Saturday November 30th

10.15 - 5.00pm

A Clown Healing day provides the chance to explore your playfulness, silliness and sense of fun in a safe space.

The intention is to create emotional freedom and release through the art of play and the craft of clowning. The workshop is aimed at ordinary humans who want to release stress, open up to others, laugh out loud, build confidence, step out of their usual personas and rediscover their sense of aliveness and creativity. All in a day's work really.

From Ailon's perspective, "The Clown' is an internal facilitator or bridge that helps us connect with the playful inner child that we all carry within (yet which sometimes gets lost in serious adult life.)

Here's what to expect:

10.15 onwards- arrival, teas and wees. Opening circle

10.45- Gentle group games and silly dancing to loosen the body, open the emotions and neutralise the mind

12.15 - Clown Skills 101- an introduction to basic clowning skills such as mime, exaggeration, silliness, spontaneity and misbehaviour. These will all be explored through group games and we will feel the support and affirmation of the group energy

1.30-2.30 - Communal Shared lunch

2.30-4.30 - Meeting your inner clown. Through the use of costumes, music and carefully designed clown exercises we will say hello to our inner mischief-maker and fool. (You could just call it your inner clown if you prefer).

4.30 - Winding down and closing circle. De-briefing the experience and integrating the journey

If all goes well, you will have glimpsed how Clown Healing is a catalyst for many aspects of personal and spiritual development including: Self-expression, Creativity, Humility, Acceptance, Vulnerability, Present Moment Living, Mindfulness, Spontaneity, Connection, Authenticity, Joy, Going with the flow.

Hear what others have said about the experience:-

"A Clown Healing day is like medicine for the soul."

"The chance to play, release the inner child, find our inner ridiculous and support each other’s emergence is a rare treasure in such a demanding world."

"I lost three things from your workshop- a stiff body, a numb heart and a disease called seriousness"

“Clown Healing was the missing piece to my wellness plan”

"Ailon holds a safe and deep space for exploration and the mixture of solo experimenting, group mime and playful scenes made for an enriching Sunday. A bit like going to stupid clown church."

About your trainer Ailon Freedman:

Ailon's adult life has been devoted to the synthesis and marriage of spiritual practice with humour and playfulness. He has worked as an artist, yoga teacher, corporate facilitator and public speaking coach, as well as a comedian, clown, drummer and bodyworker. Clown Healing is the product of this diverse range of experiences. Its combination of mime, improvisation, dance and clowning with mindfulness, emotional expression and vulnerability creates a visceral spiritual practice that enlivens the body, liberates the emotions and energises the soul. Ailon developed this work while running week long Clown Healing trainings in China between 2015-2018. 

Ailon is also writing a book on this practice and you can read a synopsis here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QX2tIrAkvs_DxM2b9qXTcIyoMVoCYUQns_r4ffZ-h5Y/edit