Current Mindful Improv Events…
A Word about Mindful Improv…
The blended practices of Mindfulness and Improv Comedy are a natural fit. They form a powerful, integrated tool for insight, transformation, and creativity. The combination makes
- Mindfulness practice a lot more creative & fun, and
- Improvisation more user-friendly & grounded … and its invaluable skillset more easily transferrable to our everyday life
And … it’s a total hoot!
Check Out Our (past) Mindful Improv Class as Featured on NH Chronicle! (click here, scroll to 2:44)
Other Past Mindful Improv Events…
5-wk. Series
Ever been curious about improvisational comedy? (Or want a deeper experience with it?) Do you feel motivated to grow as an individual…or to connect with your inner child, cultivate creativity, resilience, and an ability to speak on your feet…? Or, are you simply ready to meet some fun, new people?
Last question: Do you want to laugh…really, REALLY laugh?
This Mindful Improv training will connect you with the mindful community AND the powerful tools and inner resources you’ve been looking for!
Across this 5-week span, you’ll learn improv’s foundational skills in real time. You will also learn to BREATHE MINDFULLY, and move through the room with with MINDFULLNESS. Each interactive class will get you right up onto your feet and learning how to
○ “yes, and…” (affirm and add to) suggestions
○ create and play engaging characters
○ work through personal resistances and roadblocks with ease
○ reconnect with your inner child, and
○ effortlessly tap into your creative depths
Through active listening, advanced breathing techniques, and safe risk-taking in a supportive learning environment, you will continue to surprise yourself with how resourceful and playful you really are! ☺
Led by experienced improviser, and senior yoga & meditation teacher, Jim Readey
SUGGESTED DONATIONS:
Early Bird: To register for the 5-wk. series (by 11 p.m., July 10, 2021), click immediately below ($119*):
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Previous Improv Events:
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To Help w/ our Website’s visibility, we’re including the following info — which may or may not be worth your reading (as it may be repetitive):
Mindful Improv with Jim and Tyler
July 20 @ 6:45 pm – 9:00 pm
Mindful Improv
1. SAT. Oct. 5 (1-4 p.m.): Intro to Mindful Improv Workshop (Yoga by Donaton, Portsmouth NH)
Find self-discovery through social design in this unique Mindful Improv Workshop. It will be an experience where laughter will carry the energy of healing. Social constructs help you through any bumps in any day.
Discover how laughter unites us all through Mindful Improv. We will discover just how healing joy and fun can be in this Workshop. Since humor is an energy that flows through the core of our being, we will track and follow the many ways “humor-energy” allows us to grow — especially, by growing into more magnificent versions of ourselves. In this experience, you will rediscover your own inner light through the art of mindful play.
This will happen as a result of the Mindfulness Improvisation Workshop offered at our studio, YbD (Yoga by Donation)
A minimum of 6 students will be required to hold this workshop.
Register Now, Earlybird price expires 7.13.2019
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The workshop is co-facilitated by senior yoga instructor Jim Readey and professional improviser Tyler Paterson.
Experience the joy of Mindful Improv (Self Discovery Through Social Design). You are guaranteed to find this interactive workshop to be supportive of your spiritual or personal growth journey.
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Do you hesitate when change comes your way? LIkewise, do you drop into fear when something new wants to be introduced into your life? Learn how to say “Yes!” to new ideas (and to yourself!).
In this workshop you will practice the artful, relaxed and effortless ways to create hilarious situations on the spot! We will also integrate yogic breathing tools to navigate any given situation with clarity and ease.
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This Mindful Improv event will have everyone comfortably engaged and on their feet within the first few minutes. Moreover, Jim and Tyler will reveal the skills and philosophies behind each game (and how they translate into everyday life!). By evening’s end, you’ll have experienced a belly full of laughs. The night will fly by while you make real human connections. While you practice presence and mindfulness, you will accumulate memories you won’t stop talking about. (Hope your friends are patient!)
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The presenters will provide a safe, intentional, and nurturing space so you can discover the joy of connecting with your inner child. And your experience will jumpstart the process of knowing a greater sense of wholeness.
Previous students of Mindful Improv have walked away with a sense of re-discoverey. In their workshop experience, many found some essential, missing pieces of their life — joy, spontaneity, creative juiciness…
The improv process includes such exercises as creating believable characters from scratch. Another self-discovery tool included is learning how to actively listen — by so doing one can also respond with honesty. Most significantly, each participant comes to understand that there is no such thing as failure. Deepening that understanding, we remember that everything the Universe throws our way is a gift that we can spin in our favor.
Have you been looking for a positive and yet uplifting activity of full connection? A connection that includes a link to mind, body, and spirit? If so, then follow the link to your creative potential (and funny bone!)…
So here you go: The beautiful melting pot that is Mindful Improv has arrived to open your heart and mind with laughter.
Come and experience first hand how significant a difference 2 hours can make in you life. The workshop is worth double the workshop fee offered at YBD for half the cost!
This can be the best $40 you ever spent realizing and enjoying first-hand experience of the joy and togetherness of Mindful Improv — we promise, it will open up astounding new worlds of possibility!
$40 per student. ($34 if paid by July 13)
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM on July 20th at Yoga By Donation,
Doors open at 6:30pm
Portsmouth, NH
Read more about Jim Readey here.
Read more about Tyler Paterson here, a Second City alumni
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INTRO to (All-Levels) IMPROV (workshop)
Sunday, May 26, 4:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Payment: For early bird special, register for this workshop by noon, May 19) by clicking immediately below ($30*):
FREE Showcase, Saturday, April 13, 7-9 p.m. — Audience participatory…jump onstage with us! [clickhere for free tickets]
Improv Showcase: Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019(7-9 pm)
SPECIAL Improv Showcase ~ Jump Onstage & Play with Us!
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Foundational & MUSICAL IMPROV ~ Learn to Make Up Your Own Songs, Instantly!
Learn musical improv with veteran musician and professional improviser Tyler Paterson!
Early Bird: To register for the Sun. Jan 27 workshop (AND PAYING BY noon Sun. Jan. 20.), click immediately below ($30):
If paying regular fee within the 7 days leading up to the event, click below ($36):
Note: Day-of fee is $40…register now, and save!
Learn musical improv with veteran musician Tyler Paterson!
Part 1: Two-Hr. Music Improv Workshop:
This class will be completely interactive (everyone will participate!) and cover many of the fundamentals behind improvising a musical number. From understanding song structure, to emulating vocal and character styles, to incorporating movement, both beginning and experienced improvisers will discover new ways to stand in front of a group and confidently belt out a song.
The best part is…YOU DON’T EVEN HAVE TO BE A GOOD SINGER!
These techniques will help you gain more confidence and find more joy in your life.
Part 2: One-Hr. “Improv Fundamentals” Workshop:
Next we’ll zero in on fundamentals starting with 2-person scenes, focusing on
○ how to ground yourself in reality and then explore the silly
○ different ways to interpret audience suggestions
○ yes-and’ing
○ how to read a scene, and
○ bringing awareness to the deeper truths in scenework.
♠ Everything will be tied together with improv philosophy. ♠
Note: Participants must be 18+ to participate. Space is limited!
♦♦ Instructor: Tyler Paterson ♦♦
Tyler Paterson is a graduate of Second City Chicago, iO (formerly Improv Olympic), and the Annoyance theater. He worked professionally on the aforementioned stages before touring as a founding member of the music comedy trio The Shock T’s. Now, he’s bringing his knowledge and insight back to the East Coast and couldn’t be more excited.
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Past workshop(s) below ..
Next date, just added (!): Friday June __, 2018(7:00-9:30 pm)
Bonus: Pay by 8:00 p m., Fri., for early bird pricing ($22)
Learn to create on the spot — it’s fun and oh-so-simple to do, when you know the secret!
Reserve your spot for the spontaneity/improv workshop now! [Note: We welcome beginners…we’re all “beginners”, really! It doesn’t matter what level of experience you have, or don’t have, because the workshop is presented in a very gentle, user-friendly way. The focus is always on mindfulness and fun! Please contact Jim if you have any questions at all. (yogaphile@yahoo.com)]
Early Registrations: To register for the Friday, March Spontaneity Training (Improv) workshop ~ and you’re paying before 8:00 p.m. Friday, April 13 ~ click immediately below ($22):
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“Relaxed Registrations”: For “11th hour” registrations for this Improv workshop (after the early bird deadline but not “day of”),click immediately below ($29):
Description
That is exactly what improv is like…playing for the sake of play. Having fun and building together, rather than competing. And that is how it’ll be offered when you come join us.
…Oh! and the belly laughter is really good for your core…scientific studies say so!!!
P.S
Although we use improv comedy games and exercises, and each workshop is filled with laughter and creative silliness, our focus is not primarily about performance. It is so much more.
What we’re really learning to do in these workshops is
○ expand our brain’s bandwidth
○ tap into our creativity
○ trust spontaneity
○ cultivate presence & calm
○ flow easily between the brain’s left and right hemispheres
○ become better at listening and empathizing
○ cooperate with other beings
○ rediscover our funny bone
○ have fun and experience joy
So, yeah, we’re playing with many of the fun improv tools ‘n’ toys you’ve seen on Whose Line is it, Anyway? But it’s really about training ourselves to think, and act, differently. We’re learning to respond to life in a spontaneously creative, imaginative, and — ultimately — more effective way. While it is, in fact, all fun & games, it’s not reallyall just fun & games. Well, it is and it isn’t…it’s actually both…at the same time…if you know what I mean.
Whether you’ve been away for awhile, or have never tried anything like this before, it’s time! With all that’s happening in the world around us (you fill in that blank, yourself), now is a very important time to remember to laugh!
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