023
Second Playgroup: May 21st - July 2nd, 2023 Life has a way of throwing us in situations or challenges we don’t necessarily know how to respond to. This playgroup uses Embodied Play to provide resources such as Safety, Presence and Alignment through your Physicality. Come to unfold with the flow of your life, rather than against it.
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InterPlay Life Practice Program DC (In Person!) Monthly Saturdays, 10 am - 5:30 pm ET
2024 (and 2023): Jan 14, Feb 11, March 11, April 8th 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. |
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"Beautiful!" "Enabled discovery for me in new and unusual ways"
"Amazing!" "A rich experience" "I moved with no pain"
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Embodying Flow: Upleveling Receptivity October 22, 2022, 4 pm - 6:00 pm ET
When we move with the flow of our life, we enhance our ability to Receive and co-create our desires. In this workshop, participants play with embodying the experience of Flow and Receiving and with tools that activate the art of Receiving in their life. Discover moving from the place of your Inner Ease. This class welcomes All to the life-affirming practices of InterPlay. Sliding Scale: $20 - $40 (25% donated to Dance Chapel) Registration Closed. Remembering our Birthrights June 11-13th, 2022, InterPlay BIPOC Family Reunion
Co-lead with Theresa Cunningham. A BIPOC space gives us room to remember who we are as ourselves. This segment of the annual BIPOC retreat led participants through creative vocal and movement prompts to discover and reclaim birthright practices and ways of being. From our physicality, we created a unique poetry. Then wove these offerings together as a Poem from our Group body. Its strength and beauty defied our imagination. |
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"Life changing" "Awesome"
"A shared intimacy"
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Standing on Higher Ground: Discover your Holy No's and Yes' June 4, 2022, 9:30 am - 12:30 pm Defining our boundaries means embracing more freedom and joy. This workshop helped participants creatively explore Yes's and No's in alignment with their heart, body and soul. Using improvised movement, music, story, meditation and journaling, we explored an issue or situation causing tension in our life. Exploring tension and agreements through our physicality, partipants found more pathways and broader sets of choices by connecting to their inherent wholeness and inner power.
Supported by Martha Stokely. "I had a body breakthrough!" "The music was moving" Loving the World All over Again May 20-22, 2022, Wellspring Conference Center, MD
Co-lead by six Interplay leaders in the Washington DC area ,a group of 30 conspired to lean into loving the world all over again in the natural green surroundings of the Wellspring center. Through movement, poetry, sound, and more, we played and created until space and time expanded themselves to hold all we had brought and more. W/Kate & Billy Amoss, Robin Carnes, Liz Lecault, Doug Farnum The Radical Act of Underdoing February 6, 2021. Co-led with Kate Amoss, and Robin Carnes
Though nature works in cycles, most of us were raised with the adage to give 110% at all times. What if...our guiding principle was underdoing? What if we approached our tasks with more ease? Participants played with one of the four primary movements with sound and storytelling to explore the radical act of UNDERDOING. |
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