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

Healing doesn't always have to look like journaling in candlelight, right?Or the cold plunge. Or the breathwork. Or the ...
06/12/2026

Healing doesn't always have to look like journaling in candlelight, right?

Or the cold plunge. Or the breathwork. Or the sound bath. Or the therapy couch. Or the green juice cleanse.

Sometimes it looks like dancing and laughing until your face hurts, surrounded by a room full of humans doing the exact same thing.

Turns out joy is medicine too.

What's your favorite "fun" form of healing?

If you've ever felt like Asheville is your people, then Spirited Improv is your playspace.We’re a community of heart-cen...
06/09/2026

If you've ever felt like Asheville is your people, then Spirited Improv is your playspace.

We’re a community of heart-centered, creative, spirited humans and we’re ready to welcome you.

Life is constant improvisation.We just pretend it isn’t.In Spirited Improv, we bring this fact center stage.We practice ...
06/06/2026

Life is constant improvisation.

We just pretend it isn’t.

In Spirited Improv, we bring this fact center stage.

We practice becoming comfortable with the not knowing.

And instead of panic, something else happens.

Curiosity.

Creativity.

Connection.

Are you able to embrace the unknown and improvise in the moment? What supports you in this practice?

Summer Themes Include: -The Welcoming Way of Radical Acceptance: Belonging and Connection for AllUnleash Your Creative F...
06/03/2026

Summer Themes Include:

-The Welcoming Way of Radical Acceptance: Belonging and Connection for All
Unleash Your Creative Freedom

-Embody the Playful Mystic

-Come Home to Yourself: Anchor into Your Heart

-The Visionary Playground: Co-Creating the World Our Heart Knows Is Possible

-Befriend Fear and Expand into Love

-Nature Play in the Great Outdoors

You Are Welcome to Join Our Daytime Series, Our Nighttime Series, or Both...No two sessions will ever be the same. That's the glory of Improv!

Tuesday Daytime 12:00 - 2:00 pm in Montford
June 23, June 30, July 21, Aug 11, Aug 18, Aug 25, Sept 1

Wednesday Evening 5:30 - 7:30 pm in Swannanoa
June 24, July 1, July 8, July 22, Aug 12, Aug 19, Aug 26

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Imagine a room where people start out polite.Then something cracks open.A laugh.A shared risk.A moment of brave honesty ...
05/31/2026

Imagine a room where people start out polite.

Then something cracks open.

A laugh.

A shared risk.

A moment of brave honesty hidden inside something playful.

And suddenly the room becomes a team.

Not a bunch of individuals trying to get it right.

A team practicing being human.

What kind of rooms change you for the better?

05/29/2026

She recorded this audio for Jessica, the facilitator, right after class.
Still buzzing. Still in it.
This is what Spirited Improv feels like from the inside — and she said yes to sharing it with all of you.
Have you ever felt this kind of release?

There’s a specific kind of loneliness that comes from being around people all the time but never really feeling seen by ...
05/27/2026

There’s a specific kind of loneliness that comes from being around people all the time but never really feeling seen by them. If you know that feeling, keep reading.

Spirited Improv Playshops are with people who decided that real connection matters more than keeping up appearances. What gets built over those multi-weeks isn’t a network or a class cohort. It’s an actual community, held together by the shared experience of being genuinely, sometimes uncomfortably, real with each other.

Each week, the group gathers to play. Improv, expressive arts, movement, music, storytelling, creative play. Things come out in that room that don’t come out in ordinary conversation. Tears happen here. Real laughter - the kind that takes over your whole body - happens here. Moments of unexpected beauty happen here, the kind that stay with you.

There’s no pressure to perform. No hierarchy. If you’re new to improv, you belong. If you’ve been in creative communities your whole life, you belong. Some people participate the whole session. Some people mostly witness. Both are part of the whole.

This is how community is supposed to feel. Come find yours.

Our Summer series is open. Details on our website. Link in profile.

So during a Spirited Improv Playshop, we don't just jump into full-on play at the start of each session. We arrive toget...
05/23/2026

So during a Spirited Improv Playshop, we don't just jump into full-on play at the start of each session. We arrive together first. We ground, center, and breathe. We create a safe container with our 4 powerful agreements of Spirited Improv.

And then when we feel safe enough, the Play itself does the rest of the work of regulating the nervous system.

Laughter. Movement. Music. Being witnessed without judgment. These aren't just fun. They're signals to your body that you are truly safe. That you belong. That you can exhale.

What helps you feel safe enough to play?

Are you ready to release stress and let your body heal through Play?
05/20/2026

Are you ready to release stress and let your body heal through Play?

Imagine you walk into a Spirited Improv experience for the first time.Jessica, the facilitator, says, “Welcome. You’re w...
05/17/2026

Imagine you walk into a Spirited Improv experience for the first time.

Jessica, the facilitator, says, “Welcome. You’re welcome to participate however you choose.”

And your nervous system says, “Perfect. I choose… invisibility.”

Then a warm-up begins.

Jessica says, “There are no mistakes, only experiments,” and you think, “Wonderful, as long as I’m not the one who makes them!”

At some point there’s an invitation to step in.

Not pressure.

An invitation.

And you do that thing where you nod like, “Sure,” while your body is already halfway out the emergency exit.

Then it happens.

A sound comes out.

A gesture.

A line that makes absolutely no sense.

And instead of judgment… people clap and laugh with you.

Not at you.

With you.

By the end, everyone is on the same team.

No one wants to leave the closing circle.

It just feels so good when a whole room of people are there to accept each other exactly as we are and play together in the full spectrum of life.

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Monday 9:30am - 5:30pm
Tuesday 9:30am - 5:30pm
Wednesday 9am - 6pm
Thursday 9am - 5:30pm
Friday 10am - 2pm

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