✨Community Play Date✨

Its time to come together in play, ridiculousness, laughter, and expression!✨🧚🏼

SPECIAL DRUM CIRCLE ADDITION FOR THIS COMMUNITY PLAY DATE!

*bring your own lawn or beach chair if you'd like to sit during the drum circle portion of this event, we will have limited seating, but the earth is always a welcoming seat!

This is a community event that has a focus on the child: our children we've brought into this world, and the inner child within us who is still craving silliness and exploration!

Every month we're going to dive into movement & play that intrigues, excites, and invites our children to dance, yell, make a mess, destroy, create, and live in a free, true, and wild way.

This will be a protected container, which means that there will be boundaries held during the classes to protect children and individual personal body boundaries. Things like: not being picked up or touched without permission and consent from the individual (or parent/caregiver), no judgements of peoples choice of expressions or lack of expressions (remembering that judgement is a mirror of our own insecurities), and kind/respectful/honoring language being used when speaking to others within the container. I will do my best to hold these specific boundaries as the host of this event (I take this very seriously), but I am an advocate for you to use this space to practice placing and holding loving boundaries for yourself and for your children, because we all have different limits and to understand you we need to hear you!

💖These gatherings are flexible and fun, incorporating a lot of body movement, dancing, singing, chanting, and overall chaos.

💖Most of us are taught to suppress our emotions and feelings, so we suppress our voice and movements- this is a space to practice coming back into our bodies and voices.

💖Children (and us adults) need safe outlets for their weird, crazy, fun expressions of emotions and feelings.

💖Its time to remember the magic of bubbles, ribbon wands, silly dancing, breath, and fascination with our human experience. Its time for an inner child reclamation!

This months run down of our time together:

ʕ·ᴥ·ʔ Welcome time: welcoming everyone into the circle and beginning to move the energy with shakey eggs and songs!

ʕ·ᴥ·ʔ Drum Circle time: exploration of movement and instruments like shakey eggs, drums, tambourines, and more! Rainbow parachute adventures will also be a part of circle time!

ʕ·ᴥ·ʔ Sensory time: sensory and art exploration stations like: paints, chalk, markers, and of course, bubble stations!

ʕ·ᴥ·ʔ Bubble party: giant bubbles, little bubbles, and bubbles of sizes in between!

ʕ·ᴥ·ʔ Connection time: clean up time, drumfirmations (affirmations with drumming!), and om circle closing

🧚🏼BENEFITS OF PLAY FOR ADULTS

✨relieve stress ✨improve relationships/connection ✨boost creativity ✨open and move energy through the chakras ✨develops social skills ✨increase energy ✨decrease burnout ✨increase in laughter/smiling (which has many physical, mental, and emotional benefits)

https://www.helpguide.org/.../benefits-of-play-for-adults...

🧚🏼WHAT IS THE INNER CHILD?

The inner child is an archetype (think of it like a mascot) of our personality that holds all of the lived experiences of our past. When we get back in touch with our inner child through play, visualizations, letters, and other tools, we make space for healing those parts of our experiences that were hard or challenging for us as children. It gives us more space to look at our beliefs that we formed because of these years and took into our adulthood that might not be quite serving us!

https://www.healthline.com/health/inner-child

💖So i invite you and your families to join me, Cierra, to party and play with me outdoors!

MONTHLY THEMES:

July theme: Playful movement (learning how to come back into our bodies) August theme: Beats & Bubbles (learning how to drum!) September theme: Gettin' Messy (sensory explorations) October theme: TBD November theme: TBD December theme: TBD

MEET THE HOSTS:

ABOUT CIERRA:

💖Cierra Dae is a toddler nanny of 8 years with a special focus in emotional intelligence and regulation with littles through mindfulness and somatic expression tools. A lover of humanity and connection, desiring the truest and most authentic and transparent expressions of self. Expanding and opening hearts through playing with the yin and yang energies, practicing and hosting pause + play to nurture peace, acceptance, and joy.

ABOUT HEATHER DERIGO:

Heather DeRigo: Musician- ( Drummer/ Percussionist, Singer) Artist ( Drawings, Paintings, Graphic Arts and Henna Art ( EasttoWestHenna.com & @East2WestHenna on Instagram ) Drum Circle Facilitator for Rhythm Rise Drum Circles and Rhythm events ( RhythmRise.com and on Facebook- RhythmRise)- Loving Mom and Cheerleader for Conscious Parenting and Human potential. Heather taught Music and Art for 10+ years in Montessori schools - grew up in a professional Musician family and immersed in all the performing Arts( Music Dance, Visual Arts, Acting) and went on to get an Art degree, perform Music with many Bands and Artists and develop myself in the area of Personal Growth. Now she combines her Creative expressions with her Love for helping empower children and Adults to live more JoyFULLY through the powerful transformational qualities of Music and Art.

IMPORTANT DETAILS

💖This gathering is $10 for attending adults and $5 for attending children!

💖ALL ages are welcome and encouraged

💖Parks are free to enter.

💖Gatherings are weather permitting. If classes are cancelled, an email will be sent out to all sign ups as well as a notification post in my instagram stories + facebook page. If you purchased a ticket for a cancelled class, you can use the value towards a future class(es).

WHAT TO BRING:

💖Bring a blanket/towel/something to sit on for the space when our bodies need rest

💖Water water water! Snacks are always a good call too, especially if you have little ones.

💖Your presence and humility- this is a container for fun, expression, and weird. Leave the expectations at home and let things be free to come through!

HOW TO FIND US IN FLORA WYLIE:

Follow the yellow brick road (tapestry) hanging in a tree. We'll be near the parking lot off of North Shore Dr NE under the tree next to the picnic table if available. If that location isn't available, the new location will be posted on my social media but will typically be in the same general area.

LINKS:

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