Wild Play Lab

Embrace Your weird

Face your fears and unleash your creativity! This month's theme is unearthing the uniqueness of YOU. The strange and wonderful puzzle that makes up who you are. The beautiful pieces that can sometimes get left behind in the adult world. Wild Play Lab invites you to stir the playful pot and fully embrace your whole weird and wonderful self.

Wild Play uses play, theatre and improvisation to bring awareness to our unconscious behavioural patterns, and begin to consciously dismantle our limiting habits in a fun, accessible and safe environment.

Using play as a tool for personal transformation, we'll explore techniques that can unlock creative blocks, release stored tension and create more space for our intuitive self to emerge.

This is a deep and powerful practice of getting ‘out of our heads’, trusting the wisdom of our body to reveal to us the secrets hiding beneath the cracks of our bones waiting to be heard. Through creativity, movement and group work we learn how to truly listen & connect; both to ourselves and each other. A crisp awareness arises and we discover our unique rhythm that is distinct to us alone.

Taking inspiration from children and animals, we regress to the primal self. The one that crawls, climbs, and is innately curious about the world. The primal self is in tune with what is all around and within them, and it is our journey to rediscover those lost and forgotten parts and welcome them back home. Let’s dive deep into the marrow of our being and share our story.

This workshop includes elements of the following:

• Improvisation
• Imaginative play
• Clowning
• Movement/animal flow & stretching
• Solo & group work
• Physical theatre
• Intuitive vocal freedom

Keywords: Curiosity, fluidity , fun, freedom, flow, play, silliness, unblock,  embodiment, creativity, inner child

Doors at 11:00 and close at 11:15 Late comers may not be allowed entry. 

Facilitator Bio

Dani is a performer, movement & play practitioner, activist and workshop designer. She has a playful and sensitive approach, combining a range of disciplines including storytelling, meditation, dance/embodiment, physical theatre and clowning.

Dani is the founder of Wild Play Lab; curating workshops, retreats and facilitating the unfolding of play as a tool for self transformation and wellbeing. She has recently created a new project called Rewilding Our Bodies; a journey to discover your ‘bodymind’. The knowing that emerges from tuning in to the sensations and subtle energies of the body.

Wild Play Lab has formed collaborations across the UK with Mind Over Monkey, The Psychedelic Society, The Collective, House of Togetherness, Noisily Festival, Poetry Cafe, Extinction Rebellion, Shine Charity, Beat Charity and Bootstrap Charity.

Dani is currently training with The Flying Seagull Project, a charity spreading joy throughout the world, through music, art, circus, dance and theatre. She's also training with Tough Cookie as a mental resilience coach to help people improve their mental resilience by equipping them with practical skills to manage thoughts and emotions.

Dani has worked as an international performer, director and workshop facilitator for over 10 years. She has worked extensively in film, theatre, radio and TV, and has toured internationally with collectives & self devised shows

Organisations she has worked with include:

The BBC, The British Youth Filming Academy, Contact Youth Actors Company at Contact Theatre (Manchester), The Royal Exchange Youth Company (Manchester), CYAC (Contact Young Actors Company) and Blue Eyed Soul Dance Company.

Dani is currently signed with acting agent ‘The Narrow Road Company.’

Training includes:

• Teatr Pieśń Kozła / Song of the Goat Theatre
• East 15 Acting School (BA Acting)
• Rose Bruford College
• Jon Davis Clowning School
• The Comedy School - Mick Barnfather
• The British Youth Filming Academy

Feed Back/Comments 

 "My experience of our play session, felt like a human fountain. A bubbling of beautifully guided and human spontaneous movement and play. It was amazing in a way that is hard to put into words for me. It felt like a really natural way of being, of playing, allowing the child self that always sits inside the freedom to unfold without judgment. Dani's sensitivity to the whole, and the way she guided us and nudged us softly in different directions felt really natural and balanced." Asher Sai B'Hahn -

"I couldn't have imagined that I was showing up for something quite so special. Dani has an incredible presence, she holds such a safe and comfortable space and I really gained so much from this workshop. Thank you so much, I really needed this experience, I can't wait to come back!" - Tara. C

"What a wonderful play session that was. This time it felt incredibly delicate and tender as well as the usual contagious laughter. Dani holds the group well, is dynamic to the needs of the group. Pulled up and out of yourself so you can feel you have left your old skin behind. Shinny and new' - Charlie R.

"Dani's facilitating was magical. I felt like I was softly guided into the world of play without even realising that she was taking me there, and then she held me there so gently and unobtrusively that a whole world could develop around me that was beautifully expansive, but also completely safe!" - Maddy Li 

EVENT DETAILS

TICKET PRICES: £10-£20
DOORS OPEN: 11:00
NO ENTRY AFTER: 11:15
To avoid disruption to the event, latecomers may not be admitted.

ENQUIRIES: wildplaylab@gmail.com

REFUND POLICY: We do not arrange refunds or exchanges. When possible we encourage using reselling on Ticketswap.
ACCESS: We are sorry to say we do not yet have wheelchair access at our Homerton Space.
Our UK events are intended for a sober audience. We kindly ask you to respect this request.

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