Practices & Tools

Practices & Tools are used to effect a purpose, helping to facilitate an activity or process towards achieving an aim or upholding the behaviors, principles, values, beliefs, etc.   Disciplines become accepted or habitual practices when it no longer requires effort or discipline to enact them.  It’s just how we do it!  Tools help us enact disciplines and practices.

Types of practices that support our Shared purpose:

1. Somatic – Awareness of Body Sensations

2. Emotional – Welcoming Feelings 

3. Mental – Exploring Thoughts

4. Environmental – Attunement with Nature

5. Dynamic Governance – Harnessing Collective Intelligence 

6. Integrated Economic System – Egalitarian Member-Owned Collective

Many of our practices are based on the principles of “Interplay” which are as follows:

1. Interplay is an active, creative practice to connect to and unlock the wisdom and joy of your body, all while cultivating meaningful community connections.

2. We use movement, sound, storytelling, stillness, and contact to provide a powerful forum for creative expression, self-exploration, connection, and play.

3. We play with our prayers, concerns, hopes, dreams for our self and the others to free and lift us up from what holds us back so we can creatively move forward in our life.

4. We improvise and create in a safe space which builds trust, invites intimacy and allows for deep expression.

5. Invitation to come as you are.

6. The focus is on exploration, authenticity, joyous yet real personal and group expression – all you need is a willingness to be present and engaged. 

Some other examples of practices:

1. Song Circles/Kirtan/Chanting/Toning

2. Group Games (indoor and outdoor, team games and individual games)

3. Ecstatic Dance

4. Meditation

5. Group Ritual Practices and Celebrations to honor moments, events, holidays, etc...

6. Movement Meditation exercise practice (Yoga, Chi Gong)

7. Aerobic Exercise (Sports, Dance, Run, Swim, Hike, Strength Training, etc...)

8. Gratitude Games

9. Alchemy of Approval

10. Expressing and Meeting Needs

11. Dietary Practice