What is Barefoot Play?
The Method
Barefoot Play is a workshop container that facilitates movement from a perspective of nourishment through the skill of listening. From here we can respond in alignment to what is present.
This is in contrary to the ways of the world in which we were raised. We were taught to conform and force ourselves to accomplish a specific outcome or standard in order to be ‘enough’ or accepted by others.
Barefoot Play workshops allow for the peeling off of these societal layers by holding a container of permission for those attending to be as they are. This allows access to universal truth where we can learn how to respond to life from the heart, rather than react to it from the mind. Integrating this principal in the moment-to-moment context of the present moment requires a safe movement container that permits mess and chaos. This is where Barefoot Play steps up to hold such a space.
It is in the relationships of our lives that we uncover the reason why we move. Once this is understood and adopted, we can move with intention and purpose.
Movement games and activities are used as a guiding mechanism to provide a scaffolding for the workshop. Many games and activities you can expect in this space derive from, but are not excluded to:
•Strength & Conditioning
•Parkour
•Gymnastics
•Various Meditation Practices
•Various Martial Arts
•Dance
•Improvisation
•Play-Fighting
The Practice
Play Workshop
Monday & Saturday Workshops
This workshop is facilitated rather than taught.
This is a space of permission and nourishment.
'There is no way this is supposed to go. There is no way this is supposed to look."
- Kyle Fincham
You will engage in partner and group games, as well as have space for unstructured play and improvisation.
This is the space where we integrate the skill of listening to heart resonance.

Movement Conditioning
Friday Class
•6-8 week long alternating program
Focused on the development of various physical skills such as:
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Hand-balancing | Organic strength
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Locomotion | Dexterity
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Mobility | Elasticity
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Coordination | Balance
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and more....
This is the class for those wanting to expand physical capacity.
We will also incorporate various meditation practices and methods to regulate the nervous system.


