In-Person Offerings
Shift Happens Presents:
PLAY IT FORWARD
A 3-part workshop series to help you shift your state, soften your inner critic, and build your joy tolerance — through embodied play.
In this 3-part series, you’ll learn practical tools for shifting your state through embodied play, movement, and ritual. You’ll reconnect with parts of yourself that are wise, wild, and deeply alive.
Because joy isn’t only a reward for healing... it’s also part of the work.
And most of us have a lower tolerance for joy than we do for pain.
It’s easier to over-effort. To stay in self-analysis mode. To forget that joy is a resource and a rebellion. Especially when the world feels heavy, reconnecting to your inner compass of delight is what makes life feel worth living. It's not about bypassing, it’s about finding balance.
These workshops are silly, soulful, and low-pressure. You’ll move, laugh, create, and leave with simple, repeatable practices to bring joy into your real life.
Come to one or all three.
Bring your curiosity, your stuckness, your good intentions... and let’s play!
If you're ready to have SO MUCH FUN and move some energy, these workshops are for you.
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... or keep reading to find out more about each offering:
WORKSHOP 1:
Transformative Play
Awaken the Wonder Within
Next Date: Tuesday, June 17th from 5pm - 7pm
Location: Fern Hill Park in NE Portland, OR
Cost: Sliding scale $5 - $60 (Suggested: $30)
Remember when everything felt like magic? When you could turn a stick into a wand, a cape into a superpower, or a field into a kingdom? That version of you still exists — and it has something to teach you.
In this energizing, full-body workshop, we use movement, mindfulness, and embodied play to tap back into the awe, aliveness, and silly brilliance of childhood. You’ll explore themed play stations (obstacle course, finger paint, body paint, superhero dress-up, parachute play), practice being fully in your body, and connect with others in playful, pressure-free ways. Permission to be weird. To be soft. To be curious.
You’ll leave with:
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A joyful reconnection to your playful self
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Insights into how embodiment supports change
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A renewed sense of presence, wonder, and possibility
Come as you are. No performance, costumes, or past experience needed. Just bring your willingness to move, explore, and get a little messy.
WORKSHOP 2:
The Trickster Within
Disrupt your stuck patterns with play, perspective, and embodied mischief.
Next Date: Tuesday, July 1st, 2025 at 5pm-7pm PT
Location: Fern Hill Park in NE Portland
Cost: Sliding scale $5 - 60 (suggested: $30)
You don’t have to fight your inner critic — you can outwit it!
This workshop invites you to tap into the Trickster archetype: the playful, mischievous part of you that knows how to slip through stuckness, laugh at rigid rules, and try something new just because. Through movement, games, silly rituals, and irreverent props, we’ll explore what happens when you stop over-efforting and start experimenting.
Permission to be weird. To be curious. To interrupt your own patterns — on purpose.
You’ll leave with:
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A playful reframe for your “stuck” places
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More flexibility in body, thought, and spirit
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A reminder that joy and mischief are healing forces, too
Come ready to break your own rules — gently, joyfully, and in community.
WORKSHOP 3:
Make Your Own Magic
Design your own rituals for joy, resilience, and real-life transformation.
Next Date: Tuesday July 15th, 2025 at 5pm-7pm PT
Location: Fern Hill Park in NE Portland
Cost: Sliding Scale $5 - $60 (suggested: $30)
When life feels heavy, it’s easy to forget that joy is within reach. In this workshop, we’ll guide you through a playful, embodied journey to reconnect with your joy and creativity. By tapping into your inner playfulness, you’ll shift your energy and create your own personalized “State Shift Emergency Kit”—a collection of rituals, objects, and practices to help you reclaim your power and move through life with more ease.
Through movement, creativity, and embodied play, you’ll:
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Tap into a playful part of yourself to shift your energy and perspective
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Create your personal potion and ritual for shifting your state
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Explore movement and exercises that release stuck energy and reconnect you to your body
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Build simple, repeatable practices to bring joy and ease into your daily life
You’ll walk away with a new ritual that works for you, an embodied connection to your inner playfulness, and a community of “play pals” to support your journey.
This isn’t just about feeling better; it’s about learning to move through life with more joy, more play, and more magic.
If you're ready to have so much fun AND move through some stuckness, these workshops are for you.
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Shift Happens Presents:
Workout PLAYout!
Movement that feels like recess, not a workout.
This 60-minute class is designed to get you moving, laughing, sweating, and reconnecting with your body in a way that feels natural—not forced.
We’ll start with a little mindfulness and reflection to get grounded, then move through games, playful movement, and free-form exercises that help you loosen up and let go. You might find yourself skipping, squatting to toss beanbags, pretending the floor is lava, or channeling your best sneaky jungle cat.
The goal? Feel alive. Shake off the day. Move in a way that feels good—not punishing.
This class is for you if:
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You want to move your body but don't like the idea of a “workout”
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You’re curious about embodiment, but don’t want a serious or super structured class
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You’re ready to feel more joy, presence, and possibility—through play
You don’t need any special skills or gear. Just wear something you can move in, bring sunscreen, a water bottle, and your willingness to be a little silly.
Let’s work it out by playing it out.
Time & Location TBD!
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