Spirited Improv

Spirited Improv Transformational Playspace of the Heart. Improv as Spiritual Practice. Community Playshops to Be the Change. But you've been scared of failing.

It's time to do the purposeful work that satisfies your Soul. Likely you’ve been noticing all kinds of inklings, impulses, and visions urging you to step into a new direction with your work and life. It’s possible that you’ve been suppressing these deeper callings for months or even years. It’s likely that you have wondered if feeling more soul satisfaction and authentic joy will involve pioneerin

g your own path--starting your own business or re-inventing your career. Worried about making a bold new choice and getting it wrong. What if-ing yourself out the whazoo about what others might think of you. Ending up cast as someone Bad instead of Good. And questioning your own abilities, whether you're even good enough to make this vision real. Deep down though you know it's time. Time to come out of hiding. Time to stop pretending or even lying. Time to stop letting shame keep you smaller than you are. You’re ready to break free of the boxes, roles, facades, expectations, and labels that suppress you. You know that the world does not benefit from you limiting your unique talents – as the work you’re being called to do will make such a positive difference for others. It's time to be who you were born to be. Let's make the most of this precious life. I'm here to support you. Let's do the inner work that is needed to usher in your most soul-satisfying chapter yet. It's time to unleash your full power, purpose, and potential. Only then will the world benefit from your greatest contribution. https://www.jessicachiltonspark.com

At Spirited Improv, we gather to transform through improvisation.By practicing spontaneous expression in a radically acc...
09/07/2026

At Spirited Improv, we gather to transform through improvisation.

By practicing spontaneous expression in a radically accepting space, we build trust, awaken creativity, and experience personal transformation in real time. Improv becomes the language through which we connect, heal, and belong.

Join us! Learn more about a series on our website. Link in bio.

09/07/2026

I love Joyce. And after being in 5 group series, Joyce has become a pillar within the Spirited Improv community. She brings so much love and honesty, joy and grief, willingness to play in all kinds of creative ways, and openness to connection. She makes lasting friendships in Spirited Improv because of her beautiful heart. And I always light up when she walks into the room.

She speaks to something important to me. Everyone can show up to Spirited Improv exactly as they are. We create a space where we can sit with discomfort and play with delight. We accept what is and create what our heart knows is possible.

May we each find the spaces that support us to be exactly who we are...as we are in each moment.

Thank you, Joyce, for always sharing so honestly.

WHAT IS A PLAYSHOP?This is not traditional improvisation. Spirited Improv is a unique fusion of expressive arts, spiritu...
09/06/2026

WHAT IS A PLAYSHOP?
This is not traditional improvisation. Spirited Improv is a unique fusion of expressive arts, spiritual practice, and group play that helps you release fear, trust the unknown, and show up as your truest self. No experience necessary.

Join a 6-week journey of soulful improv, authentic expression, and community connection.

NEW SERIES BEGINS NEXT WEEK
Wednesday Evenings in Swannanoa begins Sept 9
Tuesday afternoons in Montford begins Sept 15

CURIOUS BUT NOT READY TO JOIN?
Join us for the very first playshop of our multi-week series and if you love your first playshop (and we think you will), then you'll have the opportunity to register for the remainder of the series. Details on our website. Link in profile. Click on the series you're interested in for instructions.

We're looking for improvisational musicians to join our heart-centered playshops at Spirited Improv.We'd love to hear fr...
09/04/2026

We're looking for improvisational musicians to join our heart-centered playshops at Spirited Improv.

We'd love to hear from you if you play guitar, harmonium, shruti box, keyboard, handpan, drums, violin, or another instrument-- especially if you play more than one. What matters most is your comfort improvising alongside a room full of open-hearted humans in motion.

If you're willing to offer musical support whenever that is needed during our improvisational group play, your registration is free. As well as bringing musical gifts, you're a full on participant, free to receive whatever the experience brings you.

PLAYSHOP SERIES DAYS/TIMES:

Tuesdays, 12:00 - 2 pm in Montford

Sept 15, 22, 29, Oct 6, 13, 20

Wednesdays 5:30 - 7:30 pm in Swannanoa

Sept 9, 16, 23, 30, Oct 7, October 14

Can't commit to all 6 weeks? You're welcome to join us as a musical guest on whichever dates work for you.

Tag musical hearty humans here and reach out to [email protected] if you're interested in bringing musical support as we connect, heal, transform, and create a more loving world together.

Someone arrives at Spirited Improv. They want certainty. They want a plan.They want to know what is going to happen so t...
09/04/2026

Someone arrives at Spirited Improv. They want certainty. They want a plan.
They want to know what is going to happen so they can prepare emotionally, physically, and spiritually.

Spirited Improv is not that kind of place.

Jessica, the facilitator says, “We practice not knowing.”
And the brain says, “We practice… what now?”

Not knowing is pitched like it’s a skill. Like it’s a muscle. Like it’s something a person can develop without immediately needing a snack.

The first prompt comes.

Someone’s mind goes blank.

This is normal.

But the nervous system interprets blankness as a personal betrayal. The person stands there like a loading screen. Then they say something random.

It may not be brilliant.
It may not be clever.
It is, however, alive.
And the group responds like it is gold.

Because in Spirited Improv, the goal is not genius. The goal is presence. Which is annoying challenging, honestly. Because presence cannot be faked. Presence requires actually being here. The worst part is: it works.

By the end, people walk out feeling oddly empowered. Like, “Wait… I can handle not knowing?”

Yes.

Also, your brain will still try to control everything tomorrow.

But now your body has evidence. And evidence is hard to argue with.

09/03/2026

September 9th is our next “Try It Out” Spirited Improv playshop. If you’ve been curious, this is your chance to experience it for yourself!

If you’re already in the Spirited Improv community, I’d love to hear your one liner version of “what is Spirited Improv?” in the comments below…😍

Before the first word is spoken, something already begins.In every Playshop, there's a pause before the play starts. A h...
09/01/2026

Before the first word is spoken, something already begins.

In every Playshop, there's a pause before the play starts. A held breath. A quiet circle of people willing to not know what happens next. In the first Playshop, that might feel uncomfortable. Over time, it becomes a ritual we look forward to.

That pause is where the practice lives.

Long before we called it improv, mystics called it presence: trusting a moment we cannot script or predict, and letting whatever wants to move through us, move.

We show up empty handed and open hearted, and something sacred fills the space between us.

What helps you soften into the unknown?

08/29/2026

It’s so refreshing when we bring humor into our spiritual awakening journey! Sometimes we play with accents and take on a character that exaggerates something we’ve been experiencing. And suddenly we’re all laughing together instead of being so serious about it all!

Curious what you’re taking seriously in the spiritual realm—-what would it feel like to bring some play, silliness, and laughter into it?!

One of the most profound things that happens inside a Spirited Improv circle —People exhale in a way they haven't all we...
08/26/2026

One of the most profound things that happens inside a Spirited Improv circle —
People exhale in a way they haven't all week.

Maybe all month.

Because nervous system safety isn't just about what's happening inside you. It's about the room you're standing in. The faces around you. The knowledge that no one here is going to judge you, compete with you, or make you feel small.

We co-regulate. That's the science behind why being in community with warm, open-hearted humans literally calms your body down.

When your body feels safe, something extraordinary becomes possible.
You play. You create. You connect. You heal.

And somehow, you drive home feeling more like yourself than you have in a long time.

When was the last time you were somewhere that made your whole body relax?

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